NEW FACES IN THE 110th CONGRESS |
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Tennessee's Bob Corker won the seat vacated by this ex-Majority Leader |
Bill Frist
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"Murderball" chronicles quadriplegics who play this football-like game in tricked-out wheelchairs |
rugby
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Louis XIV's lasted 72 years |
a reign
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This large predator's name is from the Spanish "el lagarto", or the lizard |
alligator
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In the Grimm Bros. version, this "little" fairy tale girl on her way to visit her granny is carrying cake & wine |
Little Red Riding Hood
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The state of being away; you might take a "leave of" one |
absence
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Ex-rocker John Hall (of the band Orleans, not & Oates) now reps this states's 19th, including Peekskill |
New York
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"The tiles and tribulations" of competetive players of this board game are examined in "Word Wars" |
Scrabble
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In the 1880s this country promised to build a railroad for Bolivia, whose coastline it took away |
(James: What is Brazil?)
Chile
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You might find this horned mammal of the genus Capra on a farm |
a goat
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If you don't add raisins to this holiday baked good, you might be "as nutty as" one |
a fruitcake
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Oxygenated endurance exercises that promote cardiovascular fitness |
aerobic
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In a huge upset in Virginia, Jim Webb beat this senator & prospective presidential candidate |
(George) Allen
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Flightless birds head single file to their traditional breeding ground in this 2005 documentary |
(James: What are penguins?) (Alex: Need-- no.)
March of the Penguins
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James Caan's character's name in "The Godfather" was Santino, but everyone called him this |
Sonny
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The reticulated species of this huge Asian snake can grow up to be 30 feet long |
a python
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4-letter term for a thick piece of cake, bacon or marble |
a slab
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Nick Lampson took the Texas House seat once held by "The Hammer" |
DeLay
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This Michael Moore documentary asked, "Are we a nation of gun nuts or are we just nuts?" |
Bowling for Columbine
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It's the architectural term for what the guy here is looking at |
a frieze
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In the Middle Ages, caparisons were a leather or fabric type of covering, mainly for these animals |
horses
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This children's book character rapidly grows to incredible size after eating a cake marked "EAT ME" |
Alice (in Wonderland)
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A plentiful or overflowing quantity or supply |
abundance
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Peter Roskam won the seat held for 32 years by this state's Henry Hyde |
Illinois
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An Oscar-winning film about children from Calcutta's red-light district was called "Born into" these |
Brothels
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A container designed for cigars |
a humidor
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Humans and this "armored" mammal are among the only known animals that carry the bacterium that causes leprosy |
armadillos
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A long twisted doughnut topped with sugar or glaze, its name is from the Dutch for "twisted cake" |
(James: What is an éclair?)
a cruller
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Another word for a kidnapping, perhaps from a seraglio |
abduction
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