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Radical Republicans impeached & tried to remove this president in 1868 |
Andrew Johnson
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This PBS children's program has been sponsored by letters of the alphabet since 1969 |
Sesame Street
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Solid water is ice; solid carbon dioxide has this 2-word name |
dry ice
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The Old Testament says she visited King Solomon in order to test him by asking him to solve several riddles |
the Queen of Sheba
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At his home at Berggasse 19 in Vienna you can see where the ancestor of all psychiatrists' couches stood |
Sigmund Freud
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It's where Tiger can keep his irons & drivers & tees, oh my! |
a golf bag
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This avuncular nickname for the government was coined by those against the War of 1812 |
"Uncle Sam"
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Steven Hill's D.A. Adam Schiff was the only original still on this drama in 1999, in its ninth season |
Law & Order
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Also called zymosis, this action involving enzymes produces beer & cheese |
fermentation
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Of the 6 British kings who bore this name, the first 4 were of the German house of Hanover |
George
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Saponification is the making of this, an anagram of "sapo" |
soap
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Bellowing Highland instrument |
a bagpipe
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When East & West were linked by this in October, 1861, the days of the Pony Express were numbered |
the telegraph
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(Backstage at the Emmys: Hi, I'm Jay Leno, and the answer is:) My "Tonight Show" predecessor, Johnny Carson, became the full-time host after this man quit in March of 1962 |
Jack Paar
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A phonon is a tiny packet of sound; change 1 letter to get this unit of electromagnetic energy |
a photon
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In 1953 he officially succeeded his father Talal as king of Jordan |
Hussein (I)
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This Asian nation whose name ends in "rain" only gets 3 inches of rain a year |
(Alex: A minute to go.)
Bahrain
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It's a Middle East capital |
Baghdad
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In 1851 Stonewall Jackson became an instructor at VMI, this school |
Virginia Military Institute
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By the time this sitcom ended, Fred MacMurray's character had become a grandfather to triplet boys |
My Three Sons
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This synonym for "burning" is the name of a "chamber" where rockets burn fuel |
(Michael: What is oxidation?)
combustion
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This Hawaiian king whose name means "the very lonely one" conquered Maui in 1790 |
King Kamehameha
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An 1854 outbreak of cholera in London ended after Dr. John Snow had a handle on one of these removed |
a water pump
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Derived from the Italian for "little stick", it's a long, narrow loaf of French bread |
a baguette
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This Secretary of State retired in 1869, 2 years after his "folly" |
William Seward
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As a boy, this current host of "Meet the Press" watched the show with his father |
(Christian: Who is...)
Tim Russert
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A millimeter of this element is a common unit for measuring pressure, including blood pressure |
(Lindsay: What is water?)
mercury
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This king of Castile & Aragon was known as "The Catholic" |
Ferdinand
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In December, 1981 he was elected to succeed Kurt Waldheim as U.N. Secretary-General |
(Michael: Who is Boutros Boutros-Ghali?) (Christian: Who is Kofi Annan?)
Javier Perez de Cuellar
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A trifle, or a short piece of music |
a bagatelle
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