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THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT |
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In what's commonly called the Bay Area, San Pablo Bay lies just north of this one |
San Francisco Bay
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Infinity Broadcasting, employer of several "shock jocks", has often been fined by this federal agency |
FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
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In 1965 Congress barred several states from requiring that voters be able to do this |
Read
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Banana & butternut are 2 of the most popular "winter" varieties of this food |
Squash
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Nobody knew it then, but the "high" period of this epoch ended with the sack of Rome in 1527 |
(D: What is the Age of Enlightenment?)
Renaissance
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This country's island of Leyte was the site of MacArthur's return in 1944, better Leyte than never |
Philippines
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[I'm Robin Quivers] On NPR, Tom & Ray Magliozzi, AKA Click & Clack, give advice on this subject |
Automobile repair
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He led efforts to desegregate Jackson, Mississippi & was killed there June 12, 1963 |
(D: Who is James Meredith?)
Medgar Evers
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This singing rival of Tom Jones had a big hit with "Winter World of Love" in the winter of 1970 |
Engelbert Humperdinck
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It can mean any occupation, or a calling to a religious career |
Vocation
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Sail strait south through the Bering Strait, & you'll hit this state's St. Lawrence Island |
Alaska
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Was that light red? This defect is also known as Daltonism, for a chemist who described it |
Colorblindness
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In 1965, after being assaulted in this Alabama city, Martin Luther King led a march from there to Montgomery |
Selma
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Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote, "If winter comes, can" this "be far behind?" |
Spring
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It means to weaken a support; it could mean to take too little out of the ground |
Undermine
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It's the divided peninsula that divides the Yellow Sea from the Sea of Japan |
Korea
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Ampicillin & Amoxicillin are semisynthetic forms of this antibiotic |
Penicillin
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This convicted Watergate burglar began airing his conservative views on talk radio in 1992 |
(J: Who is Erlichman?)
G. Gordon Liddy
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This league was founded in 1910, largely to help black migrants to New York City |
The Urban League
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In the winter the city of Bemidji in this state celebrates Brrr Midji Polar Days |
Minnesota
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It can mean "rebelling against authority" or "gross" |
Revolting
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At over 36,000 feet, it's the deepest spot in the North Pacific, or anywhere else on Earth |
(Alex: About a minute left.) [NOTE: This was the 100,000th clue entered into the J! Archive, 2007-06-20.]
the Marianas Trench
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In 1913 Bela Schick developed a skin test for this disease, not for shaving |
(Margaret: What is tuberculosis?) (Jack: What is polio?) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
diphtheria
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She was a sports commentator before pioneering call-in therapy in the 1950s |
Dr. Joyce Brothers
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As head of the SNCC, Stokely Carmichael rejected this doctrine that put the "N" in the group's name |
Non-violence (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
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Autolycus is a lovable rogue in this Shakespeare play |
"The Winter's Tale"
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The name of this piece of direct mail advertising means "indirect" |
Circular
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