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She wrote about shy teacher Lucy Snowe in "Villette" after creating a shy governess named Jane Eyre |
Charlotte Brontë
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Tossed in rhythmic gymnastics, it's 30-35" in diameter, about the size of the hula type |
(Alex: [Reading the clue] "...about the size of the hula [*]"; ohhh, I gave it, no harm, no foul, but it was the question of who rang in first and David did!)
hoop
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Public Law 89-152 made burning or mutilating one of these cards a federal crime |
draft cards
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Consummate politician portrayed here in a 1995 film: |
[By Anthony Hopkins]
Richard M. Nixon
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A Bruxellois is a native of the European city we call this |
Brussels
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Aikman's playthings |
Troy's toys
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Rosamond Vincy is the selfish spouse of Tertius Lydgate in her 1870s novel "Middlemarch" |
George Eliot
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The finishing move of a routine on a pommel horse or of a ride on a real horse |
the dismount
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We kid you not, in October this U.N. agency won the Nobel Peace Prize |
UNICEF
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First elected in 1978 from Georgia's 6th District, he's that state's senior member in the House |
Newt Gingrich
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It's okay for folks to call you a pelican if you're from this "Pelican State" |
Louisiana
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Redgrave's transgressions |
Lynn's sins
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This Defoe heroine calls herself "as impudent a thief... as" the infamous "Moll Cut-Purse" |
(Alex: And we have about a minute to go.)
Moll Flanders
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(Hi, I'm Kerri Strug.) This word that means "falling" is part of the floor exercise, which includes rolls & somersaults |
(David: What is cayer?)
tumbling
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Italy's & France's presidents did the ribbon-cutting on a new tunnel through this mountain |
Mont Blanc
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At $130,000, this current New York governor is one of the highest paid in America |
George Pataki
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If you're Medinese, you're from a sacred city in this country |
Saudi Arabia (Medina)
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Patinkin's peppermints |
Mandy's candies
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At the beginning of a Thomas Hardy novel, she is "a mere vessel of emotion untinctured by experience" |
Tess
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In the 1930s George Nissen developed this bouncy apparatus which later split off from gymnastics |
(David: What is a pogo stick?)
the trampoline
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This singer with a famous father had a No. 1 hit in 1965 with the song heard here: |
["This Diamond Ring"]
Gary Lewis
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On Nov. 2, 1993 she became the first woman elected governor of New Jersey |
Christine Todd Whitman
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Lett us be the first to tell you that these Baltic people are also known as Letts |
Latvians
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Torn's midnight swims |
Rip's dips
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Asked, "What do you make, madame?", this knitter replied, "Many things... for instance, shrouds" |
Madame Defarge
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In 1972 Nancy Thies became the first to do a backflip on this piece of equipment |
the balance beam
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Congress created this Cabinet dept. in 1965 but a secretary wasn't picked to head it until 1966 |
(Dan: What is Education?) (Jill: What is HEW?)
HUD (Housing and Urban Development)
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Represented by Olympia Snowe & Susan Collins, it's the only state with 2 female GOP senators |
(Jill: What is Washington?)
Maine
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A person from an island country near Sicily, or his little lap dog |
Maltese
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Jessica's forehead fringe |
(David: What are Lange's phlanges?)
Lange's bangs
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