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THE LYRICS OF COLE PORTER |
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It can be fatty matter on the wall of an artery, or a buildup of matter on a tooth |
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Plaque
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This 1987 Danny DeVito film pays homage to a classic 1951 Hitchcock film |
Throw Momma from the Train
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A top car maker, the B in its initials stands for Bayerische, or "Bavarian" |
BMW
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"I get no kick from" this, "mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all" |
Champagne
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Give a squeal if you know that these mammals are used with dogs to hunt down truffles |
Pigs
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A foot soldier, a Frankenstein's monster sound, a bony fish |
Grunt
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The 4 dimensions in the Einsteinian space-time continuum are time, length, width & this |
Height
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The Granite Railway was built in Massachusetts in 1826 to haul the granite needed to build this monument |
(K: What is Plymouth Rock?)
Bunker Hill Monument
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The tallest mountain in Germany is part of this range |
Bavarian Alps
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"If you're ever in a jam, here I am, if you're ever in a mess", send this distress signal |
SOS
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In 1936 Su-lin from China became the first one of these exhibited in the U.S. |
Panda
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A denture, a segment of the Earth's crust, a food holder |
Plate
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NaOCl, sodium hypochlorite, is this common laundry product |
(K: What is detergent?)
Bleach
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In 1987 this "World's Favorite Hobo", known for songs of riding the rails, opened his own theater in Branson |
Boxcar Willie
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This man, who has covered millions of bottoms in jeans, was reportedly born in Buttenheim, Bavaria |
Levi Strauss
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1 of 2 paintings referred to in the lyrics of "You're the Top" |
Mona Lisa (or Whistler's Mother)
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Found in Madagascar, it's the endangered primate seen here: |
a ring-tailed lemur
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A parade exhibit, an ice cream & pop drink, a cork on a fishing line |
Float
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Put this in your "notebook": Andromeda (M 31), like the Milky Way, is a galaxy of this shape |
Spiral
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Around 1890 Eli Janney's automatic type of this replaced the dangerous link-&-pin type |
Coupler
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Every 10 years the residents of Oberammergau in Bavaria put on this drama first performed in 1634 |
Passion Play
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In a song from "High Society", it's what "I give to you and you give to me" |
True love
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The ichneumon, one of these cobra killers, was worshipped by the ancient Egyptians |
Mongoose
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An invoice, a visor on a cap, a beak |
Bill
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Abbreviated lm, it's a measurement of light |
Lumen
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By 2005 Germany hopes to have this type of bullet train in operation on a Berlin to Hamburg route |
Maglev (magnetic levitation)
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This famous "Spanish" dancer & mistress of Louis I of Bavaria was born Marie Gilbert in Limerick, Ireland |
Lola Montez
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"Good authors too, who once knew better words now only use" these, "writing prose, anything goes" |
(M: What are crayons?)
4-letter words
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This largest seal is named for the trunk-like extension of the male's snout |
Elephant seal
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The bow of a ship, to stop or dam up, the main trunk of a plant |
Stem
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