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President Reagan's alliterative description of the USSR; he softened it at a 1988 summit meaning |
"Evil Empire"
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Introduced in 1948, these items let jazz become more complex by allowing longer performances on a single side |
(Joseph: What are CDs?)
LPs
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Before "NYPD Blue", Dennis Franz played detective Sal Benedetto & Lt. Norman Buntz on this cop drama |
Hill Street Blues
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If this insect were to "fly away home", it might fly to Massachusetts, where it's the state insect |
a ladybug
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She's 1 of 2 Clinton appointees |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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"Magandang Gabi" means "Good Evening" in Tagalog, a major language spoken in ____ |
[Joseph selected the first clue.]
the Philippines
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Future leader Yuri Andropov was the double-dealing envoy to this country before the 1956 uprising |
(Joseph: What is Czechoslovakia?)
Hungary
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Look away, look away, look away, it's a revivalist style of New Orleans jazz |
Dixieland
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Franz Gruber wrote the music & Joseph Mohr the lyrics to this "quiet" Christmas carol |
"Silent Night"
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West Virginia shares this "sweet" state tree with 3 other states, including Vermont |
the sugar maple
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This great-grandson of a slave served as an associate justice from 1967 to 1991 |
Thurgood Marshall
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The person seen here is an avid ____: |
[Checking stamps]
philatelist
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In 1978 & 1981 Soviet defector Viktor Korchnoi lost championship chess matches to this Russian "K" |
(Jamie: Who is Kasparov?)
Anatoly Karpov
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Billy Strayhorn composed classics like "Take The 'A' Train" during his collaboration with this bandleader |
Duke Ellington
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Max Brod befriended this budding writer while in college in Prague |
Franz Kafka
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It's the state gem of Arkansas |
a diamond
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Hot dog! This justice appointed by FDR was born in Vienna |
Felix Frankfurter
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According to Hamlet, "There are more things in heaven and Earth... than are dreamt of in your ____" |
philosophy
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Before Leningrad, St. Petersburg was given this Russian-sounding name at the start of WWI |
(Joseph: What is Stalingrad?)
Petrograd
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In 1998 Ellis, patriarch of this jazz family, released his own trio album, "Twelve's It" |
Marsalis
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In 1925 Prof. Franz Boas sent this author & anthropologist on her first field study in American Samoa |
Margaret Mead
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It's the "Granite State" |
(Joseph: What is Vermont?)
New Hampshire
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A famous 1794 treaty resolving disputes between the U.S. & Britain is named for this chief justice who negotiated it |
John Jay (the Jay Treaty or the Treaty of London)
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By nationality, the guy in the foreground in the Biblical illustration seen here is a ____: |
[David and Goliath]
Philistine
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Stalin suppressed nationalities in Russia, though he came from this region that's now its own country |
Georgia
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In the '70s Weather Report had "nuclear" results with this style that combined jazz & rock |
fusion
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Franz Schubert wrote over 600 musical pieces known by this German word for songs |
Lieder
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Contrary to popular opinion, this yellowish state flower of Nebraska & Kentucky doesn't cause hay fever |
goldenrod
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Before becoming chief justice in 1864, he'd been Secretary of the Treasury & governor of Ohio |
Salmon P. Chase
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Dennis Rodman's father, who reportedly has 27 children, has the first name ____, which means "to womanize" |
Philander
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