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A type of treeless plain, or the oldest city in Georgia |
Savannah
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It's not a novel builder, it's a person accepting bets |
(Vaughan: What's an author?)
a bookmaker (or a bookie)
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1851: A white whale |
Moby-Dick
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This city is represented by Le Club de Hockey Canadien |
(Vaughan: Who are the [*] Canadiens?)
Montreal
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This quantity of paper was once 480 sheets but is now usually 500 |
a ream
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It's what you ride along the canals of Venice |
a gondola
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The man seen here shares his name with this Maryland suburb |
Chevy Chase
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A person confessing info to police is known as one of these yellow songbirds |
a canary
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1880: Siblings Dmitry, Ivan, Alyosha & Smerdyakov |
(C.W.: What is Crime and Punishment?)
The Brothers Karamazov
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The name of Canada's capital's NHL team, it was once the name of the U.S. capital's AL team |
(Vaughan: Who are the the Ottawa [*]?)
Senators
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Paper gets its name from this reed that the ancient Egyptians used to make their writing materials |
papyrus
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It often includes rolled oats, wheat germ, honey, fruit & nuts |
granola
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Appropriately, this Pennsylvania city that was founded in 1741 was named at Christmastime |
(Dawn: What is Noel?)
Bethlehem
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It's the 2-word slang term for the photograph taken of a suspect in custody |
a mug shot
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1925: Self-made millionaire James Gatz |
The Great Gatsby
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Citizens of "Hockeytown" support this team by wearing the logo seen here |
the Detroit Red Wings
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In 1859 William Goodale patented the first machine to manufacture these, which some people can't punch their way out of |
paper bags
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This early phonograph began cranking out music in 1906 |
a Victrola
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Mark Twain's brother Orion owned this Missouri city's Journal, for which Twain set type & wrote |
Hannibal
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This term for a gangster's girlfriend sounds like where she might spend all his money |
a moll
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1759: Dr. Pangloss' naive student |
Candide
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On June 14, 1994 they beat Vancouver at the Gahden for their first Stanley Cup since 1940 |
New York Rangers
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This translucent identifier in paper is made by pressing a wire pattern into the paper while it's still wet |
a watermark
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Italy's Lombardy region is famous for producing this soft (& smelly) blue cheese |
Gorgonzola
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This town, site of the Scopes Trial, plays host to the annual East Tennessee Strawberry Festival |
Dayton, Tennessee
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From Latin for "elsewhere", it's the claim to have been somewhere else when a crime was committed |
an alibi
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1895: Jude Fawley |
Jude the Obscure
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The team that wears the logo seen here plays home games in this former Olympic venue |
(Vaughan: Who are the Calgary Flames?) (C.W.: Who are the Montreal Canadiens?) ... (Alex: Both you and Vaughan misunderstood the clue. We said they play their "home games in this former Olympic venue". That is [*] and the team, of course, is the Calgary Flames.)
the Saddledome
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Paper was first made by the Chinese using the bark of this tree whose leaves are fed to silkworms |
the mulberry tree
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Haiti occupies a third of this island; the Dominican Republic covers the rest |
Hispaniola
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