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IT HAPPENED IN SAN FRANCISCO |
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His 1901 White House dinner with Booker T. Washington was played up on his 1904 presidential campaign |
Teddy Roosevelt
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Michelle plays Velma Von Tussle, mother of dance princess Amber, in this 2007 movie |
Hairspray
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In an 1850 novel, John Wilson & Arthur Dimmesdale plead with her to name her lover (a knotty situation for ol' Art) |
Hester Prynne
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A holdover from Colonial times, it's Zambia's only official language |
English
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In 1967 Charles Hall made waves by inventing this furniture item, which he called the Pleasure Pit |
(Alex: Right, why are you grinning on this one, Murtaza?)
a waterbed
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"Desirable" turkey part technically known as a furcula |
a wishbone
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As drug kingpin Tony Montana, Al Pacino weds coke fiend Elvira (Michelle) in this De Palma bloodbath |
Scarface
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In the "Queste Del Saint Graal", Lancelot can't look directly at the Holy Grail because of his affair with her |
Guinevere
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The Croatian language uses the Roman alphabet; the very similar main language of Serbia, this alphabet |
Cyrillic
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An engineer saw a streetcar slide down Nob Hill, killing 5 horses, & came up with this better system |
(Murtaza: What are electric cars?) (Ethan: What is the trolley system?) ... (Alex: Gotta be more specific than that. What are [*]? To keep the cars from sliding down the hills.)
cable cars
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Halifax engineer Sandford Fleming came up with these divisions working on the Trans-Canada Railway |
time zones
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Tad, the son of this president, had a pair of goats as pets at the White House |
Lincoln
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Decisions, decisions: this 1988 film finds Michelle choosing between Kurt Russell & Mel Gibson |
(Joanna: What is The Fabulous Baker Boys?)
Tequila Sunrise
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This title Flaubert floozy's tryst ends (for a while) when her lover leaves to seek his fortune in Paris |
Madame Bovary
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This small isle in the Irish Sea has its own language, which now has to be taught in schools or it'll die out |
the Isle of Man
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The Beatles played their last formal concert on (of course) a wild & windy night at this venue |
Candlestick Park
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Robert E. Lee rides for all time on this giant sculpture outside of Atlanta |
Stone Mountain
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Daniel Day-Lewis is Newland Archer to Michelle's Countess Olenska in this film based on a novel by Edith Wharton |
The Age of Innocence
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In Vietnamese, this European language is known as Phap |
(Alex: [*] were very big in Indochina many years ago.)
French
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Philo Farnsworth transmitted the first television image at the foot of this hill named for a means of communication |
Telegraph Hill
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Partly from the Greek for "sound", it's a native speaker of English |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
an anglophone
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This Buffalo lawyer was a bachelor during only the first of his 3 runs for the presidency |
(Joanna: [Scoffs]) (Alex: Give me a name.) (Joanna: Who is Abraham Lincoln?)
Grover Cleveland
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Michelle plays evil witch Lamia, bent on maintaining her unnatural youth, in this 2007 fantasy film |
Stardust
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Philip Carey picks up more than the check when he falls for a money-hungry waitress in this 1915 Maugham novel |
Of Human Bondage
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Prem Chand wrote fiction in Hindi & in this language of the Muslims of India & Pakistan |
Urdu
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This mayor was shot dead by a former city supervisor in 1978 |
George Moscone
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A withered, witchy old woman |
a crone
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