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David McCullouch earned the 1978 History Award for "Path Between the Seas", about the creation of this from 1870 to 1914 |
the Panama Canal
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William of Orange, like his father William II, wed an English girl named this |
Mary
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He left the White House in 1809, went home & never left Virginia for the remaining 17 years of his life |
Jefferson
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In 1976 this perfect 10 Romanian had to remind the persistent press she was only 14 |
Nadia Comaneci
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Term for a person who keeps taking abuse & humiliation: it's like he has "welcome" written on him |
a doormat
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At the first National Book Awards, in 1950, Ralph Rusk won for his biography of this other Ralph, an essayist |
Emerson
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After her single mom/waitress turn in "As Good as It Gets", she played a single mom/Vegas waitress in "Pay it Forward" |
Helen Hunt
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Doing this 48 times in 1963 put Valentina Tereshkova in the headlines |
circling the Earth
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The portrait seen here is a mosaic done in these, a favorite of President Reagan's |
jelly beans
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Type of business seen here that was popular in the '40s & '50s |
an automat
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His novel "Herzog" won in the Fiction category in 1965 |
Saul Bellow
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Spacy 1984 film featuring the following sequence
"Hit the giant jackpot and your troubles are over! Half a million dollars, folks! Who's gonna take a shot?" "Define giant jackpot." "A giant jackpot is a lot of money." "Money? Geetus? Bread? An arm and a leg?" |
Starman
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In 1628 the British took this founder of Quebec prisoner, holding him in England until 1633 |
Champlain
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During the Vietnam War, LBJ dreamed he was this WWI president after the stroke |
Wilson
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Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary is the highest rank of this |
a diplomat
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She won in the category children's fiction (paperback) for "Ramona and her Mother" |
Beverly Cleary
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In the first of these films, Whoopi Goldberg was a Reno lounge singer; in the second she's a Vegas headliner |
Sister Act
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Depicted here during a demonstration in 1854, he's the inventor safe & sound up on the platform |
(Elisha) Otis
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A heating pad kept him warm during his second inauguration, the first one held in January |
(Anne: Who is Roosevelt?) (Alex: Which one?)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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If you have a radioactive spill, who do you call? This emergency team |
the HAZMAT team
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Jonathan Franzen didn't want Oprah's Book Club seal, but thanked her when this novel won the 2001 fiction award |
The Corrections
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By 1946, he'd catalogued over 29,000 galaxies, almost 4,000 asteroids & 1 new planet--Pluto |
(Jerry: Who is Hubble?)
Clyde Tombaugh
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Washington, D.C. locale where President Garfield was fatally shot |
the railroad station
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Women performing this event with no equipment but a mat must make the moves to match the tempo & mood of the music |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
the free exercise (or floor exercise)
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This prefix is from the Greek for "blood" |
hemato- (or hemat-)
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