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Chronologically, the 1st of the 8 presidents whose last name ends in "son" |
(Jan: Who is Jackson?)
Thomas Jefferson
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Yo! He directed "Staying Alive", the sequel to "Saturday Night Fever" |
(Alex: Was my impression that bad?) (Jan: No, I just couldn't realize that your impression helped!) (Alex: Thank You!)
Sylvester Stallone
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It's a baby's bedroom, not an R.N.'s |
nursery
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When a tadpole becomes an adult frog this anatomical feature is absorbed by its body |
(Jan's response of "gills" was accepted before FJ.)
tail
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Dostoevski novel in which Raskolnikov, a young student, kills an old woman pawnbroker |
Crime And Punishment
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This Latin term for "confidentially" literally means "under the rose" |
sub rosa
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In 1872 Grant signed a bill creating this 1st national park |
(David: What is Yosemite?)
Yellowstone
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John Ford said he played one of the Ku Klux Klan members in this D.W. Griffith film |
Birth of a Nation
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This word for a group of people traveling with pack animals is derived from Persian |
caravan
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2 of the 3 families in the order Crocodylia |
(Upon further review, there is also a fourth member, Caimans)
Crocodiles, Alligators, & Gavials
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After offending both sides in a religious dispute, this "Moll Flanders" author was sentenced to the pillory |
Daniel Defoe
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An overly optimistic person is said to view life through these |
rose-colored glasses
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The only president who never married, he was also the only president born in Pennsylvania |
James Buchanan
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First name shared by French directors Chabrol & Lelouch |
Claude
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A person born within the sound of bow bells is said to be a true one of these |
Cockney
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Most of these sold as pets, until banned by the FDA in 1975, were of the slider or cooter varieties |
turtles
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In 1967 Gabriel Garcia Marquez became world famous in publication of his "One Hundred Years of" this |
Solitude
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This Greek island was named for either the roses or the snakes that proliferated there in ancient times |
Rhodes
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The last president whose public inaugural was held on Monday, January 21 |
Ronald Reagan (1985)
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This bald director played the cold-blooded camp commandant in "Stalag 17" |
Otto Preminger
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When you stick this "sweet potato" in your mouth, you should play it, not eat it |
ocarina
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Harmless king snakes, such as the one seen here, are often mistaken for this venomous snake: |
(Alex: Frank, there are a number of considerations you might want to take into account as you decide on this Daily Double. Our record, as you know, was set earlier this year of about $80,000. You're moving along the right path towards that end; you have $9,800 at the moment...)
(red) coral snake
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Irish-born Samuel Beckett & Romanian-born Eugene Ionesco both wrote absurdist plays in this language |
French
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In 1955 Mitch Miller knocked out "Rock Around the Clock" from the No. 1 spot with this song |
"Yellow Rose of Texas"
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George Bush's father, Prescott Sheldon Bush, was a U.S. senator from this state |
Connecticut
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This comedienne directed the 1978 film "Rabbit Test" about the world's 1st pregnant man |
Joan Rivers
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This adjective meaning rustic or pastoral comes from the Greek word for cowherd |
bucolic
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The mud puppy, or water dog, is a large American variety of this amphibian |
salamander
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The Polish-born author of "The Painted Bird", set in Europe & "Being There", set in Washington, D.C. |
Jerzy Kozinski
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The "centifolia", or hundred petals rose, is better known by this "vegetable" name |
cabbage rose
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