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Squealer, this type of "Animal Farm" animal, gets so fat he can barely see |
pig
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In this 2002 film Jack Nicholson plays a retired actuary for the Woodmen of the World Insurance Company of Omaha |
About Schmidt
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In some courses these are replaced by a pass-fail system |
grades
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The serpent told her, "Ye shall not surely die" & "Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil" |
Eve
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It means of, near, or affecting the heart |
cardiac
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A first name for girls, it's also a burger without the bun |
Patty
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Karait is a little one of these killed by Rikki-Tikki-Tavi |
(Ethan: What is a mongoose?) (Rob: What is a cobra?) ... (Alex: It was a snake, but it wasn't a cobra.)
snake
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Debra Winger dated governor Bob Kerrey while in Nebraska filming this 1983 tearjerker with Shirley MacLaine |
Terms of Endearment
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Parental permission slips may be required for these excursions to museums & such |
field trips
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When Samson wouldn't tell her the source of his strength, she said, "Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies" |
Delilah
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Oui! Oui! The neighbors on "Knots Landing" lived on this type of street |
cul-de-sac
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It's our equivalent of a German U-boat |
submarine
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Dinah, the name of a real cat that belonged to the Liddell children, is the cat of this fictional girl |
Alice (of "Alice in Wonderland")
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Spencer Tracy gave his Best Actor Oscar for this 1938 film set in Nebraska to Father Edward J. Flanagan |
(Ethan: What is "Captains Courageous?")
Boys Town
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If "Tess" author Thomas was late for school he would have gotten this rhyme time epithet |
tardy Hardy
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2 Samuel says that this wife of David was "very beautiful to look upon" |
(Rob: Who is Abigail?)
Bathsheba
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The irritability & crying caused by this condition in infants can last up to 12 hours |
colic
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Forever, or a fragrance by Calvin Klein |
Eternity
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An underpaid teacher, this Washington Irving character rides the half-blind, broken-down horse Gunpowder |
Ichabod Crane
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Hilary Swank won an Oscar for playing a girl who lives as a guy in small-town Nebraska in this 1999 film |
Boys Don't Cry
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This "quick" recruiting drive by a frat house or sorority for pledges may last a week |
rush
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The resurrected Jesus first appeared to this woman "out of whom he had cast seven devils" |
Mary Magdalene
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Adjective that describes a chemical such as lye that can burn or eat away another substance |
caustic
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It's what the "Z" stands for in ZIP code |
Zone (Zone Improvement Program)
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Blake asks, "And was" this holy animal "of God on England's pleasant pastures seen?" |
lamb
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This "I Am Sam" actor's directing debut was 1991's "The Indian Runner", filmed in Omaha & Plattsmouth |
Sean Penn
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More important than a term paper, it's a lengthy essay written by a doctoral candidate |
thesis/dissertation
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After her husband died, she & her mother-in-law Naomi moved to Bethlehem |
(Ethan: Who is Rebekah?)
Ruth
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Courvoisier is one of the world's leading makers of this potent potable |
cognac
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Without this "effect", the average temperature on Earth would be about 0 degrees |
greenhouse effect
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