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This island off Guinea-Bissau bears the old name of Taiwan |
Formosa
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The 2 cities that hosted the Summer Olympics in the 1970s, they both begin with the same letter |
Munich & Montreal
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Most old world monkeys just use it for balance; it's prehensile on many new world monkeys |
tail
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For playing Chuck Yeager in "The Right Stuff", this dramatist got an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor |
(Rich: Who is Tom Wolfe?)
Sam Shepard
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Jenna's grandmother, in the '80s she was looked upon as "Everybody's Grandmother" |
Barbara Bush
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A type of band or the imitation of a tuba's sound, it can have one "pah" or two |
oompah
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The U.S. took this largest of the Ryukyu Islands during WWII & didn't give it back to Japan until 1972 |
Okinawa
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This competition combines cross-country skiing with rifle shooting at targets along the course |
biathlon
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Experts say that among playground equipment, this "simian" piece may be responsible for the most injuries |
monkey bars
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Many of his plays are set in his native Chicago, including "American Buffalo" & "Glengarry Glen Ross" |
David Mamet
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Jackie Kennedy especially admired this First Lady for the way she raised Margaret in the White House glare |
Bess Truman
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A light ringing sound, as of glasses in a toast; it also means prison |
clink
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"Able was I ere I saw" this largest island of the Tuscan archipelago |
Elba
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In 1908 the marathon was extended to end before this city's royal viewing area, establishing today's distance |
London
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Actress seen here with Tyson, a monkey who worked with her on a biopic of Frida Kahlo |
Salma Hayek
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His first major work, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", received a 1985 N.Y. Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play |
August Wilson
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Receiving a "rock solid" education at Stanford, Lou Hoover was the first woman to earn a degree in this |
(Alex: Would you like to bet it all? I asked you this yesterday.)
geology
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It's a short, high-pitched tone, & can also mean "to summon" |
beep
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Gotland? It's an island in this sea between Sweden & Latvia |
(Penny: What is the North Sea?)
Baltic Sea
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Based on a true story, this film was about the formation of a Jamaican bobsled team for the 1988 Winter Olympics |
Cool Runnings
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It's the fruit of the baobab tree |
(Rich: What is a banana?)
monkey bread
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1953 was his year: he won both the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award & the Pulitzer Prize for "Picnic" |
(Penny: Who is Agee?)
William Inge
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Her first husband John Todd & their infant son died during a yellow fever epidemic in 1793 |
(Penny: Who is Mary Todd Lincoln?)
Dolley Madison
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In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", the mariner's shipmates keel over "with heavy" this, "a lifeless lump" |
thump
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The last name of English captain Robert Bylot's pilot, it was given to Canada's largest island |
Baffin
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Last name of twins Phil & Steve who won gold & silver in the slalom at the 1984 Winter Olympics |
Mahre
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He was the defendant in the 1925 "Monkey Trial" |
John Scopes
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Until his World War I drama "What Price Glory" was produced in NYC in 1924, he was a journalist & schoolteacher |
Maxwell Anderson
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It was the first name of Mrs. Grant & the second Mrs. Tyler |
Julia
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This sound of vibration can be pronounced like the third person plural past indicative of "to be" |
were/whir
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