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Teams at a Tennessee university named for this man are nicknamed the Railsplitters |
Abraham Lincoln
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Steve Martin played hapless dad George Banks in this 1991 matrimonial comedy |
Father of the Bride
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Where Souter sits |
bench (of the Supreme Court)
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This teacher died in 1936, ending her 49-year symbiotic relationship with Helen Keller |
Anne Sullivan
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After the swarm's flight, these insects of the order isoptera lose their wings & eat you out of house & home |
termites
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A major task of this hormone is to stimulate the uptake of glucose by cells |
insulin
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Emerson's "American Scholar" was an oration to the Phi Beta Kappa society of this school, his alma mater |
Harvard
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1981 film that immortalized the line "No wire hangers -- ever!" |
Mommie Dearest
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Maiden name of author Anne, widow of Charles Lindbergh; she died in 2001 at age 94 |
Morrow
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Phrase for the year of a toddler's life that's full of tantrums, aggression & repetition |
terrible twos
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Without biotin, part of this complex, your body can't break down fatty acids |
B complex
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In the book "The Sun Also Rises", Robert Cohn is a novelist who had attended this New Jersey university |
Princeton
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Sissy Spacek did her own singing in this 1980 film bio |
Coal Miner's Daughter
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She played "M" in the James Bond movies "Tomorrow Never Dies" & "The World is Not Enough" |
Dame Judi Dench
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She's the distinctive British voice heard here |
(Laura: Who is Dusty Springfield?) ... (Alex: About a minute left, Laura.)
Marianne Faithfull
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This folklore figure killed 6 wives who went against his orders & entered a room he kept locked |
(Laura: Who is Midas?)
Bluebeard
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Key to glandular function, this mineral is (alphabetically) about the last thing your body needs |
zinc
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The Thomas Jefferson Medals for architecture & for law are given annually at this university |
University of Virginia
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Gaby Hoffmann & Macaulay Culkin play niece & nephew to John Candy in this 1989 comedy |
Uncle Buck
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Ooh, what's that odor! |
stench
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The vice president's wife, she has long focused on the importance of history education |
(Marlon: What is Laura Bush?) (Laura: Who is...I can't remember!)
Lynne Cheney
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Ernie K-Doe sang about her, "Every time I open my mouth she steps in and tries to put me out" |
"Mother-in-Law"
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The antioxidant nutrients include vitamins C & E & this substance that occurs naturally in orange veggies |
beta-carotene
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The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace is part of this Palo Alto university |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Stanford
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This film from Joel & Ethan Coen was partly based on Homer's "Odyssey" |
(Patrick: What is "Brother, Where Art Thou?")
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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This "countess" from Rome began designing when she noticed how dull her husband's ties were |
(Laura: Who is the Duchess of Windsor?)
Countess Mara
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From words meaning "great madness", these people have delusions of grandeur |
megalomaniacs
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Though rice & beans are "incomplete" these, together they provide all the essential amino acids |
proteins
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