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In the 1830s he was postmaster of New Salem, Illinois & supplemented his income by railsplitting & surveying |
Abraham Lincoln
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There's no place like this cozy page, the first page of a website |
the home page
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To examine your throat, the doctor needs a "depressor" for this |
the tongue
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One advantage of the Yankees' pinstripes is that in the '20s they made this tubby home run king look thinner |
Babe Ruth
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In the 1800s H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine" & "The War of the Worlds" pioneered this type of "fiction" |
science fiction
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A guy who tells jokes for a living |
comedian
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In 1961 this president appointed his brother-in-law Sargent Shriver as director of the Peace Corps |
John F. Kennedy
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Yeehaw! It's the world's most popular Internet directory |
Yahoo!
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The doctor may have you say "99" to hear the vibrations of these cords go down into the chest |
vocal cords
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6' 7" Carl Henkel is a scary sight at the net in the beach type of this sport |
volleyball
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This hero gets adopted in the last chapter, so the book could have been called "Oliver Brownlow" |
Oliver Twist
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With this weapon, what goes around comes around |
boomerang
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This president is seen here in his 1947 class portrait at the U.S. Naval Academy |
(Mike: Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?)
Jimmy Carter
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In Internet domain names, .gov stands for government, .net for network & .org for this |
organization
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The name of the otoscope, seen here, means to view this organ, & that's what a doctor does with it |
the ear
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In 1996 Akakide Kakhiashvilis set a world record total in this sport with 926 lbs., over 4 times his own poundage |
weightlifting
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The title character in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" foolishly kills an albatross, one of these |
bird
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In this math course you'll learn all the angles |
geometry
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Almost defeating President Ford in the 1976 GOP primary, he won the nomination & the presidency 4 years later |
(Mike: Who is Jimmy Carter?)
Ronald Reagan
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This type of "space" is slang for the Internet |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
cyberspace
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When measuring this, the doctor uses his fingers, not his thumb, because the thumb has its own |
(Alex: [Before wager] About a minute left in the round, Adam...) ... (Adam: What are nails?)
pulse rate
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Basketball fans will miss this man who recently retired from the Houston Rockets |
(Mike: Who is Grant?)
Charles Barkley
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We'll leave it up to you whether this author was a "Plain Jane" |
Jane Austen
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It's a city in Oz or a green gem |
emerald
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In January 1918 he set forth his "Fourteen Points" on which he thought lasting peace could be made |
Woodrow Wilson
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A thermometer has to be shaken to be used again because this liquid metal stays at the last reading |
mercury
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It's the nickname of 6' 4", 265-lb. Tennessee Titan Jevon Kearse, though we're not sure we'd use it to his face |
(Alex: I ain't going to tell him!)
"The Freak"
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In works by John Milton, this was "Lost" in 1667 but "Regained" in 1671 |
Paradise
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It's the British equivalent of our Congress |
Parliament
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