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Rosa Parks' 1955 arrest led to a yearlong bus boycott in this Alabama city |
(Leah: What is Birmingham?)
Montgomery
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Born in Vancouver, he's brought his curly hair & rubber face to "Funny People" as well as to "Superbad" |
(Prashant: Who is Jonah Hill?) (Lindsay: Who is...) (Alex: Oh, too much time, and Leah's not going to ring in to try to come up with [*].)
Seth Rogen
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Texas declares its independence as a republic |
the 19th Century
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In 1944 the world's first plutonium production reactor went online at Hanford in this Northwest state |
Washington
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In 2009 Jon Stewart nicknamed this man, now an inmate, "Arthur Ponzarelli" |
Bernie Madoff
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Slang for soda or Dad |
pop
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In February 1960 4 young black men staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter at a N.C. branch of this 5 & dime |
Woolworth's
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She won a 2009 Emmy for her impression of a certain Vice Presidential candidate |
Tina Fey
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The Normans conquer England |
the 11th Century
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Metal control rods prevent chain reactions by absorbing neutrons & are often made of this, symbol Cd |
cadmium
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Andrew Fastow, who cooked the books for this Houston-based power company, got 6 years |
ENRON
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Short for a certain sibling |
sis
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Martin Luther King's purpose in traveling to this city in March 1968 was to support striking sanitation workers |
(Leah: What is Selma?)
Memphis
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In 2002 she was friends with "The Hot Chick"; in 2008 she was "The House Bunny" |
(Anna) Faris
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Marie Antoinette lives & dies |
the 18th Century
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2-word term for the amount of fuel required to maintain a chain reaction; it varies according to the reactor |
critical mass
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After his conversion on the road to Damascus, he was sent to prison for taking a Gentile into temple precincts |
(St.) Paul
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This term for midday comes from the Latin for "ninth hour" |
noon
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James Meredith, the first black student at the University of this state, was shot & wounded there in June 1966 |
Mississippi
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This "Report"er tried without success to get on the ballot for South Carolina's 2008 Presidential Primary |
Stephen Colbert
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Virginia Dare is the first white child of English parents born in America |
(Leah: What is the 17th Century?) ... (Alex: Yes, happened in the 1500s.)
the 16th Century
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Of the world's countries, this one in Europe gets the highest percentage of its power from nuclear energy |
(Alex: [*]--about 80%, yes.)
France
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After Sam Waksal, CEO of Imclone, got busted in 2002, this celeb gal pal of his also went to the big house |
Martha Stewart
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Proverbially, water seeks its own |
level
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He was the lawyer who won the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case |
(Alex: And he later served on the Supreme Court. [*] was his name.)
Thurgood Marshall
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Jimmy Kimmel's real-life on & off girlfriend, she played a grumpy girlfriend in "School Of Rock" |
Sarah Silverman
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The Manchu Dynasty is overthrown in China |
the 20th century
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This rare isotope of hydrogen is sometimes called H-3 |
tritium
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This Dublin-born man was released from prison bankrupt in 1897; "The Ballad Of Reading Gaol" was released in 1898 |
(Alex: That man was the famous author, [*].)
Oscar Wilde
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Multiple epics of Iceland |
sagas
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