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In November 1936 it began carrying traffic between San Francisco & Oakland across the water it's named for |
(Todd: Uh, what is the, um--San Francisco--what's the Golden Gate Bridge?) (Lucas: What's the Bay? San Francisco Bay?)
the Bay Bridge
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Starring Jane Fonda: "____ Ballou" |
Cat
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Minted in 1767, he did enough to get his mug on our $20 bill |
Andrew Jackson
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Placed on top of a pillar, a herm is a bust of this god for whom it's named |
Hermes
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In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Tuesdays are dedicated to this man who foreshadowed the arrival of Jesus |
John the Baptist
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Waka taua are these boats that can be more than 100 feet long & hold 80 paddlers |
canoes
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In between stints as California's governor, he served 2 terms as Oakland's mayor |
(Todd: Uh, who is, uh, Brown?) (Alex: Which one?)
Jerry Brown
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A movie with "true grit": "____ Cogburn" |
Rooster
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Met life in 1879, wrote 6 books & never met a man he didn't like |
Will Rogers
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An ocean sponge known for its lattice-like skeleton is called this love goddess' flower basket |
(Lucas: Who is Aphrodite?)
Venus
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On "Black Tuesday", Oct. 29 of this year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average crashed & lost 23% of its value |
(Alex: You're right, with a minute to go.)
1929
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Maori ceremonial cloaks called korowai are made with the feathers of a rare albino variety of this flightless bird |
(Lucas: What's an emu?)
a kiwi
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What's now East Oakland was once a city called this, like a borough southeast of Manhattan |
(Jason: What is the Bronx?) (Lucas: What is Queens?)
Brooklyn
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Technology tracks & controls Shia LaBeouf: "____ Eye" |
Eagle
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Born in Simbirsk in 1870, founded the Comintern with comrades |
Lenin
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A Phrygian king is the source for this 2-word phrase for the talent for making wealth out of any business endeavor |
the Midas touch
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In rhyme "Tuesday's child is full of" this |
grace
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Seen before rugby games, a haka is one of these & is performed "so that the whole body should speak" |
(Alex: Ceremonial [*], yes. A war [*].) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
a dance
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Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded this radical party in Oakland in 1966 |
the Black Panthers
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A fantasy film by Tim Burton: "Big ____" |
Fish
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Born in England but moved left to the U.S. (& right politically), told us about it in "Hitch-22" |
Christopher Hitchens
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A source of unforeseen troubles, it's derived from a container that held all the world's evils |
Pandora's box
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Every 4 years a politically important day is dubbed this; in 2012 it was March 6 |
(Lucas: What is, uh... Inauguration Day?)
Super Tuesday
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Francis Smith, the 19th c. "king" of this mineral soap additive, helped build Oakland's streetcar system |
borax
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Based on a true Australian story: "____-Proof Fence" |
Rabbit
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Born in 1892, military man, into Spain management, still dead since 1975 |
(Francisco) Franco
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A project that is, by design, never finished is called the web of this woman, Ulysses' wife |
Penelope
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For Greeks, Tuesday is considered unlucky; it was the day of the week this city fell in 1453 |
Constantinople
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