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This "mad" patchwork quilt is made from irregular or scrap pieces sewn in no particular pattern or design |
a crazy quilt
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This first signer of the Declaration of Independence has his name on several towns & a Boston Univ. student village |
John Hancock
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This twisty candy was used to make the shoe Charlie Chaplin ate in "The Gold Rush" |
licorice
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Born in a slum, he was admitted to the University of Copenhagen in 1828; his first book of fairy tales came 7 years later |
Hans Christian Andersen
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She began wearing glasses in 1985; that didn't stop her from being the world's number one tennis player that year and in '86 |
Martina Navratilova
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If you "paddle your own" this transport, you manage independently |
a canoe
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The 19th-century style of quilt named for this Maryland city can fetch 6-figure sums at auctions today |
a Baltimore quilt
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J. Strom Thurmond lake lies on the border of Georgia & this state represented by Senator Thurmond for 48 years |
South Carolina
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In Lombardy this layered dish is a Christmastime specialty, with the sheets of pasta symbolizing Jesus' swaddling clothes |
lasagna
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The 8th child of sharecroppers & a writer of "purple" prose, she was blinded in one eye in a childhood accident |
Alice Walker
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The Nike-designed eyewear of Amare Stoudemire, now of this team, survived tests including a 90-mph squash ball |
(Waymond: Who is Amare Stoudemire?)
New York Knicks
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Aloha! This 4-stringed instrument is related to the guitar |
a ukulele
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This layer inside a quilt that provides thickness & warmth sounds like an activity for Josh Hamilton |
(Alex: A minute to go, now.)
batting
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Alamo is the seat of the Tennessee county named for this frontiersman and Congressman |
(Zora: Who is Daniel Boone?)
Davy Crockett
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To prepare this Thermidor style, mix the meat with a Béchamel sauce & spoon it back into the shells |
lobster
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In 1994 Candace Bushnell created a column called this; in '95, it was sold as a book; then in '96, to HBO |
Sex and the City
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Aided by 20/10 vision, this Red Sox "splendid splinter" won the 1958 batting title at age 40 |
Ted Williams
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When it's midnight at this small, fertile desert area with a well, send your camel to bed |
an oasis
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These social gatherings where women would make quilts together were a popular feature of frontier life |
a bee
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The last U.S. president to have a county named for him (in N.M.), he may be best known for the Teapot Dome scandal |
(Warren G.) Harding
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Delicate sponge cake in the shape of a digit |
ladyfinger
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His volunteering to take mind-altering drugs as a test subject at a hospital led to a 1962 novel, his best-known work |
Ken Kesey
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Saying he'd be considered legally blind without specs, this golfer got LASIK in 1999, then--natch--won the Disney Classic |
Tiger Woods
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It now means rules of social behavior; in French it meant a posting of military orders |
etiquette
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Quilts may be pieced, where shapes are cut & sewn together, or this, where cut pieces are sewn to a background |
appliqué
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This 5'4" "Little Giant" who debated Abraham Lincoln has an 11,300' mountain named for him in Montana |
Stephen Douglas
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Make sure you have plenty of schmear to go with this brand of bagels that went frozen in 1962 |
Lender's
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This author who said welcome to "The Jungle" organized the epic (end poverty in Calif.) movement in the 1930s |
Upton Sinclair
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On April 18, 1956 Ed Rommel became the first man with this job to wear eyeglasses during work |
(Joshua: What's a referee?)
(baseball) umpire
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Propeller is one type of this skullcap |
(Joshua: What's a yarmulke?)
a beanie
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