THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA |
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Union troops cut a path 50 miles wide, destroying all public buildings & mills on Sherman's march to the sea through this state |
Georgia
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Robinson Crusoe "taught him to say yes and no and to know the meaning of them" |
Friday
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She displays her pipes as Fantine in the 2012 film version of "Les Miserables" |
Anne Hathaway
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G'day! the red species of this Aussie animal can hopalong, Cassidy, at about 30 miles per hour |
kangaroo
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There once was this 5-line type of poem, by humor & meter you'll know 'em |
limerick
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One of the Civil War's last battles was fought in May 1865 near the mouth of the Rio Grande in this state |
Texas
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This simple squire of Don Quixote has a wife, Teresa, a son, Sanchico, & daughter, Mari Sancha |
Sancho Panza
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This Oscar-winning actor released a self-titled album in 2011 |
Jeff Bridges
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A boxing move paired with "bobbing", or interlacing threads to form fabric |
weaving
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As it zips around the eastern, central & southern African plains at 70 mph, it's hard to say this large cat "never wins" |
cheetah
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A car with a separate driver's compartment |
limousine
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On Dec. 20, 1860 it became the first state to leave the Union; a few months later, the Civil War would begin there |
South Carolina
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This Agatha Christie sleuth is fond of his chronicler Arthur Hastings but thinks he's a bit of an imbecile |
Hercule Poirot
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2011's "Let Them Talk" is an album of American blues by this Brit who played "House" |
Hugh Laurie
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Requiring only a small incision, laparoscopy is a surgical technique that is M.I., which stands for this |
minimally invasive
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We're not "laughing" at the spotted type of this doglike carnivore, which can run 40 miles per hour |
hyena
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Fredericksburg in this state changed hands 7 times during the Civil War |
Virginia
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In the "Iliad", Patroclus is the bosom companion of this fierce Greek warrior |
(Andy: Who is Ajax?)
Achilles
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She did her own singing & learned the autoharp to play June Carter Cash; the effort paid off in an Oscar |
(Reese) Witherspoon
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The flowers are piled on top of each other in moribana, a style of this classical art of Japanese flower arranging |
Ikebana
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Check out the grace of a Thomson's this type of antelope, but do it quickly; it can hit 50 miles per hour |
gazelle
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"Incredible" mollusk of the genus Patella |
limpet
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After some federal control was established in 1862, Lincoln made Andrew Johnson the military gov. of this state |
Tennessee
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In Patrick O'Brian's sea novels, physician Stephen Maturin is the sidekick of this captain |
Jack Aubrey
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He did his own singing as rocker Stacee Jaxx in the movie "Rock Of Ages" |
Tom Cruise
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William Faulkner used this 3-word narrative technique to render a flow of impressions |
stream of consciousness
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Go forward, move ahead, try to detect this 7-letter hound that can run 35 mph, it's not too late...it's this hound, good |
(Alex: And the hound is the [*]. The lyrics were sort of like Devo's "Whip It.")
whippet
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In math, a converging series approaches this |
(Alex: With less than a minute to go.)
limit
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