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This vice president from Tenn. joked he was so dull, his code name was simply his name, but officially, he was "Sundance" |
Al Gore
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Julianna Margulies got out of TV nursing & into TV law as Alicia Florrick on this drama |
The Good Wife
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A group of gorillas living together is called this, just like in Boy Scouts |
(Betsy: What is a den?)
a troop
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On opening day in 1937, the San Francisco Chronicle referred to it as a "35 million dollar steel harp" |
the Golden Gate Bridge
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The golden snitch is that round thing with wings Harry Potter et al. are trying to catch in this game |
quidditch
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The Secret Service also protects foreign dignitaries; "Halo" was this late man's code name |
Pope John Paul II
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Fighter pilot to navy lawyer was the career path for Harmon Rabb on this drama, for 10 years on 2 different networks |
JAG
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Koko.org is a conservation website named for a famous gorilla who communicates with humans using this language |
American Sign Language
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On May 1, 1931 the lights were turned on in this NYC skyscraper with the press of a button in the White House |
the Empire State Building
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Fittingly, Fraction is the Secret Service code name for this cabinet post |
Secretary of Education
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Patty Hewes, played by her, went through 5 seasons of "Damages", including those done to her ethics |
Glenn Close
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Gorillas are mammals that belong to this scientific order that includes lemurs & marmosets |
(Tiffany: What is apes?) (Matthew: What are marsupials?)
primates
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This massive project was the first in North America to contain more masonry than the Great Pyramid at Giza |
the Hoover Dam
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Sir Lucan & Sir Kay were both members of this fabled circle |
the Round Table
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To exclude or ostracize someone |
blackball
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This late Massachusetts senator was "Sunburn"; his mom, "Coppertone" |
Ted Kennedy
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Richard Fish, on this Calista Flockhart show: "Objection, your honor! This is boring" |
Ally McBeal
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Captured in 1966, Snowflake was the only gorilla ever discovered of this type; his skin was unable to produce pigment |
albino
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A highway completed in 1938 allowed one to drive from Miami to this southernmost city in the continental U.S. |
Key West
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It's the rhyming alternate name for the pill bug seen here |
a roly poly
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It's home to the sclera |
the eyeball
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Sarah Palin was assigned this code name, the native name of the tallest mountain in her state |
Denali
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This man played both law (a sage small-town sheriff) & order (wily lawyer Ben Matlock) |
Andy Griffith
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Actually done with cupped hands, this often-imitated male gorilla action is part of a 9-step series that begins with hooting |
chest-beating
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Between 1937 & 1939 NYC's North Beach Airport was enlarged, becoming what's now this airport |
(Betsy: What is JFK?)
LaGuardia
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On Wall Street an order of under 100 shares is an "odd" one of these; 100 shares or a multiple is a "round" one |
a lot
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To become uninteresting through familiarity |
pall
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