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The first bridge over this river, connecting Iowa & Illinois, opened in April 1856 |
the Mississippi
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In "A Day at the Races", he quipped, "If I hold you any closer, I'll be in back of you" |
Groucho Marx
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The phrase en saison means this |
in season
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The Via Condotti is one of the most elegant shopping streets in this capital city |
Rome
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When these are "raised", people are shocked |
eyebrows
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Correct like precipitation |
right as rain
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In September 1850 President Fillmore appointed Brigham Young governor of this territory |
Utah
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"Coogan's Bluff" evolved into this 1970s TV police drama starring Dennis Weaver |
... (Alex: Popular series...[*].)
McCloud
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Canard aux mangues is duck served with this tropical fruit |
mango
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This country's Bellelay cheese was named for the abbey where it was created in the canton of Bern |
Switzerland
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2-word "fruity" name for soft, downy facial hair |
peach fuzz
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Exactly something an M.D. called for |
(Kathleen: What the...what is "the doctor called for"?)
just what the doctor ordered
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More than 30,000 volumes in the Library of Congress were destroyed in a December 1851 fire in this building |
the Capitol building
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The title tune to this James Dean film is subtitled "This Then is Texas" |
Giant
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In France this huge melon, called a pasteque, may be filled with wine before it's served |
watermelon
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Some of the ancestors of this country's Batak people, who live in Sumatra, were cannibals |
Indonesia
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They're the big sideburns that extend almost to the jawline |
(Kathleen: What are side--what are bur--hmm...no. I was gonna say "sideburns".)
mutton chops
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Wee water pourers possess large auricles |
little pitchers have big ears
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Prince Albert was largely responsible for the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in this London park |
... (Pick a London park, and you'll probably come up with [*].)
Hyde Park
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In this 1948 Humphrey Bogart movie, the Florida Hotel was really a set on the Warner Brothers lot |
Key Largo
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Chou-fleur is the French name for this vegetable that can be sauteed or eaten raw in salads |
cauliflower
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Manus is the largest of the Admiralty Islands, which are found in this ocean |
the Pacific
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It's the 11-letter adjective for one who wears facial hair between the nose and lip |
mustachioed
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Be cognizant of a hurricane's direction |
(Bob: [*]?) (Alex: And remember the phrasing.) (Bob: What is... what is [*]?) (Alex: All right.)
know which way the wind is blowing
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Russia lost the mouth of the Danube & other territory in the 1856 treaty ending this war |
the Crimean War
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Warren Beatty was Oscar nominated as actor, director & writer for this 1981 film |
Reds
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Potatoes are pommes de terre & these other essential vichyssoise ingredients are poireaux |
(Kathleen: What are onions?) ... (Alex: Kathleen realizes now that she should have said [*], yes.)
leeks
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Kashmiri arts & crafts are on display in the Pratap Singh Museum in Srinagar in this country |
India
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Facial feature seen here, named for the artist who painted it |
Van Dyke
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Disembark using a proper pedal extremity |
get off on the right foot
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