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This couple has a foundation that works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives |
Bill and Melinda Gates
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A melon with orange flesh |
cantaloupe
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As the Earth's axis won't always point the same direction, in some 20,000 years, Thuban in the constellation Draco will be this |
the North Star
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Completes the song lyric, "Look away, look away, look away" this land |
Dixie
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Venomous snakes are "milked" of their poison twice daily for snakebite antidotes at the Pasteur Institute in this Thai capital |
Bangkok
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More common name for the Central Overland Calif. & Pikes Peak Express Co., which used a steamer to go from Sacramento to S.F. |
(J.D.: What is Union Pacific?)
the Pony Express
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This club that uses the slogan "We Serve" is "feline" good about fighting blindness |
(Jennie: What is the Sierra Club?) ... (Alex: Important word in the clue--the writers got cutesy, putting in feline--[*].)
the Lions Club
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A cohort of contemporaries; as a time span, it's often given as 30 years |
a generation
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He got a 3-year suspended jail sentence & was fined $150,000 for his role with Nicaraguan contras |
Oliver North
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A No. 1 pop hit in 1960, it became an official state song in 1979 |
"Georgia On My Mind"
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May to November is the rainy season of this country--its coast gets 200 inches a year, but Phnom Penh gets less than 60 |
Cambodia
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In the 1880s this Arizona town famed for its OK Corral mined what today would be $1/2 billion in silver |
Tombstone
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Something worn by a boxer, or slang for someone who speaks for another |
mouthpiece
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This 1994 pact called for gradual tariff reduction for its 3 members--sorry, you can't use the short form of it! |
(J.D.: What is the North American Free Trade Act?)
the North American Free Trade Agreement
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This "stately" country group sings, "Song, song of the south, sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth" |
Alabama
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We shall return to this island nation & its large lakes like Lake Lanao on Mindanao |
the Philippines
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In 1864 Sioux chief Little Turtle did this to settler Robert McGee, reducing his future hairstyle options |
scalping, he scalped him
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Oxfam, a group that aims to relieve poverty & suffering, gets its name from these 2 words |
Oxford and famine
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Inflation erodes this "power" of a given sum of money |
purchasing
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This luggage & hiking equipment company is named for the typically coldest side of a mountain |
North Face
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This Allman Bros. classic says, "I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus, rollin' down Highway 41" |
"Ramblin' Man"
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The lowest point for North & South Korea is at this "national" body of water |
the Sea of Japan
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The Wild Bunch's Harry Longabaugh took this nickname from the name of the town where he was imprisoned for horse theft |
the Sundance Kid
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Seen here is the logo of this fraternal organization's hospitals for children |
Shriners
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This type of decorative glass gets its name from Italian for "thousand flowers" |
[Sandie's pronunciation is something like "MILL-yay-fee-or-ay".] (Alex: [*], yes, you got close enough.) [Laughter]
millefiori
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This landmark took its place in American history on April 18, 1775 |
(Jennie: [Long pause] What is, North America I don't know?)
the Old North Church
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In "Boondocks" Little Big Town sings, "You get a line, I'll get a pole, we'll go fishin' in" this type of hole |
in the crawfish hole
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In the Lao language the name of this Laotian capital means "city of sandalwood" |
Vientiane
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No Doolin around, it's the last name of outlaws Bob, Grat & Emmett, whose 1892 dual-bank heist left Bob & Grat breathless |
Dalton
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