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19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT |
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He said he learned more about the needy working with Habitat for Humanity than as Governor or President |
Jimmy Carter
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A lime crossed with this exotic citrus fruit equals a limequat |
a kumquat
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Harriet Beecher Stowe said that God wrote this book, "I merely did his dictation" |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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1982: "Billie Jean", "Beat It", "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" |
Thriller
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Of Dravidian, Sino-Tibetan or Indo-European, the language family with the most speakers |
Indo-European
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"I Got You Babe" is partly Cher, partly this |
Sonny (sunny)
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The original cross between this fruit & a plum resulted in a plumcot |
an apricot
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In 1880 an illustrated volume of his "A Tramp Abroad" included an appendix titled "The Awful German Language" |
Mark Twain
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1969: "Something", "Here Comes The Sun", "Come Together" |
Abbey Road
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1 of 2 African nations for which Portuguese is the official language |
(Brian: What is the Congo?)
(1 of) Angola or Mozambique
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Get your brolly out--Elizabeth II does it over England |
(Brian: What is rule?)
reign (rain)
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(Jimmy Carter presents the clue.) In 2002, these were at 40-year lows in the U.S., but still not as low as Habitat's, which are zero |
mortgage interest rates
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Burpee says that its hybrid Bartlett melon tastes like an apple & the Bartlett type of this |
a pear
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This 1854 series of essays on self-reliance was subtitled "Or, Life in the Woods" |
Walden
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1979: "Comfortably Numb", "Another Brick In The Wall", "Is There Anybody Out There?" |
The Wall
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This Celtic dialect of the Isle of Man is a form of Goidelic, which is closely related to Scottish Gaelic |
Manx
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There's a slight this, our 19th President |
Hayes (haze)
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The tangelo gets its name from the tangerine & this grapefruit relative |
pomelo
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In "The Scarlet Letter", she "raised a great scandal ... in godly Master Dimmesdale's church" |
Hester Prynne
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1977: "God Save The Queen", "Anarchy In The U.K.", "Pretty Vacant" |
Never Mind the Bollocks
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Pilipino is largely based on this indigenous language of central Luzon |
Tagalog
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Hire too many actors for your play, or toss your fishing line out too far |
overcast
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It's obtained by crossing the raspberry, the blackberry & the loganberry |
boysenberry
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This James Fenimore Cooper character is known as Hawkeye, Long Rifle & Pathfinder |
Natty Bumppo
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1993: "Leaving Las Vegas", "Run, Baby, Run", "All I Wanna Do" |
Tuesday Night Music Club
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The Cuzco dialect of this language was the language of the Incan empire |
Quechua
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In October 2002 this Hannah who reported for CNN & NBC joined the new CBS "Early Show" |
Storm
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