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The first permanent English settlement in the American colonies |
Jamestown
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Upton Sinclair set "The Jungle" not in the third world but in this Second City |
Chicago
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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer is equivalent of this U.S, cabinet secretary |
Secretary of the Treasury
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He was born Ferenc Liszt, but known by this German version of his 1st name |
Franz
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John Amos got an Emmy nomination for playing this character as an adult in |
Kunta Kinte
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Not tilted |
[As displayed on-screen, each of the letters in "tilted" was set slightly lower than the previous one, to give an effect that the word tilted at a declining angle.]
level
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In 1773, Ben Franklin tested this form of execution & knocked off chickens, a 10-lb. turkey & a lamb |
electrocution
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It's the beloved country in Alan Paton's "Cry the Beloved Country" |
South Africa
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While Canada is divided into provinces, Australia has 6 of these |
states
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Songwriter who emigrated from Russia to New York in the 1890s, which may have inspired the following |
[Audio was the opening lines of "God Bless America".]
Irving Berlin
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This comedian of Lebanese descent, aka Amos Jacobs, was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal for humanitarianism |
Danny Thomas
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As the last word in a palindromic phrase, it's what owls might say it's "too hot to" do |
hoot
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In 1843, Mexico said annexation of this as a U.S. state would be equal to a declaration of war |
Texas
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Subtitled "The Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure", in 1821 it became 1st book tried for sexual obscenity in U.S. |
(Chris: What is Maude Flanders?)
Fanny Hill
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While "Venus" was a #1 hit for Frankie Avalon, no one's had a hit about this, her Greek equivalent |
Aphrodite
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Black composer James A. Bland, born in NYC in 1854, wrote this state song of Virginia |
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go.)
"Carry Me Back To Old Virginny"
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On "The Real McCoys", he was Grandpappy Amos "Head of the clan, he roars like a lion, but he's gentle as a lamb" |
Walter Brennan
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French pronoun or French magazine, both concerned with women |
(Ernie: What is oui?)
elle
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Napoleon's grand-nephew, Attorney General Charles Bonaparte, established this U.S. agency in 1908 |
the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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He died in 1924, leaving unfinished his only 3 novels, "The Trial", "The Castle" & "Amerika" |
(Franz) Kafka
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JFK's equivalent of FDR's "New Deal" and Truman's "Fair Deal" |
(Steve: What is... I can't come up with it.)
the New Frontier
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This native of Washington, D.C. wrote several novels & an autobiography called "Marching Along" |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.] (Alex: Oh! That wraps up the Double Jeopardy! Round and bad news for Ernie because he wounds up--winds up at -$200. And Steve, our champion, can sympathize with you; because he was nailed on our last program for failing to phrase a response correctly. Ernie, you're gonna wind up with our 3rd place prize; thank you very much, stay right where you are.)
(John Philip) Sousa
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While Andy's occupation was trying to get rich quick, Amos of "Amos & Andy" did this for a living |
(Ernie: Uh, [*].) ... (Alex: Ernie remembered too late the correct phrasing.)
drove a cab
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For Mae West, this "diamond" was a theatrical gem |
Lil
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His 16-minute flight on July 21, 1961 made him the 2nd American in space |
(Chris: Who is John Glenn?)
(Virgil "Gus") Grissom
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1941 Arthur Koestler novel which showed his disillusionment with Communism |
Darkness at Noon
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In most Islamic countries, it's the equivalent of the Red Cross |
the Red Crescent
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Jahan of India and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, for example |
shahs
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