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This fast food chain said it would phase out foam packaging at its 11,400 stores worldwide |
McDonald's
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Pat Nixon visits a pig farm in the modern opera about "Nixon in" this Asian country |
China
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It's the capital of what was once referred to as "Seward's Folly" |
Juneau
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It's the part of a light bulb that's usually made of tungsten |
the filament
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From 1275-92, this Venetian explorer traveled in the service of Emperor Kublai Khan |
Marco Polo
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The town of Jerusalem's Lot, plagued by vampires, is better known as this title territory |
'Salem's Lot
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In November 1990 he finally married Jerry Hall, on the island of Bali |
Mick Jagger
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The jumping frog of this county was so celebrated he had an opera written about him |
Calaveras County
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This city got a park, a free hospital & a university from the generosity of Johns Hopkins |
Baltimore
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Most plants will lose this green coloring pigment if they're not exposed to light |
chlorophyll
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This religion whose name means "submission to the will of god" was founded in the 7th century |
Islam
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The deadly dog in a 1981 Stephen King title |
Cujo
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This talk show host had viewers help choose new red glasses to replace her trademark specs |
Sally Jessy Raphael
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Encyclopedia Americana calls this Gershwin work "the first truly successful American opera" |
Porgy and Bess
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Washington state's largest seaport; it's located about 125 miles in from the Pacific coast |
Seattle
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This second most common element in the Earth's crust is used to make transistors & microchips |
silicon
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Most medieval Europeans who could read & write did so in this language |
Latin
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The monster "It" was disguised as Pennywise, one of these |
a clown
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She resigned as Labor Secretary to head the American Red Cross |
Elizabeth Dole
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This Puccini title character stabs herself just before Lt. Pinkerton arrives to take her son away |
Madame Butterfly
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In population, the largest incorporated city of Hollywood is in this state, not California |
Florida
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Measured in calories, it's transferred between objects by conduction, convection & radiation |
heat
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This empire reached its greatest territorial extent under Justinian I in the 6th century |
the Byzantine
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The King classic that takes place at the haunted Overlook Hotel in the mountains of Colorado |
The Shining
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2 of the 5 senators called "The Keating 5" for their alleged links to the Lincoln S&L owner |
(Robert: Who are John Golden and [**]?) [Alex says nothing.] (Robert: Uh, [*] and [**]!) (Alex: I'm sorry, I have to give you an incorrect on that. [*] would have been right had you said it first.) ... [When going to Robert for his Final Jeopardy! response, Alex corrected himself for saying Donald Regan instead of Donald Riegle.]
(2 of) John Glenn, Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, Donald Riegle & John McCain
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In "Gotterdammerung", Hagen is seized by the maidens of this river & dragged into its depths |
the Rhine River
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5 Franciscan missions & 5 military installations are in or near this central Texas city |
San Antonio
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In its solid form, this soft mineral is called steatite or soapstone |
(Alex: You were on such a roll, Robert, I can't believe we stumped you with [*].)
talc
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In medieval craft guilds it was the class between apprentice & master craftsman |
journeyman
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The kind of mystical power that allowed his first heroine, Carrie, to move things |
telekinesis
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