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Before fighting at the Alamo, he served 3 terms as a House representative from Tennessee |
Davy Crockett
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It goes from hand to hand in a relay race |
a baton
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This 1902 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tale about a ghostly canine was based on local legend |
(John: What is The Hound of the Baskerville?) [In possibly a trick of editing, the time's-up signal sounds to rule the clue dead the instant John is ruled wrong.]
The Hound of the Baskervilles
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At an audition for the role of Lurch on this TV show, 6'9" actor Ted Cassidy ad-libbed "You rang?" |
(Rachel: What is The Munsters?)
The Addams Family
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In an amateur boxing match, Serafim Todorov was the last to defeat this man who won his first 49 pro fights |
(Peter: Who is Klitschko?) [Alex initially gave the last name of the correct response as "Merryweather" but quickly corrected himself, adding, "Silly me."]
Floyd Mayweather
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Och aye! At about 400 million years old, the Highlands of this country are among the world's oldest mountains |
Scotland
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Like the city where it's located, the mission was originally named in part for this man of Padua |
San Antonio
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Several make up a regiment |
a battalion
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In Greek poetry a faithful dog named Argos was this wanderer's pet |
Odysseus
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U.S. skier Ted Ligety won gold in the combined event at the 2006 winter games in this Italian city |
Turin
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This George Orwell novel was originally titled "The Last Man in Europe" |
1984
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These structures have star, parabolic & nebkha types, determined by the behavior of wind, sand & vegetation |
sand dunes
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Accounts differ but it's believed this knifesman died on his cot where he had been confined due to illness |
(Jim) Bowie
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"Energetic" Manhattan park |
Battery Park
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In 1838 he began publishing "Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle" |
Darwin
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As supervisor D.B. Russell, this actor has moved over from "CSI" to "CSI: Cyber" to help fight a new breed of criminal |
Ted Danson
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In 1996 Delaware's Billy Bailey became the last condemned murderer to be put to death in the U.S. this way |
(John: What is... the gas chamber?)
hanging
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Phytoplankton blooms in the Gulf of California, like at the bottom of the screen, herald her, El Niño's counterpart |
La Niña
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A month after the siege, this commander of the Mexican army was captured at San Jacinto |
Santa Anna
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To prepare for trouble, do this to "the hatches" |
batten down
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Good things happen "Because of" this store-found dog in a novel by Kate DiCamillo |
Winn-Dixie
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On this 1970s TV series, Ted Lange was Isaac Washington, chief bartender on the Pacific Princess |
The Love Boat
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In "Thus Spake Zarathustra", this author described the "last man" as the antithesis of the "superman" |
Nietzsche
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This visible phenomenon results from the solar wind buffeting Earth's magnetic field |
[Peter gave both listed responses.]
the aurora (the northern lights)
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A plea for help, this commander's "victory or death" letter was returned to the Alamo in 2013 for the 177th anniv. |
William Barret Travis
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Indonesian fabric dyeing practice using wax |
batik
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Described as "a lion-like creature", pilot is this man's dog in "Jane Eyre" |
Rochester
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He's the man of fleet fingers & uncompromising views seen here |
Ted Nugent
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The last Italian-born pope was this short-timer |
Pope John Paul I
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The movement of the Earth's crust during quakes is due to convection currents in this lower layer that's 2/3 of Earth's mass |
the mantle
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