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Jack Lew, now this cabinet bigwig, once used the signature seen here, but it never made it onto bills |
the Secretary of the Treasury
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Samuel Johnson said, "When a man is tired of" this city that contains his only surviving residence, "he is tired of life" |
London
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A book called "Homegrown Terror" chronicles this patriot-turned-traitor & the burning of New London |
(Pam: Who is Guy--oh, never mind.)
Benedict Arnold
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The canopy variety is similar to the four-poster |
bed
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This master of suspense's 1969 film "Topaz" is a tale of Cold War defectors & double-dealing spies |
Hitchcock
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Ruby Thewes, Beatrix Potter, Bridget Jones |
Renée Zellweger
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Wang Xizhi was so renowned as one of these "beautiful writers" that his signature was deemed priceless |
a calligrapher
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In an 1850 novel, she refuses to name the father of her daughter Pearl & spends 3 hours on the pillory |
(Hester) Prynne
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Before he ran off & ran the circus, he published a Danbury newspaper & was arrested for libel |
Barnum
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To make someone your spouse |
wed
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A large cannabis-growing area, the "Emerald Triangle" is a 3-county region in this state |
(Jason: What is Oregon?)
California
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Tuvia Bielski, Jake Lonergan, James Bond |
Daniel Craig
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The opera "Les Troyens", or "The Trojans", by Berlioz was based on this ancient Roman epic |
(Jason: What is the Odyssey?)
the Aeneid
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This Yale grad put out "An American Dictionary of the English Language" in 1828, when he was 70 |
(Noah) Webster
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The part of the tire that hits the road |
tread
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Soft rock gems by this singer include "Song Sung Blue" & "Heartlight" |
Neil Diamond
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Noxeema, Willie Mays Hayes, Blade |
Wesley Snipes
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In the 16th century this French astrologer & seer would begin his signatures with "Michel" |
Nostradamus
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"Don't make house calls" is the message of "A Country Doctor", one of this Prague writer's eerie tales |
(Pam: Who is Roald Dahl?)
Franz Kafka
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In 1868 a church in Hartford, Connecticut was founded in memory of this revolver inventor & some of his children |
Colt
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Made an earnest appeal |
pled
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This brand of gin has a "Sapphire" variety inspired by a gemstone once owned by Mary Pickford |
Bombay
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Clarissa Vaughan, Francesca Johnson, Miranda Priestly |
Meryl Streep
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Fred Peloux is known by the single name Cheri in a 1920 novel by this single-named Frenchwoman |
Colette
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The last name of this Connecticut-born jeweler is seen on coveted blue boxes |
(Charles) Tiffany
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It can go in place of "place" in the sentence "Johnny will go in my place" |
stead
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It's the spark-producing part of a lighter; you can order a replacement one |
a flint
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J.D. Cahill, Davy Crockett, Hondo Lane |
(Pam: Who is Fess Parker?)
John Wayne
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