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On March 10, 1775 this frontiersman began blazing the Wilderness Road |
Daniel Boone
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In the title of a play by Robert Anderson, it's paired with "sympathy" |
Tea
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The Paraguay River divides Paraguay into 2 major regions: Occidental Paraguay & this |
Oriental Paraguay
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Politically speaking, it's a cause that looks promising; you can join by "jumping on" it |
(M: What is the gravy train?)
Bandwagon
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One legend claims they fought in the Trojan War under their queen, Penthesilea |
Amazons
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This "good" guy who discovered vulcanization was born in New Haven |
Charles Goodyear
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In early colonial Boston only men belonging to this religious sect could vote or hold office |
(M: What are Quakers?)
Puritans
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In "Painting Churches", the churches aren't buildings but these |
(D: What are members of the family?) (response accepted)
People
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The Denmark Strait is located between Iceland & this Danish possession |
Greenland
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A special-interest group, named for the place in a capital building that is frequented by them |
Lobby
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It starts life again as a small worm that crawls out of the ashes of its own funeral pyre |
The Phoenix
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Born in Winsted, he practiced law in Connecticut before he wrote "Unsafe At Any Speed" |
Ralph Nader
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Drawn up in 1620, this document formed the basis of Plymouth Colony's legal system |
The Mayflower Compact
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Anita Loos wrote the non-musical stage adaptation of this Colette novel |
"Gigi"
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Cristoforo Colombo Int'l Airport serves this city, Italy's busiest port |
Genoa
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Someone who votes for candidates of different parties on the same ballot votes this kind of "ticket" |
Split Ticket
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To make her son invulnerable, Achilles' mother bathed all but the famous heel in this river |
The Styx
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His character, Radar O' Reilly, was from Iowa, but this actor was born in Bristol, Connecticut |
Gary Burghoff
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1797 "affair" in which 3 agents for France demanded a $250,000 bribe from U.S. diplomats |
"XYZ" Affair
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"Dial 'M' For Murder" takes place in the living room of an apartment in this foreign capital |
London
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75 times the size of Belgium, the former Belgian Congo is now known by this name |
Zaire
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A candidate who's nominated by his home state at a convention, often as an honorary gesture |
Favorite Son
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After she fell in love with him, Circe lifted the spell that had changed men into swine |
Odysseus
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Her "immediate family" raised her mostly in Greenwich & also briefly in Africa |
Glenn Close
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On March 1, 1781 Maryland became the last state to ratify this document |
(D: What is the Constitution?)
Articles of Confederation
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"Regina" was a 1949 musical version of this Lillian Hellman play |
"The Little Foxes"
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More American Indians live in this country on South America's Pacific coast than any other |
Peru
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The "privilege" exercised by Congress & the executive branch to use the Postal Service free of charge |
Franking
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Her sisters Stheno & Euryale are mentioned in myth, but we don't know if they were as ugly |
Medusa
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This Watergate judge born in Waterbury was Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" for 1973 |
John Sirica
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