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Seen here in his earlier days & as a senator, this Kansan recovered from almost total paralysis |
Bob Dole
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Melvin Calvin won a 1961 Nobel Prize for mapping the chemical reactions in this plant process |
photosynthesis
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"Dilbert" creator Scott Adams said this megalomanic pooch was loosely based on his childhood beagle Lucy |
Dogbert
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Chris Rock on this economic rule: it's your boss saying ,"If I could pay you less, I would, but it's against the law" |
minimum wage
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With these 2 official languages, New Brunswick is the only legally bilingual province in Canada |
English and French
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During pregnancy, this organ expands to over 20 times its normal size |
the uterus
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This inventor and engineer climbed a tree as a lad in 1899 and dreamed of building a craft that could reach Mars |
(Alex: Joe?) (Joe: Who is Lovell?)
Robert Goddard
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This state of matter is bypassed in sublimation |
liquid
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A sheepdog named Hot Dog loves to eat & is just as lazy as his master, this best friend of Archie Andrews |
Jughead
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The Federal Trade Commission has a Bureau of this, the battle between firms that keeps prices low |
competition
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At the Atlantic Salmon Museum in Doaktown, you can learn to tie one of these to hook a salmon |
a fly
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It can describe a juicy steak or a juicy cactus |
succulent
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The picture was taken in the Napa Valley where this man is a giant |
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)
(Robert) Mondavi
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In Boyle's Law the "P" in the formula PV=k stands for this |
pressure
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In 2010 this Great Dane leaped from the funny papers to the big screen in a live action film with Owen Wilson providing his voice |
Marmaduke
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Maastricht in this country was the site of the 1991 treaty that established the E.U. & its common currency |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
the Netherlands
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This capital was laid out in by Tories in 1785 & named for the son of King George III --not the son's wife, Frederica |
(Joe: What is Frederictown?) [Originally ruled correct, ruled incorrect before the first Daily Double]
Fredericton
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Crowfoot is a less appealing name for this familiar yellow flower |
(Joe: What is crocus?)
buttercup
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In 1961 this Secretary of Defense was about to testify to Congress about Kennedy's civil defense plan |
Robert McNamara
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This type of solid has 7 repeating, symmetrical systems called lattices that include cubic & triclinic |
(Lisa: What is a crystalline solid? Or what is [*]?)
a crystal
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Earl, Woofie & Guard Dog are the featured canines in this Patrick McDonnell strip |
Mutts
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The name of Kouchibouguac National Park means "river of long" these, for which the area's seacoast is famous |
tides
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In "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", it's Captain Nemo's submarine |
the Nautilus
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Here we see this British author whose works include "Claudius the God" |
Robert Graves
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New Mexico's White Sands national monument takes its name from its miles of gypsum crystals, hydrated this-- CaSO4 |
calcium sulfate
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This brother of Snoopy in "Peanuts" always wears a hat & lives in the desert near Needles, California |
Spike
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An international park maintained by the U.S. & Canada on this island features the summer home of Franklin Roosevelt |
(Joe: What is Montebello?)
Campobello
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More than 9 million people, mostly in South Africa, speak this Bantu language |
Zulu
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