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1845 failure of this crop led to famine in Ireland |
potatoes
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Winner of famed 1830 race between Peter Cooper's locomotive "Tom Thumb" & a horse |
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go in the round.)
the horse
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To achieve a balance in sound, Reagan now wears 2 of them |
hearing aids
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From family Engraulidae, no real Caesar salad is complete without them |
anchovies
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S.C. statesman & diplomat Joel Roberts Poinsett brought this plant back from Mexico |
(Joe: What is tobacco?)
Poinsettia
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The owl & pussycat's seagoing vessel |
a pea-green boat
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In 1493, Pope Alexander VI divided the New World between Spain & this country |
(Czerni: What is England?)
Portugal
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Mode of transportation in title of this song: |
jet plane
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When opened, side of an English-language book the even numbered pages are usually on |
(Joe: What is the right side?)
the left side
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A whale's tail fin, or an unexpected stroke of good luck |
fluke
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South Carolina is bordered by only this many other states |
2 (North Carolina & Georgia)
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1st line of Kermit's musical complaint about his color |
"It's not that easy being green"
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In 1938, he said he had achieved "peace with honor" |
Neville Chamberlain
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By FBI figures, it was the U.S. city with the greatest total number of car thefts in 1984 |
New York City
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Among the most beautiful & most deadly of reef fishes, it could appropriately be called "King of the Ocean" |
lionfish
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According to the folk song, "they're hangin'" Irishmen for this offense |
the wearing of the green
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1st black to win Nobel Prize, he negotiated 1949 Arab-Israeli truce |
Ralph Bunche
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1924 creation of a general, you hear it on elevators & when put on hold by the Pentagon |
Muzak
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Named for the salad vegetable it resembles, the Chinese use it as a food called trepang |
sea cucumber
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State tree said to have helped American revolutionaries by "catching" British cannonballs |
[end-of-round signal sounds]
palmetto
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U.S. political party of 1800s that believed issuing more paper money would bring prosperity |
Greenback
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Bartlett's says this courtesan, not the king, said, "Apres nous, le deluge" |
(Susan: Who was Madame Bovary?)
Madame du Pompadour
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Before he did this in '85, Prince Charles was asked if he was a homosexual or injected drugs |
(Susan: What was before he became a father?) ... (Alex: To show that there was no AIDS contamination problems.)
before he gave blood
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The sand dollar is actually a species of this with tiny spines & flattened "shell" |
sea urchin
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The 1st one on a label in 1925 was white, wore a bearskin, & scowled |
The Jolly Green Giant
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