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Of the Monitor & the Merrimack, the 1 that fought for the South |
the Merrimack
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U.S. patent #123790, Feb. 20, 1872, is for a machine to turn a block of wood into 1000s of these |
(Keith: What are clothespins?)
toothpicks
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Until Oct. 1983, crank calls were common in Bryant Pond, ME. since most phones were this kind |
crank phones
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"Police"man who said, "I'm a rich, successful songwriter - what do I write about now?" |
Sting
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They protect larvae during the pupal stage & were protected by B. Dennehy in a R. Howard film |
cocoon
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Assistant football coach at Purdue, he went on to buy the Yankees |
George Steinbrenner
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He said, "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it" |
Abraham Lincoln
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Italian chemist Ascanio Sobrero discovered this compound which blew up Alfred's brother Emil Nobel |
(Alex: We've got a minute to go in the round.)
nitroglycerine
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As the town's residents will tell you, this small N. England state has only town in world named Henniker |
(David: What is Rhode Island?)
New Hampshire
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Thanks to the Concorde, this drummer-singer was at both the London & Philadelphia Live Aid shows |
Phil Collins
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Rheas, emus, & cassowaries are classified as ratites because they can't do this |
(Keith: What is they can't sweat?)
fly
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In 1853, this immigrant & veteran of Waterloo founded a piano factory in New York |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Henry Steinway
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Because he opposed secession, he was deposed as Texas governor in 1861 |
Sam Houston
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Contrary to his name, he put ink, not H2O, in the fountain pen he patented in 1884 |
Waterman
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A museum in Quitman, Texas is named for this unfortunately named daughter of former Gov. James Hogg |
Ima
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Fluid that's left when you remove all the corpuscles from the blood |
plasma
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(Here comes the music.)
Bring the good old bugle, boys, we'll sing another song Sing it with a spirit that will start the world along Sing it as we used to sing it, 50,000 strong...
Civil War event depicted in this song:
...Hurrah! Hurrah! we bring the jubilee! Hurrah! Hurrah! the flag that makes you free! |
Sherman's march through Georgia
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1st administrator of the U.S. patent system, he never took out a patent for any of his inventions |
(Keith: Who is Ben Franklin?)
Thomas Jefferson
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Wall, S. Dakota, is famous for this legendary store with an ice water well & a "real" jackalope |
Wall Drug
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It's contained in the anther sacs of a stamen |
pollen
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7 of the 11 Confederate states seceded while this man was president |
James Buchanan
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In 1888, Marvin Chester Stone patented the 1st of these, hand-rolled & made of paraffined paper |
(David: What are cigarettes?) (Dale: What are cigars?) --- (Alex: I thought the name Stone might help you. [*].)
straws
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Founded July 12, 1887, Mound Bayou, Miss. is oldest city in U.S. whose population is exclusively this |
Black
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Discounting Clairol, the color of human hair is mainly due to this dark pigment |
melanin
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