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BAND OF BROTHERS & SISTERS |
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FOUND MY PLACE IN THE BOOK |
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"My ancestors didn't come over" on this, "but they met the boat" |
(Alex: With less than a minute.)
the Mayflower
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Term for an angry crowd in the street |
a mob
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Brian, Carl & Dennis Wilson |
The Beach Boys
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Before this term meant 2 sports games played back to back, it meant a train pulled by 2 locomotives together |
a double-header
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Jhumpa Lahiri's novel "The Namesake" follows a family moving from Calcutta to this collegey Boston-area city |
Cambridge
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In 1993 consumers were asked to name new colors & came up with this "mountains' majesty" |
purple mountains' majesty
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This then 96-member institution "opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation" |
(Rosie: What is Interpol?)
the United States Senate
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It's the deadly species seen here, notorious since ancient times |
an asp
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Richard Nixon grew up dreaming of being a train engineer; in 1970 he signed this national railroad into existence |
Amtrak
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This author left her familiar prairie settings for New Mexico in "Death Comes for the Archbishop" |
(Jeff: Who is Wilder?)
Willa Cather
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In 1996 the 100 billionth Crayola was molded in this color, the top prize at many a state fair |
(Jeff: What is blue?) (Alex: Be more specific.) (Jeff: What...)
blue ribbon
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A frequent opening line, "All I know is" this |
"All I know is what I read in the papers"
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Kevin, Joe & Nick |
the Jonas Brothers
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In the 1800s inventions like this man's improved steam engine were adapted for trains |
(Jeff: Who is Fulton?)
James Watt
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"Snow Falling in Spring" is Moying Li's memoir of growing up in China during this late 1960s tumult |
(Rosie: What is the Great Leap Forward?)
the Cultural Revolution
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In 1990 Crayola retired this color, a synonym for "corn" |
maize
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"The country is bigger than" this financial center--"if they don't believe it, show 'em the map" |
Wall Street
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This popular Jamaican music stye from the late 1950s predates reggae |
ska
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Country music's Kimberly, Reid & Neil |
The Band Perry
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World War II aircraft engineer Tadanao Miki later designed the Shinkansen, AKA this train |
the bullet train
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(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A Patricia Highsmith novel takes us all around Rome--here's where Freddie Miles is killed, & here, at the Europa hotel, is where this "Talented" title character hides out as Dickie Greenleaf |
the talented Mr. Ripley
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The original 1903 box of 8 crayons contained black, brown, blue, red, violet, yellow, green & this fruit |
orange
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"I never met" one of these |
(Jeff: What is "a man I never liked"?)
"I never met a man I didn't like"
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This verb means to fit a vessel with sails, Cap'n |
rig
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Scottish twins Craig & Charlie Reid, who "would walk 500 miles" |
The Proclaimers
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In 1873, Eli Janney patented the knuckle version of this special semi-automatic train car connector |
(Rosie: What is a handshake connector?)
a coupler
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"Even Silence Has an End" by Ingrid Betancourt tells of 6 years as a captive of the FARC organization in this country |
Colombia
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Burnt umber was discontinued; burnt this was spared in 2003 thanks to votes from thousands of fans |
sienna
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