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AR stands for the problem of "antibiotic" this, when bacteria shrug off drugs that once would have killed them |
resistance
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1995: "That'll do pig. That'll do" |
Babe
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His first & middle names were Pelham Grenville, but his friends called him "Plum" |
P.G. Wodehouse
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Word found after clay, passenger or stool |
pigeon
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In 87 B.C. Gaius Marius & his pal Cinna captured this city |
Rome
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In October, the Buckeye Central Railroad in this state offers Haunted Halloween trips |
Ohio
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Helicobacter pylori has special defenses against this acid, which allow it to live in the stomach & cause ulcers |
hydrochloric acid
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1969: "Kid, the next time I say, 'Let's go someplace like Bolivia,' let's go someplace like Bolivia" |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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Comedian Steve Boyer said he was such a geek in H.S. that his characters in this 3-word fantasy game had asthma |
Dungeons & Dragons
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From 1968 to 1971, President George W. Bush served in this military group |
the Texas Air National Guard
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Inspired by the train in this 1941 film, the Casey Jr. Circus Train opened at Disneyland in its first year, 1955 |
Dumbo
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In his youth, this author of "The Mayor of Casterbridge" played the fiddle at weddings & dances |
Thomas Hardy
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"My wife said, 'That's not going in the living room'", a man said in 2004 after spearing a 188-lb. one of these fish |
a sturgeon
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Aiding the English win at Crecy were people collecting these off the battlefield for reuse after each French retreat |
arrows
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Riding the Mount Washington Cog Railway has thrilled folks in this New England State since 1869 |
New Hampshire
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Clostridium tetani typically affects the masseter muscle, which controls the movement of this body part |
(Kingslea: What is the heart?) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
the jaw
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This author of "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" spent his last years with the former proprietress of a Florida brothel |
(Jim: Who is Dreiser?)
(Stephen) Crane
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A petty way of referring to a member of the middle class |
(Alex: You have nearly $20,000 more than your nearest rival. You could make a big wager now.) (Maria: May I bet $10,000, please?) (Alex: You can.) (Maria: Thank you.) ... (Alex: You're fun, Maria! I like having you on the show!)
a bourgeois
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Soldiers still practice this "drill" of marching in formation even though it's not used in battle |
close order drill
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The California State Railroad Museum is in this city once at the western end of the Transcontinental RR |
(Alex: It's in our state capital, [*].)
Sacramento
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He was eventually buried in the Illinois cemetery that inspired his "Spoon River Anthology" |
Edgar Lee Masters
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This 1897 Kipling novel details a boy's coming of age on a fishing trawler |
[No applause for Maria's run of the category]
Captains Courageous
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Abbreviated SAS, this elite British military unit is similar to the USA's Delta Force |
the Special Air Service
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The old Wakarusa Railroad offers a 1 1/2 mile ride over a hand-laid railway near Elkhart in this state |
Indiana
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