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In 2016 this "Sling Blade" Oscar winner began playing lawyer Billy McBride in TV's "Goliath" |
[Virginia selected the first clue.]
Billy Bob Thornton
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"Chim Chim Cher-ee" (1964), written by Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman |
Mary Poppins
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Asia forms the entire northern border of this ocean |
the Indian Ocean
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For Memorial Day, the 3rd U.S. infantry regiment places flags in front of more than 200,000 headstones in this cemetery |
Arlington National Cemetery
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Don't put a beached whale or dolphin back in the water; keep it wet, cool & shaded & don't cover this nostril |
the blowhole
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A phone number for people to call for more information during an emergency |
a hotline
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This lawyer who penned "The Star-Spangled Banner" was later a member of Andrew Jackson's "Kitchen Cabinet" |
Francis Scott Key
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"Jai Ho" (2008), written by A.R. Rahman & Gulzar |
Slumdog Millionaire
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This capital on the island of Java is sometimes spelled with a "D" at the beginning |
Jakarta
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The World War I poem "In Flanders Field" inspired the use of this flower as a symbol for remembering fallen soldiers |
the poppy
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Hand me my thong! 150-mile-long Praia do Cassino in this country is the world's longest beach |
Brazil
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Designers Mary Quant & Mariuccia Mandelli are credited with popularizing these in the early 1970s |
hot pants
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He's the architect seen here with his plans for a mile-high skyscraper that was never built |
Frank Lloyd Wright
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"(This title)... What A Feeling" (1983), written by Giorgio Moroder, Irene Cara & Keith Forsey |
Flashdance
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Rising in the Valdai Hills northwest of Moscow, this is Europe's longest river |
the Volga
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This traditional song of Memorial Day was originally a call to extinguish lights |
"Taps"
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The red sand of Maui's Kaihalulu Beach is due to a high concentration of this metallic element |
iron
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Westinghouse once made an electric frying pan that doubled as this when turned upside down |
a hot plate
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Just days after the Scopes monkey trial ended, this statesman who assisted the prosecution died |
William Jennings Bryan
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"Glory" (2014), written by the guys we know as John Legend & Common |
Selma
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The capital of the Cayman Islands & the capital of Guyana share this name |
Georgetown
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On the holiday, the Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma hosts a festival for these vehicles, the food trucks of the Old West |
chuck wagons
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Live sand dollars have velvety coats but lose them after death; the invertebrate shell, AKA this, washes ashore |
the exoskeleton
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Nickname of impetuous Sir Henry Percy, killed at the 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury |
Hotspur
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"The Queen of Suspense", she's written more than 35 bestsellers since the '70s, including "Daddy's Little Girl" |
Mary Higgins Clark
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"I'm Easy" (1975), written by Keith Carradine |
Nashville
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South America's most arid region is this desert in northern Chile |
the Atacama
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To honor the 100th anniversary of a battle here, LBJ gave a Memorial Day speech in 1963 |
Gettysburg
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Waves can deposit sediment along the shore as terraced areas alliteratively called "beach" these |
beach berms
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Many a politician has told the public more than he wanted to because he didn't know he was on one of these |
a hot mike
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