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Phi Beta Kappa, America's oldest Greek-letter society, was founded in 1776 at this Virginia college |
William & Mary
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High school is complicated for "Me and" him "and the Dying Girl" |
Earl
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Often found before "keen", this fruity word also describes a bellini cocktail |
peachy
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After more than 150 years, he's still the tallest president in U.S. history |
Lincoln
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Years before Darwin, Charles Bonnet used this word for the idea that catastrophes lead to higher life forms |
(Alex: With less than a minute now.)
evolution
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We're on a first name basis with this bubbly redhead who has hosted the awards more times than any other artist |
Reba McEntire
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The main campus for Middlebury College is located in the Champlain Valley of this state |
Vermont
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The title character of this E.B. White book is born 2 inches long, with a tail & whiskers |
Stuart Little
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A cut of diamond, or anything wonderful |
brilliant
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This "Great" Russian czar was more than 6'6" |
Peter the Great
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Though he didn't live to see it, he accurately predicted that a comet seen previously would return in 1758 |
Halley
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At the 2011 awards Steven Tyler duetted with Carrie Underwood on this group's classic "Walk This Way" |
Aerosmith
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While attending this school, George W. Bush was a member of its Skull & Bones secret society |
Yale
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A Joseph Conrad novel was partly based on James Lingrad, a petty potentate on Borneo given this noble nickname |
Lord Jim
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Wonderful adjective preceding "Mrs. Maisel" or "Marvin Hagler" |
marvelous
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The National Park Service says that based on this Hawaiian king's feathered cape, he'd have been about 7 feet tall |
Kamehameha
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Next time you grab a soda, you can thank Joseph Priestley, who dissolved this gas in water in 1768, making it fizzy |
carbon dioxide
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In 1976 she went from "Coal Miner's Daughter" to the first woman to win ACM Entertainer of the Year |
Loretta Lynn
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Nicknamed "Sadie Lou", this New York college dropped the words "for Women" from its name in 1947 |
Sarah Lawrence
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Last name of Ramona, the title 8-year-old in a novel by Beverly Cleary |
Quimby
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Lorenzo de Medici was dubbed "Lorenzo the" this word emblazoning his great deeds |
magnificent
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Milo Đukanović, of this former Yugoslav republic named for its mountainousness, towers over other leaders |
Montenegro
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British physician David Pitcairn was the first to notice a link between rheumatic fever & serious damage to this organ |
the heart
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In 2018 she won 3 awards including Song of the Year for "Tin Man", for a total of 32, the most of any artist in ACM history |
Miranda Lambert
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This Jesuit university not far from L.A.'s international airport is known as LMU for short |
Loyola Marymount
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"I spit on your happiness!" is a line from this Jean Anouilh tragedy about a daughter of Oedipus |
(Marshall: Who is Elektra?)
Antigone
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From the Latin for "quake" comes the word for something outstanding |
(Marshall: What is terrific?) (Satish: What is seismic?) ... (Alex: For shaking, a tremor. [*].)
tremendous
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This 6'5" French president was nicknamed "The Big Asparagus" |
(Marshall: Who is Chirac?)
Charles de Gaulle
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In 1787, but not on a midsummer night, William Herschel discovered these 2 largest moons of Uranus |
Oberon and Titania
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At the 2007 awards Taylor Swift met this superstar for the first time after performing her debut single that's named for him |
Tim McGraw
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