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U.S. RIVERS THAT FLOW NORTH |
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Dr. Richard Kimble hunts down the one-armed man in this movie; Sam Gerard hunts down Dr. Kimble |
The Fugitive
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We're counting on you to name this style of bed seen here |
four-poster
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In 1429 she led her troops at Orleans, driving the English back across the Loire River |
Joan of Arc
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The Mojave River streams north for 100 miles through desert in this state |
(Alex: Guys, you're here. You're in [*].)
California
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He's the island magician in "The Tempest" |
Prospero
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This stage of sleep is usually said as a 3-letter acronym, but as a Georgia band name, it's spelled out |
REM
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Grouchy Lemmon & Matthau lived up to the title of this 1993 movie |
Grumpy Old Men
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In an office, this type of table, often rectangular & 12 to 14 feet long, can seat 10 to 12 people |
a conference table
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Morton Sobell, who got 30 years when tried as a spy along with this couple, died in 2018 at age 101 |
the Rosenbergs
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This "colorful" river flows north, forming 440 miles of the North Dakota-Minnesota border & then on into Canada |
the Red River of the North
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"Only an Irish Boy" is one of his rags-to-riches novels |
(Horatio) Alger
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These 3 letters can be said as an acronym for a savings account, but are always spelled out for an Irish militia |
IRA
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"My wife is dead?" asks this Sacha Baron Cohen title guy; "High five! Great!" |
Borat
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This brand was started by the two cousins seen here, who built their first recliner in 1927 |
La-Z-Boy
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On Nov. 5, 1862 the President ordered this "Little Mac" to go, relieving him from command of the Army of the Potomac |
McClellan
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The Willamette River flows north for about 180 miles into this river near Portland |
the Columbia
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The epigraph to this E.L. Doctorow novel is a quote by Scott Joplin |
Ragtime
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You say "est" when referring to a 1970s self-help movement, but E.S.T. is "Eastern" this |
Standard Time
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Dennis Hopper as the very creepy Frank asked, "What kind of beer do you like?" in this David Lynch film |
Blue Velvet
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This word came to be used for both an ornate chest of drawers & a cabinet containing a chamber pot |
commode
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As Chief Justice he presided over the Roe v. Wade & Pentagon Papers cases |
(Alex: You picked the right one. Well done.)
Warren Burger
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The Niagara River travels north 36 miles between these 2 Great Lakes |
Lake Ontario and Lake Erie
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1832, the year he died, could be called this German author's Dämmerung |
Goethe
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This 4-letter college military group can be spelled out or sounded out rhyming with "Yahtzee" |
ROTC
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In "Kill Bill" the bride takes on this savage antagonist, code name: Cottonmouth, actress: Lucy Liu |
O-Ren Ishii
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This French name for a writing desk with drawers & compartments goes back to Latin for a writing room |
(Brendan: What is a scriptorium?)
escritoire
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A biography told of "The Prophet Outcast:" this October Revolution man & eventual Russian exile, "1929-1940" |
(Leon) Trotsky
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One of Pittsburgh's "Three Rivers", it runs 128 miles north to join the Allegheny |
Monongahela
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Wallace Stevens titled a poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at" this bird |
a blackbird
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DOS is a programming language; DoS. is short for "denial of" this & is a computer attack |
service
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