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A book about George, who takes the new name Melissa, earned some bans but also one of these Greek-letter awards AKA the Lammys |
the Lambda Award
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A 2019 survey ranked this island nation as having the sexiest accent; nearby Australia ranked fifth |
New Zealand
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Using cloned DNA worked out just super-duper in this 1993 film... well, for its producers, not its characters |
Jurassic Park
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"Insure domestic tranquility" & "secure the blessings of liberty" are lines from this historic document |
(Ryan: What is the Declaration of American Independence?)
the Constitution
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One suggestion for this chess piece: deputy sovereign |
queen
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It's the tropical bird seen here |
a toucan
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This Stowe novel was banned in parts of the slave-holding South & in serf-holding Russia |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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In Latin America, this word of thanks is pronounced with a soft "C"; in most of Spain, the "C" is said as a "th" |
gracias
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This man returned to the "Star Wars" universe in animated form, voicing Mace Windu in "The Clone Wars" |
Samuel L. Jackson
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In the 1760s these 2 surveyors marked the boundary between Maryland & Pennsylvania |
(Daryn: Who are Lewis and Clark?)
Mason and Dixon
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We could call this "parental" computer component a primary circuit board |
a motherboard
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In 1784 Ben Franklin panned the bald eagle as a U.S. national symbol, preferring this bird instead |
the turkey
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Forget the love story--Pasternak's "Dr. Zhivago" was banned in the USSR until 1987 because of its portrayal of this commie faction |
the Bolsheviks
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Ewan McGregor called the Midwest accent he used for this TV show based on a movie the hardest one he'd ever done |
Fargo
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Sarah, Helena & Cosima were but some of the "Clone Club" played by this actress on "Orphan Black" |
Tatiana Maslany
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Woeful economic conditions helped reduce immigration from 4.2 million the decade before to less than 700,000 in this decade |
(Daryn: What is the '40s?) (Alex: Oh, you were one decade off. [*]. You had to think of the Depression.)
the 1930s
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You can use this 6-letter term rather than Latina or Latino |
Latinx
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This small duck shares its name with a bluish-green color |
a teal duck
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Due to its alleged obscenity, in 1957 U.S. Customs seized 520 copies of this Allen Ginsberg poem printed in England |
"Howl"
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Scouse, the accent for this port city on England's West Coast, comes from lobscouse, a sailor's dish |
Liverpool
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This author was able to revive the character Duncan Idaho when he introduced clones called ghola in "Dune Messiah" |
(Frank) Herbert
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In 1868 the House of Representatives voted 126 to 47 to impeach this man |
(Andrew) Johnson
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How about "synthetic" or "artificial" instead of this hyphenated adjective |
man-made
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This swan is named for its low-pitched call |
(Ryan: What is a trumpet swan? [*]?)
a trumpeter swan
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The 1722 novel "Moll Flanders" by this author has been taken off shelves for lewdness |
(Mononita: Who is Deronda?)
Daniel Defoe
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It's another word for an Irish accent |
a brogue
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Later featured in "Game of Thrones", this veteran British actor starred as a cloned mad scientist in a 2008 BBC sitcom |
Jonathan Pryce
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In 1863, George McClellan's military career was over, but this General George was on hand to defeat Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg |
Meade
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To describe those who came before us, these "bears" are less patriarchal than these "fathers" |
forebears
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Scarlet is one species of this songbird |
the scarlet tanager
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