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BRUSHING UP ON YOUR SPANISH HISTORY |
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This longtime TV character was originally orange but he said a vacation to swamp mushy muddy turned him green overnight |
Oscar the Grouch
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Lake Pontchartrain Causeway |
Louisiana
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Robert Burns exulted, "O my luve's like a red, red" this |
a rose
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This 1998 film about a certain playwright of note won 7 Oscars |
Shakespeare in Love
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This "invincible" force found itself quite vincible after 8 English fireships headed its way early on Aug. 8, 1588 |
the Armada
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Pertaining to a city, or "outfitters" at a mall |
urban
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Britannica said this writer in college in the 1870s distinguished himself "as a classical scholar, a poseur, and a wit" |
Oscar Wilde
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Penobscot Narrows Bridge |
Maine
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Tennyson wrote of "nature, red in tooth and" this |
claw
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& Iiiiiiiiiii...want you to give us this title promise Whitney Houston made in a song that was No. 1 for 14 weeks |
"I Will Always Love You"
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After more than 350 years, nobody expected this tribunal established to maintain orthodoxy would end in 1834 |
the Spanish Inquisition
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It describes both sharp pain &, say, a 42-degree angle |
acute
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We bet you know Oscar Goodman became mayor of this city in 1999 & swore in his wife to replace him in 2011 |
Las Vegas
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Lake Champlain Bridge (2 states, please) |
(Kimberly: What are... Vermont and New Hampshire?)
Vermont & New York
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Jenny Joseph's "Warning" begins, "When I am an old woman I shall wear" this color, "with a red hat which... doesn't suit me" |
purple
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Time to bust this 1970s TV title ship out of dry dock & make another run; in real life, one of its crew ended up as a congressman |
Love Boat
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On Jan. 7, 1969 he said he would accept the Spanish throne if offered; 6 years later, he got the gig |
Juan Carlos
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A trumpet is a wind instrument in this orchestra section |
brass
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A Chicago magnet school is named for this man, a once-local butcher |
Oscar Mayer
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In "David Copperfield", Dickens wrote, "Skewered through & through with office pens, & bound hand & foot with" this |
red tape
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In this 1964 Peter Sellers film: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!" |
Dr. Strangelove
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After taking the loss in the Spanish-American War, Spain ceded this easternmost island in the Greater Antilles |
Puerto Rico
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The second-highest ranking graduate in a class, & don't say "runner-up" & make me come over there |
the salutatorian
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This fashion icon from the Dominican Republic dressed First Ladies, including Nancy Reagan |
Oscar de la Renta
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The John Ringling Causeway |
Florida
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Stephen Crane wrote, "At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way...he wished that he, too, had a wound, a" this |
a red badge of courage
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We'll be back in 2 & 2 with this Chuck Woolery-hosted dating show |
Love Connection
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In 206 B.C., in the second of these wars, a Roman victory near Seville evicted Carthage from Spain for good |
the Punic Wars
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It's that fleshy lobe hanging from a turkey's chin |
a wattle
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