ALPHABET ROCKERS & RAPPERS |
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Hey, short-pants! An electrical label led to the name of this Angus & Malcolm Young band |
AC/DC
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One of the proposed names for what became this state capital was Missouriopolis |
(Joe: What is St. Paul?)
Jefferson City
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This type of cake has very specific colors |
(Ken: Yes, it looks good.)
a rainbow cake
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"The Young Giant" & "Little Red-Cap" were 2 of the more than 200 stories collected by these German brothers in a 19th c. anthology |
the Brothers Grimm
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The largest dam made by these rodents is in Wood Buffalo National Park in Alberta & stretches about a half mile |
a beaver
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One who can give a firsthand account |
a witness
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This rapper seen here duetted with J-Lo on the 2006 hit "Control Myself" |
LL Cool J
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In 1776 this school gave George Washington an honorary degree as thanks for pushing the British out of Boston |
Harvard
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King cake, which hides a little plastic baby inside, is popular during this celebration that culminates on Fat Tuesday |
(Joe: What is Epiphany?)
Mardi Gras
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Scholars think John Hunter, an 18th c. London surgeon known as "The Knife Man", inspired this R.L. Stevenson guy |
Dr. Jekyll
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The mounds of the cathedral type of these insects in Australia can be as tall as 26 feet |
termites
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An invalidation of a marriage |
an annulment
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Destined to be last in any rock encyclopedia, this Texas trio showed off their "Legs" in the 1980s |
ZZ Top
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In 1839 Samuel Morse met with this French innovator & set up his own photographic studio in America |
Daguerre
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How about a slice of this colorful cake? |
red velvet
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The only surviving complete poem from 2,600 years ago by Sappho is an "Ode to" this Greek goddess of love |
Aphrodite
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A single colony of these "canine" rodents in Texas stretched for 25,000 square miles & contained 400 million individuals |
prairie dogs
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A period away from a job or school, perhaps every 7 years |
a sabbatical
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This '80s rap trio: "It's tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time, it's tricky... tricky tricky tricky tricky" |
(Ken: Yes, you were probably inspired by my amazing reading of it.) [Chuckles]
Run-DMC
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Fighting the Bolsheviks, the American North Russian Expeditionary Force was better known by this ursine name |
(Joe: Who are the White Bears?)
the Polar Bears
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Dylan Thomas' best-known poem urges his father, "Do not" do this. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" |
(Phil: What is "Do not go gentle into that dark night"?) (Joe: "Do not go gently into the--dark night"? [Winces] Into the night.) (Pam: What is "Do not go gently into that dark night"?) (Ken: No, I'm sorry. You all rewrote Dylan Thomas a tiny bit.)
go gentle into that good night
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Common in the Precambrian time, stromatolites are deposits formed by the growth of the organism called blue green this |
algae
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Monetary donation during a church service |
an offering
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Jeff Lynne put "Telephone Line" by this 3-letter band on the soundtrack of the film "Joyride", which starred Desi Arnaz Jr. |
ELO
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In 1849 California wanted to enter the Union as a free state, leading to this complicated deal the next year |
(Joe: What is the Missouri Compromise?)
The Compromise of 1850
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This Latin American favorite is named for the evaporated milk, the sweetened condensed milk & the cream that's poured over it |
tres leches cake
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This French-titled book about the round table knights begins, "It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon..." |
Le Morte d'Arthur
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Because of their sophisticated nests, birds of the genus Ploceus are called these--but they don't need looms |
weavers
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North Atlantic native seen here |
a haddock
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