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In 1956, after a rerouted highway killed business for his chicken restaurant, he sold it & started over |
Colonel Sanders
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The city of Erbil in Iraq is the capital of an autonomous region where the majority of the people are of this ethnic group |
Kurds
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By Wendy Wasserstein: "The ____ Chronicles" |
Heidi
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This arachnid shares its name with a Fred Astaire movie |
daddy long legs
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Pat Benatar first punched her way onto the Billboard Top 10 with this 1980 song |
"Hit Me With Your Best Shot"
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If you're this type of "shirt", you're pompous or inflexible |
stuffed
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At age 63 she set a trapshooting record by hitting 98 out of 100 pigeons at a North Carolina club |
(Annie) Oakley
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This United Arab Emirates capital with a 2-word name occupies an island first settled around 1760 |
Abu Dhabi
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By Tennessee Williams: "The Rose ____" |
Tattoo
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Kinesiology expert Tom Stoffregen says most people get these & stop stumbling around the deck within 36 hours of setting sail |
sea legs
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Elvis Costello opined, "Accidents will happen, we only" this 3-word vehicular crime |
hit and run
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There's a double "L" in the middle of this adjective meaning morose or gloomily silent |
sullen
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At age 60, this co-discoverer of the DNA double helix left his native England to study the brain at California's Salk Institute |
(Francis) Crick
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The Taurus Mountains of Southern Turkey stretch from Lake Egirdir to this longest river in the region |
(Tyler: What is the Tigris?)
the Euphrates
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1960, about Helen Keller & her teacher: "The ____ ____" |
Miracle Worker
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Billy Bowlegs was a 19th century leader of this southern people who fought three wars with the United States |
the Seminoles
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"When I'm not with you, I lose my mind give me a sign", these 6 words, Britney sang in a 1999 No. 1 |
"Hit me baby one more time"
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It describes someone of grace & refined taste, or a mathematical proof that's simple & ingenious |
elegant
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In his 60s Winfield Scott led U.S. forces to victory in this war but led his own presidential campaign to defeat |
the Mexican-American War
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Halab is the name in Arabic for this largest city of Northern Syria, heavily damaged in the recent civil war |
Aleppo
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2006, set at a British grammar school: "The ____ Boys" |
History
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Cabriole legs, curving out & then in, are common in the furniture style named for this early 18th century British queen |
Queen Anne
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"Don't you come back no more, no more" was a recurring theme in this Ray Charles classic |
"Hit The Road Jack"
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Sorry if you're this 10-letter adjective that's derived from the Latin for "teary" |
lachrymose
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Out of favor in the 1830s, in the '40s, Ingres was known as France's top painter with sitters like a baroness of this rich family |
the Rothschilds
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For centuries, a terminus of the spice road of Arabia, this Yemeni city of 800,000 sits on the gulf that bears its name |
(Abby: What is Sanaa?)
Aden
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1948, the first play to be so honored: "Mister ____" |
Roberts
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In a landscape by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a pair of legs glimpsed in the sea belonged to this tragic figure of myth |
Icarus
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"I came to dance with you", says Vanessa Marquez in "Rock Your Body"; Justin Timberlake replies, "You don't wanna" do this |
hit the floor
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Meaning snakelike as an adjective, it refers to a green mineral as a noun |
(Chuck: What is... adamantine?)
serpentine
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