FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE PRAIRIES |
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In 1865 Peak XV got this new name to honor a British surveyor general of India |
Mount Everest
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Laundry tubs & sausage casing were part of Willem Kolff's WWII-era artificial this organ, precursor to the dialysis machine |
a kidney
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"But the biggest kick I ever got was doin' a thing called the chopping block" |
crocodile rock
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Temporarily hoarse? You've got this amphibian condition |
a frog in your throat
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A county in Kentucky gives this type of corn-based spirit its name |
bourbon
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A reliable person who holds or administers the possessions of another, like a minor |
a trustee
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Prairie du Chien, this state's oldest settlement after Green Bay, was the site of the state's only battle in the War of 1812 |
Wisconsin
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In 1893 Marie Tucek invented an early version of this metallic support system in brassieres |
underwire
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"I'm not the man they think I am at home, oh no no no, I'm a hired hand" |
a rocket man
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This phrase about a hidden enemy comes from Virgil, "Latet anguis in herba" |
a snake in the grass
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It's the booze in common to a Moscow Mule & a Bloody Mary |
vodka
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An assurance that a contract will be executed or something given as security that it will be done |
a guarantee
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Kansas' Little House on the Prairie Museum was reconstructed from the descriptions of this woman |
Wilder
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Working at Kodak in the 1970s, Steven Sasson invented this device that became the company's ruination |
the digital camera
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"And it seems to me you lived your life like a vandal who has sinned" |
like a candle in the wind
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Also the title of a Marx Brothers movie, this dish means something very easy to do |
duck soup
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Chapter 1 of "Treasure Island" mentions this liquor in an old sea song |
(Ken: Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of [*], that's right.)
rum
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It's defined by the U.N. as one who can't return to their home country due "to a well-founded fear of being persecuted" |
a refugee
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Uranium City, where folks once mined just what you'd think, is in this middle one of Canada's prairie provinces |
(Dane: What is Manitoba?)
Saskatchewan
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Yoshitada Minami put an automatic turn-off on this kitchen device & in 4 years, half of Japanese homes had one |
(Ken: You could have bet bigger; you'd be in the lead.)
a rice maker
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"And you can tell everybody this is all wrong" |
your song
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Beginning in the 1920s, it was high praise to be the cat's pajamas or this rhyming insect phrase |
the bee's knees
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This liqueur is distilled from wormwood, & an old word for wormwood gives it its name |
absinthe
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A conditionally released prisoner |
parolee
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The polar section of this mountain range ends near the Kara Sea; the southern part, around Kazakhstan's border |
the Urals
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Reading about this group's fate in 1840s California spurred Gail Borden to invent a dried meat biscuit, & then condensed milk |
(Ken: Right, if they'd had non-perishable foods, maybe they could have eaten that.)
the Donner Party
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"Get back, hognose bat, better get back to the woods" |
honky cat
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The lifespans of creatures like Bubbles, said to be 60, may have given rise to this phrase, meaning "it's been a long time" |
a donkey's age (donkey's year)
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Whiskey & honey go into this Irish cream brand launched in 1979, a few years after rival Bailey's |
(Kate: What is Jameson?) ... (Ken: Dane, you must've had more vodka than Irish cream when you were in St. Petersburg; this is [*].)
Carolans
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This 6-letter word is a court's final judgment or decision |
decree
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