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STATES' OTHER COMMON LANGUAGES |
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One of the crimes for which this French saint was sentenced to death in 1431: dressing in men's clothes |
Joan of Arc
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A 2012 novel subtitled "The Woman Who Loved Tarzan" reimagines the story but from her point of view |
Jane
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Aside from English & Spanish, this is the most commonly spoken language in Vermont & Louisiana |
French
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This little critter with a porcine name does something called popcorning, leaping & twirling when it's happy |
a guinea pig
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In 1977 Lionel Richie & this group sang, "That's why I'm easy, I'm easy like Sunday morning" |
the Commodores
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In idioms of freedom, this word follows "on the" or "turn me" |
loose
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John Champe faked a desertion in 1780 to try to capture this traitorous general & served under him as part of his cover |
Benedict Arnold
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When we meet Jason Bourne in this 1980 Ludlum novel, he has no memory of who he is |
The Bourne Identity
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This Native American language is the third-most commonly spoken one in both Arizona & New Mexico |
Navajo
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Spoiler alert: the answer is finally yes in the kids' book about a boy who pleads, "I wanna" this reptile |
(Ken: I Wanna [*].)
Iguana
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The Eagles sang, "I wanna sleep with you in the desert tonight, with a billion stars all around, 'cause I got a" this title |
a "Peaceful Easy Feeling"
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August 1944 brought this happy event for Paris; the French use the same word |
liberation
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Think of the name of Ho, its leader, to get the name of this organization that fought the French in Indochina in the 1940s |
(Mattea: What is Chi Minh?) (Enver: Who are the Vietcong?) ... (Ken: Each of you had half of the correct response...) (Mattea: We need to be a team.)
the Vietminh
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She's the funny, slightly incompetent diarist in books by Helen Fielding |
Bridget Jones
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Hmong is big in this state; both the state & the language were featured in the movie "Gran Torino" |
(Mattea: What is Minnesota?)
Michigan
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The American Kennel Club's seven dog groups include this grounded one, which includes the Bedlington |
a terrier
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Elvis Presley & Imagine Dragons recorded songs with this 4-word title idiom, oh, well |
[The Imagine Dragons title does not have a comma.]
"Easy Come, Easy Go"
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Bob Dylan wrote, "I see my light come shining from the west unto the east. Any day now... I shall be" this |
released
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It's been estimated that around 480 B.C. close to half of the world's population was in this empire founded by Cyrus the Great |
the Persian Empire
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In a Kafka novella, the charwoman said to him, "Come along, then, you old dung beetle!" |
(Angela: What is Metamorphosis?) ... (Ken: You had the story right, but we needed the character.)
Gregor Samsa
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A refugee influx that began with a war's end in 1975 has led to this being identified as Neb.'s third-most spoken language |
Vietnamese
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As its very name speaks of sun-kissed islands, don't let this little songbird catch cold |
a canary
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Linda Ronstadt covered "It's So Easy", originally recorded by this man & the Crickets |
Buddy Holly
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Unfettered means free & so does this word that uses a synonym for a fetter |
(Enver: What is unchained?) (Ken: More specifically?) (Enver: [Exhales])
unshackled
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Operation Willi was a Nazi plot to restore this former king to the British throne |
Edward VIII
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In a Virginia Woolf novel that spans over 300 years, this title character, a poet & nobleman, awakes one day to find he's a woman |
(Mattea: What is Mrs. Dalloway or who is Mrs. Dalloway?)
Orlando
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An estimated 75,000 in Minnesota speak this language from the Horn of Africa |
Somali
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Silver, black & Dalmatian are types of this popular freshwater aquarium fish, also a female first name |
a molly
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"Make It Easy On Yourself" is one of the great songs he wrote with Hal David |
Burt Bacharach
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LTAD, from the Google spinoff Waymo, stands for "let's talk" this kind of "driving", also a word meaning free or independent |
autonomous
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