DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNERS |
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He graduated from Harvard in 1740, the year he turned 18; he'd later help organize a tea party but these days, is associated with beer |
Sam Adams
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In this mythology, Ymir the giant, depicted here, was the first being & in death his eyebrows became the fence around Midgard |
Norse
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In 1953 dime Western magazine paid Elmore Leonard $90 for a short story called "Three-Ten to" this place |
Yuma
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Cymbals make this 5-letter sound, also a meeting on a battlefield |
a clash
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The song about this flower "of Texas" dates back to the mid-1800s |
the yellow rose
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Relax & quote this 3-word catchphrase of Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman |
What, me worry?
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Massachusetts elected its first governor in 1780--this man |
John Hancock
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Giant's Castle is a peak in the Drakensberg Mountains of this country's KwaZulu-Natal province |
South Africa
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Acclaimed as "The One-Eyed!" & "The Bandy-Legged!", this character in a 19th century novel is elected "Pope of the Fools" |
Quasimodo
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Etymologically related to the word scrimmage is this type of small battle between 2 armies |
a scrum (a skirmish)
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"Do you remember when we used to sing" this Van Morrison classic? |
"Brown Eyed Girl"
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Johnny Weissmuller never said this 4-word phrase in a movie, though he did in a 1932 magazine interview |
Me Tarzan, you Jane
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On Jan. 1, 1802 he wrote of "building a wall of separation between church & state" |
Jefferson
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3 words that fill in the King James Bible quote from Genesis--"There were giants... in those days" |
in the earth
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A teen discovers she can communicate via cell phone with her recently deceased boyfriend in Dustin Thao's bestselling "You've Reached" him |
Sam
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The Latin for "vengeance" gives us this feud-al word |
vendetta
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Toby Keith drank from a "Red" this brand of plastic cup |
Solo
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After hearing an orator speak in a foreign language, a Shakespeare character admits, "It was" these 3 words |
(Ken: Cris?) (Cris: Uh, what is... mea culpa?)
Greek to me
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After losing 4 times running for governor of Massachusetts, he finally won, then got seriously into redistricting issues |
(Ken: [*] is correct, the source of our word, gerrymander.)
(Elbridge) Gerry
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This dog breed named for its distinctive mustache-like facial hair comes in miniature, standard & giant varieties |
a Schnauzer
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A gamekeeper takes the place of a baronet in this scandalous 1928 novel, written near the end of D.H. Lawrence's life |
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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Being "at" this, also the name of a type of turtle, means you're fighting with someone |
loggerheads
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This song not really about a soft drink is on the R.E.M. album "Green" |
"Orange Crush"
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Willard Vandiver in 1899 gets credit for "I am from Missouri you have got to" do this |
show me
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A year after being one of 3 signers from this state, Button Gwinnett had 2 big losses: an invasion of Florida & a duel |
Georgia
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This Texas place of 1,600 people where the movie "Giant" was filmed is a center of minimalist art |
Marfa
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Her "Year of Magical Thinking" chronicles the time after the loss of her husband John Gregory Dunne, 31 days before their 40th anniversary |
(Joan) Didion
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A centuries-old fair held in a Dublin suburb gave its name to this type of melee |
donnybrook
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My Chemical Romance bid you "Welcome to" this album title |
the Black Parade
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In the King James version of the Old Testament, this 3-word lamentation of personal suffering occurs 7 times |
(Jeannette: What is mea culpa?)
woe is me
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