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On June 25, 1876 he decided to attack a group that included Crazy Horse; oops |
Custer
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Go for the kill shot with the ol' bump, set, spike in this sport |
volleyball
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Color of the "collar" of a desk worker |
white
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Lake Vanern, Scandinavia's largest lake, lies just north of Goteborg in this country |
Sweden
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Shalom means "peace" in this language |
Hebrew
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Penicillin & tyrothricin are examples of this bacteria-destroying item |
an antibiotic
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In 1989 the Exxon Valdez tanker spilled 260,000 barrels of crude off this state; oops |
Alaska
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Let's see... eagle, double eagle... You carded 62; rough choice, college, or going pro in this sport |
golf
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A low-level college geology course is often rhymingly called "rocks for" these athletic types |
jocks
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Britannica's article on this Sicilian volcano states its name comes from the Greek for "I burn" |
Etna
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Xiang & Minbei are dialects of this language |
Chinese
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"My Side" by David Beckham is this type of book, from words meaning "self life write" |
an autobiography
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Around 11:40 P.M. on April 14, 1912 it was traveling at about 21 knots, nearly its top speed; oops |
the Titanic
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Like the title of a 2004 Ben Stiller comedy, play this, until the inevitable broken nose |
dodgeball
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Insert a letter in "teen" to get this newer word for a preadolescent |
(Matt: What is W? What is [*]?)
tween
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The ownership of the islands of Tierra del Fuego is shared by these 2 nations |
Chile & Argentina
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Switzerland has these 3 official languages |
(Matt: What are German, French & Schweizerdeutschen?) (Lauren: What are German, French & English?)
German, French & Italian
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9-letter term for the health risk posed by the possible release of a pathogen into the environment |
a biohazard
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In 1812 his 600,000-man army entered Russia; about 30,000 limped home from Moscow; oops |
Napoleon
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Watch the scholarship offers roll in when you run this distance in 3:43.13, tying the world record set in 1999 |
a mile
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French words meaning "office rule" gave us this word for an official rigidly devoted to rules |
bureaucrat
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The Indian Ocean's deepest point is in this trench named for the most populous Indonesian island |
(Lauren: What is the Mariana trench?) (Katie: What is Jakarta?) ... (Alex: The Marianas Trench is in the Pacific Ocean.)
the Java Trench
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Romaji is a system of writing this Asian language using Romanized letters |
Japanese
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It means capable of decaying through the action of living organisms |
biodegradable
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In 1961 1,300 Cuban refugees invaded this "porcine" location, but without air cover; oops |
the Bay of Pigs
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Anyone for this sport, known for stars like Rafael Nadal & Justine Henin-Hardenne |
tennis
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80% of the U.S. economy is in this "sector", including hotel clerks & burger flippers |
(Lauren: What is the private sector?)
the service sector
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This Sudanese capital was founded as an Egyptian army camp in the 1820s |
Khartoum
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Castilian is the official standard form of this Romance language |
Spanish
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Botanical adjective meaning long-lived, or a certain type of diet of beans & grains |
(Matt: Um, what is a--I don't know.) ... (Alex: The term is [*]. A lot of people on that kind of a diet.)
macrobiotic
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