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It's a fault's fault that these occur |
an earthquake
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"Start spreading the news, I'm leaving" for there |
"New York, New York"
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Though illiterate, she was the military genius who defeated the English at Orleans |
Joan of Arc
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The Bible says this "is more blessed than to receive" |
to give
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His grandfather was mayor of Boston |
(Liz: Who was Honey Fitzgerald?) (Ira: Who was Joseph Kennedy?) ... (Alex: Who was [*]? Category is PRESIDENTS.)
John F. Kennedy
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Company which urges people not to use its name as synonym for photocopy |
Xerox
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Many a fool has taken iron pyrites for this |
gold (fool's good accepted)
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To John Denver it's "almost heaven" |
(Clarence: What is "Rocky Mountain High"?)
West Virginia
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Sales of this drug set off 19th century war between Britain & China |
opium
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'70s president who, as a model, once appeared in Look Magazine |
(Ira: Who is Jimmy Carter?)
Gerald Ford
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Once an L.A. Times cartoonist, this bandleader was married to Abbe Lane & Charo |
Xavier Cugat
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Weak chemical bonds cause it to occur in crystals; low cut dresses show it on women |
(Ira: [no response])
cleavage
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Where Linda Ronstadt is "glad to be livin'" |
the U.S.A.
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Picasso's "Guernica" protests bombing carried out in this war |
the Spanish Civil War
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He considered his greatest honor becoming Supreme Court Chief Justice |
(Ira: Who is Richard Nixon?)
William Howard Taft
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Fear of foreigners |
xenophobia
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Rising 30,000 ft. from the ocean floor, this world's largest active volcano is in Hawaii |
Mauna Loa
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Harry Belafonte's "Mathilda" took his money and ran there |
Venezuela
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In 1896 this East African country defeated Italy |
Ethiopia
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King Ahasuerus of Biblical book of Esther was probably this powerful Persian king |
Xerxes
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Lou Henry, first U.S. woman geology grad, was married to this mining engineer President |
(Ira: Who is Jimmy Carter?) ... (Alex: The only woman geology grad at Stanford for 23 years, she was Married to [*].)
Herbert Hoover
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Roy Acuff's Indiana express |
(Alex: Nice going! Rolled through there and you wound up in the lead, Ira, with a total of $5,200.)
the Wabash Cannonball
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Side George Washington was on in French & Indian War |
(Clarence: What is the French?) (Alex: It was called the French & Indian War, but he was on [*].) ... (Alex: We've got less than a minute to go.)
the British side
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Parkinson's 2nd law says expenditures rise to meet this |
(Ira: What is cost, er, supply and demand?)
income
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After his term ended in 1829, he served 17 years in the House as a foe of slavery |
(Liz: Who is Stephen Douglas?) (Alex: Stephen Douglas was never President.) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
John Quincy Adams
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Mexican city famed for its floating gardens |
(Clarence: What is Xanadu?)
Xochimilco
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