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This member of the cat family is the fastest 4-legged animal |
the cheetah
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This actor's last Broadway play, "The Immoralist", led to his starring role in the film "East of Eden" |
James Dean
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"Funiculi Funicula" was composed for the opening of the railroad that traveled up this Italian volcano |
Vesuvius
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"The Rushmore State" is a nickname used to refer to this state |
South Dakota
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This fruit beverage is described as "sweet" before it's fermented & "hard" afterwards |
cider
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It's the movement of a rabbit across a field |
hippety-hop
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Hail forms within clouds; this form of precipitation is raindrops that freeze as they fall |
sleet
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Author played onstage by Yvonne Mitchell in "Bloomsbury" & Maggie Smith in "Virginia" |
Virginia Woolf
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The Flying Scotsman once ran between these 2 capital cities |
London & Edinburgh
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New York's nickname "The Empire State" was suggested before 1800 by this general |
(Kevin: What is, who is, U.S. Grant?)
General Washington
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This cake is so named because originally it was made with 16 oz. each of flour, butter, sugar & eggs |
pound cake
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It's the sound of a horse trotting down a paved road |
clippety-clop
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Of igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic, the type of rock that covers most of the U.S. |
(Kevin: What is igneous rock?)
sedimentary
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In 1965 teenage Meryl Streep played Marian the Librarian in her high school's production of this musical |
The Music Man
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In 1917 a transcontinental RR was completed between Port Augusta & Kalgoorlie on this continent |
Australia
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The Hoosier National Forest is its only national forest |
Indiana
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Serve oysters Rockefeller on a bed of the "rock" type of this seasoning so the shells won't topple over |
salt
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"I went to market to buy a fat pig" & went home again this way |
jiggety-jig
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With a diameter over 35 feet, a Montezuma cypress in this country is the world's thickest tree |
Mexico
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Surprisingly, Marlon Brando wasn't nominated for a Tony for playing this role in "A Streetcar Named Desire" |
Stanley Kowalski
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In the late 19th century, the Cannonball Express was this engineer's regular train on the Ill. Central |
Casey Jones
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When it became a state in 1863, Wheeling was its capital |
West Virginia
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This spice that's often crystallized or preserved also flavors a popular non-alcoholic ale |
(John: What is, uh, cinnamon?)
ginger
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Gab incessantly about a Coasters hit song |
yakety-yak
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At one time this desert tree was used to make fence posts, but now it's used for aromatic firewood |
mesquite
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Jack Palance played the uncouth Caliban in a 1955 production of this Shakespeare play |
The Tempest
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In 1880, 21 years after it was founded, this railroad reached the capital of New Mexico |
the Atchison, Topeka & the Santa Fe
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This state, which leads the U.S. in wheat production, has been called the "Breadbasket of America" |
Kansas
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Malaga is an extremely rich dessert wine that originated in Malaga in this country |
Spain
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Merriam Webster traces this phrase for "at great speed" back to about 1859 |
(Alex: Hey, you did well in that category; you're up on your BLANKETY-BLANK.) [Applause for Deanna running the category.]
lickety-split
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