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One of the people who helped establish this republic was Samuel Maverick |
Texas</em>
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The Menominee is the longest river on this state's Upper Peninsula |
Michigan
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Sadly, he never completed his "Rondanini Pieta" |
Michelangelo
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Near the end of a session of Congress, a president may us</span>e this kind of veto by simply not signing |
a pocket veto
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Jamon de Asturias is a famous Spanish type of this meat |
ham
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Dan'l Webster is the name of this "celebrated" animal of Calaveras County |
(jumping) frog
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An oil well drill bit formed the basis of his empire, which stretched into aircraft & movies |
Howard Hughes</em>
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Merida is the chief city of this peninsula & is capital of the Mexican state of the same name |
the Yucatan
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The Group of Seven was dedicated to painting the natural beauty of this North American country |
(Eleanor: What is the U.S.?)
Canada
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A political exchange of s<span style="font-weight: bold; color: #000000; background-color: #FFFF66;">upport or favors, or a lumberjack sport also known as birling |
logrolling
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Jam is made from fruit, while this related spread is made from just the juice |
jelly
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Title character who says, "Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave..." |
Huckleberry Finn
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In 1922 film director Robert Flaherty made this man "of the North" famous</span> |
Nanook
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This nation occupies most of the Arabian Peninsula |
Saudi Arabia
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Cezanne was a major influence on this modern art style that features geometrization of forms |
Cubism
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This Cabinet department's building houses the office of the Assistant Secretary for African Affairs |
the Department of State
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In the name of a French dish, bourguignonne indicates that it's prepared with this liquid |
red wine
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This novel contains the line "I am an American. I was born and reared in Hartford" |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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In the 1960s he stated that electronic media were turning the world into a "global village" |
Marshall McLuhan
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The Sava & Danube Rivers form the northern boundary of this European peninsula |
(Bill: What is the Peloponnesian Peninsula?)
the Balkan Penins<span style="font-weight: bold; color: #000000; background-color: #FFFF66;">ula
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His "fancy pictures" depict rural scenes instead of little boys in fancy blue suits |
Gainsborough
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She was Ronald Reagan's assistant for Public Liaison before he made her Sec'y of Transportation |
(Elizabeth) Dole
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This Scottish national dish has been described as "a sort of paleolithic saus</span>age" |
haggis</em>
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Chapters in this novel include "Tom's Early Life", "to London" & "Coronation Day" |
The Prince and the Pauper
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A&E ran its biography of this performer March 15, 1994, a Tuesday, in his old time slot, 8 P.M. EST |
Milton Berle
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The Turkish name for this peninsula is Gelibolu |
Gallipoli
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This pop art pioneer painted cowboys & Indians before his comic strip- inspired paintings made him famous</span> |
(John: Who is Warhol?)
Roy Lichtenstein
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This Hawaiian Democrat chairs the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs |
Daniel Inouye
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The name of this root us</span>ed to make tea comes from the Chinese jen-Shen, translated as "man root" |
ginseng
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This eccentric attorney from Dawson's Landing, Mo. successfully defends Italian twins accused of murder |
Pudd'nhead Wilson
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