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NYC landmark 1st opened May 24, 1883 & probably 1st "sold" soon after |
the Brooklyn Bridge
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He took his early footsteps in Ohio & left the first footprints on the Moon |
Neil Armstrong
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Poe ended 11 of this poem's 18 stanzas with the same word-"Nevermore" |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
"The Raven"
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He played Paul Kersey, a quiet architect turned vigilante when his wife was murdered |
Charles Bronson
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She's "lost & gone forever" |
my darling Clementine
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An excess of culinary artistes ruins bouillon |
(Debora: [**]--or spoil the broth--what is [*]?)
too many cooks spoil the broth (too many cooks spoil the soup)
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On May 20, 1506, this explorer died in Spain |
Columbus
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Markswoman who paid off family farm mortgage by shooting game for a Cincinnati hotel |
Annie Oakley
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He's played hammering Harry Dickens, ghoulish Gomez Addams, & educated Ed LaSalle |
John Astin
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He said, "I'll die with my hammer in my hand" |
John Henry
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In good shape, like one violin |
fit as a fiddle
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With a blast estimated at 500 times that at Hiroshima, it went off May 18, 1980 |
Mount St. Helens
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He claimed genius was only 1% inspiration, but one of his inventions came to symbolize bright ideas |
Thomas Edison
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She danced with Kelly & Astaire, was Chevalier's "little girl" in "Gigi", & wed meat-packer George Hormel |
Leslie Caron
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Though Peter, Paul & Mary; popularized it, it was he who wrote "Blowin' In The Wind" |
(Anne: Who is Woody Guthrie?) ... (Alex: Less than a minute to go in the round.)
Bob Dylan
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A pair is required to perform a Latin American dance characterized by frequent posturing |
it takes two to tango
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On May 10, 1869, the golden spike was driven into the ground of this state |
Utah
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The leading. U.S air ace in WWI, he shot down 22 enemy planes and 4 balloons |
[That's how the clue was displayed.]
Eddie Rickenbacker
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Up for Best Actor in 1931 for "Skippy", he was only child ever nominated for best actor |
(Anne: Who was Buddy Ebsen?) ... (Alex: The actor's name was [*]; he lost by the way.)
Jackie Cooper
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It begins, "My wife & I lived all alone, in a little log hut we called our own" |
"Little Brown Jug"
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One discharge of a .45 amidst absence of light |
a shot in the dark
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In 1954, Secy. of Treasury G. Humphrey told Senate cost of defense & foreign aid would make this impossible |
a balanced budget
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2 of the 7 presidents born in Ohio |
(Jim: Who are Cleveland... and Coolidge?) (Alex: Sorry, you missed both.) [Laughter]
(2 of) Garfield, Grant, Harding, Benjamin Harrison, Hayes, Taft or McKinley
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He died during the filming of "Solomon & Sheba" & was replaced by Yul Brynner |
Tyrone Power
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Foods "we'll all have" "when she comes, when she comes" |
(Anne: We'll all have [*] when she comes? What is we'll all have [*] when she comes?)
chicken & dumplings
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Ingest a pair of acetylsalicylic acid tablets, then make my phone bell ring at 7 a.m. tomorrow |
take two aspirin & call me in the morning
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