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This TV lawyer lost a case only once -- when his client was covering for someone else |
Perry Mason
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This falls on only about ⅓ of the Earth's surface |
snow
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In 1978, she became Chicago's 1st woman mayor |
Jane Byrne
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The Louvre, built for his patron, aptly houses this artist's most famous painting |
da Vinci
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In the 1840s, a German pathologist coined this term for cancer of blood cells |
leukemia
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A tree's bole, a human's torso, or elephant's proboscis |
a trunk
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In emergencies. these siblings often consult the "Junior Woodchuck Manual" |
(Wendy: Who are the Bobbsey Twins?) (Jorge: Who are Chip & Dale?)
Donald Duck's nephews (Huey, Dewey, & Louie)
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In most countries thermometers use this scale to measure temperatures |
the Celsius scale (or centigrade)
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Of ¼, ½, or ⅔, fraction of Illinois' population represented by Greater Chicago |
⅔
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In 1826, this painter helped found the Nat'l Academy of Design, years before perfecting the telegraph |
Morse
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Streptomycin is an example of this type of drug |
an antibiotic
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From French for "turnstile", you turn this to keep blood from passing thru |
a tourniquet
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Infamous D.H. Lawrence character whose maiden name was Constance Reid |
Lady Chatterley
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Term for modern weather eco-hazard caused by sulfur dioxide's reaction to moisture in air |
acid rain
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1 of 2 '70s sitcoms that customarily opened with shots of contemporary Chicago |
The Bob Newhart Show (or Good Times)
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This NYC art museum, largest in the Western Hemisphere, has over 34 acres of floor space |
the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Country which has more registered dentists than any other |
the United States
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To rumple, as with hair |
to tousle
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For flunking 4 of his subjects at Pencey Prep, he was kicked out of school |
Holden Caulfield
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Meteorologically, if there is 10% cloud cover or less, a day is defined as this |
clear
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Scandalous highlight of the 1893 Columbian Exposition & title of the following:
"She had a ruby on her tummy and / A diamond big as Texas on her toe, whoa whoa / She let her hair down and / She did the hoochie coochie real slow, whoa whoa" |
(Jorge: What is the itsy-bitsy yellow polka dot bikini?)
"Little Egypt"
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Viewed in China as the highest & purest art, you can write about it while doing it |
(Jorge: What is poetry?)
calligraphy
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From Greek for "working with the hand", branch of medicine practiced by Dr. M. DeBakey |
surgery
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Lukewarm, like your coffee gets during a phone call |
tepid
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Though not named in this Shakespearean title, they were Valentine & Proteus |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
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Admiral Beaufort designated this wind, "that which no canvas could withstand", #12 on his scale |
(Alex: We've got a minute go go, less than a minute.)
a hurricane
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According to the song, Chicago was the town this evangelist "could not shut down" |
Billy Sunday
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Though English, John Constable & J.M.W. Turner were forerunners of this French movement |
impressionism
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Egyptian mummies have revealed evidence of this, also known as hardening of the arteries |
(Jorge: What is atheriosclerosis?) (Alex: [*], you got it, that's close enough.)
arteriosclerosis
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A black rock related to flint once used to test purity of gold & silver |
a touchstone
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