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If you smell salt in the air, it's because no part of Florida is over 60 miles from this |
water (or the ocean)
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100 of these are worth 1 rupee in Sri Lanka, 1 guilder in the Netherlands, or a buck in the USA |
cents
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According to "The Book of Popular Science", the 1st comet definitely recorded was this one |
Halley's Comet
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Author credited with inspiring the "Calaveras County Jumping Frog Jubilee" |
(Bob: Who is Bret Harte?)
Mark Twain
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By the middle ages, he was patron saint of children, Russia, pawnbrokers, & thieves |
St. Nicholas
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Only Champion, Trigger & Tom Mix's Tony have left these in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre |
their hoofprints
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To find this, the state motto, look on any U.S. coin |
(David: What is "E Pluribus Unum"?)
"In God We Trust"
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Basic monetary unit of Malta, Egypt, and Britain |
a pound
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Though Columbus "proved" it, Pythagoras taught this 21 centuries earlier |
that the world is round
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At the annual world chicken-pluckin' contest these, not roosters, compete in a "crow-off" |
(David: What are the winners?)
people
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Though their origin is unknown, some think Christmas colors are from the red & green of this prickly plant |
(David: What is ivy?) (Diane: What is a poinsettia?)
holly
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Hercules once owned a horse named Arion who had this human ability |
(Alex: Just like Mr. Ed.)
speaking
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The name of these Florida Indians is from Spanish-American "Cimarron", meaning wild |
Seminole
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It's said this coin, whose name can mean "free", was 1st struck to ransom a French king |
(Alex: And we've got less than a minute to go.)
a franc
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Both these planets on either side of Saturn also have rings |
(Bob: What is Jupiter and Neptune?)
Jupiter and Uranus
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Athletes must be in "peak" condition to run the marathon to the top of this Colorado mountain |
Pike's Peak
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Burning this is English adaptation of Scandinavian custom of bonfires at winter solstice |
the yule log
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Crippled & seriously ill, Anna Sewell lived only a year after the printing of this classic, her only book |
Black Beauty
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There are about 30,000 of these in Florida, including Okeechobee |
(Diane: What is a swamp?)
lakes
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The U.S. mint in this Western city produces over 6 billion coins a year |
Denver
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Common name for phase that follows a new moon |
(Bob: What is a full moon?) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
a (waxing) crescent
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1 of the 2 competitions that make up the "tobacco-spitting contest" in Raleigh, Miss. |
(1 of) distance & accuracy
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U.S. Christmas seals were 1st sold in 1907 by members of this relief organization, not Am. Lung Assn. |
the Red Cross
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Pecos Bill made his horse, Widow-Maker, tougher by feeding it barbed wire & this liquid explosive |
nitroglycerine
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On April 2nd, 1513, he found not the Fountain of Youth, but an area he called "La Florida" |
(Juan) Ponce de Leon
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1937 coins with King Edward VIII's likeness had already been minted when he did this in late 1936 |
abdicate
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This downhill race held in Akron, Ohio is called the "World's Gravity Grand Prix" |
the Soap Box Derby
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Popular legend credits this religious reformer with creating the 1st Christmas tree |
Martin Luther
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Black Jack was chosen as the riderless horse at the funerals of these 2 Presidents in 1963 & 1973 |
John F. Kennedy & Lyndon Baines Johnson
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