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Though his 1964 election was a landslide, his name didn't even appear on the Alabama ballot |
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Its alternate title is "The Whale" |
Moby-Dick
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Told she didn't look 40 years old in 1974, this glamorous feminist said, "This is what 40 looks like" |
(Alex: We've got a minute left in this game.)
Gloria Steinem
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Alternate name of silicified wood, it sounds as if it was scared stiff |
[Dusten selected the first clue.]
petrified wood
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Some say its name is from the "galloon", or braid, around its crown; others say from how much it held |
a 10-gallon hat
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The illegal leasing of oil reserves at this Wyoming site caused a tempest around Harding's administration |
Teapot Dome
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"Dread: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" was her 2nd anti-slavery novel |
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Victoria Woodhull did this in 1872, though women couldn't even vote yet |
(Carol: What is, uh, register to vote?) (Dusten: What is run for office?) (Alex: Be more specific.)
run for president
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Term for one of the Earth's main land masses, by current count we have 7 of them |
continents
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A flat-brimmed straw hat worn by & named for fellows who enjoy a good row |
a birder
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Name of the law enacted to enforce the 18th, or Prohibition, Amendment |
the Volstead Act
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This Stephen V. Benét story pitted a famous American lawyer against a certain Mr. Scratch |
(Carol: Who is--what is Bartleby, the Scrivener?)
"The Devil and Daniel Webster"
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Of the mesosphere, lithosphere or atmosphere the one you're standing on |
(Jim: What is the... mesosphere?)
the lithosphere
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The room in which you're most likely to see someone wearing a tall white hat called a "toque" |
(Alex: Yes, it's a chef's hat.)
a kitchen
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Zaire, a country more than 3 times the size of Texas, has only some 25 miles of coast on this ocean |
(Dusten: What is the Indian Ocean?) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
the Atlantic
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Samuel Gompers, who practiced this trade, went on to lead the American Federation of Labor |
(Carol: Uh, what is a... coal miner?)
a cigar maker
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"The 42nd Parallel", "1919" & "The Big Money" form this trilogy |
(Alex: John Dos Passos, [*].)
the U.S.A. trilogy
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A lot of island, mountains or volcanoes linked together in a row |
(Dusten: What's an archipelago?) ... (Alex: Not fast enough, Jim.)
a chain
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A lacy head scarf worn by a lady of Spain |
a mantilla
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This South African desert covers half of Botswana & eastern Namibia |
(Carol: Uh, what is the Gobi?)
the Kalahari
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He won the disputed 1876 election when awarded the votes of Fla., S.C. & La. |
Rutherford B. Hayes
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The sequels to this Dumas classic were "Twenty Years After" & "The Viscount of Bragelonne" |
(Carol: What is The Count of Monte Cristo?)
The Three Musketeers
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Simone de Beauvoir wrote this definitive analysis of the secondary status of woman |
The Second Sex
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Fancy French term for a fissure, as in a glacier |
a crevasse
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The tall headdress worn by bishops both on & off the chessboard |
a miter
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