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In Connecticut broad leaf & shade types of this plant are grown for use as cigar wrappers |
tobacco
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This Charlotte Bronte novel begins, "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day" |
Jane Eyre
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After cleaning these, they should be stored bristles up |
paintbrushes
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He first used "Fair Deal", the name of his domestic program, during the 1949 State of the Union address |
Truman
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Of the 7 Ancient Wonders, this one may have overlooked the Ishtar Gate in Babylon |
the Hanging Gardens
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Don Johnson, Steven Bauer, Don Johnson, Antonio Banderas |
Melanie Griffith
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Providence sits at the head of this Rhode Island bay, a natural harbor |
Narragansett Bay
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In this novel, a detective named Fix follows Fogg on his journey, believing he's a bank robber |
Around the World in Eighty Days
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Carbonizing willow twigs produces sticks of this drawing material |
charcoal
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The 1920 Treaty of Tartu reaffirmed Finland's independence from this country |
Russia
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In 1996 student L'Kisha Brantley earned some extra "dough" by selling 3,520 boxes of these |
Girl Scout cookies
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Jeff Goldblum, Renny Harlin |
Geena Davis
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In the early 18th century the sperm oil trade originated on this island 25 miles south of Cape Cod |
(Alex: A lot of folks in New England are going to be upset with you three.)
Nantucket
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Egdon Heath, a barren moor in Wessex, is the setting for his novel "The Return of the Native" |
Thomas Hardy
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Artist material seen here in a form that's been made for over 2,000 years |
(Alex: Anything? No?) (Jim: [No response]) (Alex: You and I are in the same boat. I did not know what that was either. It is [*] in solid form and you dip it in the water and that's how you get the liquid that you use for calligraphy, for example.)
ink
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The atomic pile built by this Italian physicist in Chicago in 1942 used pure graphite as a moderator |
Fermi
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The Latin proverb "In vino veritas" translates to this |
in wine there is truth
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Tommy Lee, Richie Sambora |
(Sandy: Who is Pamela Anderson?)
Heather Locklear
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The Transcendental Club met at the Concord home where this essayist lived 1835-1882 |
Emerson
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"Mr. Wegg prepares a grindstone for Mr. Boffin's nose" is a chapter in his novel "Our Mutual Friend" |
Charles Dickens
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As its name implies, this printing process was originally executed on limestone slabs |
(Sandy: What is linotype?)
lithography
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In 1904 Warren G. Harding became this state's lieutenant governor |
Ohio
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Soledad Seanez, widow of this Mexican revolutionary, passed away in 1996; she was 100 |
Pancho Villa
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Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, Frank Sinatra |
Ava Gardner
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This highest peak in New Hampshire is sometimes visible from the Atlantic Ocean 75 miles away |
Mount Washington
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His 1849 novel "Redburn: His First Voyage" was inspired by his own first voyage as a cabin boy in 1839 |
Melville
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Italian term for a type of flooring with bits of crushed marble or granite set in concrete |
terrazzo
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On her 1963 space mission, she completed 48 orbits of the Earth in her Vostok 6 capsule |
[Applause for Jim's run of the category]
(Valentina) Tereshkova
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John Barleycorn is the personification of liquor & he is the personification of England |
John Bull
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Dan Greenburg, Carl Bernstein, Nicholas Pileggi |
Nora Ephron
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