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He called the White House "A Bully Pulpit" |
Teddy Roosevelt
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A whistle stop is a town so small these vehicles don't make regular stops there |
a train
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Many moviegoers were stunned when she wasn't nominated for an Oscar for directing "The Prince of Tides" |
Barbra Streisand
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In the '30s Lefty O'Doul of San Francisco toured Japan in exhibitions of this sport |
baseball
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Future brides receive cooking paraphernalia at the "kitchen" type of this party |
a shower
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An Aesop fable contrasted the high- living grasshopper with this pre-planning insect |
an ant
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He said in 1964, "I am going to build the kind of nation that... President Kennedy died for" |
Johnson
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This adjective can describe a bus or a sandwich having one level above another |
a double-decker
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Luis Bunuel began directing films in this European country, not in his native Spain |
France
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Instead of actors as in kabuki, the form of theatre called bunraku uses these |
puppets
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This other name for a pajama party implies that people sleep during it, which isn't always true |
a slumber party
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In 1985 a record number of grasshoppers infested this Show Me State |
Missouri
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He said in a 1948 speech, "I would rather have a lasting peace in the world than be president" |
Truman
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A slang word for steamship, or the type of trunk travelers take on it |
a steamer
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Joseph Losey left the U.S. after being blacklisted for refusing to testify for this committee |
the House Un-American Activities Committee (House Committee on Un-American Activities)
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U.S. News & World Report said this country tried to sell Japan the Kuril Islands in 1991 for $30 billion |
Russia
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It's a party named for the mixed drinks served, often called for the "hour" of the same name |
a cocktail party
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Chapultepec or Grasshopper Hill is in this capital |
Mexico City
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He called John Hancock, who was also born in Braintree, Massachusetts, "A man without head and without heart" |
(Alex: He had an opinion about everyone it seems.)
John Adams
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These takeoff & landing places for whirlybirds are sometimes found on the tops of office buildings |
a Helipor
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He directed "Drive, He Said" in 1971, the same year he starred in "Carnal Knowledge" |
Jack Nicholson
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Aikido, like judo, developed from this art of self-defense |
(Denny: What's karate?)
jujitsu
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If you're invited to a party celebrating this wedding anniversary, paper is an appropriate gift |
the first
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On this TV series Radames Pera played the young Caine, whom Master Po called "Grasshopper" |
Kung Fu
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James Madison called this president "a walking library" |
Jefferson
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The Virginia Aviation Museum boasts the only Vultee V1-A extant; it belonged to this "Lord Of San Simeon" |
(William Randolph) Hearst
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"The Film Encyclopedia" says Max von Sydow was this fellow Swede's "on-screen alter ego" |
(Ingmar) Bergman
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One of Japan's first ports to open to Western trade, about half of it was destroyed August 9, 1945 |
(Tom: What's Hiroshima?)
Nagasaki
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A formal ball where debutantes are presented, its name comes from French for "petticoat" |
a cotillion
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He foresaw that the soldiers would fall into his Little Big Horn River Valley like grasshoppers from the sky |
(Tom: Who is Crazy Horse?)
Sitting Bull
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