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This South American city was capital of the Portuguese Empire from 1808 to 1821 |
[David selected the first clue.]
Rio de Janiero
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One recipe for the soup called potage aux grenouilles calls for 36 of these amphibian appendages |
frogs' legs
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He resigned from the board of directors of the Kentucky Fried Chicken Corp. he'd founded |
Colonel Sanders
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The wood from this tree is used to make black piano keys & knife handles |
(David: What is mahogany?)
ebony
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Originally one of the "Four Cohans", he wrote his first full-length musical in 1901 |
George M. Cohan
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In 1953 he married Coretta Scott & his first son is III |
[Alex reads "III" as "number three, the third".]
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Saskatoon in this Canadian province was named for a berry that grows near the river on which it lies |
Saskatchewan
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In France this fishy food used in American sandwiches is salade de thon |
tuna salad
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On December 1 Luis Echeverria Alvarez was sworn in as president of this country |
Mexico
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The brown pods of this tree produce a sticky pulp which is used as a chocolate substitute |
carob
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In 1984 Jack Klugman starred in a one-man show about this Texas-born president |
LBJ
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In the 1912 Olympics, this future general had the blood & guts to place 5th in the pentathlon |
(George) Patton
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Jaffa, now combined with this Israeli city, was founded by the ancient Phoenicians |
Tel Aviv
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The pulp of this fruit goes into souffle aux pommes |
apples
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This Ethiopian emperor visited Italy for the first time since it deposed him in 1936 |
Haile Selassie
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This "bald" swamp tree has projections above the water called "knees" which supply air to the roots |
(David: What is a mangrove?)
the (bald) cypress
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He appeared in the 1927 musical "Golden Dawn" under his real name, Archie Leach |
Cary Grant
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He financed a major center in New York City & it was named for his family |
(John D.) Rockefeller
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Dakar, the capital of this country, is the westernmost city on the African mainland |
Senegal
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Aubergines a l'egyptienne are these prepared "Egyptian style" with onions & tomatoes |
(Richard: What are green beans?)
eggplant
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This Nobel Prize-winning scientist said the common cold could be warded off with vitamin C |
Linus Pauling
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Most turpentine is produced from the longleaf & slash species of this tree |
(Bernie: I'd be, uh, [chuckles] wrong if I'd got this, 'cause I'm from Georgia where they grow. [*], Alex. [Bernie's time indicator lights run out.] What are [*]?) (Alex: [Rapidly stammer-babbles imitatingly] Whoa-li-whoa-li-whoa-li-luh-eh... eh... You almost--) (Bernie: Almost--) (Alex: --dug a hole from which you could not get out.) (Bernie: Yeah, we, uh--us folks from around Atlanta are all promoters. Uh...) (Alex: Okay.) (Bernie: TREES for $1000, please, Alex.) (Alex: You got the plug in.)
pine trees
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In 1946 this actress wrote a play called "Years Ago" & her husband Garson Kanin directed it |
Ruth Gordon
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He was the last U.S. president to fit the category |
(Richard: Who is Gerald Ford?)
James Earl Carter Jr.
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This city, the United Kingdom's second largest, was a center of the Industrial Revolution |
(Richard: What is Liverpool?)
Birmingham
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Tarte aux abricots is an apricot tart, while tarte aux cerises contains this fruit |
cherries
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Henri Charriere, who wrote this book about his escape from Devil's Island, was pardoned |
Papillon
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The sap of the sapodilla tree of Central America provides this chewing gum ingredient |
chicle
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Argan, the title character in his 1673 comedy "The Imaginary Invalid", is a hypochondriac |
Molière
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His first published novel was "Player Piano" in 1952 |
(Kurt) Vonnegut (Jr.)
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