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    | Jessica Tandy spins yarns to Kathy Bates in this tale named for an odd Southern treat | Fried Green Tomatoes 
 
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    | Fiery activist Anna Dickinson was put in this type of facility in 1891; she got out & sued | an asylum 
 
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    | Formerly an independent country, this region of China is known as the "Roof of the World" | (Alex: Yes, you have just broken a three-way tie.  You are all by yourself in the lead now.) 
 Tibet
 
 
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    | Controversy surrounded a 2003 ruling to remove from an Alabama judicial building a monument featuring these | the Ten Commandments 
 
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    | "Fry", meaning young, is often applied to this fish, like the sockeye, that returns to spawn where it hatched | salmon 
 
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    | Total number of moons belonging to the closest 3 planets to the sun | (Alex: [*], yes, the Earth.) 
 1
 
 
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    | Peter O'Toole provides the voice for Anton Ego, Paris' most powerful food critic, in this 2007 film | Ratatouille 
 
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    | After this dancer's image was used in a dance instruction video, his widow Robyn sued | (Fred) Astaire 
 
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    | No trees grow above this "line" near the tops of mountains | (Arianna: What is the tree line?) 
 the timber line
 
 
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    | The 30 Years' War began as a struggle between German Protestant princes & this Catholic "Empire" | the Holy Roman Empire 
 
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    | Males guard the fry of the smallmouth type of this, a sport-fishing favorite | bass 
 
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    | 6 of these were brought inside the Tower of London in 2006 to guard them against bird flu | the ravens 
 
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    | The title eatery in this 1988 Julia Roberts film actually exists in Connecticut | Mystic Pizza 
 
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    | "The Bellwomen" is a book about a landmark 1970s sex discrimination case against this company | AT&T 
 
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    | These fashionable head coverers for men may be beaver, opera or silk | top hats 
 
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    | Following a dispute over succession, this religion split into 2 main sects in the 7th century | Islam 
 
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    | The tiger type of this fish can be a foot-&-a-half long at birth, with dark spots & stripes that fade as it ages | a shark 
 
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    | In 2006, Rep. Dave Reichert marked the anniversary of this 1989 wreck by asking that $4.5 billion finally be paid to Alaskans | the Exxon Valdez 
 
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    | This 1999 comedy has spawned at least 5 sequels & shares its name with a No. 1 song from 1972 | American Pie 
 
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    | The website of this attorney says she built her career on "much more than O.J. Simpson & Amber Frey" | (Brandon: Who is Marcia Clark?) 
 Gloria Allred
 
 
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    | 2-word term for an extravagantly & humorously exaggerated story of the backwoods | a tall tale 
 
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    | The heresy of Nestorianism, which held that Jesus was 2 separate persons, began in this Byzantine capital | Constantinople 
 
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    | Baby catfish are called sac fry & subsist for 5 days on this, even after they hatch from the egg | the yolk 
 
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    | One of the 2 predominantly Catholic countries in Asia | (Brandon: What is Vietnam?) 
 the Philippines (or East Timor)
 
 
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    | Woody Allen becomes the unlikely leader of fictional San Marcos in this 1971 film | Bananas 
 
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    | This NYC congresswoman started wearing hats after being overlooked while working for a labor law firm | (Alex: Colorful lady--[*].) 
 Bella Abzug
 
 
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    | The jet stream is found in this layer of the atmosphere | the troposphere 
 
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    | From the Greek for "image breaking", it was opposition to the use of Christian religious images in churches | (Arianna: What is "iconocla"--"iconoclasty"?) (Alex: ...Yes, we'll accept that.  [*], or "iconoclasty", or "iconoclast".)
 [Ruling reversed after the first break when "iconoclasty" was found not to be a word.]
 
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    | Geographic name for the spotted green type of pike whose young eat insects before graduating to other fish | a northern pike 
 
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    | The logo for this investment corporation based in Denver is the profile of a head with 2 faces | Janus 
 
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