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    | A memorial to this day was dedicated June 6, 2001 in Bedford, Virginia | 
    D-Day
 
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    | If he blows a last second shot for the N.Y. Knicks, they'd say this guard we have a problem | 
    Allan Houston
 
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    | According to Mr. Boswell's statement, you & he first met in 1763.  Is that correct? | 
    Samuel Johnson
 
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    | A tiny wrinkle at the corner of the eye is called a crow's this | 
    foot
 
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    | Running for almost 3 decades, this bandleader's TV show premiered in 1955 | 
    Lawrence Welk
 
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    | When this waterway opened in 1869, it brought Arabia into much closer touch with the outside world | 
    Suez Canal
 
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    | A memorial to him, seen here, is at the National Academy of Sciences | 
    Albert Einstein
 
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    | He's the Laker phenom whom opponents might wish played in Japan | 
    Kobe Bryant
 
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    | "A cynic...knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."  Tell the court what you meant | 
    Oscar Wilde
 
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    | This linebacker broke Joe Theismann's leg on "Monday Night Football" | 
    Lawrence Taylor
 
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    | One of the earliest Arab kingdoms was Saba, which may be identical with this one mentioned in the Bible | 
    (Ulhas: What is Judah?)
  Sheba
 
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    | A memorial named for this fictional woman, symbol of WWII laborers, is at a former shipyard in Richmond, Calif. | 
    (Ulhas: I'm sorry, Alex, I don't know.)
  Rosie the Riveter
 
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    | This ex-49er QB kindly helped out Ronnie Lott's painful itching in a parody TV ad | 
    Joe Montana
 
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    | Did you or did you not write, in "Man and Superman", "Liberty means responsibility.  That is why most men dread it" | 
    (Ulhas: Who is Nietzsche?)
  George Bernard Shaw
 
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    | An uninterrupted series or extent, like the space-time one | 
    (Pamela: I don't know, Alex.)
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    | He privately published "Lady Chatterley's Lover" in 1928 | 
    D.H. Lawrence
 
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    | The Arabs of Arabia look upon themselves as the descendants of this son of Noah | 
    Shem
 
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    | The fisherman's memorial seen here is in this Massachusetts city | 
    (Ulhas: What is New Bedford?)
  Gloucester
 
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    | Drew Carey knows Hall of Fame pitcher Grover Alexander's middle name is this | 
    Cleveland
 
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    | So you, a humble Baltimore writer, called Puritanism "The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy" | 
    H.L. Mencken
 
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    | A Mideastern marketplace, or a charity sale | 
    bazaar
 
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    | In "Romeo & Juliet", he marries Romeo & Juliet | 
    Friar Lawrence
 
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    | Once divided into a North & South, it's the second-largest nation on the peninsula | 
    Yemen
 
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    | Part of the new national memorial, in this state capital, is seen here | 
    Oklahoma City
 
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    | Geographic nickname of boxer Joe Walcott, shown what exit to take when he was KO'd in '52 by Rocky Marciano | 
    Jersey Joe Walcott
 
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    | You said of your shared office with Dorothy Parker, "One cubic foot less and it would have constituted adultery" | 
    Robert Benchley
 
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    | In 79 A.D. this city could have used the Imperial Emergency Management Agency | 
    Pompeii
 
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    | This beat poet penned "A Coney Island of the Mind" | 
    (Ulhas: Who is Ginsberg?)
  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
 
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    | By population, it's the largest city on the Arabian Peninsula | 
    Riyadh
 
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