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    | In 2010 he hit the shelves with his legal thriller "The Confession" | (Ryan: Who is Clancy?) 
 (John) Grisham
 
 
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    | Patton Oswalt cooked up the voice of Remy the Rodent in this 2007 Pixar film | Ratatouille 
 
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    | J. Edgar Hoover became the first director of the new FBI on March 22, 1935, serving this president | FDR 
 
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    | Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt snapped a sailor kissing a nurse on the August 1945 day known as this | (Tom: What is D-Day?) ...
 (Alex: Victory in Japan, yes.)
 
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    | "Ho, ho, ho!"  This jolly guy has appeared in ads for vegetables since 1928; the company was named for him in 1950 | the Jolly Green Giant 
 
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    | I try, & I try, but I can't get no this word meaning an act of gratification | satisfaction 
 
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    | In 1936 this Jazz Age author detailed his physical & spiritual collapse in "The Crack-Up" | Fitzgerald 
 
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    | From 1960 to 2010 Don Hastings played Bob Hughes on this "global" CBS soap opera | As the World Turns 
 
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    | Born in this city in 1895, J. Edgar Hoover graduated from its National University law school in 1917 | Washington 
 
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    | Certain Robert Mapplethorpe photos caused Congress to enact restrictions on grants given by this body | the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) 
 
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    | Robert Chesebrough produced a clear petroleum jelly & started selling it under this brand name in 1870 | Vaseline 
 
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    | A decrease in economic activity; I couldn't bear it!  I can't!  I won't!  I shan't! | a contraction 
 
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    | Peru's version of "Super Mario", he won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature | Mario Vargas Llosa 
 
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    | Esai Morales lawyered up as Edward James Olmos' dad, Joseph Adama, in this "Battlestar Galactica" prequel | Caprica 
 
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    | Hoover's many innovations included establishing a national bank for these biometric identifiers | fingerprints 
 
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    | John Filo, an undergrad at this Ohio school, won a 1971 Pulitzer after getting an iconic photo of a slain classmate | Kent State 
 
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    | "Choosy moms choose" this brand of peanut butter | Jif 
 
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    | 2-word "atomic" term for a series of events in which each event is the result of the one preceding & the cause of the next | a chain reaction 
 
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    | Muriel Spark's 1961 novel about an eccentric Edinburgh teacher detailed "The Prime of Miss" this | Miss Jean Brodie 
 
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    | J.K. Simmons, seriously evil in "Oz", brought it down to "not so nice" as publisher J. Jonah Jameson in this 2002 film | Spider-Man 
 
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    | In the 1960s Hoover expanded his COINTELPRO plan to harass & disrupt this Southern extremist white power group | the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) 
 
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    | Steve McCurry took a photo of an Afghan girl for this venerated magazine in 1984, then reunited with her 17 years later | (Tom: What is Life?) 
 National Geographic
 
 
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    | This brand's Wienermobile dates back to 1936 | Oscar Mayer 
 
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    | Rotting, or the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria | putrefaction 
 
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    | This man who penned "A la recherche du temps perdu" suffered from asthma | Marcel Proust 
 
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    | This "Some Like It Hot" co-star who died in 2010 turned to Matisse-influenced art in later years | (Tom: Who is Lemmon?) 
 Tony Curtis
 
 
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    | Among those Hoover's FBI tracked down & killed was this young-looking brute, in November 1934 | "Baby Face" Nelson 
 
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    | He told the Warren Commission of a nightmare in which his film plays out until its violent end & he snaps awake | (Alex: Ryan?) (Ryan: Who is McCarthy?)
 (Alex: No, the man's  name was [*], and he's the one who photographed the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas.  That was before your time.)
 
 Abraham Zapruder
 
 
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    | This superpremium ice cream brand produces a line called Five--with only (you guessed it) 5 ingredients | Häagen-Dazs 
 
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    | For federal contracts, this 2-word employment term was first used in an order issued by JFK in 1961 | affirmative action 
 
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