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  | THAT'S TOTALLY HISTORICAL! |  |
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  | THE RACE IS TO THE STRONG |  |
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    | The newest edition of "Emily Post's Etiquette" has the helpful table-setting reminder "FOrKS", the K & S being these | knives & spoons 
 
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    | Countess Trifaldi, Dona Rodriguez,
 Dulcinea
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    | In musical slang this number refers to a piano | 88 
 
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    | Before she was Russian empress, she wanted serfs freed; after, not so much, enslaving previously free Ukrainians, too | Catherine the Great 
 
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    | To leave one's country of origin in order to live in another | emigrate 
 
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    | When a man & a woman are sharing one of these, the one who holds it is the one who's taller | (Alex: Yeah, makes sense, too.) 
 an umbrella
 
 
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    | Miles Archer, Miss Wonderly,
 Sam Spade
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    | Number of permanent members of the U.N. Security Council | five 
 
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    | The full name of this 1963 event in U.S. history included the concluding part, "for Jobs and Freedom" | the March on Washington 
 
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    | On a college campus, Delta Sigma Theta or Alpha Kappa Alpha, for example | sorority 
 
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    | You'll need water bad in the Badwater Ultramarathon from this low spot to over 8,000' up Mount Whitney | Death Valley 
 
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    | A letter to a male president should begin "Dear Mr. President"; to a female president, this way | Dear Madam President 
 
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    | Noah Joad, Jim Casy,
 Rose of Sharon
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    | A superfecta at Saratoga involves correctly guessing this number of horses in order of finish | four 
 
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    | In the 20s B.C., after Octavian took this imperial name, he established the Praetorian Guard to guard his body | (Mary Beth: What is Caesar?) (Alex: Be more specific.)
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 (Patrick Dillon's class at Munsey Park Elementary School: Good luck, Mr. Dillon, on the Jeopardy! Teachers Tournament.)
 [Cheers and applause]
 
 Caesar Augustus
 
 
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    | The 4 deserts ultramarathon races are held in the Gobi, Sahara, Antarctica & this other desert that begins & ends in "A" | the Atacama Desert 
 
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    | In an e-mail, doing this is "the equivalent of shouting" | using caps locks 
 
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    | Sir Kay, Hank Morgan,
 Merlin the Magician
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 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
 
 
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    | Number of hertz in a gigahertz | (Mary Beth: What's a thousand?) 
 a billion
 
 
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    | In 1779 all the states except Maryland, which had some land issues, had ratified this precursor to the Constitution | the Articles of the Confederation 
 
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    | From the Greek for "beloved of all", it's a small paper booklet handed out at meetings & rallies | a pamphlet 
 
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    | The 2013 Race Across America started cyclists in Oceanside, Calif. & had them pedal to this state capital on Chesapeake Bay | (Mary Beth: What is Baltimore?) 
 Annapolis
 
 
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    | Never wear black, advised Emily Post to those coming out into society as these | debutantes 
 
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    | Billy Bibbit, Candy,
 The Big Nurse
 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 
 
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    | Total cups in a gallon | (Alex: [*] is right--4 cups in a quart, 4 quarts in a gallon.) 
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    | The brutal Barkley Marathons came to be after news of this assassin covering only 8 mi. after fleeing a Tenn. prison in 1977 | (Mary Beth Hammerstrom's students at A.J. Dimond High School: We say "Hammer," then you say "strom"!  Hammer!  Strom!  Hammer!  Strom!  Go-o-o-o, Miss Hammerstrom!) [Cheers and applause]
 
 James Earl Ray
 
 
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