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    | Ray Charles was born in this city but in Georgia, not New York | 
    Albany
 
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    | Published in 1909, "The Road to" this fabled land featured Dorothy & her new friends Shaggy Man & Button Bright | 
    Oz
 
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    | This man came & went in the highest office in the land | 
    (Herbert) Hoover
 
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    | "If I'm doing a fake movie, it's going to be a fake hit" | 
    Argo
 
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    | Scots love these "planetary" chocolate bars--deep fried | 
    Mars bars
 
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    | This citrus fruit is slang for something that is unsatisfactory or defective | 
    a lemon
 
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    | Far from Mississippi, it's the site of Michigan's first state prison | 
    Jackson
 
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    | Sinclair Lewis' first critical & commercial success, this 1920 novel satirized small-town small-mindedness | 
    (Blake: What is Our Town?)
  Main Street
 
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    | A dissenting faction led by John L. Lewis left the AFL & founded this group | 
    the CIO
 
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    | "I am Merida, and I'll be shooting for my own hand" | 
    Brave
 
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    | Blood & pork are featured in "black" this, so it's not a dessert like the kind Bill Cosby enjoys | 
    (black) pudding
 
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    | This beer mug usually holds about a pint | 
    a stein
 
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    | With the same name as the capital of a Carolina, this Maryland city was founded by the granddad of actor Edward Norton | 
    Columbia
 
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    | In 1987 Erskine Caldwell, who created this impoverished title road, died of lung cancer | 
    Tobacco Road
 
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    | A photographic plate taken at the Lowell Observatory on January 23, 1930 helped identify this object | 
    Pluto
 
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    | "Why are you here then?" "Because I bloody well stammer!" | 
    The King's Speech
 
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    | It's said the Thames used to be so dirty only this fish could live in it, & the jellied version remains a U.K. staple | 
    eels
 
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    | It's any object carried on one's person to ward off evil & bring good luck | 
    a talisman
 
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    | Missouri, Kentucky & Wisconsin all border this state & all have communities with the same name as its capital | 
    Illinois
 
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    | His play "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" tells the sad but funny tale of a fired exec having a nervous breakdown | 
    Neil Simon
 
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    | In 1928 he won the general election for Louisiana governor with 96.14% of the vote | 
    Huey Long
 
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    | "You're one of those a cappella girls. I'm one of those a cappella boys & we're gonna have a-ca children" | 
    Pitch Perfect
 
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    | Someone who uses the word "mushy" in his order in Liverpool is likely getting these legumes | 
    peas
 
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    | Let's all lounge upon this piece of furniture | 
    (Sarah: What is a futon?) (Blake: What is a sedan?)
  a divan
 
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    | Hormel Foods is based in Austin in this state | 
    (Blake: What is... sorry.)
  Minnesota
 
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    | Frank & April Wheeler start out as a model 1950s couple in this Richard Yates novel made into a 2008 film | 
    Revolutionary Road
 
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    | On April 15, 1929 police raided this woman's birth-control clinical research bureau in NYC; charges were later dropped | 
    (Margaret) Sanger
 
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    | "No one's ever been loved so much by the people. Don't waste that power" | 
    Lincoln
 
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    | A Scotch this is boiled, wrapped in sausage & deep fried until golden brown | 
    egg
 
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    | This black volcanic glass is named for a Roman who supposedly discovered it | 
    obsidian
 
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