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    the Space Race
 
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    | This woman's estate authorized its first prequel, "Ruth's Journey", about Mammy | 
    (Kerry: What is, uh,  [*]?) (Alex: "Who is [*]?"  Correct.)
  Margaret Mitchell
 
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    Braille
 
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    Shirley Jones
 
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    Tenderfoot
 
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    Borat
 
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    Gone Girl
 
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    (Kerry: What are ashes? What are their ashes?) (Max: Um... what are their arms?)
  their hearts
 
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    | MacKenzie & Valerie were the kids & Bonnie Franklin played their mom Ann Romano on this show | 
    (Max: What is Everybody Loves Raymond?) (Michael: What is Everybody Loves Ray?) ... (Alex: This series was earlier on--[*].)
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    a radar
 
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    a magistrate
 
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    | Nursultan Nazarbayev, "Leader of the Nation", has been president since K-stan left the USSR in this year | 
    1991
 
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    | Piscine Molitor Patel is the full name of the title character of this Yann Martel novel | 
    Life of Pi
 
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    | Husband & wife scientists, they were moved to the Panthéon amid great ceremony in 1995 | 
    the Curies
 
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    | As Lorelei Gilmore, she was the mom half of the "Gilmore Girls" | 
    [ERRATUM: The character's name is "Lorelai", not "Lorelei".]
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    (Michael: What is Apache?)
  Chinook
 
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    | This light thin cotton or rayon fabric has a crinkled surface & usually a striped pattern | 
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    | As well as the Aral Sea, K-stan borders this inland sea for 1,450 miles to the southwest | 
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    | Hank Morgan wins the position of prime minister & earns Merlin's jealousy in this Twain tale | 
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    (Michael: Who is Rousseau?) (Alex: No, you picked the wrong one.  "Who is [*]?"  [*], and we have less than a minute to go now.)
  Voltaire
 
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    | As Elaine Nardo, this actress hacked her way through single parenting on "Taxi" | 
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    | Typhoons, hurricanes & the lows on weather maps are all examples of these atmospheric circulations | 
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    | For some reason, Kazakh leaders changed the name of the capital from Aqmola ("white grave") to this | 
    Astana
 
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    Sister Carrie
 
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    | WWII resistance fighter Jean Moulin is interred for his courage & death at the hands of this Nazi group | 
    (Michael: What is the SS?)
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