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    | Almost hunted to extinction but now upgraded to threatened, the alligator became its state reptile in 1987 | Florida 
 
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    | He tipped his scale in 1848, setting absolute zero at a brisk -460 degrees Fahrenheit | Kelvin 
 
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    | Paul Lynde voiced Templeton the rat in this 1973 animated film based on an E.B. White book | Charlotte's Web 
 
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    | More than half of the 400,000 people in this city lost their homes shortly after an event on April 18, 1906 | San Francisco 
 
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    | Generally, prisons are run by the state or feds & hold felons; these are local lockups for misdemeanants | jails 
 
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    | Tender plants & flowers are cultivated in one | a hothouse 
 
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    | The resolution making this largest North American frog Oklahoma's state amphibian says it makes a "jug-o-rum" sound | the bullfrog 
 
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    | This Russian physiologist went to the dogs & termed salivation the "unconditioned reflex" | (Ivan) Pavlov 
 
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    | This 1993 film set during WWII was nominated for 12 Oscars | Schindler's List 
 
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    | One who supported George III against the American revolutionaries was called this; get the tar & feathers | Tories (or Loyalists) 
 
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    | This service lets you "rent unique places to stay from local hosts in 190+ countries" | Airbnb 
 
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    | Proverbial food item you want no part of & get rid of quickly | a hot potato 
 
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    | New Hampshire elevated the red-spotted newt to publicize its declining numbers due to this type of precipitation | acid rain 
 
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    | The dad of this physicist was professor of physiology at the U. of Copenhagen & his bro, a big-time mathematician | (Niels) Bohr 
 
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    | A failed hit on Irish crime boss Albert Finney leads to an all-out mob war in this 1990 Coen Brothers film | Miller's Crossing 
 
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    | MHP stands for this type of community | a mobile home park 
 
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    | It's the old gag of putting a lighted match in someone's shoe | a hot foot 
 
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    | Shh...  What was that? The timber species of this snake, West Virginia's state reptile | rattlesnake 
 
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    | It's a chemist, Charlie Brown!  In 1931 this American published his classic text "The Nature of the Chemical Bond" | Linus Pauling 
 
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    | "Hired killers by day... lovers by night.  Until they found their next assignment was each other" was this film's tagline | Prizzi's Honor 
 
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    | On Dec. 2, 1954 this Wisconsin man was condemned in a 67-22 vote for conduct "contrary to Senate traditions" | Joe McCarthy 
 
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    | Around 1900 the organization Volunteers of America pioneered these houses for those leaving incarceration | halfway houses 
 
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    | If you've done this fabric "to" someone, you've come to gradually like him | take a cotton to 
 
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    | This turtle, the state reptile of New York, is said to have "jaws that can cut through flesh like butter" | a snapping turtle 
 
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    | From 1947 to 1952 he was chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission | Robert Oppenheimer 
 
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    | 15 is middle-aged in this 1976 Michael York sci-fi flick; folks turning 30 don't turn 31 | Logan's Run 
 
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    | On Jan. 22, 1944 the U.S. Fifth Army charged ashore at this Italian town, taking the Axis by surprise | Anzio 
 
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    | Mi amigo, some hotels in Mexico & the Southwest offer these comfy cottages, Spanish for "little houses" | (Alex: That's it, with less than a minute to go now.) 
 casitas
 
 
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    | This hilly region in the Midlands is one of the most peaceful & picturesque areas of England | the Cotswolds 
 
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