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    | It's a shape-shifting optical instrument with bits of glass at the end of a rotating tube | a kaleidoscope 
 
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    | This 1966 Truman Capote book combined fiction with facts to tell about 2 drifters who murdered a Kansas family | In Cold Blood 
 
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    | Crowds singing this song at Dodger or Yankee Stadium omit the 1st verse, starting "Katie Casey was baseball mad" | (Mary: What is "Casey at the Bat"?) [Jennifer sings her response.]
 
 "Take Me Out To The Ball Game"
 
 
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    | This colorful river "of the South" runs from N.M. to the Gulf of Mexico; the one "of the North", from N.D. to Lake Winnipeg | (Scott: What is Rio Grande?) 
 the Red River
 
 
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    | Total number of stars on the U.S. flag in 1957 | 48 
 
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    | "The average baby gets his first" this "around 7 months" & 20 of them by age 2 1/2 | a tooth 
 
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    | This "mouth organ" dates back to an instrument called an aura | harmonica 
 
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    | Thunderhead is the title horse in Mary O'Hara's follow-up to "My Friend" her | Flicka 
 
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    | "We Will Rock You" was the B-side of this Queen single; both have become sporting event favorites | (Mary: What is"Bohemian Rhapsody"?) 
 "We Are The Champions"
 
 
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    | "This item is helpful for colic and to prevent thumb-sucking" (& it does give parents some peace) | (Alex: Yes, we would have accepted "binky" and "a jigger of rum".) (Scott: Good to know.)
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 a pacifer
 
 
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    | No trial & little chance of appeal when you agree to binding this regarding a financial dispute | arbitration 
 
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    | The old money & new money Long Island neighborhoods in this novel are East Egg & West Egg | The Great Gatsby 
 
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    | "Ever since I was young, it's been my dream / That I might drive" this machine; "I'd get the ice just as slick as could be" | (Alex: Yep, "and all the kids would look up to me".) 
 a Zamboni
 
 
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    | Tributaries of this Midwestern river include the Pecatonica & Kishwaukee but not the Paper or Scissors | Rock River 
 
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    | The layout of a clock face led to the military slang "on your" this number, meaning directly behind you | [The end-of-round signal sounds.] 
 your six
 
 
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    | "The stump that's left" of this "withers and... drops off, usually in about a week" | the umbilical cord 
 
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    | In a post-Civil War novel by Allan Gurganus, the "Oldest Living" one of these women "Tells All" | Confederate Widow 
 
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    | Since 2002 this Neil Diamond song has been played at every Red Sox home game | "Sweet Caroline" 
 
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    | Have a glass of Cotes du this river, which the Arve River joins after flowing down from Mont Blanc | the Rhône 
 
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    | This-"in-hand" is a long necktie | a four-in-hand 
 
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    | About pregnancy, don't tell Junior about this animal; "Better not to... have him later decide" you lied | the stork 
 
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    | From the Latin for "follow", it's a campaign to subjugate a people because of their religion or race | persecution 
 
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    | Bullfights & heavy drinking are the order of the day in this 1926 novel with a title from Ecclesiastes | The Sun Also Rises 
 
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 "The Party's Over"
 
 
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    | Samuel de Champlain named this Canadian river for Louis XIII's cardinal minister | Richelieu 
 
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    | Number of JFK's PT boat that went down on Aug. 1, 1943 | 109 
 
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    | "Diphtheria, pertussis" & this "inoculations... should be started very early" | tetanus 
 
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