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    | Weighing up to 200 tons & growing to nearly 100 feet long, some spend their summers off the California coast | 
    a blue whale
 
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    | "I beheld the wretch--the miserable monster whom I had created" | 
    Frankenstein
 
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    Max Bialystock, Franz Liebkind, Hold-Me Touch-Me | 
    The Producers
 
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    | This Speaker of the House helped draft the "Contract with America" | 
    Newt Gingrich
 
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    | The most powerful mobile artillery piece to that time, "Big Bertha" was a long-range German cannon first used in this conflict | 
    World War I
 
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    | "If I make any mistakes, there'll be nothing left but the 'Mark Watney Memorial Crater'" | 
    The Martian
 
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    Kenickie, Frenchie, Betty Rizzo | 
    Grease
 
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    | In 2014 John Conyers won his 26th term for this state & is the first black rep. to be the senior member of Congress | 
    (Edward: What is Mississippi?) (Susanna: What is Georgia?) (Alex: Cindy's not gonna ring in to try to come up with the state of [*].)
  Michigan
 
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    | The desert-dwelling smoke tree depends on the flash type of these to spread its seeds | 
    flood
 
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    | In 1626 for 60 guilders you could have purchased all 23 square miles of this NYC borough | 
    Manhattan
 
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    | A Pulitzer Prize-winning book: "You better not never tell nobody but God" | 
    The Color Purple
 
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    Nick Massi, Mary Delgado, Frankie Valli | 
    Jersey Boys
 
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    | In late 1880 he was a congressman, a senator-elect & president-elect, all at the same time | 
    (Edward: Who is Hayes?)
  James Garfield
 
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    | Pecans are the largest of these, a type of walnut tree, whose wood is popularly used in barbecues | 
    hickory
 
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    | Seen here in a museum is an ancient stone one of these | 
    [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
  a sarcophagus
 
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    | The largest known of these Greek sacrificial platforms was found at Syracuse & measures 650 by 74 feet | 
    an altar
 
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    | "In the interior you will no doubt meet Mr. Kurtz" | 
    (Cindy: What is... Apocalypse Now?)
  Heart of Darkness
 
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    Glinda, Fiyero, Nessarose | 
    Wicked
 
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    | This state has 1 representative in Congress; it has also sent a grand total of 4 men to fill that seat | 
    (Alex: Less than a minute now.)
  Alaska
 
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    | The leaves of the Sydney peppermint, a type of this gum tree from New South Wales, are used in Aboriginal remedies | 
    eucalyptus
 
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    | The line "thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" first appears in this Biblical book | 
    (Cindy: What is Exodus?)
  Leviticus
 
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    | The addition of the palazzo made this Vegas hotel the world's largest under one roof, with more than 7,000 suites | 
    the Venetian
 
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    | "My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.  I was fourteen when I was murdered..." | 
    The Lovely Bones
 
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    Mungojerrie, Mistoffelees, Grizabella | 
    Cats
 
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    | Her four terms representing Minnesota in Congress included a presidential run | 
    (Michele) Bachmann
 
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    | Native Americans used the inner bark of the sugar type of this tree to make a tea to treat coughs | 
    maple
 
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    | What's black & white & furry all over?  This monkey | 
    (Edward: What is a Rhesus monkey?)
  the colobus monkey
 
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