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    A 1975 thriller: Steven Spielberg, John Williams | 
    Jaws
 
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    | "Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 mph upside-down", wrote this Miami Herald columnist | 
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    | It's the disease of the nervous system abbreviated MS | 
    multiple sclerosis
 
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    | This Northern state had draft riots in July 1863 even as its industrial output exceeded that of the entire South | 
    New York
 
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    | The star garnet gets star billing as the state gem of this "Gem State" | 
    Idaho
 
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    You've got a friend in this 1995 film: John Lasseter, Randy Newman | 
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    | Tom Lehrer joked, "It is a sobering thought... that when Mozart was my age he had been" this "for two years" | 
    dead
 
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    | The chance of getting this on a single deal in poker is 1 in 649,740 | 
    a royal flush
 
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    | On September 17, 1862 Gen. Robert E. Lee's Northern march was halted in this slave-holding Union state | 
    (Alex: [*], the Battle of Antietam, yes.)
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    | Christopher Buckley quipped that the name of these theatres stands for "I make the audience cross-eyed" | 
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    A 1983 weeper & Oscar fave: James L. Brooks, Michael Gore | 
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    | "The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected", opined this fella, who never met a man he didn't like | 
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    | In Latin this Charlie Rich song would be titled "Januis Clausis" | 
    (Alex: And that is his hit song [*].)
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    | What is now this state was briefly called Kanawha after it refused to secede from the Union | 
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    | This 3-letter abbreviation for the study of fishes is also the name of a fish disease | 
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    A 1962 epic: David Lean, Maurice Jarre | 
    Lawrence of Arabia
 
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    | In "Without Feathers", he penned, "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons" | 
    (Alex: The wit and wisdom of [*].)
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    | In the Cajun vernacular, this double-talk term refers to a Voodoo spell, good or bad | 
    (Claire: What is juju?) [Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before Final Jeopardy!]
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    | The USS Monitor sank off the shore of this state that supplied the most troops to the Confederate Army | 
    (John: What is Virginia?)
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    | Dorothy Hamill must have fond memories of this Tyrolean city: she won her Olympic gold medal there | 
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    2 pianos, 1 gorgeous blonde: Steven Kloves, David Grusin | 
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    | In his "Devil's Dictionary", he defined "appeal" as "In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw" | 
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    | In legend, after slaying a dragon, Cadmus sowed its teeth & grew a crop of warriors who helped him defeat this city | 
    Thebes
 
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    | The first major victories for the Union were at Fort Donelson & Fort Henry in this state | 
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    | Enlightened folks know that this secret society figures prominently in the novel "Angels & Demons" | 
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