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    Turkey
 
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    | Mesothelioma is a rare cancer strongly linked to long-term exposure to this fibrous mineral | 
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    | "Beware" this, "my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird..." | 
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    | In 1931 Pangborn & Herndon landed a Bellanca CH-200 at Wenatchee, Wash., ending the first nonstop flight across this | 
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    chinchilla
 
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    | Before the euro, this country used the escudo | 
    Portugal
 
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    | This "large" pool hustler wanted his epitaph to be "Beat everybody living on Earth.  Now, St. Peter, rack 'em up" | 
    Minnesota Fats
 
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    | The last verse of the first version of this Tennyson poem begins, "When can their glory fade?  O the wild charge they made!" | 
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    | Airsick but intact, in 1797 Andre-Jacques Garnerin became the first aeronaut to make one of these descents | 
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    Chile
 
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    (Maria: Who is Sam Snead?)
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    | DuPont coined this term but chose not to trademark it so it could enter the lexicon as a synonym for "stockings" | 
    nylon
 
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    | In his "Departmental Ditties", Kipling wrote, "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is" this | 
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    | This overture, first heard on August 3, 1829 in Paris, debuted as a radio show's theme in 1933 | 
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    Madagascar
 
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    | This catcher retired at the end of '63, managed the Yankees to a pennant in '64 & played 4 games for the Mets in '65 | 
    (Steve: Who is Elston Howard?) ... (Alex: Ah, it's the wit and wisdom of [*].)
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    cotton
 
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    | "I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call" this | 
    the sky
 
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    | Probably the first emergency use of this device was on January 15, 1878 to alert doctors to a train wreck | 
    the telephone
 
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    (Joey: What is Kazakhstan?)
  Outer Mongolia
 
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    (Steve: Who is Billie Jean King?)
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    | Before becoming a successful poet, Robert Burns worked in the linen industry as a dresser of this plant fiber | 
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    | "When I was one and twenty I heard a wise man say, 'Give crowns and pounds and guineas but not'" this "'away'" | 
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    | In 1824 this first foreigner to address a joint session of Congress congratulated the U.S. on its growth | 
    (Joey: Who's Tocqueville?)
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    | In 1982 he choreographed his final ballet, a new version of Stravinsky's "Variations for Orchestra" | 
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