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    | Her father was a U.S. Representative when she was born; she'd get her own seat in 1987 & has got the run of the House these days | Nancy Pelosi 
 
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    | Cheers to him, an 11-time Emmy nominee & 2-time winner for playing Boston bartender Sam Malone | Ted Danson 
 
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    | Adding the spice called file to a soup or stew does this to it, which is also good when it happens to a book plot | thicken 
 
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    | Widowed at 24, this Philadelphian born Elizabeth Griscom kept herself afloat by making the occasional flag | Betsy Ross 
 
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    | This disappearing cat is owned by the Duchess of Wonderland | the Cheshire Cat 
 
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    | To stimulate another to do something creative | inspire 
 
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    | Hair's--uh, make that here's this ex-congressman & now MSNBC host in his high school days | Scarborough 
 
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    | This social satire from director Bong Joon-ho won the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes film festival | Parasite 
 
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    | The long, narrow covered pan called a "fish" this refers to a specific cooking method, not to a person who steals fish | poacher 
 
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    | On Feb. 19, 1766 James Watt wrote, "I have thought on a simpler circular" this machine "which I expect will be practicable"--it was | a steam engine 
 
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    | Tom Kitten gets rolled up in dough & is almost baked in a pudding in "The Tale of Samuel Whiskers" by this author | Beatrix Potter 
 
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    | Take a look at this then-young man from Wyoming, a few years before he was a heartbeat away from the presidency | (Ken: Apparently, yes.) [Laughter]
 
 Dick Cheney
 
 
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    | Olympia Dukakis & Cher both won Oscars for this 1987 film, playing mother & daughter | Moonstruck 
 
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    | Veggies are scalded, then plunged into ice water when you do this, a word also meaning "make pale with fear" | blanch 
 
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    | The 2 dynasties vying for power in the War of the Spanish Succession were the Habsburgs & this French one | the Bourbons 
 
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    | In "The House at Pooh Corner", Rabbit & Piglet hatch a plot to unbounce this feline character | Tigger 
 
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    | Camera lens used to make distant objects appear larger | telephoto 
 
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    | After high school, he became a Navy SEAL; he'd grapple with some bodywork, act a bit, & get to governing after that | Jesse Ventura 
 
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    | At the 2019 People's Choice Awards, the Competition Contestant winner was Hannah Brown, the title personage of this TV show | The Bachelorette 
 
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    | Splitting a steak open but not separating it is called this, which really gives it wings | to butterfly 
 
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    | Similar to Uncle Sam, this character represents England, first appearing in the 1712 satirical pamphlet, "Law is a Bottomless-Pit" | John Bull 
 
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    | Mungojerrie & Bustopher Jones are memorable characters in this T.S. Eliot work | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
 
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    | Sacrilegious speech | blasphemy 
 
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    | About a decade after high school, he was elected to the Connecticut State Senate in 1970; the U.S. Senate came later | (Terri: Who is Liebling?) 
 (Joseph) Lieberman
 
 
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    | Arthur Hill won a Tony for originating the role of George in this play by Edward Albee | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 
 
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    | This French term for a ball of meat or potato fried crisp begins with a type of lawn game | (Ken: That is correct and I'm so happy to see you back on the plus side.) [Applause]
 
 croquette
 
 
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    | Tacky's Revolt was carried out in 1760 by enslaved people on this Caribbean island, a center of sugar production | (Terri: What is Haiti?) 
 Jamaica
 
 
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    | Pixel the cat shows up in the Robert Heinlein work "The Cat Who" does this, which regular cats can't do | Walks Through Walls 
 
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    | 2 linked lines of verse | (Mattea: Um, I think I've been doing okay when I've had time to think, so maybe let's do, like, $4,000?) ...
 (Mattea: What is anapest?)
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 (Mattea: Oh, of course.)
 (Ken: With less than a minute to go.)
 
 a couplet
 
 
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