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  | 21st CENTURY POLITICAL QUOTES |  
 
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    | This Daniel Defoe hero is "thrown into a violent calenture"--a fever once said to affect sailors in the Tropics | 
    Robinson Crusoe
 
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    | David Letterman walked Oprah to the opening of this musical based on an Alice Walker novel | 
    The Color Purple
 
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    | During the 1992 L.A. riots, one of these worn by Madonna in a video was stolen from Frederick's of Hollywood | 
    (Dave: Uh, what is a bra?) (Alex: Nnn, be more specific.) (Dave: Um...) ... (Alex: They stole [*], a little bit more than a bra.)
  a bustier
 
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    | Shortly after establishing a lab in Menlo Park, N.J., he invented the carbon telephone transmitter | 
    Edison
 
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    | This branch of medicine is from the Greek for "mind cure" | 
    psychiatry
 
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    | In "The Europeans" Gertrude wears a "quaint and charming leghorn" one of these, "tied with white satin bows" | 
    a hat
 
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    | In the 1960s women would puff out their hair in this style, French for "full" or "puffed" | 
    bouffant
 
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    | "I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp... you think I want to do that all over again as vice president?" | 
    (John) McCain
 
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    | In 1936 he wrote a paper for the Smithsonian entitled "Liquid-Propellant Rocket Development" | 
    (Robert) Goddard
 
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    | Spread it around--it goes back to a Greek word for "cow cheese" | 
    (Dave: Uh, what is feta?)
  butter
 
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    | In "A Tale of Two Cities", Jerry Cruncher is a "resurrection-man"--defined as a person who steals & sells these | 
    corpses
 
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    | "Big Girls Don’t Cry" over "Jersey Boys", a musical bio of this '60s group that had its peaks & "Valli"s | 
    The Four Seasons
 
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    | In the 1800s women would puff out their skirts by wearing this padding or framework underneath | 
    a bustle
 
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    | Regarding the attacks on his son: "If Barbara gets her hands on John Kerry, he might get another Purple Heart" | 
    George Herbert Walker Bush
 
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    | In 1815 he built America's first steam-powered warship | 
    Fulton
 
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    | The name of these sometimes nasty microscopic life forms is from the Greek for "little rod" | 
    (Dave: Uh, what is flagella?) (Eleanor: What is bacilla?) [Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before the Double Jeopardy! Round]
  bacteria (bacilla later accpted)
 
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    | In "Emma", Emma speaks of being in Broadway-lane when "it began to mizzle", which means this | 
    drizzle (mist accepted)
 
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    | This short jacket worn open in the front is perfect for listening to Ravel's music of the same name | 
    a bolero
 
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    | "I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave, with all five fingers, for their hospitality" | 
    George W. Bush
 
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    | By early 1895, at his estate near Bologna, he could ring a bell a few yards away via radio waves | 
    Marconi
 
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    | This elevated Athens area appropriately comes from 2 Greek words meaning "highest city" | 
    the Acropolis
 
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    | "What a mommet of a maid!" (mommet meaning scarecrow) is said of this Thomas Hardy title character | 
    (Alex: [*] is right, [*] of the d'Urbervilles.)
  Tess
 
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    | The USA's oldest clothing retailer, this upscale, once family-run business has collared the market on men's apparel since 1818 | 
    Brooks Brothers
 
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    | Secretary of Health and Human Services: "For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply" | 
    Tommy Thompson
 
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    | Around 1862 this American locksmith introduced a dial-operated combination lock for bank vaults | 
    (Alex: And that name is [*].  [*]--still associated with locks.)
  Linus Yale
 
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    | One of the sacraments established by Christ; its "holy" name is from the Greek for "grateful" | 
    (Alex: And that word is [*]--Holy [*].)
  Eucharist
 
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