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Subject of the Peter Hurd portrait which LBJ called "the ugliest thing I ever saw" |
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Christmas seals now fight all lung disease, but originally targeted this #1 killer of early 1900s |
tuberculosis
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In the Mary Tyler Moore Show pilot, he tells Mary "You got spunk... I hate spunk" |
Lou Grant
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The country's name refers to this "tigerish" Indian province of which it was once part |
(Heidi: What is the Punjab?)
Bengal
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In the Gregorian calendar, it's the 2nd month |
F-E-B-R-U-A-R-Y
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Tassel on this hat represents the lock of hair by which Allah pulls a believer up to heaven |
a fez
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3 of our first 5 presidents died on this holiday |
July 4th
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Though Fleming discovered this 1st modern antibiotic in 1928, his Nobel Prize for it came in 1945 |
penicillin
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Danny DeVito came out of his cage to marry Rhea Perlman during a lunch break of this show |
Taxi
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Though it's the chief food crop of the country, not enough is grown to feed the population |
rice
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This word is also spelled out in the song that includes the following:
"What you want..." |
(Jay: I'm ready.) ... (Alex: Yes, Aretha Franklin... we've got less than a minute to go in the round.) ... [The song was reprised going into the break.]
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
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True examples of this famous "straw" are made of toquillo straw, & are from South, not Central, America |
(Alex: Yes, they're from Ecuador.) [ERRATUM: Toquilla is the right word.]
a Panama hat
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Only president buried in any of our 10 largest cities, his tomb is in New York |
Grant
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Derived from bark of cinchona tree, it was for years only known remedy for malaria |
quinine
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Still in diapers when he joined the Today show cast in 1953, he sent the ratings climbing |
J. Fred Muggs
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On a suggestion from Ravi Shankar, he organized the concerts for Bangladesh |
George Harrison
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A device used to stop the flow of blood through an artery by compression |
(Jeff: What is S-P-H-Y-G-M-O-M-A-N-O-M-E-T-E-R?) (Alex: Sorry, wrong.) [Laughter] (Alex: But, I love it.) ... [After the break and holding a dictionary, Alex announces that Jeff's response was deemed acceptable because it does use a [*].]
T-O-U-R-N-I-Q-U-E-T
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Korean girls looking for husbands once avoided men who wore tall horse-hair hats, which indicated this |
that they were married
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It's said it took 4 plumbers with special tools to extricate this president from the White House bathtub |
Taft
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Venereal disease formerly known as "the pox" or "the great pox" as opposed to smallpox |
syphilis
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They lived at 623 E. 68th Street & had a baby on January 19, 1953 |
Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz (Lucy & Ricky Ricardo)
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Decade of the 20th c. when East Pakistan became Bangladesh |
(Alex: 1971 it happened.)
the '70s
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Steak sauce, made of vinegar, soy, & other ingredients, named for a county in England |
W-O-R-C-E-S-T-E-R-S-H-I-R-E
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It's brimless to allow worshipper to touch forehead to ground & is always worn by Sikhs in public |
a turban
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While President Truman often called wife Bess "The Boss", he called her "The Boss's Boss" |
Margaret Truman
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Once the symbol of Hermes or Mercury, it's now the symbol of the medical profession |
the caduceus
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Leroy the high school coach drowned in a bowl of her chicken soup |
Mary Hartman
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Due to the geography of the country, it's the primary form of transportation |
boat
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If you can use your left hand & right hand equally well, you're considered this |
(Heidi: What is A-M-B-I-D-E-X-T-E-R-I-O-U-S?)
A-M-B-I-D-E-X-T-R-O-U-S
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The 3' high hennin, worn by ladies of Europe in the 1400s, had this shape |
the cone-shaped hat
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