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    | She changed her name in 1744, we figure because Empress Sophie the Great didn't sound good | Empress Catherine the Great 
 
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    | At the beginning of this Larry McMurtry novel, the pigs are eating a rattlesnake | (India: What's Buffalo Girls?) 
 Lonesome Dove
 
 
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    | Bongos, congas & tom-toms are types of these | (Alex: Less than a minute.) 
 drums
 
 
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    | This radioactive element is named for the ninth planet | plutonium 
 
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    | Colorful landmarks include the Painted Desert in Arizona & the Rainbow Bridge in this state | (Jay: What is New York?) 
 Utah
 
 
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    | Tall, powerful women are sometimes called these after the name of a race of female warriors | Amazons 
 
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    | She said, "I can train any dog in 5 minutes... it's training the owner that takes longer" | (Alex: Remember the lady?--[falsetto] "Walkies!"  "Who is [*]?") 
 Barbara Woodhouse
 
 
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    | "Royal Poinciana" revolves around the Royal Poinciana Hotel in this elegant Florida resort city | Palm Beach 
 
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    | The Scottish Highland version of this instrument has 3 drones | the bagpipe 
 
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    | Used to control goiter, this element was discovered in seaweed by a French chemist in 1811 | iodine 
 
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    | Of all state mottos in English, this state's is, appropriately, the shortest | (Alex: The motto is "Hope".) 
 Rhode Island
 
 
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    | A style of masonry that uses large, irregular stones was named for these 1-eyed giants | the Cyclopes 
 
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    | Savonarola forced this famous Florentine family into exile in 1494 | the Medicis 
 
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    | He dedicated "QB VII" "To my darling wife Jill on her twenty-third birthday" | Leon Uris 
 
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    | The Neapolitan type of this lute-like instrument is tuned the same as a violin | (Alex: Sorry, Bruce, you didn't ring in quickly enough.) 
 a mandolin
 
 
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    | In 1766 Henry Cavendish called this gas with 1 proton & 1 electron "inflammable air" | hydrogen 
 
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    | Its state flower is the Rocky Mountain columbine | Colorado 
 
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    | Blue succory, a plant once thought to have love potion powers, is also called this god's "dart" | Cupid 
 
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    | Robert Ford, who killed this outlaw in St. Joseph, Mo. in 1882, got a big reward & a pardon | Jesse James 
 
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    | Chapter IX of this James Michener novel is titled "The Golden Beaches of Nome" | Alaska 
 
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    | Albert Schweitzer was a key figure in reviving interest in this instrument in the early 1900s | the organ 
 
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    | Used to galvanize iron & steel, its name is from the German for "prong" or "spike" | zinc 
 
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    | This state's first radio station, WOK, began operating in Pine Bluff in 1922 | Arkansas 
 
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    | Wife of Odysseus whose weaving has become a metaphor for an endless task | Penelope 
 
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    | Tho a Republican, Harold Ickes was Interior Sec'y for this president's whole tenure | Franklin Roosevelt 
 
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    | In "Jitterbug Perfume" this novelist said, "The beet was Rasputin's favorite vegetable" | Tom Robbins 
 
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    | The name of this wind instrument, also called a sweet potato, comes from Italian for goose | the ocarina 
 
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    | Reflecting 95% of the light that strikes it, this precious metal is the most lustrous of metals | (Jay: What is gold?) (Alex: No, sorry, you picked the wrong one.  You had to start thinking about reflecting, and perhaps mirrors, and you have [*].)
 
 silver
 
 
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    | It's the only state that modeled its court system on civil law, not English common law | (Alex: The state is [*], after the Code civil of France.) 
 Louisiana
 
 
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    | A sculptured figure of a man used as a support & named for a Titan; the plural is "Atlantes" | Atlas 
 
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