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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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