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    | Disturbances in Dijon in 1788 were early signals of this event that really got going in 1789 | the French Revolution 
 
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    | This association is "an organization of members of the legal profession", & it's time for you to pass it | the Bar 
 
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    | The right spot to smack on a Heinz bottle is this number to get the ketchup flowing at a brisk .028 mph | 57 
 
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    | As Nick Lachey surely knows, it's sorta kinda around the normal body temperature | 98 degrees 
 
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    | 19-year-old George Washington caught this disease, which left him with a scarred face for the rest of his life | smallpox 
 
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    | This name of seafaring warriors of around the year 1000 is from a Scandinavian word for "pirate" | Viking 
 
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    | This aforethought is "the requisite mental state for common-law murder", including the intent to inflict grievous bodily harm | malice 
 
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    | A 42-foot rocking chair in Missouri & the original McDonald's site in California are not far off this route | Route 66 
 
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    | Is it this abbreviation for filming people filming people, or a K-pop band with Jin & Suga? | (Ken: Short for behind the scenes, [*].) 
 BTS
 
 
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    | In rising water, these tiny ants, named for their burning sting, form a living life raft with their waxy, waterproof bodies | fire ants 
 
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    | In "The Pajama Game", "Why don't you stop all this" trivial chat; "I've got something better for your lips to do" | small talk 
 
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    | Symbolizing this new dual monarchy, in 1868, Empress Elisabeth, or Sissi, traveled to have her youngest be born a Buda baby | (Abby: What is Hungarian?) 
 Austro-Hungarian (Austria-Hungary)
 
 
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    | "A solemn declaration, accompanied by a swearing to God... that one's statement is true" | (Amar: What is an affirmation?) (Steve: What is a testament?)
 
 an oath
 
 
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    | You can just do the math to get this number of batters faced by a Major League Baseball pitcher who threw a perfect game | 27 
 
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    | It's an idiom for working well together, like Chris Kirkpatrick on a tandem bicycle with Justin Timberlake | in sync 
 
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    | A bug in the "click" family of this insect can snap its thorax to flip into the air & right itself | a beetle 
 
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    | A surprising cost, as in "fixing up the house will cost a..." this; there's debate on how much it is, which I'll settle: $2.77 mil. | (Amar: What is small print?) 
 small fortune
 
 
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    | In politics it's someone who firmly supports one side; in WWII history, it refers to anti-Nazi resistance fighters | (Steve: What is a zealot?) 
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    | This witness "is biased against the examining party, is unwilling to testify, or is identified with an adverse party" | a hostile witness 
 
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    | In the presidential election of 1956, Eisenhower carried 41 states & Stevenson, this many | (Amar: Uh... [*]--what is [*]?) (Ken: [*] is correct, yes; Alaska and Hawaii had not yet been added to the Union.)
 
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    | Donnie Wahlberg & Joey McIntyre are these children who just came to the neighborhood & now we gotta show them the ropes | the new kids on the block 
 
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    | Monarch butterflies flock to this poisonous "weed"; they're immune, so absorbing the toxins makes them an unpleasant meal | milkweed 
 
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    | John Mellencamp was referring to Seymour, Indiana when he sang, "I was born in" this | small town 
 
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    | In 346 B.C., Athens made the Peace of Philocrates with this northern kingdom soon to spread to empire size | Macedonia 
 
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    | Alliterative item "given to a court... to guarantee that the defendant will duly appear in court in the future" | a bail bond 
 
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    | "Paradise Lost" & the "Aeneid" are divided into this many "books" | (Abby: What are seven?) 
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    | A bar mitzvah marks this transition from childhood to adulthood; I wonder if Nathan Morris & Shawn Stockman had one | boys to men 
 
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    | These pinhead-sized crop pests like to specialize; apple, cabbage, pea & rose are just a few of the varieties | (Ken: Yes, your enemy on the farm.) 
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    | In a poker game, the player to the left of the dealer makes this mandatory bet before the cards are seen | small blind 
 
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