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    | In 1968, while still in the army, this future hall of fame tennis player became the first black male to win the U.S. Open | (Arthur) Ashe 
 
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    | This famous water bearer fired cannon during the Battle of Monmouth | Molly Pitcher 
 
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    | It's a statement that can be proved; there are binomial & exponential ones | (Ehren: What is a proof?) (Ryan: What is an equation?)
 
 a theorem
 
 
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    | Johnny Cash song lyric that gives the power to nix individual items in tax bills | walk the line item veto 
 
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    | Soren Kierkegaard is buried in the Assistens Kirkegard, or cemetery, in this city | Copenhagen 
 
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    | Older than his classmates, Cornell football player & future coach Glenn Warner got this nickname | Pop 
 
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    | In 1429 she led Charles VII & his military escort through enemy territory so that he could be crowned at Reims | Joan of Arc 
 
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    | Pierre de Fermat invented the differential type of this branch of math | calculus 
 
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    | Any Western New York NFL player who's actually the first 10 amendments to the Constitution | a Buffalo Bill of Rights 
 
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    | Gloatingly jubilant joy | glee 
 
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    | If John Keats had sent a postcard from his last home, it would have been postmarked this city | (Alex: Ryan, you are in a position to set a one-day record on Jeopardy! There's still Final to come.) ...
 (Ryan: What is Florence?)
 (Alex: Oh no, those are the famous Spanish Steps in [*].)
 
 Rome
 
 
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    | In 1922 this future movie Tarzan became the first to swim the 100-meter freestyle in under 60 seconds | Johnny Weissmuller 
 
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    | In 1983 she returned to Manila to arrange her husband's funeral; 3 years later, she was president | (Corazon) Aquino 
 
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    | This trigonometric function is abbreviated sec | secant 
 
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    | Walt Whitman lobbied hard for this 1855 work that he hoped would inspire people to action at a local level | (Ryan: What is [*] campaign?) (Alex: We'll accept the "campaign" part, too.)
 
 Leaves of Grassroots
 
 
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    | The side of a ship away from the wind | lee 
 
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    | You can visit the Moscow house where this author & some of his 13--"count" 'em--kids spent time from 1882 to 1901 | Count Leo Tolstoy 
 
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    | Having overcome childhood polio that crippled a leg, she won 3 sprint gold medals in the 1960 Olympics | (Wilma) Rudolph 
 
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    | She was twice widowed prior to marrying Henry VIII & was then widowed again when Henry died in 1547 | (Catherine) Parr 
 
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    | In the expression 5x, the constant 5 is this, meaning a multiplying factor | a numerical coefficient 
 
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    | Spending for a congressman's local interests, like say a Hasbro simian container game | a pork barrel of monkeys 
 
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    | An archaic form of "you", as used in "Sonnets from the Portuguese" | (Ehren: [*]?) (Alex: Say it again.)
 (Ehren: What is [*]?)
 
 thee
 
 
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    | Stood up at the bar of Paris' Hotel de Crillon? Oh well, so was Jake Barnes in this Hemingway novel | (Suzanne: What is An American in Paris?) 
 The Sun Also Rises
 
 
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    | In 1962 this shortstop broke the single-season record by stealing 104 bases; it's still the Dodger record | (Maury) Wills 
 
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    | On June 16, 1963 she became the first person to achieve Earth orbit who had never been a test pilot | (Alex: You are running away with this game.  You are in a position to set a one-day record, by the way.  You have $22,000.  There's still Final Jeopardy! to come.) (Ryan: [Admonishingly] Oh, Alex.)
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 (Valentina) Tereshkova
 
 
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    | This adjective that can mean exaggerated is also found in the name of a branch of non-Euclidean geometry | hyperbolic 
 
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    | Media consultant ensuring that speeches by Pasternak's physician get the best possible play in the press | Spin Doctor Zhivago 
 
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    | The largest Indian tribe of Canada | Cree 
 
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