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    | A November 2006 issue reported a higher risk of recurrent strep throat in kids who haven't had this operation | a tonsillectomy 
 
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    | Troy University, University of Southern California | the Trojans 
 
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    | As this state goes so goes Olympia Snowe, who has been a senator from the state since 1995 | Maine 
 
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    | This name came from the "rebirth" of classical learning after years of intellectual & cultural decline | renaissance 
 
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    | In Norse mythology, this god lives in a giant mansion called Bilskirnir, or "lightning" | (Laura: Who is Odin?) 
 Thor
 
 
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    | Jesus said the temple has been turned into one of these "of thieves" | a den 
 
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    | A 2004 conference on ways to detect when a country is making these included ideas like robot spy butterflies | nuclear weapons 
 
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    | Clemson, University of Missouri | the Tigers 
 
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    | She was the longest-serving Attorney General in the 20th century | (Janet) Reno 
 
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    | Initially a perjorative term, this 18th century art period name comes from the French rocaille, "rock-work" | rococo 
 
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    | Arlington House was this man's family mansion until confiscated by the U.S. government in 1864 | (Robert E.) Lee 
 
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    | Proverbially, "they threw everything at us but" this basin | the kitchen sink 
 
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    | Scholars can't read a 10-word column found in Guatemala but know it means these people had writing in 2300 B.C. | the Mayans 
 
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    | University of Connecticut, University of Washington | the Huskies 
 
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    | Hattie Caraway, the first elected female senator, represented this state, long the "Land of Opportunity" | Arkansas 
 
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    | In a satirical 1874 review, critic Louis Leroy used this term to describe the loose, inexact manner of painting in a gallery show | (Laura: What is expressionism?) 
 impressionism
 
 
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    | This author spent the last years of his life at Vailima, his mansion & plantation in Samoa | [The end-of-round signal sounds.] 
 Robert Louis Stevenson
 
 
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    | Look in the basement for a last-place sports team, known by this rhyming term | cellar dweller 
 
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    | At age 100, the internal organs of these shelled reptiles look just like those of teenage ones | turtles 
 
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    | BYU, University of Houston | the Cougars 
 
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    | In 2002 this Kennedy family member ran for governor of Maryland; before that, she was Lt. Governor | Kathleen Kennedy (Townsend) 
 
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    | The name is this art style that emerged in the late 1950s comes from its use of a certain type of "culture" | pop art 
 
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    | In March 2006 Congress raised this metaphorical limit to around $9 trillion | (Michael: What is the national debt?) (Maggi: What is the borrowing limit?)
 
 the debt ceiling
 
 
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    | This second fiddle among nucleic acids may be linked to types of leukemia & mental retardation | ribonucleic acid (RNA) 
 
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    | University of Wyoming, Oklahoma State University | the Cowboys 
 
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    | Appointed by President Carter to 2 different posts, she was the first African-American woman in the Cabinet | (Maggi: Who is Hazel O'Leary?) 
 Patricia Harris
 
 
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    | Apollinaire described a work by Erik Satie as above ordinary reality, using the word that became this art style | surrealism 
 
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    | This adventurous author built Wolf House, a Calif. mansion that burned down shortly before he was to move in | (Jack) London 
 
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    | To get a breeze indoors, I'll do this 4-word phrase, meaning be receptive to the possibility of changing my mind | (Alex: To get a breeze indoors, I'll [*].) 
 leave the door open
 
 
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