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| While he was in Spain in 1959, he wrote "The Dangerous Summer", a story about rival bullfighters |
Hemingway
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| Like a door, a Broadway show does these 2 things |
open & close
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| A valley at 282 feet below sea level in this state is the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere |
California
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| Like banks, many grocery stores now have these for dispensing cash & taking deposits |
ATMs
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| He was the voice of Mickey Mouse in "Steamboat Willie" |
Walt Disney
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| Eastern European capital city of more than 2.2 million |
Bucharest
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| In 1884 she moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska & later fictionalized it as the town of Hanover in "O Pioneers!" |
Willa Cather
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| In 2006 it began on July 1 in Strasbourg & ended on July 23 in Paris |
the Tour de France
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| With 6,640 miles of coast, this state has the longest shoreline |
Alaska
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| (Hi, I'm Harry Shearer.) Among my many "Simpsons" voices are the subservient Smithers & this man who lives next door to Homer--Howdy, neighbor |
Ned Flanders
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| Any mountain's summit |
crest
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| (Alex reports from the Mark Twain House.) Mark Twain said that this anti-slavery novelist, his next-door neighbor, liked to sneak up behind people and "fetch a war-whoop that would jump that person out of his clothes" |
(Harriet Beecher) Stowe
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| "From" this to this is an idiom meaning from the start of a meal (or something else) to the end |
from soup to nuts
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| It pumps more than one million barrels of oil a day, more than any other state |
(Dianne: What is Alaska?)
Texas
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| "Day to Day" & "All Things Considered" are among the programs going out to its 26 million listeners |
NPR
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| The voice of Daffy Duck (for the first 50 years) |
Mel Blanc
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| A braced framework for carrying a railroad over a chasm |
a trestle
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| Under the name Laura Bancroft, he wrote about Twinkle & Chubbins in Nature Fairyland after taking us to Oz |
L. Frank Baum
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| These titles of the 2 paintings seen here represent the beginning & end of Jesus' life |
"The Nativity" & "The Crucifixion"
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| Considered the healthiest state in 2006, it's also home to the Mayo Clinic |
Minnesota
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| Its headquarters compound in Langley, Virginia is named for Former President George Bush |
the CIA
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| He voiced Puss In Boots in "Shrek 2" |
Antonio Banderas
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| Quickly! (to an Italian) |
Presto
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| William Rose Benet won a Pulitzer for "The Dust Which Is God", & this brother won for "John Brown's Body" |
Stephen Vincent Benet
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| Its Boeing manufacturing plant in Everett is the world's largest building by volume |
Washington
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| A TV cable network, or an explosive for bombs |
TNT
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| He provided the voices of both Beavis & Butthead |
Mike Judge
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| The son of Agamemnon, he avenged his father's death by killing his mother Clytemnestra |
Orestes
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