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    | Hope there's enough gravy for this bicontinental nation | Turkey 
 
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    | "The Great One", this record-setting center became coach of the NHL's Phoenix Coyotes in 2005 | (Wayne) Gretzky 
 
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    | Mesothelioma is a rare cancer strongly linked to long-term exposure to this fibrous mineral | asbestos 
 
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    | "Beware" this, "my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird..." | (Joey: What is the Jabberwocky?) 
 the Jabberwock
 
 
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    | In 1931 Pangborn & Herndon landed a Bellanca CH-200 at Wenatchee, Wash., ending the first nonstop flight across this | the Pacific 
 
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    | This soft, furry rodent seen here has become an increasingly popular house pet | chinchilla 
 
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    | Before the euro, this country used the escudo | Portugal 
 
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    | This "large" pool hustler wanted his epitaph to be "Beat everybody living on Earth.  Now, St. Peter, rack 'em up" | Minnesota Fats 
 
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    | The name of this elastic synthetic fiber is an anagram of "expands" | spandex 
 
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    | The last verse of the first version of this Tennyson poem begins, "When can their glory fade?  O the wild charge they made!" | "The Charge of the Light Brigade" 
 
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    | Airsick but intact, in 1797 Andre-Jacques Garnerin became the first aeronaut to make one of these descents | a parachute jump 
 
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    | It's the cherry of choice for garnishing a cocktail | a maraschino 
 
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    | It can get cold in this country, around 40 degrees in July in Puerto Montt | Chile 
 
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    | The USA's top amateur athlete in 1930, this golfer retired & helped design the Augusta National Golf Course | (Maria: Who is Sam Snead?) 
 Bobby Jones
 
 
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    | DuPont coined this term but chose not to trademark it so it could enter the lexicon as a synonym for "stockings" | nylon 
 
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    | In his "Departmental Ditties", Kipling wrote, "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is" this | a smoke 
 
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    | This overture, first heard on August 3, 1829 in Paris, debuted as a radio show's theme in 1933 | (Alex: Yes, sirree.   The Lone Ranger's theme.) 
 the William Tell Overture
 
 
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    | Add a "y" to a common drapery fabric & you'll get this word meaning cheap or gaudy | chintzy 
 
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    | Don't get angry identifying this nation | Madagascar 
 
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    | This catcher retired at the end of '63, managed the Yankees to a pennant in '64 & played 4 games for the Mets in '65 | (Steve: Who is Elston Howard?) ...
 (Alex: Ah, it's the wit and wisdom of [*].)
 
 Yogi Berra
 
 
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    | The soft white fibers attached to the seeds of plants belonging to the genus Gossypium, of the mallow family | cotton 
 
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    | "I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call" this | the sky 
 
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    | Probably the first emergency use of this device was on January 15, 1878 to alert doctors to a train wreck | the telephone 
 
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    | Seen here is a display of these dolls made by the Navajo | kachinas 
 
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    | Put on your outerwear when visiting this country | (Joey: What is Kazakhstan?) 
 Outer Mongolia
 
 
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    | 1974's top money-winning horse was named for this U.S.-born woman who won 157 tennis singles titles | (Steve: Who is Billie Jean King?) 
 Chris Evert
 
 
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    | Before becoming a successful poet, Robert Burns worked in the linen industry as a dresser of this plant fiber | flax 
 
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    | "When I was one and twenty I heard a wise man say, 'Give crowns and pounds and guineas but not'" this "'away'" | (Alex: [To Maria] Well done!  You know your Victorian verse.) 
 your heart
 
 
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    | In 1824 this first foreigner to address a joint session of Congress congratulated the U.S. on its growth | (Joey: Who's Tocqueville?) 
 the Marquis de Lafayette
 
 
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    | In 1982 he choreographed his final ballet, a new version of Stravinsky's "Variations for Orchestra" | (George) Balanchine 
 
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