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He said, "The widow Douglas, she took me for her son" |
[Nancy selected the first clue.]
Huckleberry Finn
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Director Martin Scorsese appeared as a stagehand in this film about Jake LaMotta |
Raging Bull
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On December 19, 1776 he began publishing a series of 16 pamphlets called "The Crisis" |
Thomas Paine
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In 1966 this eccentric billionaire sold his shares of TWA for over $500 million |
(Howard) Hughes
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This state's annual events include A World Catfish Festival in Belzoni & a shrimp festival in Biloxi |
Mississippi
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This country's political parties include Fianna Fail & Fine Gael |
Ireland
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This schoolmaster was perhaps the most superstitious soul in Sleepy Hollow |
Ichabod Crane
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He wasn't on "The A-Team" yet when he tangled with Sylvester Stallone in "Rocky III" |
Mr. T
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In an August 1779 raid on England, this American naval commander captured 17 British ships |
John Paul Jones
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He sold his Lancaster Caramel Company in 1900 & started making chocolate 5 years later |
Hershey
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In November Thailand celebrates its "round- up" of these pachyderms with races & tugs-of-war |
elephants
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In 1944 this country broke away from Denmark & elected Sveinn Bjornsson its first president |
(Kim: What is Finland?) (Paul: What's Norway?) ... (Alex: Remember that "land" must figure in each correct response.)
Iceland
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This principal character in "Les Miserables" was imprisoned for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread |
Jean Valjean
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Paul Newman played this Rocky, not Rocky Balboa, in "Somebody Up There Likes Me" |
Rocky Graziano
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This basic weapon of the British foot soldier weighed about 10 pounds & was called "Brown Bess" |
a musket
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This tea mogul made several unsuccessful attempts to win the America's Cup between 1899 & 1930 |
(Sir Thomas) Lipton
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Annual "500" festivities in this city leading up to the big race include a mini-marathon & memorial parade |
Indianapolis
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This Southern Hemisphere island nation became a dominion of Great Britain Sept. 26, 1907 |
New Zealand
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This corpulent Rex Stout detective was played by William Conrad in a 1981 TV series |
Nero Wolfe
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Rod Serling adapted the screenplay for this boxing film from his own Emmy-winning TV script |
Requiem for a Heavyweight
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Before the Continental Army, Americans were defended in each colony by this citizen army |
the militia
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In 1969 he became chairman & CEO of the Chase Manhattan Bank |
David Rockefeller
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Each February this Hanover, N.H. college hosts America's oldest collegiate winter weekend carnival |
Dartmouth
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Jozef Pilsudski seized power in this country in 1926 & ruled it until his death in 1935 |
Poland
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This Sinclair Lewis real estate salesman lives in the floral Heights neighborhood of Zenith |
(George) Babbitt
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This 1931 boxing classic was the first film that teamed Wallace Beery with Jackie Cooper |
The Champ
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As a major general, he captured Philadelphia for the British in 1777 |
(Paul: Who was Howe?)
Cornwallis
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Chairman of the board of the Washington Post, she's the 1st woman to head a Fortune 500 firm |
Katherine Graham
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In May this state hosts its annual Preakness Frog Hop |
(Nancy: What is Missouri?) (Alex: No, sorry. The Preakness, a famous race, is run in [*].)
Maryland
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This northern European country's legislature is called the Eduskunta |
Finland
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