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THE ALGONQUIAN WORD TABLE |
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( Jimmy of the Clue Crew is in a mailroom.) I'm with mail for ZIP Codes 60601 through 60827 at the United States Postal Services' main processing plant for this, the third most populous U.S. city |
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)
Chicago
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This word for an ax comes from Algonquian, though it's associated with the Florida State Seminoles |
(Bill: What is a hatchet?)
a tomahawk
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At $30 billion, it's No. 2--in the Ivy League |
Yale
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This character first appeared in a comic strip called "Li'l Folks" |
Charlie Brown
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$650 million stolen in Iraq was found hidden in the walls of one of this leader's palaces in 2003 |
Saddam Hussein
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The Rialto or Ponte Vecchio |
a bridge
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This word for a little animal that may go through your trash comes from a word for "he scratches with hands" |
a raccoon
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The university system of this state has more than $30 billion; its A&M system, more than $13 billion |
Texas
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He's the hitmaking singer-songwriter-producer seen here |
[Audience tittering]
Charlie Puth
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Thomas Blood & his criminal gang stole these treasures from the Tower of London in 1671, but were quickly caught |
the Crown Jewels
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A dog that gave its name to a Richard Nixon speech |
Checkers
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A famous "Farms" started selling meats & cheeses in Ohio in the '50s, but this tree in its name is a Virginia Algonquian word |
Hickory
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With more than $27 billion, this California school is the best-endowed non-Ivy League private university |
Stanford
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Charlie Kaufman wrote this 2002 film that starred Nicolas Cage as Charlie Kaufman |
Adaptation
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Dunbar, now part of this big armored car company, was hit in 1997 to the tune of almost $19 million; the company got some of it back, though |
(Bill: What is Pinkerton's?)
Brink's
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Overlord or Desert Storm |
Operation
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This 5-letter word for a very large deer comes from words meaning "he strips off" (bark to eat, that is) |
moose
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With $8.5 billion, it's the best-endowed school in the Carolinas |
Duke
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Jazz great Charlie Parker got this nickname while playing with Jay McShann's band in the early 1940s |
Bird
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In 1990 works by Rembrandt & Degas were among the half-billion dollars worth of art stolen from the Gardner Museum in this city |
Boston
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A single gem set alone |
a solitaire
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Maize dishes (& their names) from Algonquian include hominy & this boiled corn & beans combo |
succotash
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This Pasadena school makes a big bang with its 2.9 billion bucks |
Caltech
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Born in England in 1889, he made the comedy short "Making a Living" in 1914 in Los Angeles |
Charlie Chaplin
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This Belgian city is a world diamond exchange capital & was the site of a $100 million heist in 2003 |
Antwerp
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