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    | Tokyo was hit by a terrorist nerve gas attack & Kobe was hit by a major one of these, measuring 7.2 | an earthquake 
 
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    | Keri Russell plays a 17-year-old who's a college freshman on this WB drama | Felicity 
 
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    | This state's senator Alfonse D'Amato was defeated in 1998 by Democratic congressman Chuck Schumer | New York 
 
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    | This Great Lake has the same name as a Canadian province | Lake Ontario 
 
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    | Bobby Leach was the 2nd person to go over this in a barrel & survive | Niagara Falls 
 
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    | Cotton candy, a spider web,
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    | On February 7, 1995 Pres. Clinton announced he "struck out" in trying to end this controversial strike | the baseball strike 
 
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    | James Van Der Beek & Katie Holmes play residents of Capeside on this drama filled with teen angst | Dawson's Creek 
 
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    | This House Judiciary chairman has represented his district near Chicago for 24 years | Henry Hyde 
 
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    | Regular steamship service is available on this river from Cairo to Aswan | Nile 
 
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    | It's the country with the 2nd-largest Jewish population | (Alex: USA is No. 1.) 
 Israel
 
 
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    | Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of Medgar Evers, was sworn in as its chairwoman in 1995 | NAACP 
 
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    | Glenn Close was the voice of Marge's long-lost mother-in-law on this show | The Simpsons 
 
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    | This Senate majority leader was a Democrat until filing for the GOP primary in a Mississippi House race in 1972 | Trent Lott 
 
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    | It's the river mentioned in the title of the following | Danube  ("Blue Danube Waltz") 
 
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    | Santa knows the 2nd tallest one of these in the world was built for a nickel co. in Sudbury, my home town | a smokestack 
 
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    | Ideas, tents,
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    | After 18 games he defeated Viswanathan Anand 10 1/2 to 7 1/2 to keep his world chess title | Garry Kasparov 
 
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    | David Boreanaz plays this sensitive & tormented vampire who's in love with a vampire slayer | (Trish: What is Buffy the Vampire Slayer?) 
 Angel
 
 
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    | Current biography calls this Missouri congressman "well-groomed with razor-cut red hair" | Richard Gephardt 
 
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    | Hindus believe that dying in this most sacred of rivers ensures passage to paradise | Ganges 
 
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    | The 2nd most-used letter in written English, it begins the most-written word | T (for the word the) 
 
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    | Icebergs, torpedoes,
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    | In February the U.N. voted to send 7,000 peacekeepers to this southern African nation | Angola 
 
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    | As Cory Matthews, Ben Savage is smitten with Topanga Lawrence on this show | Boy Meets World 
 
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    | This new California governor is one of the USA's highest paid, with a yearly salary of $156,075 | Gray Davis 
 
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    | Fed by the Kissimmee River, it's the largest freshwater lake in the southern United States | Lake Okeechobee 
 
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    | It's the 2nd most common element in the Moon's, as well as the Earth's crust | silicon 
 
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    | An accordion, a tube of toothpaste,
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