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    | In 1803 he invited William Clark along on an enterprise fraught with fatigues, dangers & honors | 
    Meriwether Lewis
 
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    2002: "With the right song and dance, you can get away with murder" | 
    Chicago
 
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    | This Shaw character is a professor of phonetics | 
    Henry Higgins
 
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    | At her 1953 coronation, she wore special gold bracelets representing sincerity & wisdom | 
    Queen Elizabeth II
 
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    | Al Capone's rival George Moran was better known as this, from his odd behavior | 
    "Bugs"
 
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    | The Oxford English Dictionary traces this term describing a mystery tale back to 1930 | 
    whodunit
 
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    | The last work of the creator of Rip Van Winkle was a 5-volume bio of this man, the author's namesake | 
    (Dennis: Who is Washington Irving?)
  George Washington
 
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    2002:  "The War of the Ring has begun" | 
    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
 
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    | During a typhoon off the Philippines, Lt. Stephen Maryk relieves this captain of his command | 
    Captain Queeg
 
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    | Miss Manners says it is almost always proper to wear a strand of these, but never with your bathing suit | 
    pearls
 
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    | The paternal grandfather of this current Mexican leader was an Irish-American from Ohio | 
    Vicente Fox
 
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    | From 1937, it's an aimless or casual scribble, not necessarily done by a Yankee | 
    doodle
 
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    | Some of his unaccepted spelling changes were hed for head, rong for wrong & iz for is | 
    (Dennis: Who is Daniel Webster?)
  Noah Webster
 
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    1976: "His whole life was a million-to-one shot" | 
    Rocky
 
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    | In "A Doll's House", she forges a check to help her sick husband Torvald but he scolds her for doing it | 
    Nora
 
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    | (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Paris)  This term for a narrow loaf of French bread also describes the cut of diamond I'd like | 
    baguette
 
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    | "Whooping" it up at Christmas, 1899 helped finish off this tubercular American writer | 
    Stephen Crane
 
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    | You get more than a pat on the back for identifying this 4-letter word for "belch" that came out in the 1930s | 
    burp
 
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    | Hamilton used the 1786 Shays Rebellion & this 1794 rebellion as proof of a need for a strong central gov't | 
    Whiskey Rebellion
 
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    2002: "Get ready for the ultimate spin!" | 
    Spider-Man
 
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    | In a Eugene O'Neill play, this former Pullman porter & ex-convict imposes himself as an emperor on a West Indian island | 
    Brutus Jones (The Emperor Jones)
 
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    | Blue, a line of jewelry from this British pottery co., is inspired by the Jasper Ware it has produced since the 1700s | 
    (Alex: Minute to go.)
  Wedgwood
 
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    | The 2001 concept car The Bengal was named by Buick in honor of this man | 
    Tiger Woods
 
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    | This name for vitamin B2 appeared in the scientific literature in the 1930s | 
    riboflavin
 
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    | In May 1792 Robert Gray sailed up this "River of the West", naming it for his ship | 
    Columbia River
 
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    2001: "Man the guns -- join the fight" | 
    Pearl Harbor
 
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    | Salesman Willy Loman's 2 sons | 
    Biff & Happy
 
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    | This variety of chrysoberyl is named for a 19th century czar, not moi | 
    (Valerie: What is Alexandrine?) (Dennis: What is Alexander?)
  Alexandrite
 
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    | He's the 1960s Birmingham police chief seen here | 
    Eugene "Bull" Connor
 
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    | In 1938 Milton Sirotta coined this word for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes | 
    googol
 
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