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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"
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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"
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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"
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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!"
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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"
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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?)
 
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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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