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Iolani Palace in Honolulu was seen as the headquarters for the state police unit on this '70s TV series |
Hawaii Five-O
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A hated person may be burned in this symbolic way, from the Latin for "likeness" |
effigy
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Carl Sandburg wrote 6 volumes on this president; the first 2 made up "The Prairie Years" |
Lincoln
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With 44 platforms, this NYC terminal is the world's largest railway terminal |
(Emily: What is Union Station?) ... (Alex: Yes, Emily knows she misspoke.)
Grand Central Station
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The effort to save the golden monkey is this country's biggest species protection project since the panda |
China
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1996: the first successful PDA takes off--this alliterative one |
the Palm Pilot
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This small Scandinavian country's parliament meets at Christiansborg Palace, the fifth on the same site |
Denmark
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Some of my best friends are Samoans: I don't have this, from the Latin for "judging before" |
prejudice
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"The River of Doubt" tells of this president's jungle adventure & trip up the Amazon after he left office |
Theodore Roosevelt
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This U.S. city has been called "Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler" |
Chicago
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The Muriqui prize, named for a South American monkey, is given for helping preserve this country's forest |
Brazil
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1993: this company introduces its Pentium processor |
Intel
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Latin for "after" gave us this synonym for "keister" |
posterior
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He's the subject of 2003's "An Unfinished Life" |
(Don: Who is Bill Clinton?)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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With a route over 5,700 miles, the world's longest railway line is this Russian one |
(Lois: What is the Siberian Express?)
Trans-Siberian Railway
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This biggest type of New World monkey has a scream that can be heard even in tropical rainstorms |
a howler monkey
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1982: this company's 64 computer is introduced, soon becoming the best-selling model of all time |
Commodore
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Japan's Imperial Palace is on the former site of this castle, also the old name for Tokyo |
(Emily: What is Kyoto?) (Don: What is Ebo?)
Edo
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Reading a declassified document is hard when the text is full of these, from the Latin for "to drive back" |
redaction
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Books about him include "One Man Alone" & "Arrogance of Power" |
Richard Nixon
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At over 15,000 feet high, the highest railway station in South America is in Condor in this small country |
(Emily: What is Ecuador?)
Bolivia
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Macaca mulatta is better known as this monkey that's helped in medical science, especially blood grouping |
Rhesus
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1997: Altavista introduces this free online translator |
Babelfish
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This borough of greater London put a plaque on the "timely" site of the old palace where Elizabeth I was born |
Greenwich
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If you're thunderstruck you're this, from the Latin tonare, "thunder" |
astonished
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Jon Meacham's 2008 bestseller "American Lion" is a portrait of this president during his White House years |
(Don: Who is FDR?)
Andrew Jackson
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The highest speed recorded on a national rail system was the 357 mph by this country's TGV in 2007 |
(Alex: [*]. Yes. Train à grande vitesse.)
France
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The Chacma & Anubis are 2 of the 5 species of these large, ground-dwelling African monkeys |
baboons
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1969: He develops the first supercomputer, the CDC 7600 |
(Seymour) Cray
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