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    | The point where things get serious is where this material "meets the road" | rubber 
 
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    | Best friends Jess & Leslie invent a "Bridge to" this enchanted place in their imagination where one of them dies in reality | Terabithia 
 
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    | A forbidden rock group | a banned band 
 
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    | He argued & won 25 cases before the Supreme Court before joining it in 2005 | (John) Roberts 
 
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    | Crowned King of Prussia in 1861, he took the title of kaiser when the German Empire was founded in 1871 | (Rachael: Who is Bismarck?) 
 (Kaiser) Wilhelm
 
 
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    | Even before going "Celebrity", this Trumped-up show used "For The Love Of Money" by the O'Jays as its theme | The Apprentice 
 
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    | In the rhyming theme of California's Del Mar, this word for a racetrack "meets the surf" | the turf 
 
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    | From page 1 of this Fred Gipson novel: "When I had to kill him, it was like having to shoot some of my own folks" | Old Yeller 
 
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    | The most awful sausage | (Laura: [*]--what is [*]?) (Alex: What is [*]?)
 (Laura: [Chuckles] Wurst.)
 
 the worst wurst
 
 
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    | He rode his success as a North Carolina trial lawyer to a 1998 Senate win & later a place on a national ticket | John Edwards 
 
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    | After the collapse of the Third Reich, parts of East Prussia, including Konigsberg, was annexed by this country | Russia 
 
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    | I pity da fool who doesn't know that in the pilot for this '80s show, Tim Dunigan, not Dirk Benedict, played Face | The A-Team 
 
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    | The Monty Python "Dead Parrot" sketch includes "expired and gone to" undergo this introduction | (Rachael: What is meet his maker?) (Alex: Meet--say it again.)
 (Rachael: What is meet his maker?)
 
 meet its maker
 
 
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    | Death narrates this novel in which Liesel starts her stealing at her brother's funeral | The Book Thief 
 
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    | A rough school class | a coarse course 
 
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    | He was U.S. attorney general on September 11, 2001 | John Ashcroft 
 
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    | Albert, the leader of the Knights of this order, turned Prussia into a secular Polish duchy in 1525 | the Teutonic Order 
 
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    | From 2002 to 2009 she "Straight Up" judged how people sang on a TV show | Paula Abdul 
 
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    | Nice to make your acquaintance & seize your ships; in this war, Oliver Hazard Perry said, "We have met the enemy and they are ours" | (Alex: All right, less than a minute now, Nic.) 
 the War of 1812
 
 
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    | Charlie Gordon is outsmarted by a lab rat at the start of this Daniel Keyes work; Charlie's IQ gets a boost, temporarily | Flowers for Algernon 
 
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    | A newspaper critique of a musical production | a revue review 
 
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    | John Campbell opposed secession but concurred with this 1857 Supreme Court decision that pushed the U.S. toward war | Dred Scott 
 
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    | In the Middle Ages the name of the ruling dynasty was changed from Zollern to this longer one | Hohenzollern 
 
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    | On "The "Simpsons" he makes himself heard as Moe, Apu, Duffman, Disco Stu, Wiggum, Dr. Nick... | Hank Azaria 
 
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    | Meaning "ignore masters, find your own way", a saying in Zen philosophy is "if you meet" him "on the road, kill him" | Buddha 
 
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    | The privileged Amir betrays his friend Hassan in this novel set partly in 1970s Afghanistan | The Kite Runner 
 
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    | Non-poets who are non-amateurs | prose pros 
 
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    | In his dissent to this infamous 1896 decision, John Marshall Harlan wrote that "our Constitution is color-blind" | Plessy v. Ferguson 
 
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    | In 1866 Schleswig & this other Danish duchy became part of Prussia | Holstein 
 
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    | On '70s late-night TV, he brought Beldar Conehead to life | (Dan) Aykroyd 
 
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