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| Cows fly & trucks fall from the sky as Bill Paxton leads a team of storm chasers |
Twister
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| 7 weeks after the Alamo, Sam Houston took this Mexican leader prisoner at the 1836 Battle of San Jacinto |
Santa Anna
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| Oxford's "Dominus illuminatio mea" means "God is" this |
my light
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| Poe was referring to these when he wrote, "How they clang, and crash, and roar! What a horror they outpour" |
the bells
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| The location of the National Cathedral, for short |
D.C.
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| As President Whitmore, Bill Pullman leads the world in a fight against an alien invasion |
Independence Day
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| Site of a fierce September 1914 WWI battle, this river joins the Seine north of Paris |
the Marne
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| The seal of the University of this state shows Mount Hood & says, "Mens agitat molem", "Mind moves the mass" |
Oregon
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| In a famous poem, this character asks, "If I can rid your town of rats will you give me a thousand guilders?" |
the Pied Piper
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| Wolfman Jack made a name for himself as one of these |
a DJ
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| (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from Russia.) Here at the east end of the Baltic, a palace known as the Russian Versailles was built by this man who opened Russia to the West |
(Alex: And before we move on, we want to thank Lindblad Expeditions for showing our Clue Crew such a marvelous time on that cruise.)
Peter the Great
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| Dustin Hoffman fights a deadly African virus that has spread to America |
Outbreak
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| Fought in Maryland in Sept. 1862, it was the bloodiest 1-day engagement of the Civil War with about 5,000 dead |
Antietam
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| "Fiat justitia, ruat coelum", "Let justice be done, though the heavens fall", is the motto of this school at UBC |
the law school
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| "'E'll be squattin' on the coals givin' drink to pore damned souls, an' I'll get a swig in hell from" this Kipling character |
Gunga Din
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| Very simply, it's still America's largest automaker |
GM
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1998: Look out! A comet is on a collision course with Earth (not "Armageddon", that's different) |
Deep Impact
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| The Revolutionary War's Battle of Bennington was not fought in Vermont, but in this neighboring state |
New York
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| Aptly, it's the name of the San Antonio university with the motto "Tribus unum", "From three, one" |
Trinity
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| In this poem Coleridge penned, "He prayeth best who loveth best, all things both great and small" |
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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| Heinrich Himmler headed this dreaded organization |
the SS
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| Killer bees from South America threaten the U.S. in this Irwin Allen disaster epic (not "The Sting", that's different) |
The Swarm
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| The last military clash on mainland Britain, the 1746 Battle of Culloden, routed the forces of this Jacobite prince |
Bonnie Prince Charlie
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| Truthfully, it's Harvard's 1-word Latin motto |
(Alex: I bet you meant to say $3,200 so you have an even $20,000, but you added a thousand; that's all right, here is the clue.)
"Veritas"
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| In December 1839 he penned the line, "It was the schooner Hesperus that sailed the wintry sea" |
Longfellow
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| men.style.com is the online home of Details magazine & this one |
(Alex: Right, minute to go.)
GQ
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