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    Daddy Day Care
 
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    Alaska
 
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    Tennessee
 
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    (Brian: What is energy?)
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    Arizona
 
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    | In 1992 Ron Carey, an ex-UPS driver, was elected president of this organization in its first secret ballot | 
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    | The dialect of Lamu in Kenya has produced classic poetry in this Bantu language | 
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    Laertes
 
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    | When it began in 1933, it protected bank accounts up to a whopping $5,000! | 
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    | Steve Martin was a lip-synch & dance man in this 1981 movie musical | 
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    (Jeffrey: What is Georgia?) (Brian: What is Texas?)
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    | This artist, who began with wrapping bottles & a tree, wrapped the old German Parliament building in 1995 | 
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    | Semitic languages are named for Shem; this group of languages, for another of Noah's sons | 
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    | The Farm Security Administration's pictorial record of rural America includes this woman's photo of the migrant mother seen here | 
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    | This seasonal 1971 film with Jennifer O'Neill tapped into nostalgia for the WWII era | 
    Summer of '42
 
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    | Vidalia onions, some of the world's sweetest, hail from this U.S. state | 
    Georgia
 
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    | Born Faith Plotkin, this Nostradamus of marketing burst on the scene in 1991 | 
    Faith Popcorn
 
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