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    | Promised "the final triumph over poverty" in accepting the 1928 nomination | [The end-of-round signal sounds.] 
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    | Thought by some to be in Cornwall, it's the legendary site of King Arthur's palace & court | Camelot 
 
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    | He's seen here around the time his HBO special "Bring the Pain" brought him a new level of fame | Chris Rock 
 
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    | In the first issue of his own comic, the Caped Crusader goes up against this "Clown Prince of Crime" | (Alex: For those of you who are not aware, it's Batman's 80th anniversary, and this Saturday is Batman Day.) 
 the Joker
 
 
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    | He was left an invalid by a paralytic stroke suffered while in office | (Rodrigo: Who is FDR?) 
 Woodrow Wilson
 
 
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    | The Cumberland Plateau is located in the southern section of this mountain range | the Appalachians 
 
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    | This voyeur who is struck blind has been connected with the legend of Lady Godiva | Peeping Tom 
 
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    | You didn't have to catch Rodney Dangerfield live--he was recorded in 1980 for an album with, of course, this 2-word title | No Respect 
 
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    | Luke 11:4 says, "lead us not into" this, "but deliver us from evil" | temptation 
 
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    | The person who presides over a debate, or over an ecclesiastical body in the Presbyterian Church | a moderator 
 
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    | The year he left the presidency, he became president (of the American Bar Association) | William Howard Taft 
 
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    | The Udi-Nsukka Plateau of this country is home to the Igbo people | Nigeria 
 
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    | Makemake is the chief god of a divine race of bird beings in the Rapa Nui mythology of this island | Easter Island 
 
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    | Samuel L. Jackson played the uncle of this comedian in a sketch from the 1987 concert film "Raw" | Eddie Murphy 
 
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    | Lying at the junction of the Bow & Elbow Rivers, this Alberta city was Canada's first to host the Winter Olympics | Calgary 
 
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    | One who makes calls on taxable value | (Alex: Less than a minute.) 
 assessor
 
 
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    | 7 of the first 10 presidents were born south of the White House; Martin Van Buren & these 2 men were from the north | John Adams & John Quincy Adams 
 
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    | The Saharan al-Hamra Plateau is mostly located in Tripolitania in this country | Libya 
 
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    | For his 11th labor Hercules nabs some golden apples from the garden of these nymphs at the western edge of the world | the Hesperides 
 
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    | Recorded in part at the San Francisco club the hungry i, his 1960 "The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!" won a Comedy Album Grammy | (Bob) Newhart 
 
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    | In 1953 a fisherman paralleled "The Old Man and the Sea" by bringing in a 1,560-pound black one of these | a marlin 
 
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    | AKA justice of the peace; I present the gift of the... | (Laura: Uh...what is the magi?) 
 magistrate
 
 
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    | He got contract offers from the Lions & Packers to play in the NFL | (Rodrigo: Who is Truman?) 
 (Gerald) Ford
 
 
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    | The Yangtze & the Mekong are 2 of the rivers emerging from the plateau named for this lofty land | Tibet 
 
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    | In Norse myth, it's the rainbow bridge between the home of the gods & Earth | Bifröst 
 
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    | Aussie comic Hannah Gadsby undermined traditional stand-up in this show on Netflix with a woman's name as the title | Nanette 
 
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    | 46,368, 75,025, 121,393 & 196,418 are specific to the work of this 12th & 13th century Italian man | Fibonacci 
 
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    | Someone who knows what's good & bad is this "of taste"; author Petronius was declared to be one in Nero's court | arbiter 
 
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