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    | Among the attractions you can visit in this city are Astrohall, Astroworld & the Astrodome | Houston 
 
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    | Meryl Streep hated this book but ended up playing Francesca in the film version anyway | The Bridges of Madison County 
 
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    | Called Big Blue, it controlled nearly 80% of the computer market in the 1960s & 1970s | IBM 
 
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    | When you take up a collection, you're said to "pass" this accessory | a hat 
 
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    | The intense beam of light produced by this device is used to treat detached retinas | a laser 
 
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    | From July 4, 1836 to July 3, 1837, the flag had this many stars, half as many as today | 25 
 
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    | This national park in New Mexico features a nightly bat exodus from its caves | (Robin: What is...) (Alex: Oh, sorry.)
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    | This ghost befriends Kat, played by Christina Ricci, a lonely girl who lives at Whipstaff Manor | Casper 
 
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    | This world's largest car rental company grew out of a Chicago concern with 12 Model Ts | Hertz 
 
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    | When situations are reversed, this "is on the other foot" | a shoe 
 
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    | Loam, a type of this, is composed of 30%-50% sand particles | soil 
 
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    | The number of stars added in 1890, the most since 1818, or the number of points on each star | 5 
 
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    | At the restored Fort Raleigh on Roanoke Island, a stone marker commemorates the 1587 birth of this child | Virginia Dare 
 
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    | He played a 21st-century data courier in "Johnny Mnemonic", directed by artist Robert Longo | Keanu Reeves 
 
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    | HSY is the New York Stock Exchange symbol of this confectioner | Hershey 
 
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    | To attack someone unfairly is "to hit him below" this; the Marquess of Queensberry wouldn't approve | a belt 
 
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    | Ebonite, a hard, black material, is made by vulcanizing a mixture of about 2 parts this to 1 part sulfur | (Sendhil: What is carbon?) 
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    | The Flag Resolution of 1777 stated the stars in the Union represented a new one of these in the heavens | a constellation 
 
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    | Each summer in Shelbyville, Tenn., over 2,000 of these horses "step out" during a national celebration | Tennessee Walkers 
 
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    | Some of the weightless sequences in this Ron Howard movie were filmed in the KC-135 jet | Apollo 13 
 
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    | In 1986 Capital Cities bought this television network for $3.5 billion | ABC 
 
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    | Some men attached to their mothers are said to be tied to these kitchen garment parts | apron strings 
 
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    | In mammals the base of each hair sits in a pit called this | a follicle 
 
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    | The area of the flag containing the stars is called this, also the term for a Swiss district | a canton 
 
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    | Killington in this state offers some of the best skiing in the Eastern U.S. | Vermont 
 
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    | Time "judiciously" called this 1995 Sly Stallone vehicle "another dose of preposterone" | Judge Dredd 
 
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    | Hercules, a Delaware-based chemical maker, spun off from this company in 1912 | Du Pont 
 
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    | When you treat someone with great tact & gentleness, you "handle him with" these goatskin accessories | kid gloves 
 
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    | C27 H45 OH is the formula for this fatty substance whose excess is implicated in atherosclerosis | cholesterol 
 
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    | An order by this president set the stars in 7 rows & columns of 7 each | (Sendhil: Who was Harry Truman?) 
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