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    | Among the attractions you can visit in this city are Astrohall, Astroworld & the Astrodome | 
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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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    a hat
 
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    | The intense beam of light produced by this device is used to treat detached retinas | 
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    | This national park in New Mexico features a nightly bat exodus from its caves | 
    (Robin: What is...) (Alex: Oh, sorry.) (Robin: ...[*]?)
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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" | 
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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 | 
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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 | 
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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?)
  rubber
 
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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 | 
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    | Some of the weightless sequences in this Ron Howard movie were filmed in the KC-135 jet | 
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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 | 
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    | In mammals the base of each hair sits in a pit called this | 
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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" | 
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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 | 
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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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