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The popular vote by which JFK beat this man in 1960 was the closest since 1888 |
[NOTE: This was the 490,000th clue entered into the J! Archive, on 2023-07-07.]
Richard Nixon
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In 1984 this "E.T." director formed a production company & named it for his 1969 short "Amblin'" |
Steven Spielberg
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Of about 500 active ones of these, Cotopaxi & Guallatiri are among the most active |
volcanoes
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Insulting military wear for mothers |
combat boots
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Drew Berkowitz called it "the only thing that will really prevent baldness" |
hair
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A digestive enzyme called bromelain comes from this Hawaiian fruit |
pineapple
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In 1960 he offered the VP slot to this man to appease Southerners & was surprised that he accepted |
LBJ (Lyndon Johnson)
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This director's then wife Marcia served as editor on his 1977 film "Star Wars" |
George Lucas
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Term for the valleys that are the deepest parts of the ocean floors |
trenches
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These shoes come in light brown & white; Pat Boone wears the white ones |
bucks
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Walter Winchell described it as "a town where they place you under contract instead of observation" |
Hollywood
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This heavily armored Union warship was said to look like a "cheese box on a raft" |
the Monitor
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JFK had been president for less than 3 months before the disastrous landing at this Cuban site |
the Bay of Pigs
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He appeared in "The Birds" as a man in front of a pet shop with white terriers |
Alfred Hitchcock
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The bulk of the Earth is contained in this silica-rich layer |
the mantle
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They're the metal projections on the soles of athletic shoes, or the shoes themselves |
cleats
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It's the kind of pipe the Caterpillar was smoking when he met Alice in Wonderland |
a hookah
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One explanation for this Penn. nickname is that it's centrally located among the 13 original states |
"The Keystone State"
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This boat commanded by JFK collided with the Japanese destroyer Amagiri in August 1943 |
PT-109
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This Swede's first English-language film was "The Touch" in 1971 |
Ingmar Bergman
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This language gave us the words erg, a sandy desert, & hammada, a rocky desert |
Arabic
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On the Roman military types of these, the laces go up the calf |
sandals
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Mary Baker Eddy said this is "not a condition of matter, but of mind" |
health
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In 1892 a Denver lawyer created this breakfast cereal, using a machine that pressed wheat into thin strips |
Shredded Wheat
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Recovering from a double spinal fusion in 1954, he began work on this Pulitzer Prize-winning book |
Profiles in Courage
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He could have titled his 1971 autobiography "It's A Wonderful Life" instead of "The Name Above the Title" |
Frank Capra
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These land masses are generally classified as continental or oceanic |
(Andrew: What are continents?)
islands
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Its "Instapumps" cost about $200 & feature a device that injects CO2 into a bladder |
(Andrew: What is Nike?) (Joe: What are Air Nikes?) (Annie: What are Air Jordans?) (Alex: So no harm, no foul on that one. You each lost the same amount of money.)
Reebok
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Oscar Wilde said, "Anybody can make" this; "only a great man can write it" |
history
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Capitoline, Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Caelian, Aventine & Palatine |
the seven hills of Rome
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