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| The first line in Encarta's article on him includes the words "Last Stand" in quotes |
George Custer
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| Restaurants on this Massachusetts cape include the Impudent Oyster & Aesop's Tables |
Cape Cod
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| "Nanu, Nanu" & "Shazbat" were Orkan words frequently heard on this sitcom |
Mork & Mindy
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| His last will & testament left his Virginia estate Monticello to his daughter Martha |
Thomas Jefferson
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| These "lords" live like peasants when courts make them stay in their undermaintained tenements |
(J: What are landlords?) (Alex: Be more specific...) (J: Tenement landlords?)
Slumlords
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| It has front & back flaps |
Dust jacket
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| He's the only George to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing's heavyweight division |
George Foreman
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| This state's World Potato Exposition in Blackfoot promises "Free Taters for Out-of-Staters" |
Idaho
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| On "The Addams Family", he would enter & croak, "You rang?" |
Lurch
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| His war record as a Rough Rider helped him win the New York governorship in 1898 |
Theodore Roosevelt
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| Term for buying the right to use vacation property for a certain period each year |
Timeshare
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| Posted on the front end paper, it bears the owner's name & often a design |
Book plate
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| He fired Billy Martin 5 times |
George Steinbrenner
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| Alien Encounter is one of the scariest attractions in this Florida theme park |
(Alex: Go for the obvious, when in doubt!)
Walt Disney World
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| On this game show, answers were checked against what the "Survey Says!" |
Family Feud
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| At 12:03 P.M., August 9, 1974 he was sworn in as president in the East Room of the White House |
Gerald Ford
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| In 1996 California created a state agency to provide this type of homeowners' insurance |
Earthquake insurance
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| When reading, keep your mind out of this depression between the pages |
Gutter
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| Name shared by a 1926 Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright & a 1930s gangster nicknamed "Machine Gun" |
George Kelly
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| Some of this illustrator's models serve as hosts for the exhibition devoted to him in Arlington, VT. |
Norman Rockwell
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| As Arnold Jackson on "Diff'rent Strokes", he asked, "What you talkin' about, Willis?" |
Gary Coleman
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| In the 1950s a putting green was installed for him near the Rose Garden |
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| It's the deposit of funds or documents with a neutral third party instructed to carry out an agreement |
Escrow
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| A high-priced book may include a forel, one of these that contains the book |
(Alex: It's quite often in box form, obviously, with one side open.)
Slipcover/box
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| In 1924 this king wrote, What would "Dear Grandmama....have thought of a Labour government" |
(R: Who is George Kennedy?) (we have less than a minute to go, Roy - pick again...)
King George V
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| Visitors to this Midwestern city may tour the Pabst Mansion, built in 1893 in the Flemish Renaissance style |
Milwaukee
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| She signed off "NBC News Overnight" with "And so it goes" |
(J: Who is Barbara Walters?)
Linda Ellerbee
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| This first president from Massachusetts was called "The Colossus of Independence" |
John Adams
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| A claim on a debtor's property; the "mechanic's" type is held by a worker who wasn't paid |
Lien
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| From Latin for "leaf", it's a sheet of paper folded over to make 4 pages of a book, or it's each page number |
Folio
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