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Juan Peron died in this city in 1974 |
Buenos Aires
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(Jerry Seinfeld delivers the clue.) In the "Seinfeld" finale we were defended by Jackie Chiles, who reminded some people of this famous trial attorney |
Johnnie Cochran
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Writers resting at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Mass. include Emerson & this Walden Pond ponderer |
Thoreau
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One of the two African Americans to win the prize, one in 1950, the other in 1964 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. (& Ralph Bunche)
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On April 1, 1992 NPR reported that this disgraced U.S. president was running again for the job, prompting a flood of calls |
Nixon
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Once a term for a carnival performer who bit the heads off chickens, it now usually refers to a tech nerd |
(Alex: Less than a minute.)
a geek
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It joined the Swiss Confederation in 1353 |
Bern
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He had more than 100 songs reach the Billboard Country Singles chart |
Johnny Cash
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Simone de Beauvoir & this boyfriend share a grave at the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris |
Sartre
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It's the number of U.S. presidents who've won the award |
(Anders: What is one?) (Jamey: What is two?) ... (Alex: Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, and Carter.)
three
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In the 1790s a sensation gripped England when William Ireland revealed a "new" play by this man titled "Vortigern" |
Shakespeare
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As a verb, it means to order your child to his room & take away his privileges |
ground
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The name of this Malaysian capital means "muddy confluence" |
Kuala Lumpur
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Seen here, she knows more about Hollywood wives & husbands than they'd care to admit |
Jackie Collins
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The most-visited grave site at St. Mary's cemetery in Rockville Maryland is that of this author & his wife Zelda |
(Scott) Fitzgerald
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This international organization won in 1917, 1944 & 1963 |
the Red Cross
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While at this Ithaca university, Hugh Troy used a rhinoceros foot to leave tracks in the snow around the school |
Cornell
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Follow these double-talk dancers to your local discotheque |
go-go dancers
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Belize City, a port, was Belize's capital until a 1961 hurricane; then the capital moved to this inland city |
Belmopan
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"Mr. P.C." is a classic composition from Mr. J.C. of '50s & '60s jazz |
(Jamey: Who is Coltrane? [*]?)
John Coltrane
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After his death in 1968, some of his ashes were scattered along the California coast, the rest were buried in Salinas |
(Alex: [*] is right, yes. The name we most closely associate with Salinas.)
(John) Steinbeck
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Though he never won, he was nominated in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947 & again in 1948 a few days before his assassination |
(Mahatma) Gandhi
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In 1957 the British TV show "Panorama" reported on a bumper crop of this pasta grown in trees |
spaghetti
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Also known as chickpeas, these beans are the main ingredient in hummus |
garbanzo beans
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It's home to King Rama IX Royal Park |
Bangkok
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Seen here, he's played a wide range of roles; check out "Babe" vs. "L.A. Confidential" |
James Cromwell
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Her epitaph "Excuse My Dust" is famous; fewer know that it's on a plaque at NAACP HQ, where her ashes are buried |
Dorothy Parker
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In 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi won the Peace Prize while living under house arrest in this nation |
Burma
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Unearthed in 1869, this 10-foot "giant" wasn't a prehistoric man but a hoax buried & "discovered" by George Hull |
(Jamey: Who is Piltdown Man?)
the Cardiff Giant
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The place on deck where passengers enter the vessel, it's also a cry to "get out of my path!" |
gangway
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