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| These are the 2 U.S. states with only one consonant in their names | |
| Only 1 U.S. president represented this party, & he said, 'I dread... a division of the republic into 2 great parties' | |
| Only Orson Welles & this man have been nominated for Best Actor & Orig. Screenplay in the same year while in their 20s | |
| In 2010 we heard of the discovery of the fossil of a 12 million-year-old giant sperm whale given this Biblical name by its finders | |
| This happens several times, as in I Kings 17 & Acts 20; the most famous time, it's done by Jesus in John 11 | |
| With special sound equipment needed in the auditorium, this 1940 film was initially released in only 14 theaters | |
| Topping the charts on Oct. 20, 1962, this novelty song is the only No. 1 hit to have the word 'electrodes' in the lyrics | |
| In the Book of Job, this name means 'accuser', & that was his role in God's court | |
| During his tenure, he never threw out an opening day first pitch, but before he was president, he did it for the Braves | |
| Built between 1940 & 1942, Moton Field in Alabama has a national historic site honoring men belonging to this famed group | |
| Several species appear in the logo of the U.N.'s International Year of this 12-letter word, vital to the health of 'life' on Earth | |
| In only 2 cases can you add 2 letters to one country & get another country: Austria/Australia & this pair | |
| In 1998 these 2 baseball rivals shared top honors as Sports Illustrated's Sportsmen of the Year | |
| Asked in 1966 to write a concise statement for arresting officers to recite, California D.A. Harold Berliner started with these 7 words | |
| His son Christopher said, my father 'got to where he was by climbing upon my infant shoulders | |
| The deepest-diving sea turtle is this one whose name suggests the flexibility that lets it survive 1,700 lbs./square inch pressure | |
| From the same state, they're the 2 presidents whose occupations are listed by World Book as 'planter' | |
| He is the only president of the United States to be awarded the Purple Heart | |
| Thomas Huxley & Samuel Wilberforce were among the Oxford Museum speakers debating this theory June 30, 1860 | |
| It's the total number of legs on the 2 non-human animals whose words are quoted in the Old Testament | |
| He was the last Secretary of State to serve in the post under 2 presidents | |
| Cuba removed Christmas from its list of national holidays in 1969 & restored it in 1997 in anticipation of a visit by this man | |
| This author whose 1st name is also an English word meaning a saying or motto was the 1st president of the Soviet writers' union | |
| He said, 'to leave this stream uncrossed will breed manifold distress for me; to cross it, for all mankind' | |
| The only 2 countries in the world with an 'X' in their names, one is found in Europe & one in the Americas | |
| These 2 cities in the Southeast & Southwest were the only 2 Confederate state capitals not captured by Union forces | |
| He was backed by London's royal philharmonic concert orchestra on his 2010 tour, which he called 'Symphonicity' | |
| The mailing address for this company is P.O. Box 57, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15230 | |
| A critic said that a character of his, 'yearning for the moon... never saw the sixpence at his feet'; he made that into a title | |
| This American breed was named for its ability to race a distance of 1,320 fee | |
| He was the first U.S. president to be elected in an Olympic year | |
| Since coming on the beat, he's had more N.Y. Times bestsellers than any other author, including over 20 in the last 5 years | |
| The day affer the 15th Amendment took effect, Thomas Peterson became the 1st Afr. American to do this under its provisions | |
| Meaning 'rapidly', this term began in England, referring to the speed with which the mail was delivered | |
| In 1744 the first mention of this now popular sport said, 'away flies the boy to the next ...post and then home with joy | |
| In 2000 the Centre Court Arena in Melbourne, Australia was renamed for him | |
| In 1790 the USA's 1st law governing this protection gave it a term of 14 years; today it can extend well over a century | |
| It's the only U.S. coin or bill produced in 2010 that features the private home of a president on the reverse | |
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| A Hollywood venue was renovated & renamed the Aquarius Theater to host this musical in 1968 | |
| His 'story was soon told, for the whole twenty years had been to him but as one night' | |
| The IUPAC named an element for this man born in 1473 to 'highlight the link between astronomy and... nuclear chemistry | |
| In this classic film, one of the characters tries to quote the Pythagorean theorem but gets it wrong | |
| A line in this 1863 poem mentions 'The eighteenth of April, in seventy-five | |
| In action since 1917, this sports franchise is now largely owned by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan | |
| In 1988 this country boycotted the Summer Olympics after its demand to co-host the games was refused | |
| Since the 1600s this 8-letter word has meant men of letters; a punning form of it refers to celebrities | |
| After meeting him, Hawthorne said he had a 'sallow, queer, sagacious visage' warmed by 'homely human sympathies' | |
| In the 4 major U.S. sports leagues, he's won more regular season MVP awards than any other player | |
| Its largest airport is named for a World War II hero; its second largest, for a World War II battle | |
| This 4-letter term for a religious group that holds distinctive beliefs comes from the Latin for 'follow | |
| Riding the subway in New York in 1908, Jack Norworth saw a sign for the Polo Grounds & was inspired to write this song | |
| Golf carts used by the crew in the production of this 2009 movie bore signs reading 'Galileo' & 'Bernini' | |
| The names of 2 men, 1 born in Germany in 1834 & 1 in Kansas in 1875, were joined in this company name lasting 1998-2007 | |
| John Tukey coined this compound word in 1958 saying it was as important as 'tubes, transistors, wires, tapes...' | |
| German is its official national language; Croatian, Slovene & Hungarian are each official in one of its states | |
| He served the shortest amount of time as president before running for & winning reelection to the job | |
| The basis of this show that won a Best Musical Tony & a Pulitzer was a collection of stories that won the Pulitzer in 1948 | |
| After a construction boom fueled by oil & gas money, this capital city now has Europe's tallest building | |
| These 2 Cabinet departments both depict 19th century plows on their official seals | |
| After the Royal Family fled to this country in 1807, it became the only one in South America from which a European country was ruled | |
| Of the 9 presidents whose images have a beard or mustache, this late 19th century man is the only Democrat | |
| In April 1935 in Oklahoma, when blowing soil darkened the sky, a reporter coined this term for the region | |
| A 2010 article from Slate called this language created by Paul Frommer 'the new Klingon' | |
| One tale of its origin says that the blind seer Tiresias separated 2 snakes with his staff | |
| In ancient Rome it was a post where racers changed direction; since 1836 it's meant a moment change occurs | |
| Forget Me Not, Glacier Avenue & Glacier Highway are streets in this state capital | |
| Published posthumously in 1970, his first novel, 'A Happy Death', features a protagonist named Patrice Mersault | |
| The name for this news agency means 'peninsula', referring to the Arabian peninsula | |
| A mixture of English & Spanish, Llanito is the language of this territory's 30,000 residents | |
| The title character of this opera addresses his son in the aria 'Sois immobile' ('hold yourself still') | |
| It was first transmitted by the USS Arapahoe off Cape Hatteras on August 11, 1909 | |
| These 2 'King Lear' characters, 1 male, 1 female, both represent truthfulness; one disappears when the other returns | |
| Stieg Larsson created the girl with the dragon tattoo by imagining this fictional Swedish girl as an adult | |
| One type of this aquatic animal gives milk that's 65% fat; pups are weaned in 4 days, the least of any mammal | |
| The inspiration for this title object in a novel & a 1957 movie actually spanned the Mae Khlung River | |
| On Feb. 8, 2010 the headline in a major newspaper in this city read, 'Amen! After 43 Years, Our Prayers Are Answered' | |
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| In 1950, 2 years after his murder, some of his ashes were enshrined at the Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles | |
| Debuting in a 1960 novel, this character dies following a heart attack on a basketball court in a 1990 book | |
| As their bordering countries are all this adjective, Liechtenstein & Uzbekistan are considered 'double' this | |
| From 1513 to 1972, only men named Christian & Frederick alternated as rulers of this nation | |
| By area, it's the world's largest country that's named for a river | |
| Chapters in this 1953 thriller include 'Dossier for M', 'Pink Lights and Champagne' & 'The Game is Baccarat' | |
| Finding the spot for this memorial caused its creator to say, 'America will march along that skyline' | |
| Words found in this 1945 fable include brood, baying, bleating, comrade, tyranny & rebellion | |
| For decades Rolls-Royce also owned this luxury brand named for its founder; now both are produced by German companies | |
| These 2 are the only Best Actress Oscar winners to have no. 1 hits on the Billboard Top 40 | |
| Now in season 23, its producer says it's the only show with 'no script, no actors, no host & no re-enactments' | |
| William Wilkinson's 'An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia' inspired this author's most famous novel | |
| Of all the countries with Spanish as an official language, this one is last alphabetically | |
| Because of a policy adopted in 1979, this country's young people are collectively referred to as 'little emperors' | |
| Made up of 1 large & many smaller islands, it's the most populous of Britain's remaining overseas territories | |
| His grave notes his 1842 West Point graduation, his time at Ft. Sumter, Gettysburg & 2nd Bull Run, but does not mention sports | |
| At his 1994 inaugural, he called for 'a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world' | |
| These 2 rivers, each more than 1,000 miles long, rise in the Armenian Plateau in Turkey | |
| 'You have no right to expect me to send you back to Kansas' appears in a 1900 novel & in an epigraph to this 1995 novel | |
| Like the name of a minor Roman god, this word for a caretaker comes from the Latin for 'door' | |
| From the Latin for 'greatest', this form of address was introduced by the narcissistic King Richard II | |
| Of the 20 presidents elected to a second term, 2 of the 3 who failed to complete that term | |
| In 1950 he answered a Time magazine article on him, & a common criticism, with a telegram reading, 'No chaos damn it' | |
| Its Declaration of Independence was signed in 1847 by 11 men in that nation's Providence Baptist Church | |
| Nazi Rudolf Hess in 1941 & the notorious Kray twins in 1952 were among the last people briefly held here | |
| It says, 'The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations' | |
| In 1886 he published his first book, 'The Trumpet and Drum', an instructional handbook with 8 compositions | |
| In May 1964 this New Orleans native was 62 years old when he bumped the Beatles' 'Can't Buy Me Love' from the No. 1 spot | |
| Britain's oldest known scrap of material called this, sometimes identified as shepherd's plaid, dates from 250 A.D. | |
| In use from 1844 to 1905, a flag representing the union of these 2 countries was nicknamed the 'herring salad' | |
| As 2 different characters, she is the first actress to win lead acting Emmys in both the drama & comedy categories | |
| A piece of custom-made equipment called the Phoenix played a key role in an October event in this country | |
| The alternate name of this 16th century Italian painting also means 'cheerful | |
| A 1912 speech said the Bull Moose Party 'comes from' these; 'it has grown from the soil of...people's hard necessities' | |
| In 1955 she became the first & so far only actress to win a Tony for playing a male role in a musical | |
| It's said that this woman who died in 1976 'made more money out of murder than any woman since Lucrezia Borgia' | |
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