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US GEOGRAPHY:
One of two states ending in "T" |
Connecticut and Vermont
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US GEOGRAPHY:
Historic pass at junction of TN., KY., & VA., associated with Daniel Boone |
Cumberland Gap
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US GEOGRAPHY:
Mountain range that surrounds city of Atlanta |
Blue Ridge Mountains
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TV DETECTIVES:
He was Dectective Lieutenant Dan August before he was Sharky |
Burt Reynolds
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BIOLOGY / SCIENCE
Exobiology is the study of living things here |
space
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BROADWAY / THEATER:
Rejected as movie script, Broadway loved this fragile Tennessee Williams drama |
The Glass Menagerie
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MOVIES / OSCARS:
He "lost" a "weekend" but won an Oscar |
Ray Milland
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TV:
She shot J.R. |
Mary Crosby
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TV:
Editor Billie Newman & Joe Rossi worked for |
Lou Grant
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FASHION:
"Foreign" name for the end of a sleeve folded back & fastened with a link |
French cuff
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FASHION / SPORTS / HORSES:
Breeches cut full above the knee used for horseback riding |
jodhpurs
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LITERATURE:
Howard Garis' bedtime tale-teller whose last name is Longears |
Uncle Wiggly
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GEOGRAPHY / HOT SPOTS:
National seashore resort that's been "burning" off Long Island for years |
Fire Island
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GEOGRAPHY / HOT SPOTS:
Named by Magellan for fires blazing on shore, it's South America's stormy southern tip |
Tierra Del Fuego
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US PRESIDENTS / HOT SPOTS:
Its foundation for polio victims was founded by FDR, who died here |
Warm Springs, Georgia (also home to The Little White House)
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SPACE / SCIENCE:
It forms a large part of Jupiter's atmosphere or Earth's kitchen cleaners |
Ammonia
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SPACE:
The Van Allen belts surround most of this planet |
Earth
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SPACE:
Soviet ship which docked with our Apollo in '75 |
Soyuz
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SPACE / ASTRONOMY:
Comet in 1973 which didn't put on its promised show |
Kohouteck
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US TRADE CENTERS:
City that's often called "the rubber capital of the world" |
Akron OH
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DRAMA / LITERATURE:
19th century Norwegian playwright often called founder of modern drama |
Ibsen
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LEGENDS / MYTHOLOGY:
People whose gods included Odin, Thor & Loki |
The Vikings / Norse
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LEGENDS / LITERATURE:
Pair of lovers separated by a garden wall, they inspired "Romeo & Juliet" |
Pyramus and Thisbe
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GOVERNMENT:
Decade the last amendment to the Constitution was ratified in |
1990's (limits on Congressional pay; answer was 1970's with 18-year-old's voting)
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US POLITICS / DEMOCRATS:
Hubert Humphrey's running mate in '68 |
Ed Musky
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BROADWAY MUSICALS:
Rex Harrison's "Fair Lady" and Burton's Guinevere |
Julie Andrews
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BROADWAY MUSICALS:
In 1967, Broadway said "hello" to this 1st black "Dolly" |
Pearl Bailey
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BROADWAY MUSICALS:
1931's "The Band Wagon" was the last time this brother & sister shared the dancing spotlight |
Fred and Edele Astaire
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BROADWAY MUSICALS:
Musical in which Lester Billis was Nellie Forbush's "honey bun" |
South Pacific
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GEOGRAPHY:
Called the Schwarzwald, it's the deep dark woods of fairy tale fame |
The Black Forest
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SPORTS:
Winning a birling contest is as easy as not falling off this |
a log
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SPACE / TRIVIA / MOVIES:
The moving tower used to service space launch vehicles or Burt's Oscar-winning "Elmer" |
a gantry
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TRIVIA / COLLEGE LIFE:
The 1st group to identify itself as 1 of these was Gamma Phi Beta in 1874 |
sorority
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ANCIENT GREECE:
City-state ruled by Pericles |
Athens
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ANCIENT GREECE / LITERATURE:
The name of poetry with a lyre accompaniment |
lyric poetry
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ANCIENT GREECE:
Founder of "Lyceum", his students walked with him as he taught |
Aristotle
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TRAINS:
This city's subway is the oldest in America |
Boston
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SCIENCE:
In 1808, this metalsmith made copper plates for a Fulton steamboat boiler |
Paul Revere
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US HISTORY:
19th century flag nicknamed "Stars & Bars" |
Confederate Flag
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MOVIES:
In his best English Bronx accent he cried "Yonder lies the castle of my father" |
Tony Curtis
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GEOGRAPHY:
Both in size & population, it's largest Scandinavian country |
Sweden
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EUROPE / WORLD LEADERS:
In '67 this last king of Greece went into exile |
Constantine II
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MUSIC / BIG BANDS:
In 1937 he was "in the mood" to start a band |
Glenn Miller
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MUSIC / BAND LEADERS:
As famous for his marriages as his music; once wed Ava Gardner & Lana Turner |
Artie Shaw
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MUSIC / BAND LEADERS:
Benny Goodman got good "vibes" from him |
Lionel Hampton
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MUSIC / BAND LEADERS:
"Royal" bandleader whose first two names were Edward Kennedy |
Duke Ellington
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ANIMALS / INSECTS / BEES:
The 3 classes of a honeybee colony |
worker, drone, queen
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POLITICS:
U.S. ambassadors to this country have included Anne Armstrong & Joseph Kennedy |
Great Britain
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POLITICS:
Nickname of late Washington Senator Henry Jackson |
Scoop Jackson
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POLITICS:
Florida Congressman who champions the senior citizen |
Claude Pepper
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US PRESIDENTS:
President elected to 2nd term with 523 electoral votes, the greatest number in any election |
FDR
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US PRESIDENTS:
Only 2 women to be wife to a president & mother of another |
Abigail Adams / Barbara Bush
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SPORTS / MOVIES:
These 2 former Olympic athletes became movie Tarzans |
Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller
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SPORTS:
He shouts the commands in crew racing |
coxswain
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FOOD:
A small Oriental orange or a division of Chinese cuisine |
mandarin
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FOOD / GEOGRAPHY:
City Wiener Schnitzel is named for |
Vienna
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GEOGRAPHY / LAKES & RIVERS:
Sam Rayburn Reservoir is this state's largest lake |
Texas
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GEOGRAPHY / LAKES & RIVERS:
Located in Oregon, it's the deepest lake in North America |
Crater Lake
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MOVIES / LAKES & RIVERS:
Either of 2 Marilyn Monroe films with "watery" titles |
Niagra OR River Of No Return
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ZOOLOGY:
Finned on fish, scaly on lizards, nonexistent on humans & manx cats |
tails
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ZOOLOGY:
From Latin "to gnaw", there are more of this group than all other mammals combined |
rodents
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EUROPE:
"The Eternal City" |
Rome
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EUROPE:
Since 300 A.D., this region of N.E. France has been traded 7 times by Germany and France |
Alsace-Lorraine
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US STATES / RELIGION:
Colonial Maryland was founded as haven for members of this church |
Roman Catholics
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MATHEMATICS:
Total meters in a hectometer |
100
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COLORS:
Colors that blend to make chartreuse |
yellow and green
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COLORS:
Ring Lardner, Dalton Trumbo, & Will Geer were on one in the 50s |
blacklist
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COLORS:
It was said rajahs gave their rivals these animals to create financial burden |
white elephants
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NURSERY RHYMES:
He killed Cock Robin |
the sparrow
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SPORTS / BOXING:
In '65, it took Muhammad Ali less than 2 min. to beat him |
Sonny Liston
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TV:
Actress who started the "Faerie Tale Theatre" |
Shelley Duvall
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GEOLOGY /SCIENCE:
Earth's atmosphere layer which lies between the troposphere & the mesosphere |
the stratosphere
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GEOLOGY:
Rainwash, wind action & differential weathering formed this S. Dakota area |
The Badlands
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THANKSGIVING:
Though not a Pilgrim, he organized their militia & was written up by Longfellow |
Miles Standish
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FILM:
This film's "Evergreen" earned Barbra Steisand a composing Oscar |
A Star is Born
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BOTANY / SCIENCE:
Collective name for poisonous mushrooms |
toadstools
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BOTANY / SCIENCE:
Because like an eye, they close at night, the English first called these flowers "day's eyes" |
daisies
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BOTANY / SCIENCE:
Type of plant the British call a "creeper" |
vine
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US CITIES / GEOGRAPHY:
Via St. Lawrence Seaway, ships from Europe can reach this largest Minnesota port |
Duluth
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WORLD HISTORY:
In 1804 this Caribbean country became 1st black nation to gain freedom from European colonial rule |
Haiti
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US STATES:
The Wolverine State, in 1847 became 1st to abolish capital punishment |
Michigan
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US STATES:
Region originally called Indian Territory, it now has no Fed. reservations |
OK
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US STATES:
Midwest state whose native sons include Marlon Brando, Nick Nolte & Henry Fonda |
Nebraska
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STARTS W/ "B":
Nickname of Gil Gerard's futuristic Capt. William Rogers |
Buck
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GEOGRAPHY:
Australian bay named for the many plants growing on its shores |
Botany Bay
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TOYS AND GAMES:
Said to be a be a weapon in the Philippines, Duncan made them toys for the U.S. |
yo-yo
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SPORTS:
Name of yacht immortalized after winning the 100-Guinea Cup away from England in 1851 |
The America
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HISTORY:
Ancient Yucatan tribe that had no schools but were excellent astronomers |
Maya
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HISTORY:
Many of them left France when Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes |
Huguenots
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FAMOUS QUOTES / ROYALTY:
Stuffy British monarch who said when she saw herself imitated, "We are not amused" |
Queen Victoria
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DESERT / BOTANY:
Old-man, hedgehog & barrel |
kinds of cacti
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DESERT / GEOGRAPHY:
Greek for "fertile land", buildings are built around but not on these watering spots |
oasis
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DESERT / GEOGRAPHY:
Coldest, most northern desert in the world |
the Gobi
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ODD JOBS:
Horse racing fixtures the British call "turf accountants" |
bookies
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ODD JOBS:
What a fletcher makes |
arrows
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SOUTH AMERICA / GEOGRAPHY / CAPITALS:
Over 1/3 of its population lives in its capital, Montevideo |
Uruguay
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SOUTH AMERICA / LITERATURE:
Famous William Hudson novel set in South American jungle |
Green Mansions
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HUMAN VISION:
Snooty specs on a stick |
lorgnette
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HUMAN VISION:
You have to keep an eye on this M.D. |
ophthalmologist
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TITLED HEADS / HISTORY / ROYALTY:
Queen of France 1559-60; Catholic Europe considered her the rightful queen of England |
Mary, Queen of Scots
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SCIENCE:
A typical snowflake has this many sides |
6
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FASHION / RELIGION:
Penitents once wore this rough cloth with ashes |
sackcloth
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"ANDY"
The black & white bear of Walter Lantz cartoons |
Andy Panda
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"ANDY"
"A Family Affair" was the 1st of 15 films in this Mickey Rooney series |
Andy Hardy series
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"ANDY"
Reg Smythe's pub-crawling comic strip husband of Flo |
Andy Capp
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"ANDY"
Donny Osmond made his debut at the age of 4 on his show |
The Andy Williams Show
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ELECTIONS / US PRESIDENTS:
Phrase "My hat is in the ring" originated with this 1912 "Bull Moose" candidate |
Teddy Roosevelt
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WORLD HISTORY:
Nicaraguan guerrilla group that overthrew Somoza |
the Sandinistas
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WORLD HISTORY:
In 1888, it was last country in W. Hemisphere to abolish slavery |
Brazil
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GOLF / SPORTS:
In '76, Judy Rankin was 1st woman pro to win this amount in a season |
$100,000
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GEOGRAPHY:
Niagara Falls borders on this Canadian province |
Ontario
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US GEOGRAPHY:
The 2 states on both sides of the Mississippi |
Louisiana and Minnesota
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GEOGRAPHY:
Largest country entirely in Europe |
France
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GEOGRAPHY:
Clocks in Lima, Peru, read the same as in this U.S. time zone |
Eastern
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MUSICALS:
Musical about Continental Congress, it included song "Sit Down, John" |
1776
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TRANSPORTATION:
It could be paddle wheel, cargo or tramp |
steamer
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PLANTS:
Long associated with Lebanon, this tree is on its flag |
cedar
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TRIVIA:
It spent the night in a discount-house parking lot in 1984 before heading to L.A. Coliseum |
the Olympic torch
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CIVIL WAR:
State that seceded from state that seceded |
W. VA.
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MOVIES:
Film featuring March & Gaynor, Garland & Mason or Streisand & Kristofferson |
A Star is Born
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MOVIES:
Went from bit part in film "Little Shop of Horrors" to Oscars for Best Actor & Best Support |
Jack Nicholson
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STATE CAPITALS:
1 of 4 state capitals that end in word "City" |
Carson City
Salt Lake City OK City Jefferson City |
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ALPHABET SOUP:
Binet & Simon's measure of mental age |
The IQ
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BUSINESS & INDUSTRY:
"Body-building" brand of bread from "the bakery people of IT&T" |
Wonder Bread
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BUSINESS & INDUSTRY:
In 1978, this German co. became first foreign automaker to make cars here |
Volkswagen
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BUSINESS & INDUSTRY:
Piggly Wiggly stores were the first of these |
supermarkets
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US GOVT:
Since 1970, the only cabinet department not headed by a secretary |
Dept. of the Attorney General / Justice Dept.
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