STATE THE 19TH CENTURY SENATOR
SOMEBODY WROTE THAT
THE AMERICAN LAKE
KISS & TELL
WRITER-DIRECTORS
THE IDIOMS GO THATAWAY
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Sam Houston, until 1859
Texas
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"Elinor saw, with concern, the excess of her sister's sensibility" (we're practically giftwrapping this one!)
Austen
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A 2023 report said that without emergency measures, this "Great" lake in Utah "would likely disappear in the next five years"
Great Salt Lake
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Washington Irving gave one of the earliest written accounts of the yuletide tradition of kissing under this plant
Mistletoe
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Born while her dad was making "The Godfather", she's won an Oscar for screenwriting & been named best director at Cannes
Sofia Coppola
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This phrase describes a plane flying low to evade enemy detection, or anything that's not getting attention nowadays
under the radar
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Stephen A. Douglas, happy in 1858, sad in 1860, dead in 1861
Illinois
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"'He shows himself; he's a hunchback. He walks; he's bandy-legged. He looks at you; he's one-eyed. You speak to him; he's deaf"'
Hugo
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Lying entirely in the U.S., this Great Lake that made Milwaukee famous reaches a great depth of 923 feet
Michigan
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The musical "Kiss Me, Kate" was based on this Shakespeare play
The Taming of the Shrew
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7 months after he died in 2009, Molly Ringwald & Anthony Michael Hall were part of a tribute to him at the Oscars
John Hughes
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Meaning somewhat liberal, this 3-word phrase describes how you've moved from the median
left of center (triple stumper)
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Henry Clay--don't compromise on your response!
Kentucky
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"The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb"
Harper Lee
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The name of this freshwater lake shared by 2 western states is from a Washoe word for "lake"; hope you win big at Harrah's too
Tahoe
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As the story goes, after performing for Maria Theresa at age 6 in 1762, this wunderkind jumped into the empress' lap & kissed her
Mozart
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He & Joe Robert Cole wrote the scripts for "Black Panther" & its sequel, & he directed both films, too
Ryan Coogler (triple stumper)
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While tubing down a river, you do this, which can also be a rhyming idiom for accepting a situation
go with the flow
1600
John C. Calhoun & John E. Colhoun, but what's in a name, Y'all?
South Carolina
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"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me"
Ralph Ellison
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Most of the length of this French-named lake separates New York & Vermont
Champlain
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In Genesis 29, on first meeting his beloved Rachel, he kissed her "and lifted up his voice, and wept"
Jacob (triple stumper)
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Born in Austria, he learned English while rooming with Peter Lorre, so it's lucky the people in "Some Like It Hot" don't talk like I am
Billy Wilder (triple stumper)
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There's a member of genus Corvus in this phrase that means "in a straight line"
as the crow flies
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Charles Sumner, a free stater nearly beaten to death on the Senate floor by a southerner
Massachusetts
2000
"The summer range lay above the tree line on Forest Service land on Brokeback Mountain"
Annie Proulx
2000
Let's fire up our RV & head for this lake, Wisconsin's largest inland one, & catch some northern pike & largemouth bass
Winnebago
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Beginning around 1908, this Romanian carved several versions of "The Kiss" from blocks of stone, including the one seen here
Brâncuși
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Lorelei Linklater aged from 9 to 21 over the 12-year shoot of this film from her father, Richard
Boyhood
2000
Tennyson gave a poem about a ferry trip this title, now an idiom for dying
"Crossing the Bar"