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He represented Virginia in Congress from 1789 to 1797; as president from 1809 to 1817, he had what was called his war
Who is James Madison?
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The nicer buses within South Korean cities are called jwaseok, which means this, something most people look for when they board
What is a seat?
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"Thank You For Being a Friend" was the theme song for this sitcom that co-starred Estelle Getty
What is The Golden Girls?
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It's the one-word title of a 1920 book written for a mass audience & subtitled "The Special & the General Theory"
What is Relativity?
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The title of this 2009 bestseller refers to the inked & pierced Lisbeth Salander
What is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?
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In "Mickey Blue Eyes", James Caan teaches Hugh Grant how to say this NYC slang of squished-together words that can mean "nevermind"
What is fuhgeddaboudit?
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President Andrew Johnson had been a senator & a representative from this state
What is Tennessee?
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As well as buses & trains, transit options of the MBTA, or T, included this kind of service from Boston to Hingham
What is a ferry?
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Chase & Rubble are 2 of the playful rescue dogs who use their unique talents to protect the town of Adventure Bay on this show
What is Paw Patrol?
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One unit of this measure of pressure is equal to 101,325 pascals
What is an atmosphere?
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This international bestseller has everything: exotic locales, a shipwreck & a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker
What is the Life of Pi?
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Often said to hail from ATL, this slang for stylish clothes sounds like a verb for what a leaky faucet does
What is drip?
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Daily Double
Rep. Franklin Pierce was such a devoted supporter of Andrew Jackson, he got this nickname alluding to his age (29)
What is Young Hickory?
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n 1914 one of these places in Paris was renamed Liège & is decorated with scenes of that Belgian city
What is a metro station?
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Can't get enough of charming but evil surgeons? Watch this true crime show on Peacock
What is Dr. Death?
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The saber-toothed cat chilled out during this epoch colloquially called "The Great Ice Age"
What is the Pleistocene?
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The title character of this novel by Madeline Miller is a sorceress & the daughter of Helios in Greek mythology
What is Circe?
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Order a Coney Island at Detroit's finer eateries & you'll get this
What is a chili dog?
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The last former U.S. representative to become president was this man who had represented Texas' 7th district
Who is George H.W. Bush?
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Helping reach hilly areas, this country's Medellin Metro Cable is one of the world's few aerial parts of a mass transit system
What is Colombia?
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Krysten Ritter starred as this reluctant ex-superheroine suffering from PTSD & working as a NYC private eye
What is Jessica Jones?
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Daily Double
D2O, or heavy water, combines oxygen with this isotope that is twice as heavy as hydrogen
What is deuterium?
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A lone astronaut has a lot of problems to solve in his novel "Project Hail Mary"
Who is Andy Weir?
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In 2023 Lil Wayne revealed that "Ya heard me?" is one of his favorite slang terms from this city of his birth
What is New Orleans?
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He was a rep. from New York before becoming veep & then became our 13th president with the sudden death of Zachary Taylor
Who is Millard Fillmore?
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The L train & a bus to Skokie are run by the CTA, short for this original name of the "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" band
What is the Chicago Transit Authority?
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The title of this 1960s primetime soap opera became shorthand for a melodramatic, complicated situation
What is Peyton's Place?
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Frogs & other amphibians have 3-chambered hearts, with one ventricle & 2 of these
What is an atrium?
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The title of this 2023 James McBride novel refers to a shop run by a woman named Chona
What is The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store?
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A homophone of a first name but probably derived from "joint", it's Philly slang for almost any person, place or thing
What is jawn?