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Bank of America has about 16,000 of these
What are ATMs?
Daniel O'Connell, a patriot of this country, got the British to pass the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829
What is Ireland?
In 1973 Anne Rice sank her teeth into writing her first novel, about an "interview with" one of these, & finished in 5 weeks
What is a vampire?
Perhaps something you ate didn't agree with you if you look "green around" these fish parts
What are the gills?
Casually let it be known you went to this university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, like John Quincy Adams & T.S. Eliot did
What is Harvard?
In 2022 Congress gave this agency an additional $45 billion for enforcement, so double-check those deductions
What is the IRS?
Montrealer Robert Stanley Weir wrote this national anthem with its stirring final words, "we stand on guard for thee"
What is "O Canada"?
Harper Lee based Dill Harris on Truman Capote, a childhood friend in Alabama, in this Pulitzer-winning 1960 novel
What is To Kill A Mockingbird?
In 2020 this company celebrated the 50th anniversary of the culinary delight known as the Shamrock Shake
What is McDonald's?
Tell the story about how this pop icon invited you onstage to sing "Baby" & was blown away by your pipes
Who is Justin Bieber?
It was once largely a military abbrev. helping coordinate operations; now it means "when I think I'll make it to the kegger"
What is ETA?
Italian patriot Garibaldi captured Palermo in 1860 with colorful troops called these, like a college athlete sitting out a year
What is a Redshirt?
Bootlegger Max Gerlach was one of the people F. Scott Fitzgerald may have used as the model for this title character
DAILY DOUBLE
Who is Gatsby?
Coach Vince Lombardi took over this NFL team in 1959 & led them to greatness
What are the Green Bay Packers?
They'll love the story about how you went to Churchill Downs in 2022 for this big race & put a C-note on 80-1 longshot Rich Strike
What is the Kentucky Derby?
If you get this degree from Harvard, first given in 1873, you can call yourself doctor but don't try to diagnose me
What is Ph. D.?
Yukio Mishima's story "Patriotism" begins with a soldier committing this form of suicide; Mishima's life ended similarly
What is seppuku (or hara-kiri)?
Mary Shelley wrote, "I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing" in this 1818 novel; spark infused! Ooooops
Who is Frankenstein?
Mahershala Ali won a 2018 Supporting Actor Oscar for this film in which he played a musician touring the South
What is The Green Book?
This Facebook founder would never have gone ahead & renamed his company Meta unless he checked with you first
What is Mark Zuckerburg?
A tear of this ligament that prevents the tibia from sliding out in front of the femur has ended many a pro athlete's season
What is the ACL?
Before his "March to the Sea", his hallucinations of confederate forces made him request insane numbers of reinforcements
Who is Sherman?
She showed "Sense & Sensibility" by starting that book with "The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex"
Who is Austen?
This metropolis in "The Wizard of Oz" had houses built of green marble & window panes made from green glass
What is the Emerald City?
How's this for a flex? You just got back from the gym, & get this, you dead-lifted a ton & a half, this many pounds
What is 3000?