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What is the President of the United States?
(POTUS)
In 2001, the annual salary of this office rose to $400,000, twice that it was for Clinton
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What is a tail?
A squirrel uses this fluffy appendage for balance when it leaps & climbs
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What is The Alamo?
A baby was among the few Texan survivors of the 1836 battle at this site in San Antonio
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Who is Susan B. Anthony?
In 1979, this women's rights leader was given her own dollar coin
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What is nuisance?
In law, when you're doing something that's offensive to the community, you're a public this
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What is a donkey?
This symbol for the Democratic party dates back to Andrew Jackson's 1828 campaign
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What is the catfish?
Wow! The upside-down type of this "feline" fish really does swim upside-down
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Who is Lyndon Johnson?
In 1973, this former president died near Johnson City, a town founded by an ancestor
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What is silver?
A few rare1965 quarters were still made of this metal
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What are nuggets?
The NBA team of Denver, or an item on the McDonald's menu
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What is The (US) Supreme Court?
John Jay was this court's first Chief Justice
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What is a sponge?
The "basket" type of this undersea animal probably isn't the kind you have in you tub
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Who is John F. Kennedy?
His death on Nov. 22 1963 after riding through Dealy Plaza shocked the world
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What is reverse?
Collectors don't use "heads" or "tails", they use the terms observe and this
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What are nuptials?
Referring to the thing going on at a marriage ceremony, they may be impending
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What is Environmental Protection Agency?
It's what EPA stands for in the name of a gov't body established Dec. 2, 1970
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What is the centipede?
This arthropod is nicknamed the "hundred-legger", thought many have over 300 legs
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What is Capital Punishment?
(execution by lethal injection)
In 1982, the state became the first jurisdiction in the world to carry out this judicial sentence
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What is a drum?
Musical instrument pictured on the back of the U.S. bicentennial quarter
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What is a numbskull?
(knucklehead)
Meaning "stupid", it's how Moe referred to Larry or Curly
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What is the Fifth Amendment?
This Constitutional Amendment says that no person has to be a "witness against himself"
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What are combs?
Some of these fleshy growths that top rooster's heads are V-shaped
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Who are Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow?
Although they died in a blaze of gunfire in Bienville Parish, Louisiana on May 23, 1934, these outlaws were born in Texas
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What is a (Lincoln Head) penny?
The 1909-S V.D.B. version of this coin is a grail to collectors
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What is a nuclear family?
It's a family group of a father, a mother, & children (not necessarily radioactive)
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