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What is “Peter Piper?”
Pickled peppers.
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What is Woodstock?
Despite the name, this 1969 music festival was actually held in Bethel, New York.
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What is 1800?
Technically, the last year of the 18th century.
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What is a Danish?
A multi-layered sweet pastry often topped with fruit or stuffed with cream cheese filling.
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What is the Dream Team?
The name news media gave to the Michael Jordan-led 1992 United States Men’s Olympic Basketball Team.
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What is “Little Miss Muffet?”
Curds and whey.
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Who is Rudy Giuliani?
He was lauded for his efforts to console and inspire a grieving city as New York City’s mayor in the months following 9/11; but that doesn’t even begin to make up for the shit he’s pulled in the last few years.
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What is New Amsterdam?
New York’s original name.
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What is a dumpling?
A piece of dough around a sweet or savory filling, then boiled, baked, fried, or steamed.
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What is a dream catcher?
A net or web woven onto a handmade willow hoop.
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What is “Humpty Dumpty?”
One scrambled egg.
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Who is Paul Revere?
The poem was wrong: his ride for to Concord was made to save stores of ammunition – not to alert his fellow rebels that “the British are coming!”
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What is Ketel One?
The pot’s singular companion.
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What is Devil’s Food Cake?
Traditionally, this cake is made with unsweetened baking squares in lieu of cocoa powder, giving it the distinctive rich texture and dark color.
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What is Dream Works?
Top box office earners for this animation studio include “Shrek,” “Madagascar,” and “Boss Baby.”
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What is “Jack Horner?”
A plum and/or Christmas pie.
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What is the Iran-Contra Affair?
Ronald Regan’s administration was embroiled in this political scandal after it was discovered the United States traded arms for hostages.
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What is Samuel Adams?
America’s decrier of taxation without representation.
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What is dill?
An annual herb in the celery family used to flavor pickles.
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What is “Dream On?”
Better do this, because maybe tomorrow the good lord will take it away.
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What is “The Queen of Hearts?”
Some tarts made on a summer’s day.
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What is “Yellow Journalism?”
The term to describe the circulation war between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst characterized by sensationalized news.
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What is Absolut?
Not qualified or diminished in any way; total.
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What is daikon?
A mild-flavored winter radish popular in Asian cuisines characterized by fast-growing leaves and a long, white, napiform root.
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What is “I Dreamed a Dream?”
In Les Misérables, Fantine belts this lament after she is fired from Valjean’s factory.
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