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This is a booster to our soaring emotions from last night.

Nonetheless there are rules--no research and no hitting "reply" please.

1..H___ S________ & Marx is what?

2..What were "yellow dog democrats"?

3..The penny is 97.5% what?

4..In the 18thC what is the fame of British Captain Arthur Phillip?

5.. Birkenau has historical significance as... And in what country?

6..What major actor has been the chief honcho of Sundance?

7..On 1/26/42 the 1st American Expeditionary Force lands in what city?

8..In relation to Doris Day, Clark Gable is the _______'_ ___.

9.."Players only love you when they're playing."..."When the rain.."?

10..Frenchman Flat

11..Elvis' first TV appearance is on whose show?

12..Three small countries in northern South America were once called..? Now?

13..Explain "broken at love" in the world of sports.
 

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1. Hart, Shafffner & Marx, men's clothing company, I think.
2. Somebody (often a southerner) who'd vote Democratic "until the last yella dog dies!"
5. Concentration camp in Austria?
6. Robert Redford
 

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11. Steve Allen Show
13. Tennis, when the receiving player wins the game without losing a point.
 
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1. Hart, Schaeffner & Marx, men's clothier
3. zinc
5. German concentration camp in Poland
6. Robert Redford
7. Casablanca
11. Ed Sullivan
13. losing your serve in tennis without scoring a point
 
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2. In the south, people that would only vote democrat.
3. Zinc
6. Robert Redford
9. Dreams -- Fleetwood mac
11. Ed Sullivan show
13. In tennis -- when the server loses a game without scoring a point (or 15).
 

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2. "I'd vote for a damn yellow dog if he was a Democrat!" From Texas, I think.
3. Zinc
4. Bloke pretty much founded bleedin Austraylia, doncha know.
6. Redford?
11. Talk of the Town?
12. Guiana. Now Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana
13. Server loses game without scoring a point. Remember, love means nothing in tennis.
 

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2. "I'd vote for a damn yellow dog if he was a Democrat!" From Texas, I think.
3. Zinc
4. Bloke pretty much founded bleedin Austraylia, doncha know.
6. Redford?
11. Talk of the Town?
12. Guiana. Now Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana
13. Server loses game without scoring a point. Remember, love means nothing in tennis.

13.."Nothing", zorro. On the contrary, it has great meaning. Can you tell I want you to say "zero"?
And K9 (always a generous soul) wants to award an unearned "15"; we can't have that.
 

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1..Hart Schaffner & Marx is a department store?
3..Zinc
6..Robert Redford
9..Stevie Nicks, "Players only love you when they're playing."..."When the rain washes you clean you'll know."
10..Frenchman Flat
11..Nationally, Ed Sullivan
12..The Guineas. Don't know.
13..In tennis, losing a service game without scoring a single point.
 
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1. Hart, Shaffner & Marx, a men's clothier.
2. Staunch Democrats who vote the party line no matter what.
3. Zinc
5. Home of a notorious concentration camp in Poland
6. Robert Redford
9. (I can hear her singing it, but am drawing blanks. Definitely the 70s around 1974-5)
11. Steve Allen
13. In tennis when the player receiving serve wins a game without giving up a point.
 

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12..The non-French ones need colonist-prefixes.

11..Hosted by 2 brothers.

7..When the ringing begins from the steeple, all must stop eating.

8..A movie title, with Gable as a newspaper person taking a journalism course.

10..Fame came in 1951.
 

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8. Based on your hint, the movie Teacher's Pet.
 

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1..Pinot starts a foursome with Hart, Shaffner, threads to wear.

2..Representation of the "solid South' voting against the party of Lincoln. The K9 Quartet, who only vote for Whigs.

3..Rbny with an entire septet who claim the penny has everything, including the kitchen zinc.

4..And we go from 7 down to one, only zorro recognizing the guy who started the process of pushing around the aborigines.

5..Ine & VAUC, with the latter proclaiming the Polish concentration camp as "notorious". Isn't that superfluous?

6..JR, along with still another septet. Two of them in just 1/2 of our tests. I swoon.

7..Steeple ringing? That's "Bell". People stop eating? That's a "fast". You are such ignoramuses.

8..Rbny takes a 2nd look and uncovers Teacher's Pet.

9..It is the voice of Stevie Nicks (with Fleetwood Mac). Luckily JR could still hear lyrics back in the 70's.
Nowadays? Poor guy.

10..Atom bomb testing in Nevada. You'd just as soon block that out, eh you ostriches?

11..The Dorseys, Tommy and Jimmy hosted Stage Show. Steve Allen did once have Elvis, but also mocked him
at another time. Steve was known to hate rock&roll.

12..Zorro is good on contemporary times. Ine goes Dutch (beware of that, ladies). Nobody has British.

13..VAUC is almost lonely as he is immersed in only a sextet. Where's the 7th when you need it.
To quote zorro, It's about tennis "doncha know".
 
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