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The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the manufacture and sale of liquor, was ratified by all states except which two neighbors?

A) Oregon and Washington

B) Connecticut and Rhode Island

C) Texas and Oklahoma

D) Ohio and Indiana

Previous answer: Harry Morgan has said that he’d like to think that the middle name of his “M*A*S*H” character Sherman T. Potter was Tecumseh, the middle name of Civil War General William T. Sherman.

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