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In the original Grimm Brothers version, after the miller's daughter guessed his name, he tore himself in two |
Rumpelstiltskin
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August 29, 1941: Pozarevac, Serbia |
Slobodan Milosevic
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The first of his Playboy Clubs opened in 1960; the last closed in 1988 |
Hugh Hefner
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This famous martyr is the heroine of many operas, including "The Maid of Orleans" |
Joan of Arc
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For men they're 42 inches high at the 110-meter distance, 36 inches high at 400 meters |
Hurdles
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Middle name of appeasing British PM Arthur Chamberlain |
Neville
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She got only crab shells to eat, while the witch gave her brother all the best food to plump him up for eating |
Gretel
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April 28, 1937: Tikrit, Iraq |
Saddam Hussein
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While serving as vice president in the 1960s, he chaired the Council on Economic Opportunity |
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Thea Musgrave's 1995 opera about this South American liberator premiered in Virginia, not Venezuela |
Simon Bolivar
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Ty Cobb led the league in these in 1911, but lost out in 1912 to Clyde "Deerfoot" Milan |
(M: What are home runs?)
Stolen bases
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This NHL team whose logo is seen here calls East Rutherford home |
New Jersey Devils
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For fetching her golden ball out of the well, the princess promised this animal she'd eat, sleep & play with him |
Frog
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May 19, 1925: Kompong Thom, Cambodia |
Pol Pot
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This author was a bookseller & mechanic before writing such books as "Steppenwolf" & "Siddhartha" |
Hermann Hesse
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The Seattle Opera is famous for its back-to-back productions of this composer's "Ring" cycle, in German & English |
Richard Wagner
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In 1954 Diane Leather was the first woman under 5 minutes in the mile & he was the first man under 4 |
(with a minute to go...)
Roger Bannister
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From a Spanish place name, it's a shade of orange |
(A: What is Valencia?)
Seville
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One-Eye & Three-Eyes hated their sister because she had these, like the common folk |
Two eyes
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September 11, 1917: Sarrat, Philippines |
Ferdinand Marcos
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This Peter Noone-led group was originally called The Heartbeats |
Herman's Hermits
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She wrote the libretto for "The Mother of Us All"; maybe that's why it features a character named "Gertrude S." |
Gertrude Stein
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This winged horse follows "Fusaichi" in the name of the 2000 Kentucky Derby winner |
Pegasus
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This verb's synonyms include vilify, abuse, berate & disparage |
(M: What is bedevil?)
Revile
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Guys who failed to figure out how the 12 princesses wore these out each night were killed, simple as that |
(Alex: Their dancing shoes.)
Shoes
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January 26, 1918: Scornicesti, Romania |
Nicolae Ceausescu
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In the 1530s this "Younger" German became court painter to King Henry VIII; his duties included designing jewelry |
Hans Holbein
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The 1981 opera based on this Tolstoy novel begins, & ends, at a Moscow railway station |
(Alex: She commits suicide by throwing herself in front of the train.)
"Anna Karenina"
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This Wisconsin running back won the Heisman Trophy in 1999 & was Rose Bowl MVP in 2000 |
(M: Who was Williams?)
Ron Dayne
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"Colorful" Tennessee town that's home to President Andrew Johnson's tailor shop |
Greeneville
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