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On January 1, 2008 Cyprus & Malta adopted this currency |
the euro
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In "La La Land" this actor asks, "Why do you say 'romantic' like it's a dirty word?" |
Ryan Gosling
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Our tests have detected leukocytosis, an increase in the number of these in the blood, indicating infection |
white blood cells
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The U.S. code says it's first degree if it happens as part of arson or burglary |
murder
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As Judge Aaron enters court, the bailiff gives this 2-word command to those seated in attendance |
all rise
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The home team won exactly 100 medals as this city hosted the Summer Olympics |
Beijing
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Recounting a memory of his father, Heath Ledger as the Joker in "The Dark Knight" utters this 3-word question |
"Why so serious?"
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Our centrifuge spins samples rapidly to separate substances based on this, mass per unit volume |
density
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It's used of tasks not finished or laces not tied |
undone
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Elizabeth Bennet |
(Patricia: Who is... uh, Bronte?) ... (Alex: In Pride and Prejudice.)
(Jane) Austen
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Jail awaits, as you disrespected Aaron in open court & the judge held you in this, a synonym for scorn |
contempt
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More than 200,000 gathered in or near this Chicago park named for a president to hear Obama's victory speech |
Grant Park
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Princess Leia snarkily asks, "Aren't you a little short for" one of these? |
(Alli: What is a pilot?)
a stormtrooper
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A leading lab technique, Western blot helps us identify specific sequences in these chains of amino acids |
proteins
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A boater in trouble needs to know this word to say over the radio |
(Patricia: Um.. what is...)
mayday
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Gregor Samsa |
(Alex: From Metamorphosis.)
(Franz) Kafka
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The witness didn't see the incident directly, so Aaron rules it this, also defined nonlegally as gossip |
hearsay
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After almost 50 years in power, this Caribbean leader stepped down as president |
(Fidel) Castro
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In a 2015 biopic this guy is told, "you can't write code, you're not an engineer, you're not a designer... what do you do?" |
Steve Jobs
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Also called electrodermal activity, this skin response bears the name of an 18th century Italian physicist |
the Galvanic skin response
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To fire someone, or simply to tell him to leave your presence |
to dismiss
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Antonia Shimerda |
(Alex: My Antonia.)
Willa Cather
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Aaron consults the clerk responsible for making this 6-letter schedule of upcoming trials |
the docket
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Abbreviated LHC, this "Large" multinational experimental facility powered up near Geneva |
the Hadron Collider
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In "Raiders of the Lost Ark", Indiana Jones gazes into a pit & asks, "Why'd it have to be" these |
snakes
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A tokamak reactor aims to create fusion by heating this state of matter, basically ionized gas, to 180 million degrees |
plasma
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To await someone & ambush him |
waylay
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Liesel Meminger |
(Alex: The Book Thief by [*].)
Markus Zusak
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Aaron accepts this Latin-phrased plea of the defendant not admitting or denying charges |
nolo contendere
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