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A memorial to this day was dedicated June 6, 2001 in Bedford, Virginia |
D-Day
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If he blows a last second shot for the N.Y. Knicks, they'd say this guard we have a problem |
Allan Houston
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According to Mr. Boswell's statement, you & he first met in 1763. Is that correct? |
Samuel Johnson
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A tiny wrinkle at the corner of the eye is called a crow's this |
foot
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Running for almost 3 decades, this bandleader's TV show premiered in 1955 |
Lawrence Welk
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When this waterway opened in 1869, it brought Arabia into much closer touch with the outside world |
Suez Canal
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A memorial to him, seen here, is at the National Academy of Sciences |
Albert Einstein
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He's the Laker phenom whom opponents might wish played in Japan |
Kobe Bryant
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"A cynic...knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." Tell the court what you meant |
Oscar Wilde
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This linebacker broke Joe Theismann's leg on "Monday Night Football" |
Lawrence Taylor
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One of the earliest Arab kingdoms was Saba, which may be identical with this one mentioned in the Bible |
(Ulhas: What is Judah?)
Sheba
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A memorial named for this fictional woman, symbol of WWII laborers, is at a former shipyard in Richmond, Calif. |
(Ulhas: I'm sorry, Alex, I don't know.)
Rosie the Riveter
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This ex-49er QB kindly helped out Ronnie Lott's painful itching in a parody TV ad |
Joe Montana
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Did you or did you not write, in "Man and Superman", "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it" |
(Ulhas: Who is Nietzsche?)
George Bernard Shaw
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An uninterrupted series or extent, like the space-time one |
(Pamela: I don't know, Alex.)
continuum
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He privately published "Lady Chatterley's Lover" in 1928 |
D.H. Lawrence
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The Arabs of Arabia look upon themselves as the descendants of this son of Noah |
Shem
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The fisherman's memorial seen here is in this Massachusetts city |
(Ulhas: What is New Bedford?)
Gloucester
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Drew Carey knows Hall of Fame pitcher Grover Alexander's middle name is this |
Cleveland
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So you, a humble Baltimore writer, called Puritanism "The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy" |
H.L. Mencken
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A Mideastern marketplace, or a charity sale |
bazaar
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In "Romeo & Juliet", he marries Romeo & Juliet |
Friar Lawrence
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Once divided into a North & South, it's the second-largest nation on the peninsula |
Yemen
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Part of the new national memorial, in this state capital, is seen here |
Oklahoma City
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Geographic nickname of boxer Joe Walcott, shown what exit to take when he was KO'd in '52 by Rocky Marciano |
Jersey Joe Walcott
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You said of your shared office with Dorothy Parker, "One cubic foot less and it would have constituted adultery" |
Robert Benchley
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In 79 A.D. this city could have used the Imperial Emergency Management Agency |
Pompeii
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This beat poet penned "A Coney Island of the Mind" |
(Ulhas: Who is Ginsberg?)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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By population, it's the largest city on the Arabian Peninsula |
Riyadh
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