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This over 20-mile-long boulevard has great views of the daily event it's named for |
Sunset Boulevard
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Dear Pindar, good news: when this Macedonian sacked Thebes in 335 B.C., I hear he spared your house |
Alexander the Great
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It's the TV cable network that presents "Divas Live" |
VH1
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This author of "Roughing It" was born on November 30, 1835 |
Mark Twain
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All was not well in Beantown when Billy, played by Gil Bellows, died of a brain hemorrhage on this Kelley show |
Ally McBeal
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All is well if things are on an "even" one of these |
keel
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Good news, Praxiteles! Copies of your statue of this kind of part-goat guy... I can't keep 'em in stock |
a satyr
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While today's pool balls are made of plastic, they used to be made from this valuable substance |
ivory
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In Great Britain, every November 5 is his "Day", celebrated with fireworks & bonfires |
Guy Fawkes
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All was not well in Beantown when D.A. Richard Bay was gunned down in his car on this ABC drama |
The Practice
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"Batten down" these to prepare for trouble |
the hatches
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"First thing you know, ol' Jed's a millionaire, kinfolk said, Jed, move away from there" to this city (in song, that is) |
Beverly Hills
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Dear Xenophon, I couldn't put down your book "Memorabilia" about this philosopher & his conversations |
(Aristotle: Who is Aristotle?)
Socrates
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Among this state university's songs are "A Hymn To Queens" & "In A Quaint Old Jersey Town" |
Rutgers
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On Nov. 28, 1520 this explorer & his ships entered the Pacific Ocean, which he named for its calmness |
Magellan
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All was not well in Beantown when teacher Harry Senate couldn't save a gangbanger from his fate on this show |
Boston Public
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"To take" this "out of someone's sails" is to make him halt his activity |
the wind
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In 1989 Martin Sheen, honorary mayor of this beach city, home of Pepperdine U., declared it a nuclear-free zone |
Malibu
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Hey guy! Aristophanes sure satirized you in "The Frogs"; it was much funnier than your "Medea" |
(Thomas: Who is Sophocles?) ... (Alex: You picked the wrong one, Thomas. It was [*]. Oh, I know.)
Euripides
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A cavalry horse named Comanche who survived this 1876 battle is preserved & displayed at a museum in Kansas |
Little Bighorn
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On Nov. 10, 1994 this Mideast king made his first official visit to Israel |
King Hussein of Jordan
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After getting shot by a gang member, there was no more hope on this medical drama for Alan Birch |
Chicago Hope
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"Lower" this on someone when it's time to make him pay |
the boom
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This venue, home to the first Super Bowl, was also the site of the 1932 & 1984 Olympic games |
(Brett: What is the Rose Bowl?)
the Coliseum
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Dear Aristeides, I can't believe this author paralleled your life with that Roman loser Marcus Cato |
(Brett: Who is Herodotus?) ... (Alex: We have a minute to go, Thomas.)
Plutarch
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The Continental Congress adopted these on Nov. 15, 1777 & submitted them to the states for ratification |
the Articles of Confederation
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Spontaneous combustion claimed the mayor of Rome, Wi. on this drama with Ray Walston as Judge Bone |
Picket Fences
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Someone who's a "loose" one of these can be unpredictable trouble in the making |
a cannon
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