CITY OF THE DAY: NEW YORK |
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When NYC was a Dutch settlement, this street got its name because it was a wide thoroughfare for wagons |
Broadway
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Kenny Loggins performed the title tune of this movie about a town where dancing is banned |
Footloose
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1956: By J.R.R. Tolkien |
The Return of the King
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Found in Africa in 1905, the Cullinan Diamond was measured at 3,106 of these units |
carats
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John Dalton figured that in water, an atom of this was 8 times heavier than an atom of hydrogen |
oxygen
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It's the standard wait cursor in Microsoft Windows |
an hourglass
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One of the best-preserved colonial buildings is the Onderdonk Farmhouse of 1731 in this borough, the largest |
(Bob: What is the Bronx?) (Danielle: What is Brooklyn!) ... (Alex: The largest is [*].) (Danielle: Well, we don't count [*].) (Alex: Boy, that'll make a lot of people feel good in New York!)
Queens
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This 1989 Keanu Reeves flick asked the immortal question, "Want a Twinkie, Genghis Khan?" |
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
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1889: By Mark Twain |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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There are 16 drams in an avoirdupois one & 2 tablespoons in a fluid one |
an ounce
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It's a list of a school's students with the highest grades & I hope my kids are on it |
the honor roll
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Russell Simmons & Rick Rubin began this seminal hip-hop record company out of an NYU dorm room |
Def Jam
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William Hurt & Marlee Matlin had a real-life romance when they co-starred in this drama |
Children of a Lesser God
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1988: By Anne Rice |
Queen of the Damned
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A "watch"dog really uses its hearing--dogs hear frequencies up to 45 of these units, kHz; humans, just 20 |
kilohertz
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The first two subatomic particles discovered whose names begin with "neut" |
a neutron & a neutrino
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The calyx, that leafy part you pick off a strawberry, also has this "nautical" name |
(Bob: What is the halyard?)
the hull
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(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in Yankee Stadium.) If you recall a famous nickname for the Yankees, you should know this is the borough they play in |
(Alex: That's right. You beat Danielle--she had her thumb ready on that signalling device!)
the Bronx
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(Hi, I'm Joel Schumacher.) In 1985, I cast Demi Moore, Rob Lowe & Emilio Estevez in this film about young adults struggling to figure things out |
St. Elmo's Fire
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1920: By Eugene O'Neill |
The Emperor Jones
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Famous for his speed of sound work, this Austrian said atoms didn't exist because no one had seen them |
(Ernst) Mach
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To celebrate the bicentennial of Andrew Jackson's birth, Lyndon Johnson visited this mansion in March 1967 |
the Hermitage
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Prospect, Riverside, Morningside as well as a more famous park were designed by this landscape architect |
(Frederick Law) Olmsted
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Kurt & Mel both like Michelle in this 1988 movie |
(Bob: [No response]) (Craig: What is The Fabulous Baker Boys?)
Tequila Sunrise
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1888: By Rudyard Kipling |
(Alex: You came up with it just in time. Well done.)
The Man Who Would Be King
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5 workdays with not much to do, or about 112 billion miles |
a light week
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These subatomic particles come in 6 flavors, including up, down & strange |
quarks
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The "Odes" of this Roman poet have been called "jewels five-words-long that... sparkle forever" |
Horace
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