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SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR |
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This large lake straddles France & Switzerland; Switzerland has the largest part |
Lake Geneva
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1996 & 2000: A golfer |
Tiger Woods
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The Everly Brothers sang close two-part ones |
harmonies
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Poe: "Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered ____ and ____" |
weak & weary
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The finger of this man (d. 1642) was snipped off as his remains were moved & is now at Museo di Storia della Scienzia |
(Danelle: Who is da Vinci?)
Galileo
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Use your birr to buy a beer in this country that borders Djibouti & Eritrea |
Ethiopia
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1991: A pro basketball player |
Michael Jordan
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Liszt was among the customers of Bosendorfer, a firm that's been making these since 1828 |
pianos
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William Blake: "Tyger! Tyger! _____ _____ in the forests of the night" |
burning bright
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This "Mont Blanc" poet was exhumed due to a Tuscan act that required all bodies that washed ashore be burned |
Shelley
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Thinking green, biologist Ernst Haeckel coined this term for the way animals interact with the environment |
ecology
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This country's Lake Taal sits in the crater of an old volcano on the island of Luzon |
the Philippines
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2004: A baseball team |
the Red Sox
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Da gamba, or "for the leg", follows this in the name of the instrument seen here |
viola
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Coleridge: "____, ____ everywhere and all the boards did shrink" |
water, water
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This 1982 movie revolved around a house built on top of a graveyard where the headstones had been removed |
Poltergeist
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Colonel Paul Tibbets was at the controls of this B-29 bomber on August 6, 1945 |
the Enola Gay
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The Green River is its largest tributary; they meet up in southeastern Utah |
the Colorado River
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1977: A teenage jockey |
[Alex called him "Stevie Cauthen" when giving the correct response.]
Steve Cauthen
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"Checkout" this term for an area of the vocal range, like the middle one & the lower or chest one |
(Celeste: Uh...) (Alex: Hurry.) (Celeste: Uh, wha--uh, no.)
register
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Robert Burns: "O, my luve's like a ___, ___ ___ that's newly sprung in June" |
red, red rose
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After Charles II was restored in 1660, he had this man exhumed from Westminster Abbey, hanged & decapitated |
Cromwell
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In a movie this type of shot lets the audience know where the ensuing action is taking place |
an establishing shot
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The south arm of this sea, named for the Englishman who explored it in 1841, is an ice shelf |
(Eugene: I don't know.)
the Ross Sea
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1959: A Swedish boxer |
Ingemar Johansson
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Webster's defines this word as "a chord of three tones consisting of a root with its third and fifth" |
a triad
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Frost: "The woods are lovely, ___ and ___ / But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep" |
(Celseste: What is dank and deep?)
dark & deep
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Matthew Henson, author of "A Negro Explorer at the North Pole", was reinterred aptly near this admiral in 1988 |
Peary
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In 1817 at age 51, Eli Whitney wed the 31-year-old granddaughter of this "Great Awakening" clergyman |
(Eugene: Who is Cotton Mather?) (Celeste: Who is Edmunds?)
Jonathan Edwards
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