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BETH J. SPRUCZAK -- ACCOUNTANT! |
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Goya protested this emperor's invasion of Spain with "Third of May, 1808" |
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The name of this vast region of northern Russia means "sleeping land" |
Siberia
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Beth finds it apt that this taxing process' name comes from Latin for "to hear"--she's heard some whoppers |
an audit
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This word derived from "nose" means the projecting spout of a hose |
Nozzle
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This actor wore tights on the big screen in 1991 as the "Prince Of Thieves" |
Kevin Costner
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Fannie Farmer recommends spicing this traditional Thanksgiving jelly with cinnamon, cloves & allspice |
cranberry jelly
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In September 1981, 44 years after it was painted, this anti-war mural was returned to Spain |
Guernica
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The location of this moving point en"compass"es an area around latitude 76 deg, N., longitude 101 deg. W. |
Magnetic North Pole
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Beth opposed this publisher & GOP candidate's flat tax as bad policy, not because it would hurt CPAs |
Steve Forbes
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Ground dry dog food, or what you do to prepare it |
kibble
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Nicknamed Misha, he defected to the West in 1974 while on tour in Canada |
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Ancient Romans prized the shaggy mane, an ink cap type of this fungus |
a mushroom
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He took the famous photograph of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day |
(Sahir: Who is Rosenthal?)
Alfred Eisenstaedt
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A line called the 50 deg. summer isotherm closely follows this northern limit of forest growth |
the treeline
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When Beth sees pluses & minuses, she calls them these, the 2 columns of a double-entry ledger |
debits & credits
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FM radio broadcasts at 88 to 108 of these units, each one equal to 1 million cycles per second |
megahertz
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In a TV ad, Joe Namath wore this brand of pantyhose to show they'd even improve his legs |
Hanes
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This pliable mixture of almond paste, sugar & egg whites is often molded into fanciful shapes |
marzipan
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Marcel Duchamp's painting, seen here, was part of this movement, a reaction against WWI: |
[Mona Lisa with a Mustache]
Dadaism
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In this country 200,000 people live in Bergen & fewer than 5,000 live way up north on the island of Spitsbergen |
Norway
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A rise in an asset's value, or what Beth feels she doesn't get for staying late calculating it |
(Pam: What is overtime?)
appreciation
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2-word term for a woven container capable of holding a 4-peck measure |
bushel basket
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His autobiography is appropriately titled "Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights" |
(Sahir: Who is Adam West?)
Burt Ward
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Black pepper & cinnamon flavor these spicy cookies whose name is German for "peppernuts" |
Pfeffernüsse
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His 1896 illustrations of Aristophanes' anti-war classic "Lysistrata" were considered licentious |
Aubrey Beardsley
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This explorer gave his name to a bay & an island south of Greenland, but died in the Persian Gulf |
William Baffin
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In 1989 Beth kept her name after marriage, while this firm where she worked joined its name to Ernst's |
(Pam: What is Whinney?)
Young
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It means improbable, remotely linked or perhaps brought from a great distance by Rover |
(Alex: And we have less than a minute to go.)
farfetched
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A leading actor of Shakespeare's time, he probably wore tights as the very first Hamlet |
Richard Burbage
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Oysters Bienville is named for the founder of this Louisiana city |
(Arthur: Who is Lafitte?)
New Orleans
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