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The Japanese call their country this, meaning "Source Of The Sun" |
(G: What is Dai-Nippon?) (see clue #16)
Nippon/Nihon
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In a 1992 film Jack Nicholson portrayed this labor leader |
Jimmy Hoffa
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This German completed his "Chromatic Fantasy And Fugue" for harpsichord in 1730 |
Johann Sebastian Bach
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The Japan & Peru Currents are among those that warm & cool coastal areas of this ocean |
Pacific Ocean
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Proverbially, it "breaks the camel's back" |
(The last) Straw
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This automobile company is headquartered in a city of the same name in Aichi prefecture |
(G: What is Nissan?)
Toyota
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In a 1995 biographical epic, Nick Nolte played this future president "In Paris" |
Thomas Jefferson
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He was born in Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, in 1810, to a French father & a Polish mother |
Frederic Chopin
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An undersea sill from Tunisia to Sicily splits this sea into eastern & western basins |
Mediterranean Sea
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Hosted by Roy Clark & Buck Owens, it was country music's equivalent of "Laugh-In" |
Hee Haw
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In 1995 PM Murayama issued the first of these rather than mere regrets over Japan's WWII behavior |
Apologies
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This 1987 film about Ritchie Valens took its title from one of Valens' hit records |
La Bamba
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This Russian was known for his "Scythian Suite" before he wrote "Peter And The Wolf" |
Sergei Prokofiev
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This sea is less saline than its Atlantic connection due to fresh water from the Thames & other rivers |
North Sea
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Famous Marys of Motown include Mary Wells & this original member of the Supremes |
Mary Wilson
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A left-handed person |
Southpaw
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If you want to keep a cool head, be sparing with this Japanese horseradish on your sushi |
Wasabi
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Actress Billie Burke was an adviser for a 1936 musical biopic about this "great" husband |
(G: Who is Barrymore?)
Florenz Ziegfeld
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This Austrian lieder composer often performed at parties but gave only one public concert, in 1828 |
Franz Schubert
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Due to changes in air pressure, the water level of this Swiss-French lake can vary as much as 5' in 30 min. |
Lake Geneva
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This noted anthropologist passed away in Nairobi in 1996 |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Mary Leakey
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Cartoon character seen here: (his sidekick was Baba Looey) |
(Alex: Gary, we have a change in scoring - your response of "Dai Nippon" is acceptable, since it's the designation the Japanese use for their country, so you get $400 back)
Quick Draw McGraw
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The comic theatrical form Kyogen evolved in response to the tediousness & "negativity" of these plays |
(G: What is kabuki?)
Noh
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Candice Bergen must have had the time of her "Life" playing this famous photographer in "Gandhi" |
Margaret Bourke-White
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This Bohemian composer set his masterpiece, "The Bartered Bride", in Bohemia |
(Alex: We have less than a minute to go, Gary.)
Bedrich Smetana
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Except for its easternmost extremity, this strait lies entirely within Chilean waters |
Strait of Magellan
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While living in France, she was invited by Edgar Degas to exhibit her works with the impressionists |
Mary Cassatt
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It's the old art of carving on whalebone or walrus tusks |
Scrimshaw
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