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THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ROME |
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In 1964 after decades as an actor, Laurence Olivier was stricken with this 2-word type of fear |
stage fright
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This landmark undergoing a big restoration was home in 2001 to the historical exhibit "Blood and Arena" |
the Colosseum
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In '99 this Canadian hockey great published "99: My Life in Pictures" |
Wayne Gretzky
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When the last of these animals died on Mauritius in 1681, it was as dead as--itself |
a dodo
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In this 1959 William Gibson drama, Helen Keller realizes things have names |
The Miracle Worker
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"Glory, glory Hallelujah!" begins the chorus of this patriotic "Hymn" |
"Battle Hymn Of The Republic"
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(Sofia gives the clue.) In punishments of yore, the pillory had a hole for the head; these just held the feet and sometimes hands |
(Lisa: What are shackles?)
stocks
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A podium & 3 columns remain from the temple he built to Venus for granting his win over Pompey |
Julius Caesar
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Austrian Franz Klammer's skiing specialty, or the way his career went in the late '70s |
downhill
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Equinoxes occur when these 2 things are of approximately equal length everywhere on Earth |
day & night ("Daylight and darkness, or nighttime" accepted)
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Sinclair Lewis' real estate salesman who's "never done a single thing I've wanted to do in my whole life" |
Babbitt
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"Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power? Are you washed in" this? |
(Lisa: What is his blood?) (Alex: Be more specific.) (Lisa: What is Jesus' blood?) (Alex: No.) (Roger: What is the blood of Jesus?) (Alex: No.) ... (Alex: What is [*]? "Are you washed in [*]?")
the blood of the lamb
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Some western stagecoaches had a spot under the driver's seat for this "box" of valuables |
(Lisa: What is a stash box?)
a strongbox
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Of Keats, Shelley or Byron, the British poet whose remains are not buried in Rome |
(Lisa: Who is Keats?)
Byron
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Golf's Ryder Cup & Solheim Cup are competitions between these 2 teams |
the Americans & the Europeans
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Also a term for a celestial object, this shape may be described by the rotation of a circle about its diameter |
a sphere
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Do this, do this "for Jesus, Ye soldiers of the cross" |
Stand up, stand up
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This popular method of aging jeans often uses pumice |
stone washing
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If you're Rome for the holidays, check out the Pope's balcony speech "Urbi et Orbi" at noon on this day |
(Roger: What is Easter?) [Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before Final Jeopardy!]
Christmas
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Named after a planet, its atomic number is 92 |
(Danielle: What is plutonium?) (Roger: What is mercury?)
Uranium
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An adaptation of Psalm 90 begins, "O God our help in" these, "Our hope in years to come" |
ages past
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Meaning "containing tin", it precedes "fluoride" in the name of a useful compound |
(Roger: I will risk $1,430.) (Alex: There must be a significance to that. What is it?) (Roger: There is. Something between me and my wife.) [Laughter] (Alex: There are no secrets on Jeopardy!) ... (Roger: [Shakes head] (Alex: Correct response, "What is [*]?" [*] fluoride. Minute to go, and the secret between you and your wife remains safe for the time being.)
stannous
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You might stay at Le Grand Hotel, founded in 1894 by Cesar Ritz with this top chef in charge of the opening banquet |
Escoffier
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Once a teen tennis sensation, this American won her first Grand Slam singles title at the 2001 Australian Open |
(Lisa: Who is [*]?) (Alex: I'll tell you who she is. She's a pretty good tennis player. Go again.)
Jennifer Capriati
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In 1974 Stephen Hawking became one of the youngest members ever of this "Royal" group founded in 1660 |
the British Royal Society
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Among Martin Luther King's last words were a request for the hymn asking him to "take my hand" |
Precious Lord
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