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THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA |
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CROSSWORD CLUES 2nd LETTER "U" |
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On August 26, 1958 it voted by a 5-1 margin for statehood |
(Ryan: What is Hawaii?)
Alaska
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We didn't download music, we listened to the radio to hear this "Mr. Tambourine Man", Jakob's father |
Bob Dylan
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It's believed he wrote "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to be performed at a wedding |
William Shakespeare
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The vice president serves as the presiding officer, or president, of this U.S. government body |
the Senate
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The orchestra's great conductor Leopold Stokowski discarded this to lead the music with his hands |
the baton
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On January 20, 1997 he said, "At this last presidential inauguration of the twentieth century..." |
(Ryan: Who is William Rehnquist?)
Bill Clinton
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Today you have your raps & your raves; in the '60s, this Asian country had a real cultural revolution |
(Ryan: What is Vietnam?)
China
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In the late 1920s he penned what many consider his greatest novel, "The Sound and the Fury" |
William Faulkner
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Cardiological term often used for the distance the vice president is "away" from the most powerful office in the land |
heartbeat
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The orchestra toured so much that conductor Eugene Ormandy quipped this is a nice town & they should play there |
Philadelphia (their home base)
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One may be vacuum or inner (4) |
tube
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(Hi, I'm Christine King Farris) In Oslo, Norway, in 1964, my brother became the youngest recipient of this |
Nobel Peace Prize
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Not any artist could sell for millions like today; he had to be a master like this "Night Watch" Dutchman |
Rembrandt
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In "Lord of the Flies" he explored the dark side of human nature |
William Golding
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He told Abigail that the vice presidency was "the most insignificant office" contrived or conceived |
John Adams
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The orchestra has 2 harpists, 4 bassoonists & 32 of these |
violinists
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Pro baseball bench site (6) |
dugout
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On May 21, 1927 this American landed in Paris & was welcomed by a crowd of about 100,000 |
Charles Lindbergh
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They didn't make crazy movies into Broadway shows, they took books like this Artful Dodger Dickens classic |
(Katherine: What is "Boys of Summer?")
"Oliver Twist"
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"Lyrical Ballads", a poetry collection by Coleridge & this man, includes his famous "Tintern Abbey" |
(Andy: Who is Wadsworth?) (Katherine: Wordsworth?) (Alex: No, can't accept that. Katherine, you didn't phrase it in the form of a question; you just said "Wordsworth"; sorry, but in Double Jeopardy, we have to rule against you in that situation.)
William Wordsworth
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The official music for the vice president, "Hail Columbia" is the veep's equivalent of this march |
"Hail to the Chief"
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The orchestra's first concert at the Academy of Music, its home 1900-2001, featured this man's 1805 Fifth Symphony |
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Greek geometry genius (6) |
Euclid
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On June 17, 1972 5 were arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ in this Washington, D.C. apartment complex |
the Watergate building
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We didn't have the Springer show, but we watched this leader seen here have a "kitchen debate" with Nixon |
Nikita Khrushchev
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In his poem about a "tyger", he asked, "Did he who made the lamb make thee?" |
(Alex: We have less than a minute to go.)
William Blake
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The vice president attends meetings of the president's cabinet & is a member of this, the NSC |
National Security Council
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The orchestra is heard in the 1937 movie "100 Men and a Girl" & this 1940 Disney film |
Fantasia
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New Year's Eve song (4,4,4) |
"Auld Lang Syne"
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