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BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES |
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This author's "Sophie's Choice" was the hardcover choice for 1980 |
William Styron
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Presidents Harding, Hoover, Hayes |
Hayes
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You can see many specimens of this common swamp-dwelling tree in the Winter Haven "Gardens" that bear its name |
cypress
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Joseph Fiennes as the Bard meets Ali MacGraw, a dying girl & never says "Sorry" |
Shakespeare in Love Story
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Before it's galvanized, iron is cleaned with this very caustic acid |
hydrochloric acid
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Adjective associated with the character seen here |
[The Hulk]
incredible
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Mr. Sammler, Augie March & Herzog are title characters who've won this author 3 awards |
Saul Bellow
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"All My Children", "All in the Family", "All-Star Anything Goes" |
All My Children
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These islands stretch out about 150 miles from Biscayne Bay into the Gulf of Mexico |
Florida Keys
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Kathleen Turner goes back to high school to wed & become the widow of a Goodfella |
Peggy Sue Got Married to the Mob
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It's the main branch of engineering that studies the mechanical properties of fluids |
hydraulic engineering
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When Nazi Rudolf Hess landed in Britain, this man told Parliament, "The imagination is baffled by the facts" |
Winston Churchill
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Category in which Philip Levine & Wallace Stevens each won twice |
Poetry
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Arizona statehood, California statehood, Wisconsin statehood |
Wisconsin statehood
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Called the Tangerine Bowl until 1983, the Citrus Bowl is held annually in this city |
(Lan: What is Tampa?)
Orlando
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Street hustler Eddie Murphy swaps lives with cotton farmer Sally Field |
Trading Places in the Heart
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These tiny coelenterates equipped with stinging tentacles are found in ponds |
hydras
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The expression "Tell it to" them comes from British Navy men, who thought them gullible |
(Jay: What is "Tell it to the judge"?)
the Marines
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He had a long career: his "Wapshot Chronicle" won in 1958 & his "Stories" in 1981 |
John Cheever
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The books "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "The Sun Also Rises", "A Moveable Feast" |
"The Sun Also Rises"
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Legalized in Florida in 1931, this track sport was devised by Owen Patrick Smith |
greyhound/dog racing
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In this black & white horror classic, zombies also "Seize the Day" with Robin Williams |
Night of the Living Dead Poets Society
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It's an icon or special text on a web page that, when clicked on, moves you to a related page |
hypertext link
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The game seen here, or what something unbelievable might do to your mind |
Boggle
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"A Fable" was a winner for this author in 1955 |
William Faulkner
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Ramses II, Khufu (AKA Cheops), Thutmose III |
(Alex: Minute to go.)
Khufu
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He's the Florida-born country music legend heard here |
(Jay: Who is... who is...)
Slim Whitman
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Charlie Chaplin in the Yukon wears down the shoe leather patrolling with Hong Kong detective Jackie Chan |
The Gold Rush Hour
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His contribution to science was the celluloid strip used in film, not the sanitary strip used in hotels |
John Wesley Hyatt
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Old English for "to confuse" gave us a noun that's a synonym for "labyrinth" as well as this 5-letter verb |
(Eleanor: [No response])
A maze/amaze
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