THE ARTS THE NEW YORK TIMES |
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Hooray! Dan Castellaneta's wild 1-man stage show named for this artist doesn't have "a single ear reference" |
Vincent Van Gogh
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This "Bloody" queen was the daughter of King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon |
Mary I ("Bloody Mary")
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On this series, baby Maggie's first words, "Dah-dee", were spoken by Elizabeth Taylor |
The Simpsons
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In this novel, Jack Kerouac depicted himself as Sal Paradise, tagging along after the charismatic Dean Moriarty |
On the Road
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Michigan, Erie & 3 others |
the Great Lakes
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Emily, sobbing, tells Jonas Teri wants her to plead guilty; Jonas starts singing this 1988 Bobby McFerrin hit |
"Don't Worry, Be Happy"
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The 100th birthday of this New England city's Symphony Hall inspired the line "A plain home with a sense of place" |
Boston
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When he visited Europe in 1971, he became the first Japanese monarch to go abroad during his reign |
Emperor Hirohito
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Roz Doyle is his producer & call-screener at Seattle's KACL Radio |
Frasier Crane
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This Conrad character hasn't been dubbed "Lord" yet when he wimps out in a maritime emergency |
Lord Jim
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Proverbially, these "think alike" |
great minds
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Jonas slips Emily a fake passport & a plane ticket to this city, Brazil's most populous |
São Paulo
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"As if St. Thomas Church were not making enough good music with its own choir", this abbey's choir visited in Oct. 2000 |
Westminster Abbey
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American flags flew at half-mast when this Frenchman died in Paris May 20, 1834 |
the Marquis de Lafayette
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In 1997 Carol Burnett won an Emmy for playing Teresa Stemple, Jamie Buchman's mother on this series |
Mad About You
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He does quite a bit of bed-hopping in the 4 John Updike novels featuring him |
Rabbit Angstrom
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In 1861 Dickens finished writing this novel |
Great Expectations
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FBI agent Malone comes into town to find out how a claymore mine got there & see his mom, one of these blood doctors |
(Brooke: What is a hemologist?) (Mark: What is a phlebotomist?)
Hematologist
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The Chamber Music Society of this "Center" put the Times "in a millennial mood" with a "Thousand Years of Love" |
Lincoln Center
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To help him build a poweful navy, this "Magnificent" Ottoman ruler enlisted the aid of Barbarossa |
Suleiman
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MIchelangelo is the middle name of Lewis Kiniski, Ryan Stiles' character on this sitcom |
The Drew Carey Show
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WWII spymaster Vera Atkins inspired this secretary of M in James Bond novels |
Miss Moneypenny
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This vast geographic plateau stretches from northern Colorado to southern Texas |
(Brooke: What is the Great Divide?)
the Great Plains
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Gore Vidal told the Times that JFK gave him one of the lines he used in this 1960 play, revived on Broadway in 2000 |
The Best Man
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Stricken with leprosy, this Scottish king died in seclusion in 1329 |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Robert the Bruce
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This sitcom was based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning columns by humorist Dave Barry |
Dave's World
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A medieval epic about this grail-seeking hero was turned into an opera by Wagner |
(Mark: Who is King Arthur?) ... (Alex: Less than a minute to go.)
Parsifal (or Percival)
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Under the leadership of this man, seen here, his nation doubled in size & became a major European power |
Frederick the Great (of Prussia)
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