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He wrote, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate" |
Shakespeare
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For our 30th I splurged & got you this 1971 Janis Joplin album on original vinyl |
(Cathy: What is Big Brother & the Holding Company?) ... (Alex:Yes, pearl is the gift for the 30th anniversary.)
Pearl
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The Mafia crops up twice in the Encarta article on this largest Mediterranean island |
Sicily
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At 964 yards, the seventh at the Satsuki golf course in Sano, Japan hold this record |
the longest hole of a golf course
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It may be found above a Polish Z, or in World Wide Web addresses |
a dot
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Work that contains the line "I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life!" |
"How Do I Love Thee?" (Sonnets from the Portuguese)
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This Hungarian actress once remarked, "I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back" |
[Alex reads the quote in his best Zsa Zsa accent.]
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I bet you didn't expect 50 hours of episodes of this Bea Arthur-Rue McClanahan series for our 50th anniversary |
Golden Girls
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Genoa's ceding of this island to France in 1768 made Napoleon (born there in 1769) French |
Corsica
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Red Rock, one of these, a Brahma-Hereford mix, bucked off a record 312 riders |
a bull
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When typing in Microsoft Word, ctrl-alt-shift-? will do this to the question mark, as in Spanish |
invert it or turn it upside down
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It's uncertain whether his "On His Blindness" referred to his physical affliction or doubts about his poetic talent |
(John) Milton
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It was the Buddha's family name |
Gautama
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For our fifth anniversary I got you an autographed photo of this first wife of Robert Wagner |
Natalie Wood
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The statue seen here was found on this island in the Aegean, an "arm" of the Mediterranean |
(Cathy: What is Crete?) ... (Alex: The island is [*], that was the Venus de Milo. She had no arms, even though it was found in an "arm" of the Mediterranean.)
Milos
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The most points in an NBA game, the most points & most complete games played in an NBA season-- this guy |
(Cathy: Who is Michael Jordan?)
(Wilt) Chamberlain
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The name of this U.S. state can be spelled with an okina, or glottal stop |
Hawai'i
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In John Donne's "Holy Sonnets", it precedes "though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so" |
(Judy: [Shakes head])
Death be not proud
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This existential Frenchman's plays include "The Maids" & "The Balcony" |
Jean Genet
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Forgot our 14th? Tusk...Tusk... How about a trip to this French-speaking neighbor of Liberia |
Ivory Coast
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The Emperor Tiberius lived on this island at the entrance to the Bay of Naples |
Capri
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Having won a total of 20 titles, this American-born woman is queen of Wimbledon |
Billie Jean King
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Last name of brother & sister poets Dante Gabriel & Christina Georgina, both of whom wrote sonnets |
Rossetti
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She was the first woman to lead the world's largest democracy |
Indira Gandhi
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For our 20th, how about a cruise to this body of water between Vietnam & the Philippines |
the South China Sea
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From 1530 to 1798 the Knights Hospitalers had control of this island, now a republic including Gozo & Comino |
Malta
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In 1993 Tyler Farstad did 97 consecutive double-leg circles on this gym apparatus |
(Tom: What is a horse?) (Alex: Be more specific.) (Tom: What is [*]?)
the pommel horse
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The circumflex in the French words hôtel & hôpital signifies that this letter once followed the O |
(Cathy: What is a C?) ... (Alex: What is [*], as in [with French accent] hospital, hostel.)
an S
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