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A NICOLE KIDMAN FILM FESTIVAL |
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PRESIDENTIAL HITCHING POSTS |
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Sir Edwin Landseer was lionized for the lions he created for Nelson's Column in this square |
Trafalgar
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Nicole sings & dances at a famous Paris nightspot |
Moulin Rouge!
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George & Martha Washington, on Jan. 6, 1759 |
Virginia
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Stereo recordings have the vocals on one of these & instruments on the other, so you can "surf" between them |
channels
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In May 2005 the city of Hibbing honored him with a street sign named in his honor--how does it feel... |
Bob Dylan
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A famous one of these embroidered wall hangings bears the name of the French town of Bayeux |
a tapestry
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Canaletto used a camera obscura to help him get those sweeping views of this, his hometown |
(Cindi: What is Paris?)
Venice
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Nicole waits for her Confederate soldier boy to return from the war |
Cold Mountain
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Harry & Bess Truman, on June 28, 1919 |
Missouri
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We're attuned to midrange sounds; bass sounds or those with this other clef name sound softer than they really are |
treble
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Reportedly the richest man in the world when he died in 1976, he was born in Minneapolis in 1892 |
Jean Paul Getty
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One form of this event sticks to dry land & features only the 200-meter dash, high jump & shot put |
the triathlon
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This beautiful painting by Gustav Klimt has the same name as a famous sculpture by Rodin |
The Kiss
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Nicole moves to an exclusive Connecticut town where the women are rather robotic |
The Stepford Wives
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Calvin & Grace Coolidge, on Oct. 4, 1905 |
(Katie: What is Massachusetts?)
Vermont
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He's the familiar National Public Radio personality heard here
"That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above-average..." |
Garrison Keillor
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Any Boy Scout could tell you it's a 10-letter word for "novice" |
(Katie: All right, well, I guess I gotta be ambitious, so... let's go with... oh, $2500.) ... (Alex: Hurry.) (Katie: ...Oh, webelo!--no.)
tenderfoot
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Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne is famed for his busts of Montesquieu, Mme. de Pompadour & this "Candide" author |
Voltaire
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TV weatherperson Nicole recruits 3 teenagers to kill her husband |
(Alex: Yes, with a minute to go.)
To Die For
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William H. & Helen Taft, on June 19, 1886 |
(Nate: Yipe.) (Alex: Did I hear you say "Yipe"?) (Nate: I did.) (Alex: Oh.) (Nate: Okay, well we'll go $4238. I just wanna make your guys do math.) [Laughter]
Ohio
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Vibrations at certain frequencies are called harmonics or these "tones" |
overtones
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Every July on Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, a pageant is presented honoring this children's author |
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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This philosophy emphasizing the intuitive & spiritual above the empirical is associated with Emerson |
(Cindi: Oh...oh...oh...um, what is [*]?) (Alex: You are right.) (Cindi: Whew!)
transcendentalism
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The Rokeby Venus is the only surviving example of a female nude by this 17th century Spanish portrait artist |
Velázquez
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Nicole leaves Ireland & seeks a new life in 1890s America |
Far and Away
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Martin & Hannah Van Buren, on Feb. 21, 1807 |
New York
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Oh, this man from Maine, Minnesota, with the middle initial "O", was the longest-serving Supreme Court justice |
William O. Douglas
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Silent, saying nothing; this adjective can often be found before "approval" |
tacit
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