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Both the parents of this Serb dictator committed suicide |
(L: Who is Milosec Slobo...(time)?) (minute to go...)
Slobodan Milosevic
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He's a bestselling author as well as a familiar voice
"It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my hometown..." |
Garrison Keillor
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Boris Yeltsin, Boris Becker, Boris Karloff |
Boris Karloff
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Guinevere strangles herself with her own hair in the Chausson opera named for this king |
King Arthur
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The fiesta at the heart of Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" takes place in this bull-running city |
Pamplona
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When I take off all my clothes, I'm this, just like a salad without its vinaigrette |
Undressed
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Throughout 1998 Serb forces battled the KLA, an abbreviation for this |
Kosovo Liberation Army
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Tom & Ray, hosts of this auto show, delivered the 1999 commencement address at their alma mater, M.I.T. |
Car Talk
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Philip the Fair, Alfred the Great, Ivan the Terrible |
(J: Who is Philip the Fair?)
Alfred the Great
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In "Luisa Miller", Rodolfo kills himself & Luisa by this method -- he must have seen "Lucrezia Borgia" |
Poisoning
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In "Moby Dick", the Pequod sails from this "New" Massachusetts seaport |
New Bedford
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Gangster-land, or Hades' domain |
Underworld
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On March 31, 1999 3 U.S. soldiers were captured while patrolling near this country's border with Serbia |
(M: What is Montenegro?)
Macedonia
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On Public Radio International, you can hear the refined tones of this "World Service" |
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)
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Marion Morrison, Jim Morrison, Toni Morrison |
Marion Morrison (better known as John Wayne)
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Of a lake, a moat or a sewer, it's where Iris drowns herself in Mascagni's opera "Iris" |
Sewer
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Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon" plays out darkly in this California city |
San Francisco
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It's the "U" in UFO |
Unidentified
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Serbs hold Kosovo dear because they lost a 1389 battle there to this empire |
Ottoman Empire
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Since 1979 Bob Edwards has hosted this NPR program that many wake up to |
Morning Edition
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Pope Paul VI, Pope Pius XII, Pope John XXIII |
Pope Pius XII
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In "The Stone Guest", this Spanish seducer mocks a statue, which retaliates by dragging him down to hell |
(M: Who is Casanova?) (buzzer sounds)
Don Juan
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It's the fictional county where 14 Faulkner novels are set |
(Alex: (after two bungled pronounciation attempts) I can pronounce it right when I concentrate!)
Yoknapatawpha County
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Eve Harrington is probably the most famous one |
(J: What is an unknown actress?) (Alex: You were on the right track.)
Understudy
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This capital of Kosovo that dates back to medieval times was devastated by air raids & "ethnic cleansing" |
Pristina
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Low-concept weekly program heard here
"I'm Ira Glass. Each week, of course, on our program, we choose a theme..." |
This American Life
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Leonardo's "Mona Lisa", "Last Supper", "The Adoration of the Magi" |
"The Adoration of the Magi"
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Much of "Othello", including Desdemona's murder, takes place on this large island |
(L: What is Sicily?)
Cyprus
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King Ethelred's adjective |
"The Unready"
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