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This show tune says, "All through my wild days, my mad existence, I kept my promise, don't keep your distance" |
"Don't Cry For Me Argentina"
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This Lake Poet "wandered lonely as a cloud... when all at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils" |
(Martin: Who is Keats?)
Wordsworth
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The Manx cat is native to this landmass in the Irish Sea |
the Isle of Man
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This term for a medical institution is from the Latin for "of the guest" |
hospital
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The song standard "You Belong To Me" begins, "See" these "along the Nile, watch the sunrise on a tropic isle" |
the pyramids
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Tennyson wrote, "Back from the mouth of hell, all that was left of them, left of" this number |
(Ted: What is the nine hundred?) ... (Alex: All in the valley of death rode the [*]. You added 300. They might have won the battle if they had 300 more, who knows!)
six hundred
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In a '60s song lyric, "in the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin'" this title guy |
(Carla: Who is the Candy Man?)
(Mr.) Tambourine Man
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From the Latin for "assembly", it's a religious community of nuns |
a convent
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Though it disses him, Neil Young admits this Lynyrd Skynyrd song is a great one & he's even performed it live |
"Sweet Home Alabama"
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She wrote, "'Faith' is a fine invention when gentlemen can see-- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency" |
(Carla: Who is Dorothy Parker?)
Emily Dickinson
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This annual event takes place on an empty lakebed in the Black Rock Desert, 90 miles north of Reno |
Burning Man
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These typographical symbols take their name from the Latin for "to bring to a point" |
punctuation
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Their 1988 hit "Kokomo" mentions "Aruba, Jamaica, ooo I wanna take you to Bermuda, Bahama..." |
The Beach Boys
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A Stephen Vincent Benet poem ends, "You may bury my tongue at Champmedy... bury my heart at" this place |
(Ted: What is Tinturn Abbey?) (Alex: Oh no, you can bury my heart at [*].) (Ted: I was there this summer.) (Alex: Ahhh. Well, you're going to remember it even more now, aren't you?)
Wounded Knee
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Leonardo's "Proportions of Man" is also called this, after a 1st century B.C. architect |
(Alex: Think of The Da Vinci Code, and [*].)
Vitruvian Man
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Chiro- |
(Martin: What is the spine?)
hand
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In "South Pacific" this mysterious & exotic island "may call you, any night, any day" |
Bali Ha'i
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One of Robert Browning's dramatic poems concerned this little mill-girl who "Passes" by |
Pippa
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Works by this author include "Buddenbrooks" & "The Magic Mountain" |
Thomas Mann
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Phlebo- |
(Martin: What is blood?) (Alex: Nnnnnnno, sorry. Carla or Ted? You were close, but you had to think of something like phlebotomy for [*].)
blood vessel (or vein)
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Derived from plant & animal wastes, this alt. energy source takes its name from the Latin for "living cake" |
(Carla: What is compost?)
biomass
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