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From the Latin for "according to each part", it's a statement of the equality of ratios, like 4:6 equals 2:3 |
proportion
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This Taiwanese director's films include "The Wedding Banquet", "Pushing Hands" & "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" |
(Ang) Lee
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The boulevard dividing Montreal East from West shares this name with Montreal's river |
St. Lawrence
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Auction & contract are 2 types of this game derived from whist |
bridge
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This woman from Georgia is "nuts" for her husband, whom she first dated in college |
Rosalynn Carter
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3! means the product of all the integers from 1 through 3-- so it's this number |
[Alex reads "3!" as "three factorial".]
6
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The submarine models for this 1981 German film were also used in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" |
Das Boot
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The area known as Old Montreal is characterized by streets made from these |
cobblestone
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4 of these "hungry" animals compete to "eat" as fast as possible in a "frantic marble munching game" |
hippos
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One time artistic director of the American Ballet Theater seen here |
Baryshnikov
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Alumni, like some fraternity boys |
alum (or alumnus)
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Not a "perimeter", this means a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to produce other curves |
parameter
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In this 1957 Ingmar Bergman film, a knight back from the Crusades challenges Death to a chess game for his life |
The Seventh Seal
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The classic Montreal hot dog bun isn't grilled or toasted but prepared this way, to be nice & wrinkly |
(Alex: Yes, and they taste great, too.)
steamed
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This actress & director seen here was the valedictorian at her French-language high school in Los Angeles |
(Jodie) Foster
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Criteria |
(Lenzy: What is criterium?) [Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before the Daily Double at clue 29 when "criterium" was found in an old dictionary]
criterion
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Truffaut provided the story for this 1959 Godard film in which Belmondo plays a hood who kills a cop |
Breathless
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"Carte" is French for map, & this is the French explorer who in 1535 put Mount Royal on the map |
(Jacques) Cartier
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This game is a sort of vertical tic-tac-toe, but with the added twist of needing an extra checker in the row |
Connect Four
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He's the "Little Giant" of Illinois seen here |
Stephen Douglas
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For the series 1, 3, 5, 17 the median is 4, arrived at this way |
to take the number that's between 3 and 5 (averaging the 2 middle numbers)
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This 1963 Fellini film was the basis for the 1982 Broadway musical "Nine" |
8 1/2
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In 1811 this fur merchant bequeathed his property at the foot of Mount Royal to start a University |
(Brian: Who was Joliet?) (Alex: No, who is [*]? [*] University, world- famous university. Maybe not...)
McGill
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In this "fishy" game, a reverse hide & seek, the "it" hides, & each person who finds him squeezes into the hiding spot |
(Alex: Obviously, you three have not played [*].)
sardines
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Known to many a slender fellow, he's the big guy seen here as he looked in those magazine ads |
Charles Atlas
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A military term: phalanges |
phalanx
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