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Arcesilaus founds the "Second Academy" of this city |
(David: What is Alexandria?)
Athens
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James Bradley & Ron Powers' book was the basis for this 2006 film about the 6 men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima |
Flags of Our Fathers
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"Pump & dump" scams target these, increasing their value for a short time before the bottom falls out |
stocks
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Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny are just a few of this British author's hare-brained protagonists |
Beatrix Potter
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One of the planets: "RNS" |
Uranus
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Romania has a 100-mile coastline on this "dark" body of water |
the Black Sea
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This ancient wonder depicted here, is completed |
the Colossus of Rhodes
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(Hi, I'm Scott Turow.) This man starred as Rusty Sabich, a lawyer accused of murder, when my novel "Presumed Innocent" was made into a film |
Harrison Ford
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Shirley Jackson could tell you that many people in 2006 were duped by e-mails claiming they'd won millions in these |
lotteries
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In "The Doors of Perception", he described the "Brave New World" of drug experimentation |
(Aldous) Huxley
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Once a part of the Warsaw Pact, Romania joined this military alliance in 2004 |
NATO
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The Pharos Lighthouse is built in this Egyptian city |
Alexandria
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She starred as Augusten Burroughs' unstable mom in "Running With Scissors" |
Annette Bening
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In 2004 the FTC filed suit against a Co. offering a magnetic device that purportedly increased this in cars by 27% |
gas mileage
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This 19th C. novelist's name gave us an adjective that's used to mean squalid or impoverished |
Charles Dickens
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It's a gas! (& an element): "NN" |
neon
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The spine of the country is formed by these mountains, the eastward continuation of the Alps |
(Kate: What are the Caucasus?)
the Carpathians
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Greek mathematician Eratosthenes famously calculates the circumference of this |
the Earth
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In 2005 he starred in "Jarhead", based on a memoir, & co-starred in "Brokeback Mountain", based on a short story |
Jake Gyllenhaal
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Chicagoans were advised by Illinois' attorney general to beware of phony invitations to tapings of this woman's TV show |
Oprah
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The home in Haworth, seen here, is where these three sisters wrote novels |
the Brontës
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A Native American people: "PCH" |
Apache
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The capital city of Bucharest is on the Dimbovita River, a tributary of this larger, more fabled river |
the Danube
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Beginning more than 4 centuries of rule, this 3-letter dynasty is founded in China |
Han
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2 flims with this title got Oscar nominations, one based on a Dreiser novel, the other on a Stephen King book |
(Susan: What is Misery?)
Carrie
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In 2004 this "Long Island Lothario" got a year in jail for running an L.A. car insurance scam |
Joey Buttafuoco
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From the early 1900s, his "The First Men in the Moon" & "The War in the Air" proved eerily prophetic |
(Alex: You're probably more familiar with War of the Worlds by [*].)
H.G. Wells
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A country in Africa: "THP" |
Ethiopia
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Stick your neck out in this mountainous region of Romania whose name means "beyond the forest" |
Transylvania
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