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In a 1978 attack on the new Narita Airport serving this capital, protesters broke into & trashed its control tower |
Tokyo
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A college in Cambridge, Mass. was named for this man after he left it half his fortune & a 400-book library |
(John) Harvard
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Castle Rock in this novel is the fort where Jack bases his tribe; the conch is later shattered there |
Lord of the Flies
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Thermos bottles use this for insulation between their inner & outer walls |
(Colleen: What is air?) (Roy: What is Thinsulate?) (Alex: No. They use [*]. Remember, "U"2. There will be 2 "U"s in each correct response.)
a vacuum
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Also called the second cranial nerves, you need them to read this clue |
the optic nerves
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The acoustic album called "MTV" this "in New York" earned a Grammy for Nirvana |
Unplugged
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Attacks in 2003 claimed by the Earth Liberation Front on L.A. area auto dealers destroyed 20 of these vehicles |
Hummers
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He developed the first successful steel plow, & his company found tractors to be a fertile market |
John Deere
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At the end of a 1719 novel, this title character sells his Brazilian plantation, marries & visits his old island |
(Colleen: Who... is... Tristram Shandy?)
Robinson Crusoe
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A synonym for "homicidal" |
murderous
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The tingling sensation that arises when the ulnar nerve is struck gives a point on the arm this name |
the funny bone
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Best New Artist winners include John Legend, Maroon 5 & this jazzy singer of "Don't Know Why" |
Norah Jones
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18 years of deadly rage & action towards universities & airlines earned Ted Kaczynski this moniker |
the Unabomber
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As the U.S. Constitution was vague, this V.P. decided to name himself President instead of calling for an election |
(Roy: Who is John Adams?) (Alex: No, who is [*]? [*]. Remember, Harrison died, was the first to die in office.)
John Tyler
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The Duke of Milan is marooned in this play that was inspired by the 1609 wreck of an English ship off Bermuda |
The Tempest
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It's the practice of lending money at a high interest rate |
usury
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This basic unit of life is often tiny, but the nerve type in a giraffe can be 9 feet long |
(Alex: The nerve [*] in a giraffe. Nine feet. Whew!)
cell
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In 2006 U2 won Album of the Year for "How to Dismantle" one of these |
an Atomic Bomb
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In a 1980 antiwar protest, these priest brothers, Daniel & Philip, attacked missile warheads at a G.E. plant |
Berrigan
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The American Library Association awards a medal named for this children's book publisher |
(Roy: Who is Caldecott?)
(John) Newbery
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This title inhabitant of Asteroid B-612 happens upon a pilot stranded in the desert |
The Little Prince
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Type of structure named for a 353 B.C. monument built by Queen Artemisia to honor her dead husband |
a mausoleum
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The first cranial nerve, also called this sensory nerve, ends in the nasal cavity |
the olfactory nerve
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Grammy voters were fixated with this one-named Colombian hottie who won for "Fijacion Oral Vol. 1" |
Shakira
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The name of these English 19th century destroyers of textile equipment can now mean any anti-technologists |
Luddites
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This 3-named American artist was known for portraits of socially prominent people, like the women seen here |
John Singer Sargent
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Karana survives an earthquake, a tidal wave & 18 years alone on an island in this children's story |
Island of the Blue Dolphins
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A small, cone-shaped structure at the back of the soft palate |
a uvula
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Sometimes confused with rheumatism, this pain is named for the longest nerve in the body |
sciatica
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Rage Against the Machine won for a song called this kind of "Radio" (the soldier, not the animal) |
Guerrilla
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