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The mouthpiece of an oboe contains a double one |
a reed
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Huck, as in Huck Finn, is short for this |
Huckleberry Finn
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Leonard Maltin said this '84 mermaid film was "a bit too long, but... I really don't want to carp" |
Splash
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For his books on the Cossacks of the Don River Mikhail Sholokhov won this top prize in 1965 |
the Nobel Prize for Literature
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After this bird rose up from its ashes, it would gather them into a ball & fly them to Egypt |
the phoenix
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Most members of an ant colony are these, as opposed to resters |
workers
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A flamenco dancer should also be accomplished on these percussion instruments |
castanets
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He gave Charlie a tour of his chocolate factory |
Willy Wonka
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As Eliot Ness, Kevin Costner cleaned up the mess in Chicago in this 1987 film |
The Untouchables
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While there were a few mechanized units, the Cossacks in WWII mainly served in these units |
cavalry
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The name of Agni, the Hindi fire god, gave us this word meaning "to start a fire" |
ignite (or ignition)
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Like termites, ants are this type of insect, not solitary |
social
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Heard here & in a 1997 film, the Grimethorpe Colliery Band is this type of "heavy metal" band: |
a brass band
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1938 Daphne Du Maurier novel in which you find the second Mrs. De Winter of our discontent |
Rebecca
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Robin Williams "sail"ed into movie stardom as this title character in a Robert Altman film |
(Ginny: What is The Fisher King?) (Dave: Uh-oh...)
Popeye
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For a while the city of Kharkiv, founded as a Cossack outpost, replaced Kiev as capital of this republic |
Ukraine
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When Phaeton borrowed his dad Helios' chariot, he was joy-riding on this heavenly body |
the Sun
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If you want a mound built to damage farm machinery, "hire" these ants |
(Dave: What are carpenter ants?)
fire ants
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It's played tilted back on the right shoulder; the shortest of the 47 strings are closest to the body |
(Dave: What is a dulcimer?)
the harp
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This author felt he had no choice but to create Sophie Zawistowska |
William Styron
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It's the last name of the politician played by Paul Newman in the clip seen here: |
(Earl) Long (from the movie Blaze)
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In 1992 this Russian president granted the Cossacks the status of an ethnic group |
Boris Yeltsin
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Siegfried discovered this woman asleep in a ring of fire |
Brunhilde
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Amazon ants become masters when they steal the young from other nests & make them these |
slaves
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Popularized by Lionel Hampton, you have to plug it in first |
a vibraphone (or vibes)
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Where's Mr. Waldo? In this Welsh poet's "Under Milk Wood" |
Dylan Thomas
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This offbeat director cast himself as a nutty psychiatrist in his own film "Hairspray" |
John Waters
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The name Cossack comes from "Kazak", a word in this language that also gave us the word yogurt |
Turkish
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Apollo tells this Roman blacksmith god that Venus is cheating on him, in the painting seen here: |
Vulcan
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The extinct passenger pigeon & this African army ant are both known for moving in huge swarms |
driver ants
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