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In the 1660s puppet shows featuring this pair, a hook-nosed hunchback & his shrewish wife, became popular |
Punch & Judy
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The glaze lipstick that this ex-intern wore for a 1999 TV interview was discontinued, so women clamor for it on eBay |
(Monica) Lewinsky
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Named from Hebrew words for "father of many", this Patriarch has a shrine built for him in Mecca |
Abraham
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In Mon., Oct. 23, 2006's Times you may have read of Panamanians' vote to modernize this at a cost of $5.25 billion |
the Panama Canal
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With about 12 million barrels each day, this country leads the world in oil imports, followed by China & Japan |
the United States
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A snail in Strasbourg |
(Zach: What is...)
escargot
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After John Milton died in 1674, his widow sold all the rights to this work for a paltry 8 pounds |
Paradise Lost
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Director M. Night Shyamalan played the doctor who sees Haley Joel Osment after he's traumatized at a party in this film |
The Sixth Sense
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This Athenian philosopher who died in 399 B.C. was highly regarded for his self-control & moral outlook |
Socrates
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On Tues., Dec. 9, 2006 the Times said the U.S. would now sell nuclear fuel to this Asia country |
(Ben: What is North Korea?) (Zach: What is Bangladesh?) [ERRATUM: The article in question was published on Saturday, December 9, 2006, not Tuesday.]
India
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This country is the world's largest producer of crude oil & is home to the world's largest oil reserves |
Saudi Arabia
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A burrowing "terrestrial" annelid |
an earthworm
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He developed the first reflecting telescope, which featured a concave mirror, a flat mirror & an eyepiece |
(Ben: Who is Galileo?)
Isaac Newton
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In 1999, Broadway audiences could see "The Lion King" or Laurence Fishburne plying King Henry II in this "Leonine" play |
(Alex: And that play was [*].)
The Lion In Winter
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This Muslim Sultan was devoted to Jihad & recaptured Jerusalem in the 12th Century |
Saladin
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Wed., Dec. 21, 2005's Times said a judge stopped a Penn. district from teaching this as an alternative to evolution |
intelligent design
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In 2004 producers said high prices partly result from not building any new ones of these in the U.S. since the '70s |
refineries
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This part of a music mixing board controls features like treble & bass |
equalizer
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The Restoration began in 1660 when this royal house was returned to the throne with the crowning of Charles II |
the Stuart family
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A tongue-in-cheek tribute on the Emmy Awards featured the many deaths of this animated character |
(Alex: Yes, of South Park.)
Kenny
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The subjects of this Greek's writing included anatomy, dreams & the theory that diseases are not divine in origin |
(Alex: You know him better because of his famous oath--[*].)
Hippocrates
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On Thurs., Jan. 11, 2007 the Times reported the first public U.S. Military action in this African nation since 1994 |
(Zach: What is...)
Somalia
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The largest known oil field in the U.S. is at Prudhoe Bay in this state |
Alaska
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11-letter word meaning to use known facts to infer or draw conclusions about something unknown |
extrapolate
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In his 1690 work "Two Treatises of Government", he argued against the Divine Right of Kings |
(John) Locke
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8 years after their farewell concert, this duo reunited for a New Year's Eve show--sort of a "Girls Night Out" |
(Amy: Who are Salt-N-Pepa?)
Naomi & Wynonna Judd
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This orator, 106-43 B.C., tried to uphold Republican principles in the Civil War that destroyed Rome |
(Ben: Who is Demosthenes?) ... (Alex: Who was [*]? Rome.)
Cicero
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Fri., April 13, 2007 had unlucky news for Don Imus: "off the air" for remarks about female athletes from this school |
Rutgers
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Leading to the end of whale oil use, Abraham Gesner distilled a new fuel from coal in 1846 & named it this |
kerosene
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"The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong", says chapter 9 of this book of the Bible |
Ecclesiastes
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