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The parentage of his daughter Elena is still a mystery; she was born in 1818, but not to his wife Mary |
Shelley
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Van Morrison, The Doors, U2 & Laura Branigan all sang about girls named this |
Gloria
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After one of these "feral" birds was released into a park, "Alcoholics... hunt it down & try to drink it" |
(Susan: What is a turkey?) (Alex: Be more specific.)
a wild turkey
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America's first lighthouse, completed in Boston in 1716, was illuminated primarily by this type of oil |
whale
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Summer temps can rise above 120 in this country that gained its independence in 1971 |
Qatar
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The opium-induced sleep that inspired his "Kubla Khan" was an omen; he later became dependent on the drug |
(Samuel Taylor) Coleridge
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Elvis Costello tells this title girl, "My aim is true" |
Alison
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"American youth still not convinced that criminal plans should not be posted on" this popular website |
(Chris: What is... Facebook?)
Myspace(.com)
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From May 13 to September 30, floodlights illuminate the 60-foot heads at this site |
Mount Rushmore
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It's a horn-shaped nose, no pants & no problem for this pyramid-hopping '80s arcade favorite |
Q*bert
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At university, this poetic lord developed a "violent, though pure, love" for young chorister John Edleston |
Byron
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"You fill up my senses, come fill me again" like this gal from a John Denver song |
Annie
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"Noodle shop accused of aiding drunk driving. That's because nobody left the place" this buckwheat noodle |
(Alex: You like it?)
soba
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The first city to illuminate its streets by electricity was Wabash in this state in 1880 |
Indiana
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This 3-letter term (an abbreviation, really) means "which was to be demonstrated" |
QED
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This Russian poet's flagrant affair with a married countess got him kicked out of Odessa in 1824 |
Pushkin
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No one's really sure who this title girl is in the piece heard here |
(Alex: [*], Beethoven's "Fur [*]".)
Elise
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Church of England debating female these; "Critics say move won't help women to move forward, only diagonally" |
bishops
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Henry Jones, M.A. 1624, made quite an alumni gift to Ireland's Trinity College--this illuminated manuscript |
(Susan: What is a Gutenberg Bible?) (Alex: Oh, no. What is the famous [*]?)
Book of Kells
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We hear this product's website says it's "the ultimate beauty tool" |
a Q-tip
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This poet whose first name was Algernon was described as the "libidinous laureate of a pack of satyrs" |
Swinburne
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The Plain White T's, not Tom Jones, scored a hit with the 2006 ballad "Hey There" this girl |
Delilah
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"Bush says he'll welcome" this Palestinian president "to U.S. but only if they agree to play 'Dancing Queen'" |
(Doug: Who is Abba? Keep--oh.) (Alex: No. Chris or Susan? Doug, you made the mistake of coming up with the dancing group instead of the leader--[*].) (Doug: Okay.) (Alex: Left off the "s".)
Abbas
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In photometry, a unit of measure for the intensity of illumination is this one with an appendage in its name |
(Doug: What's the F-stop?)
a foot-candle
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Dvorak is an alternative to this standard keyboard layout |
QWERTY
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