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In concert Stokowski would dramatically toss these aside to show that he could conduct from memory |
scores
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A mouselike boy grows up with Meg, Jo, Amy & Beth |
Stuart Little Women
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"Fin de siecle" refers specifically to the ending of one of these time periods |
a century
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This largest outdoor theater of ancient Rome was dedicated in 80 A.D |
the Colosseum
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He ran for president 3 times but won only the first time |
Martin Van Buren
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No. 10 on his "Top Ten Signs Your Monkey is a Genius": "Won 30 grand on Jeopardy's monkey week" |
Letterman
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Marin Alsop made news in 2005 as the first one of these to lead a major American symphony orchestra |
a woman
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Anglo-American author of "Daisy Miller's Life of Samuel Johnson" |
Henry James Boswell
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In French, the English Channel is called "La Manche", meaning this part of a shirt or coat |
a sleeve
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In the Roman Empire, one of these equaled 1,000 paces &, on roads, was marked with a special stone |
a mile
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In 1505 this theologian abandoned his legal studies & entered a monastery; by 1507 he was a priest |
Martin Luther
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From this 30th c.-set Fox cartoon: "I always feared he might run off like this. Why? Why? Why didn't I break his legs?" |
Futurama
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Willem Mengelberg & Eduard van Beinum have been chief conductors of this city's Concertgebouw |
(Claire: What is Berlin?) (Alex: No, picked the wrong country. [*]. [*] in the Netherlands.)
Amsterdam
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Revolutionary Thomas Paine pamphlet about men & marriage in a Jane Austen work |
Common Sense and Sensibility
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This 9-letter noun is taken from the old French for "spy" |
espionage
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He died before he could complete "The Aeneid", which he wanted destroyed; it was finished by 2 pals |
Virgil
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This automaker features the Vanquish S & V8 Vantage models...& really, 007, do be careful with them! |
Aston Martin
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On CDs with Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra, Pinchas Zukerman conducts & plays this |
the violin
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Herman Wouk & Leo Tolstoy team up for this epic tome about World War II & the Napoleonic Wars |
The Winds of War and Peace
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Literally, "a la mode" doesn't mean "with ice cream" but this 2-word phrase that's a Time Inc. fashion magazine |
(Alex: "A la mode" means [*].)
In style
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From the 300s to the mid-200s B.C., Rome beat up on these darn folks who lived in what is now Tuscany & Umbria |
the Etruscans
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In 1933 he became chief of staff to Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess |
(Alex: And they're still looking for him. [*].)
Martin Bormann
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Of this Icelandic singer's Oscar dress, Steve Martin said, "I was going to wear my swan, but...they're so last year" |
Björk
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This Finnish-born leader of the L.A. Philharmonic has also composed such works as the cello concerto "Mania" |
(Esa-Pekka) Salonen
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Tough Leon Uris novel about fighting the Japanese & fighting apartheid in South Africa |
Battle Cry, the Beloved Country
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Klondike Kat knows that this hyphenated trait meaning tact or social grace "ees everywhere" |
savoir-faire
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In 71 B.C. this "great" man tried to take credit for ending Spartacus' slave revolt; maybe him & circumstance |
(Alex: Yes! "Pomp And Circumstance". I said the writers would not try that again and obviously they did.)
Pompey
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Chapter 25 of this Dickens novel has the line "He'd make a lovely corpse" |
Martin Chuzzlewit
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As Al Czervik in "Caddyshack" he said, "Oh, this is your grandson, huh?...Now I know why tigers eat their young" |
(Rodney) Dangerfield
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