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In the late 1790s Friedrich Hornemann became the first modern European to cross this desert |
(Alex: A minute to go.)
Sahara
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"Rasputin and the Empress" was the only joint film appearance of siblings Lionel, Ethel & John of this family |
Barrymore
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I know, it's a poem about the inventor of the telephone & his family |
(Dave: What is Bell?)
"The Bells"
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8 generations of male collies have played this legendary film & TV female |
Lassie
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In most cases, if a year can be divided by this number, it'll be a leap year |
4
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In this Neil Simon play, Oscar tells Murray that the green sandwiches are "either very new cheese or very old meat" |
"The Odd Couple"
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Stanley wanted him to return to England, but he decided to keep searching for the Nile's source |
Dr. David Livingstone
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"Lust for Life", starring Kirk Douglas, was based on Irving Stone's book about this Dutch artist |
Vincent Van Gogh
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Sure, it's a tale about a peach stone & a clock |
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
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This fictional dog is based on one named Spike that was Charles Schulz' childhood pet |
Snoopy
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Nothing in the sky has a cycle of this duration; it came from the Jews observing a day of rest |
(Dave: What is 7?) ... (Alex: There are 7 days in [*], but we were going for [*].)
a week
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Novelist Richard Condon said that cheese is "the adult form of" this beverage |
(Nathan: What is beer?)
milk
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On Christmas Day, 1497 this Portuguese navigator sighted & named Natal in South Africa |
Vasco da Gama
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Nightclub comic played by Dustin Hoffman in a 1974 biopic |
Lenny Bruce
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In this story an earthquake takes down a Broadway theater... right? |
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
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Rescued from an animal shelter, this shaggy hero has starred in 4 movies including "Oh, Heavenly Dog!" |
Benji
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(Hi, I'm Vanessa Marcil) It's the length of my stay on "General Hospital", or a senator's term |
6 years
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John Hanning Speke accompanied him twice on explorations into Africa's interior, reaching Lake Tanganyika |
(Dave: Who was Heyerdahl?) (Nathan: Who was Rhodes?)
Sir Richard Burton
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James Mason portrayed this German in both "The Desert Fox" & "The Desert Rats" |
Erwin Rommel
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In this story, it's the woman's magazine Poe "found in a bottle" |
"MS. Found in a Bottle"
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This German Shepherd star of films like "Where the North Begins" could scale walls |
Rin Tin Tin
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A 1945 Sartre novel set in 1938, or a nickname for the 18th century |
(Dave: What is L'Nose?)
The Age of Reason
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The first European to round Africa's southern tip, he found Cape Agulhas, Africa's southernmost point |
(buzzer sounds)
Bartolomeu Dias
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Among the film portrayals of Beethoven are Ewald Balser's in 1949's "Eroica" & Gary Oldman's in this 1994 film |
Immortal Beloved
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It's a valentine that contains the story of a Swiss archer |
(Alex: Maybe Poe was not such a good idea after all!)
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
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A 1961 Disney classic was based on the true story of this Skye Terrier's 14-year vigil at his master's grave |
Greyfriars Bobby
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Called "time's arrow", it's a measure of disorder in a system |
Entropy
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