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In 1874, after more than 20 years, he finally completed his entire "Ring" cycle with "The Twilight of the Gods" |
Wagner
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1991: Susan Sarandon & Geena Davis |
Thelma and Louise
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In 1992 Alexander Wolszczan discovered the first ones of these outside our solar system |
planets
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A 1955 issue featured "A Walk With" this 81-year-old poet |
Robert Frost
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Louis, a mute trumpeter swan in E.B. White's "The Trumpet of the Swan", was named for this musician |
Armstrong
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A state of stiffness in tissue; it can precede "mortis" |
rigor
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Robert Schumann's high hopes for "Genoveva", his only one of these works, were dashed by a Leipzig audience |
an opera
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1994: Jim Carrey & Jeff Daniels |
Dumb and Dumber
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From the Greek for "twig", it's a plant or animal made from a portion of another without sex |
(Jeff: That was dumb. What's graft?)
a clone
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Yankee profiled "New England's greatest invention"--this one created in a restaurant on a Mass. toll road |
(Jamie: What's a drive-thru window?) (Michael: What's clam chowder?)
the Toll House cookie
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This craftman's wife made clothes & knitted stockings for 2 elves, but they left his shop & never came back |
the shoemaker
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Each paragraph of an essay should include this type of "sentence" that states the main thought |
(Jeff: What's thesis?)
topic
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When his brother Kaspar died in 1815, he became co-guardian of Kaspar's 9-year-old son Karl |
Beethoven
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1947: Cary Grant & Shirley Temple |
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
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The "M" in MASER stands for this; the rest of the acronym is the same as in "LASER" |
microwave
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A frequent Yankee advertiser is this business based in Freeport, Maine since 1912 |
(Jeff: What is J. Crew?)
L.L. Bean
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Appropriately, this Andersen heroine had "eyes as blue as the deepest sea" |
the Little Mermaid
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To reduce 137,618 to 68,809 |
halve
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We're fortunate to have the "Fingal's Cave" overture by this composer whose first name means "fortunate" |
Felix Mendelssohn
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1974: James Caan & Alan Arkin |
Freebie and the Bean
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In 1932 this inventor figured out a better way than using Iceland spar to polarize light |
Edwin Land
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A cautionary 1994 story listed 115 people who had perished on this, New England's highest mountain |
Washington
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Hansel had a sister named Gretel; so did this boy in an 1865 novel |
(Jeff: Bet it all.) (Alex: I figured you must. Here is the clue for you in KIDDY LIT...)
Hans Brinker
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In 1940 he wrote "Japanische Festmusik" as a gesture of friendship between Germany & Japan |
(Alex: You have a long way to go.) (Jeff: Can I bet $22,000?) (Alex: No.) (Jeff: $2,200 then?) (Alex: Sure. Here is the clue for you...) ... (Alex: Jeff?) (Jeff: Who is... Hofstadter?)
Richard Strauss
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1951: Gregory Peck & Susan Hayward |
David and Bathsheba
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In 1921 it was found that this hormone controlled your carbohydrate metabolism |
insulin
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The May 2004 issue visited the lobstermen of Stonington on this Maine bay |
Penobscot Bay
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Beatrix Potter wrote a "tale about a tail--a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel, and his name was" this |
Nutkin
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It's the watery last word of "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
drown
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