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In the late '80s, Sam was the rehearsal stand-in for this comedy legend on his self-titled sitcom |
Bill Cosby
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"A Christmas Carol" curmudgeon (7) |
Scrooge
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In Scandinavia, the Yule goat carries an elf bringing gifts; originally it carried this thunder god |
Thor
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In 1968 a federal court found this author & pediatrician guilty of violating the Selective Service Act |
Dr. Spock
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This other term for a pastor is derived from the Middle Latin word persona |
parson
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Sam proclaimed, "And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee" in this 1994 film |
Pulp Fiction
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Mlle. de Beauvoir (6) |
Simone
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Due to the encroaching sea, this North Carolina cape's lighthouse, the USA's tallest, was moved in 1999 |
Hatteras
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In 1659 Italian anatomist Marcello Malpighi discovered that the lungs were made up of these tiny air sacs |
alveoli
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The name of this fine, soft leather is the French word for Sweden; Sweden was famous for gloves made of it |
(Reynard: What is "swede"?) [Initially accepted as correct, reversed before the first Daily Double after the judges could find no dictionary giving that pronunciation of the word]
suede
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In 1995 Sam's Zeus Carver had a rough day with Bruce Willis in this sequel |
(Reynard: What is Die Hard 2?) (Gwynne: What is Die Harder?)
Die Hard with a Vengeance (or Die Hard 3)
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Sweden's most "August" playwright (10) |
Strindberg
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The U.S. hasn't minted real gold coins as legal tender since the administration of this 32nd president |
FDR
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This German bacteriologist developed a test for syphilis & an inoculation for tetanus |
Wasserman
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This word for a blob or lump, perhaps of whipped cream, may come from dolpur, Icelandic for "fat man" |
dollop
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As Elijah Price, Sam was the frail antithesis to Bruce Willis in this 2000 flick |
Unbreakable
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Rilke wrote them "to Orpheus" (7) |
sonnets
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Appropriately, the 19th century's "Lady with the Lamp" was born in this Italian city |
Florence
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In 1796 he inoculated 8-year-old James Phipps with material from a cowpox pustule from Sarah Nelmes |
Jenner
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Esteban knows this term for someone who loads a ship's cargo comes from the Spanish word estibador |
stevedore
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Lucius Best was the secret identity of this ultra-cool "Incredibles" character voiced by Sam |
Frozone
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"Quentin Durward" creator (5) |
(Jason: ...Ah. Sorry.) (Alex: Ooh, a blank for you.)
Sir Walter Scott
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The opinionated comic strip cat Garfield got his name from this cartoonist's opinionated grandfather |
Jim Davis
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In 1889 Susan la Flesche Picotte, a member of this Nebraska tribe, became the first Native American female doctor |
Omaha
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From the Italian word for bell, it's the 9-letter term for a bell tower like the Venetian one seen here |
campanile
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