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It's the capital city where "Carmen" composer Georges Bizet was born in 1838 |
Paris
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In 2008 Kelvin Sampson found he could no longer phone it in as hoops coach of this "Hoosier" school |
Indiana
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Facial feature mentioned in the longer version of the platypus' name |
duck bill
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She dedicated "O Pioneers!" to her fellow novelist Sarah Orne Jewett |
(Willa) Cather
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This waltz is the state song of Missouri |
"The Missouri Waltz"
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You're on the money if you know that explorer William Clark nicknamed this Shoshone woman "Janey" |
Sacagawea
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A flop when it debuted in 1904, this Puccini opera set in Nagasaki later became one of the best-loved operas |
Madame Butterfly
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The Olympic triathlon consists of a 1.5 kilometer this, a 40-kilometer bike ride & a 10-kilometer run |
a swim
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A female bullfrog may lay 10,000 eggs that hatch into these, which may take 2 years to grow into bullfrogs |
tadpoles
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She called her book "Vittorio the Vampire" a vampire version of "Romeo and Juliet" |
Anne Rice
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In 1985 Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues" premiered on Broadway at this theater |
(Donna: What's the Biloxi?)
the Neil Simon Theatre
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First settled in 1839, it became a state capital in 1854 |
Sacramento
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George Gershwin personally asked Howard University voice professor Todd Duncan to originate this title role |
(Alex: [*], of [*] and Bess. Nice that Gershwin wrote just the one opera!)
Porgy
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In '08 ex-Ram Willie Gary sued this team for $100 mil. for videotaping his team's 2002 pre-Super Bowl practice |
the Patriots
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This "monster" is the largest lizard native to the U.S. |
a Gila monster
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This Canadian author of "The Handmaid's Tale" set her novel "Cat's Eye" in Toronto |
Margaret Atwood
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The logo of this brand depicts an arm holding a hammer |
Arm & Hammer
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One half of the pair executed in Massachusetts in 1927 & then pardoned in 1977 |
(Nicola) Sacco
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Inspired by his love for a friend's wife, Wagner composed this opera about a pair of medieval lovers |
Tristan and Isolde
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This other name for Grand Prix racing refers to the specifications of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile |
Formula One
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Newborn raccoons lack the familiar tail rings & this famous facial feature |
the mask
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In the 1930s this creator of Lord Peter Wimsey wrote a Lord Peter play called "Busman's Honeymoon" |
Dorothy Sayers
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Completes the title of the 1993 Roddy Doyle book "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha..." |
Ha
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Poly & di are 2 forms of this, another word for carbohydrate |
saccharide
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This composer of "Cavalleria rusticana" wrote "Il piccolo Marat", a sadly neglected opera about the Reign of Terror |
(Debbie: Who is Leoncavello?) (Dino: Who is Leoncavallo?)
(Pietro) Mascagni
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In 2000 an expansion team known as the Minnesota Wild joined this professional sports league |
the National Hockey League (NHL)
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One variety of the white-tailed species of this lives in the Florida Keys & weighs only 50 to 75 pounds |
(Dino: What is a manatee?)
a deer
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2008's "The Purrfect Murder" is the latest in a series of mysteries by this activist & her cat Sneaky Pie |
Rita Mae Brown
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The Prozorov sisters Olga, Masha & Irina are 3 of the characters in this play |
(Dino: What is Prozorov?)
The Three Sisters
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An early version of the trombone |
a sackbut
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