20th CENTURY CLASSICAL MUSIC |
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Two of the "Three Tenors" |
(A: Who is Luciano Pavarotti &...[time]?) (B: Who are Pavarotti & Domingo?)
Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti
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In July 1877 the first tennis championships were played on a croquet lawn in this London suburb |
Wimbledon
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Click on this channel & you might find yourself in the middle of "Shark Week" |
Discovery Channel
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This American botanist developed over 400 products from the sweet potato, the pecan & the peanut |
George Washington Carver
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If you wear braces, these devices are attached to your teeth, & rubber ones may help move them |
Rubber bands
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Of his $20 million fee for "Air Force One", this actor said that it "shocks me, but that's the market" |
Harrison Ford
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The first jazz artist to win a Music Pulitzer, this brother of Branford won for the opera "Blood on the Fields" |
Wynton Marsalis
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This "affectionate" term refers to a score of zero |
Love
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If you like little bubbles of trivia with your videos, try "Pop-Up Video" on this channel |
VH1
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In 1891 she moved from Poland to Paris, where she studied math & physics at the Sorbonne |
Marie Curie
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The panoramic type of this century-old diagnostic tool wiil show whether you have extra teeth |
(and we have about a minute left...)
X-ray
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On Sept. 6, 1997 her brother eulogized her by saying "She was the symbol of selfless humanity" |
Princess Diana
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Classic piece heard here with Melissa Joan Hart as Clarissa explaining it all |
"Peter and the Wolf"
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This 17-year-old, then ranked No. 66, shook up women's tennis by reaching the 1997 U.S. Open final |
Venus Williams
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In early 1997, this show about robots who watch bad movies, moved from Comedy Central to Sci-Fi |
Mystery Science Theater 3000
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Italian whose legendary experiment is recreated in the exhibit (Leaning Tower of Pisa) seen here |
(C: What is Pisa?) (Alex: Galileo used to throw a lot of things off that tower.)
Galileo
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When Doc wants these, he's not asking you to imitate Elvis, he's going to get a model of your mouth |
Impressions
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On Feb. 9, 1941 Churchill told FDR, "Give us the tools and we will" do this |
Finish the job
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Considered an heir to Beethoven, Gustav Mahler, like Ludwig, completed only this many symphonies |
9
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At the center, a tennis net should be exactly this many feet high |
3 feet high
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It's the obvious name for a cable network that runs "Johnny Bravo" & "Speed Racer" |
Cartoon Network
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Last name of the husband, wife & son paleoanthropologists Louis, Mary & Richard |
Leakey
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Diastema is the technical name of this condition for which David Letterman is famous |
Gap
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This poet wrote, "I celebrate myself and sing myself"; he was a one-man party |
Walt Whitman
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Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man", heard here, is commonly associated with this sports event |
Olympics
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She retired in 1994 with career earnings of over $20 million, a figure then exceeded by only Ivan Lendl |
Martina Navratilova
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Between shows on this new network, you may have seen the stars do the "Dubba" dance |
the WB
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This English astronomer taught himself architecture & designed St. Paul's Cathedral |
Sir Christopher Wren
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4-letter synonym for occlusion, the relationship between upper & lower teeth with your mouth shut |
Bite
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This Prussian king's last words, spoken at Potsdam, were, "I am tired of ruling over slaves" |
Frederick the Great
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