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This disease is the most common cause of dementia & severe memory loss in people over 65 |
(Alex: Ask me about it.)
Alzheimer's
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"Backdraft", "Ransom", "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" |
(Ron) Howard
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In Len Deighton's "SS-GB", the Nazis have occupied England & sent this leader before a firing squad |
Churchill
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This Himalayan kingdom's Ngultrum currency features 2 dragons facing each other |
Bhutan
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On January 6, 2004 Apple announced that more than 2 million of these had been sold since their introduction |
iPod
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In the 1930s Allen True designed the one on Wyoming's license plates |
the bucking bronco
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"A League of Their Own", "Renaissance Man", "Riding in Cars with Boys" |
Penny Marshall
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This German field marshall turns the tide against the Allies in the novel "Fox on the Rhine" |
Rommel
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It's retained closer ties to Russia than any other former Soviet Republic |
Belarus
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Joseph Pulitzer game $2 million to this college in part to establish a school of journalism |
Columbia
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Downcast English schoolboys were once told to keep a stiff upper lip & jolly well do this, meaning be cheerful |
buck up
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Snoring can be a sign of this disorder in which there's a temporary stopping of breathing |
sleep apnea
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"You've Got Mail", "Michael", "Sleepless in Seattle" |
Nora Ephron
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In his 2004 novel "The Plot Against America", Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh beats FDR in 1940 |
(Philip) Roth
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It's surrounded on 3 sides by Malaysia |
Brunei
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The name of this North African capital city of 2 million comes from the Arabic "al-jaza'ir" or "the island" |
Algiers
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Daffy Duck's "Duck Dodgers" character is a parody of him |
Buck Rogers
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"The Untouchables", "Body Double", "The Bonfire of the Vanities" |
Brian De Palma
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The Nazis & Japanese occupy 1962 America in Philip K. Dick's novel "The Man in " this place |
the High Castle
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It takes its name from a people of ancient Gaul & is officially a constitutional kingdom |
(April: What is Brittany?) (Paul: What is Breton?)
Belgium
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In 1948 more than 2 million tons of food, fuel & other supplies were airlifted into this city |
(April: What is Berlin?) (Alex: Be more specific.) (April: What is East Berlin?) (Alex: Nope.) (April: [*]!)
West Berlin
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Phrase meaning to go against the established order, or a Quizno's dollar-off promotion |
(Paul: What is buck the establishment?)
buck the system
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Greek for "speechlessness", & often caused by a stroke, it's the loss of the ability to speak & understand words |
aphasia
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"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", "Twelve Monkeys" |
Terry Gilliam
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In this Robert Harris book, the Nazis won WWII & JFK's dad, Joseph, is U.S. President |
Fatherland
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Its Altiplano region was home to the great Tihuanaco empire |
Bolivia
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From the Greek for "most recent", this epoch began about 2 million years ago & saw the 1st appearance of humans |
(April: [*]... [Shakes head] I don't know. [*]. [Continues to shake head] What is [*]?)
the Pleistocene
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Containing Doylestown & Quakertown, it's home to 600,000 Pennsylvanians |
Bucks County
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