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Critic Walter Kerr called this man's "Camino Real" "the worst play yet written by the best playwright of his generation" |
Tennessee Williams
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Japan had an emperor, Russia, a czar & Italy was ruled by one of these |
king
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She was called "Little Missy" & "Little Sure Shot" |
Annie Oakley
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Examples of this TV format include "Leave It to Beaver" & "The King of Queens" |
sitcom
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It's not the capital, but this Vietnamese city is the most populous |
Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon)
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Liza & Lorna's mom |
Judy Garland
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"May All Your Fences Have Gates" is a book of "Essays on the Drama of" this African-American playwright |
August Wilson
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Of "Frankenstein", "The Invisible Man" or "Dracula", the one not created in 1897 |
(Jim: What is The Invisible Man?)
Frankenstein (created in 1818)
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The "Plant Magician" was Luther Burbank; this man was the "Plant Doctor" |
(Alex: Yes, indeed!) .... (Chris: My daughter just did an essay on him the night before!)
George Washington Carver
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Slang term for a left-handed boxer or fiddle player |
southpaw
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Of the 3 countries that border Vietnam, the one whose name does not begin with the same letter as the other 2 |
(Alex: China and Cambodia both begin with "C".)
Laos
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This animated girl attends Orbit High School |
Judy Jetson
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(Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Nederlander Theatre in New York City) This creator of "Rent" died the night of its final dress rehearsal, never knowing he would win the Pulitzer Prize |
Jonathan Larson
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Relationship of Lizzie Borden to the woman she was acquitted of killing |
(Chris: What is her mother?) (Karen: What is her daughter?) (Jim: Who is her stepmother?) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
stepdaughter
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Born in 1905, he was the "Billionaire Recluse" |
Howard Hughes
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It's a low-level football "catch" made near the ground by a running player |
a shoestring catch
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A fertile marshland, Vietnam's southernmost region is the broad delta of this river |
the Mekong
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Twice nominated for Oscars, this actress once studied at an Australian convent & sang in a rock band |
Judy Davis
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These British twin brother playwrights wrote mystery novels under the rather obvious alias Peter Anthony |
(Alex: Less than a minute to go.)
Peter & Anthony Shaffer
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Sam Rayburn was "Mr. Sam", not "Mr. Democrat"; this politician was "Mr. Republican", not "Mr. Robert" |
Robert Taft
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(I'm NFL running back Shaun Alexander) I play in this city that's the farthest distance away from any other NFL city |
Seattle
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The large "S" shape that is Vietnam juts out into this sea with a directional name |
the South China Sea
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She played an airheaded blonde to whom William Holden had to teach manners in "Born Yesterday" |
Judy Holliday
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Born in 1799, this poet, novelist & playwright is to Russian literature what Shakespeare is to English literature |
(Jim: Who is Dostoevsky?)
Alexander Pushkin
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Gloria Vanderbilt or Doris Duke; it's also the translation of the Victoria Ruffo telenovela title "Pobre Nina Rica" |
Poor Little Rich Girl
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Peter Falk narrated this 1978 documentary in which hardened convicts frightened delinquent kids |
Scared Straight!
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Vietnam's narrowest point, about 30 miles, is just north of this port city where U.S. troops landed in 1965 |
Da Nang
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This CNN news anchor once worked as a correspondent for "The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour" |
Judy Woodruff
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