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GET OUT YOUR LIBRARY TABLETS |
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WE CAN'T GET ENOUGH OPERA! |
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Franz Joseph's 68-year reign over Austria-Hungary was the longest of any ruler of this royal family |
(Alex: You realize, of course, that the clues at the top of the board are easier than the ones further down.)
the Hapsburgs
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In 1982 "Fame" was followed by this bar-set sitcom |
[Joe selected the first clue.]
Cheers
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A library in a villa in Herculaneum buried by this volcano's eruption in 79 A.D. was found in the mid-1700s |
Mount Vesuvius
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In 1989 the English National Opera presented "The Love for Three Oranges" with scratch-&-do this cards |
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)
sniff
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To affordably ship up to 70 pounds of... whatever, try this from the U.S. Postal Service |
parcel post
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Marie Antoinette presumably let them eat cake at her wedding to this future king in 1770 |
Louis XVI
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This actor faced a lifetime's worth of emergencies on Thursday nights as "ER" doc Mark Greene |
Anthony Edwards
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Aristotle's personal library was probably the inspiration for this world-famous library in Egypt |
Library at Alexandria
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They're poles on which logs are rolled; if you've "hit" them, you're in bad shape |
skids
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Of adapting this Southern play, Andre Previn said it's "always been an opera. It's just that the music was missing" |
A Streetcar Named Desire
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Here's Sitting Bull holding one on his lap |
peace pipe
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After declining the Greek throne, Leopold I became king of this country in 1831 |
(Anthony: What is Poland?)
Belgium
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This Robert Stack show diversified its hoodlums after protests from Italian-American groups |
The Untouchables
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It's said that the Pergamenes invented this material when Ptolemy denied them papyrus for their library |
(Anthony: What is paper?)
parchment
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(Sofia of the Clue Crew in Minnesota) The name of this type of saw means that the lumberjack is not going with the grain |
crosscut saw
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In this German composer's "The Royal Children", a goose-girl gets poisoned by -- you guessed it! -- a witch! |
(Anthony: Who was Handel?) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Engelbert Humperdinck
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A particular personal annoyance commonly listed in high school yearbooks |
pet peeve
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She's princess of Orange-Nassau as well as queen of the Netherlands |
Queen Beatrix
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This cop show seen on Thursdays in the early '70s was named for its main character (played by Raymond Burr) seen here |
(Joe: What is "Ironsides?")
Ironside
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Among the amenities of these built by Trajan & Caracalla were libraries |
baths
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A type of shady payment in business, or a very, very, very dangerous event with a chainsaw |
(Alex: And I have experienced it!)
kickback
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This Microsoft presentation graphics program has been ubiquitous in the business world |
PowerPoint
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England's last Lancastrian king, he was imprisoned & murdered in the Tower of London in 1471 |
Henry VI
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In the '90s show "My So-Called Life", Claire Danes' Angela pined for this boy played by Jared Leto |
Jordan Catalano
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Ashurbanipal's library in Nineveh included a copy of the famous epic of this Sumerian king |
Gilgamesh
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(Sofia of the Clue Crew in Minnesota) "Don't look at your feet" is rule No. 1 from the American Association for this, a synonym of "logrolling" |
birling
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The Indiana World War Memorial has a bronze statue called this, Latin for "for one's country" |
Pro Patria
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