SHAKESPEARE'S EARLY DRAFTS |
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"To be or not to be...that is a real head-scratcher" |
Hamlet
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1953's "The Robe" opened in this new wide-screen process |
(Ayesha: What is technicolor?)
CinemaScope
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Elected in 1986, this Arizona senator was born in the Panama Canal Zone |
John McCain
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Once capital of a Russian duchy, Helsinki became capital of ind. Finland in this year of the Russian Revolution |
1917
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Problem with the final note of the following |
flat
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"O, wherefore art thou, my love?" "Down here in the oleander! I fear I tasted of some bad eel at your kinsmen's feast" |
(Alex: You notice that Shakespeare kind of cleaned it up & made it sound a lot better!)
Romeo and Juliet
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5 decades before Nicole Kidman & Ewan McGregor, Zsa Zsa Gabor & Jose Ferrer were in a Paris-set film called this |
Moulin Rouge
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This man's "Liberty Bell March" was used as the theme song for "Monty Python's Flying Circus" |
John Philip Sousa
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Of 1992, 1994 or 1996, the last full year one party controlled the White House & Congress |
1994
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The main force; if you can 'bear" it, you take on most of the burden |
brunt/weight
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"Once more unto the breach, once more! (aside) Why did we not just use the door?" |
Henry V
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Tex Ritter sang the theme of this 1952 Gary Cooper pic |
High Noon
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In 1889 this man, "The Boston Strong Boy", KO'd Jake Kilrain after 75 rounds |
(Thom: Who is John Johnson?)
John L. Sullivan
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Candy-coated almonds were the inspiration for this candy-coated gum |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Chiclets
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Part of 3 Apollo moon missions, lunar roving vehicles were driven for the last time in this election year |
(Alex: With less than a minute to go now.)
1972
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(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports) It's the result I'll get [working a division problem on the chalkboard]; not the specific number, just the general term |
quotient
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"The quality of mercy is rather lumpy, methinks" |
The Merchant of Venice
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Elizabeth Taylor's 1950 wedding to Nicky Hilton was worked into the publicity for this new comedy of hers |
Father of the Bride
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His powerful literary chronicles include "North and South", "Love and War" & "Heaven and Hell" |
John Jakes
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In 1926 master chocolatier Joseph Draps began this company in Brussels, not Coventry |
(Thom: What is Nestle?)
Godiva
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Oh, the humanity! The Hindenburg crashed in New Jersey in this 8th year of the Great Depression |
1937
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From the Latin for "to come around", it's what you might do to the rules |
circumvent
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"If playing that lute will increase my chance of getting some action around here, play on!" |
Twelfth Night
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A barker ends this 1952 film with "...you can shake the sawdust off your feet but you can't shake it out of your heart..." |
The Greatest Show on Earth
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When he ran for president as an independent in 1980, his running mate was Patrick Lucey |
John Anderson
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Randy Jones' BBQ at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium sells a half-pound hot dog named for this baseball equipment brand |
Louisville Slugger
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"The Autobiography of Malcolm X" was published in this year, the same year he was assassinated |
1965
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For a newborn, "in" one of these means half a second |
a heartbeat
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