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Cathedral in the title of Victor Hugo's novel about Quasimodo |
Notre Dame
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In May 1486, he was received by Queen Isabella, to whom he explained his plan to sail west to Asia |
Christopher Columbus
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Varieties of this citrus fruit include the blood, Jaffa & Valencia |
orange
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12 years after "Diamonds Are Forever", he was back as Bond in 1983's "Never Say Never Again" |
Sean Connery
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America's first of these opened in 1652 to make coins for the Massachusetts Bay colony |
mint
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Tosca leaps to her death from the parapet of the Castel Sant'Angelo in this Italian capital |
Rome
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A house in the title of an 1851 Nathaniel Hawthorne novel featured 7 of these structures |
gables
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In 1830 this country declared itself independent from the Netherlands with Brussels as its capital |
Belgium
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The Jose Cuervo brand of this liquor dates back to 1758 |
tequila
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This author used some of his plots for a proposed late '50s Bond TV series in his book "For Your Eyes Only" |
Ian Fleming
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A fin is slang for this bill |
(Sam: What is a fiver?)
$5
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The hero of "Fra Gherardo" is charged with heresy & executed this way, like Joan of Arc |
burned at the stake
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In an H.G. Wells novel, a man uses this title object to spend 8 days in the future |
the time machine
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Thomas Paine's "The Rights of Man" is a defense of this European country's 1789 revolution |
France
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This rather large steak contains both the T-bone & part of the tenderloin |
(Sam: What is a New York?)
Porterhouse
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1 of the 2 women in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" who were also TV "Avenger"s |
(1 of) Diana Rigg & Joanna Lumley
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In 1971 President Nixon ended the convertibility of U.S. currency into this metal |
(Alex: Obviously, we've found your category!)
gold
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In a Bizet opera, this fickle femme fatale is stabbed outside a bull ring, & that's no bull |
Carmen
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Whitney Otto's "How to Make an American" one of these includes sewing tips |
Quilt
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In order to kill this "Mad Monk", Russian conservatives had to poison, shoot & drown him |
Rasputin
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In 1992 Coors introduced zomething new & different, this clear malt beverage |
(Carey: What is Ice?) (Ben: What is light beer?)
Zima
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1 of the 3 villains to have their name in a film title |
(1 of 3) Dr. No, Goldfinger or Octopussy
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Some banks now have ALMs to let you get one of these for a car 24 hours a day |
loan
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Distraught that Lt. Pinkerton abandoned her, this Puccini heroine commits hara-kiri |
Madame Butterfly
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According to the title of an E.M. Forster novel, Lucy Honeychurch wants this from a hotel in Italy |
A Room with a View
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In 1939 Poland was divided almost equally between Germany & this country |
Soviet Union
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Indonesia is famous for this variety of coffee that's often blended with mocha |
Java
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In his first appearance as Bond in "Live and Let Die", he took on Mr. Big |
Roger Moore
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When he left Disney after just over a year as president, his severance was reportedly over $50 million |
(Ben: Who is Jeffrey Katzenberg?) ... (Alex: And we have less than a minute in the round.)
Michael Ovitz
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In a Donizetti opera, this vengeful female Borgia treats a roomful of dinner guests to poisoned wine |
Lucrezia Borgia
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