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Around 284 B.C. Zenodotus of Ephesus became the first superintendant of this city's library |
Alexandria
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On '50s TV he played the man with badge 714 |
Jack Webb
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"The Camera City" |
Rochester
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Eliza crossing the frozen Ohio River barefoot is a memorable moment in this novel |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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The John Paul II International Airport is in this country |
Poland
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It comes in colorful 1-to-500-dollar denominations, & it's a metaphor for frivolous spending |
Monopoly money
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This "Great" Brit was the youngest son of King Ethelwulf |
Alfred
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Jose Melis was his "Tonight" show bandleader |
Jack Paar
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"The Summer Vacationland & Winter Wonderland" |
(Jerome: What is Lake George?)
Lake Placid
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Colorful title of Anna Quindlen's tale of domestic violence |
Black and Blue
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Kahului Airport, in the town also called "Dream City", is a gateway to this second-biggest Hawaiian island |
(Pam: What is Oahu?)
Maui
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In Melville's prose, with "ungraduated, instantaneous swiftness", it "darted through the weltering sea" |
the White Whale
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Around 500 B.C. this Persian king built Persepolis; parts of the city's audience hall & palace are still standing |
Darius the Great
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In 1994 this "General Hospital" alum joined the cast of "Melrose Place" |
Jack Wagner
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"The Nickel City" |
(Alex: Yep. The [*] nickel. I fear you guys might be trying to overcomplicate this category.)
Buffalo
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In "The Master", Colm Tóibín enters the mind of this great 19th & 20th century novelist |
(Pam: Who is James Joyce?) ... (Alex: I have a feeling, Pam, you misspoke, and you wanted to say [*] instead of James Joyce.) [NOTE: While the show usually omits diacritics from clue texts, in this case, they were displayed on the show.]
Henry James
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The Flint, Michigan airport is named for Arthur Bishop, who was on this company's board for 29 years |
General Motors
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Playing on his nickname, in a close NBA game, coach Don Nelson might have been this type of anxious person |
a Nervous Nellie
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In 1402 Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I was captured in the Battle of Ankara by this conqueror from Samarkand |
Tamerlane
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This fitness guru brought exercise to TV in 1951 |
Jack LaLanne
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"The Crystal City" |
Corning
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In April 2005 this Marilynne Robinson novel won the Pulitzer Prize |
Gilead
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Montreal's Dorval airport is now named for this late prime minister, a Montreal native |
(Jerome: Fifteen... two-day total, so let's go $3,000.) ... (Jerome: All I could think of was Spider Sabich.) [Laughter from the sparse crowd] (Alex: He was never Prime Minister of Canada.)
(Pierre Elliott) Trudeau
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Leviticus 23 says to bring these of your harvest to be presented to the Lord |
the first fruits
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For defeating Hannibal in the Battle of Zama, ending the Second Punic War, Scipio was granted this Latin surname |
Africanus
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He played Sgt. Nick Yemana on "Barney Miller" |
Jack Soo
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"The Birthplace of the Union" |
(Alex: [*]. Yes, 1754 meeting there.)
Albany
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Wintry title of Neal Stephenson's cyberpunk novel about a hacker/pizza deliveryman |
Snow Crash
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The airport at Latacunga in this country is called Cotopaxi, though the city has suffered from the Cotopaxi volcano |
(Frank: What's Mexico?)
Ecuador
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Terminal term for the spot where a spy leaves secret papers or film |
a dead drop
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