19th CENTURY SENATORS BY STATE |
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OSCAR-WINNING SONG LYRICS |
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MODERN ARCHITECTURAL STYLES |
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BREAKING THE ICE WITH ICEBREAKERS |
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John Quincy Adams |
Massachusetts
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"We're after the same rainbow's end--waiting 'round the bend, my huckleberry friend" |
Breakfast at Tiffany's
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Your friend looks like Lenin--reminds me that in 1957 the icebreaker Lenin was the first surface ship powered by this |
nuclear energy
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In the 1730s Leonhard Euler made this delicious Greek letter the standard symbol for a familiar ratio |
pi
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Cordelia's dad's lagers |
Lear's beers
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Howell Jackson, Andrew Jackson |
Tennessee
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" 'Cause I'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin', because I'm free, nothin's worryin' me" |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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Brutalism influenced the design of this D.C. building, named for a long-serving law-enforcement official |
(Diane: What is the FBI building?) [Alex pauses and waits for Diane's lights to go out as Diane looks over at the judges.] (Alex: No--well give me a little more.) (Diane: What is the [*]?) (Alex: Thank you very much. Less than a minute to go now, Diane.)
the J. Edgar Hoover Building
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I'm just "aboot" sure you come from this country that has the icebreakers Terry Fox & Louis S. St-Laurent |
Canada
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He thought, in math the last letters should stand for unknowns & the first letters for known quantities--therefore it was |
(Andrew: Who is Pythagoras?) (Alex: No, [*]. So, you lost a bit. You're still in the lead but it's a very close game, so select again.) (Andrew: Sure is.)
René Descartes
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Robin Goodfellow's formal wear |
Puck's tux
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Newton Booth, Leland Stanford |
(Alex: Correct, you're in the lead now.)
California
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"When you get caught between the moon and New York City" |
Arthur
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I enjoy this red Italian spirit, which has its own "club", over ice; some icebreakers can ram through ice 23 feet thick |
Campari
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To simplify multiplication and division, Scotsman John Napier published a book outlining these in 1614 |
logarithms
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"Et tu Brute" speaker's playground antagonizers |
Caesar's teasers
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John Slidell, C.D.J. Bouligny |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Louisiana
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"When I was just a little girl I asked my mother what will I be" |
(Alex: That's a toughie--the Alfred Hitchcock [*].)
The Man Who Knew Too Much
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High-tech architecture is on view with this Paris landmark |
the Centre Pompidou
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You were born in '69? That's the year the oil tanker/icebreaker S.S. Manhattan went through this passage |
the Northwest Passage
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John Nash has a beautiful mind that contributed to this "theory" of strategic decision making |
game theory
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Prospero's daughter's large Southern porches |
(Alex: Well done. You're obviously a big Shakespeare fan.)
Miranda's verandas
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"Far from the world we know, up where the clear winds blow" |
(Alex: "Up Where We Belong" from [*]--Richard Gere.)
An Officer and a Gentleman
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Aren't penguins cute? Think about boarding an icebreaker on a cruise to see these 2 largest species |
the King and the Emperor
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In 1995, 330 years after his death, proof was found for his last theorem |
Fermat
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Cressida's lover, after happiness has vanished |
joyless Troilus
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