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The revenge of the 47 ronin, a 1703 incident in this country, is remembered there each December 14 |
Japan
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Despite playing only 28 games at first base in 1999, Rafael Palmeiro won this MLB defensive award |
(Ken: What's a Golden Glove?) ... (Alex: A [*]. Golden Glove refers to boxing.)
Gold Glove
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John Berryman's poem "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet" is a tribute to her |
(Ken: ...oddly enough.)
Anne Bradstreet
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In some Arthurian legends, it's this knight & son of Lancelot who pulls the sword out of the stone |
Galahad
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-que at the end of a word means this, as in Senatus Populusque Romanus |
and
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From about 1620 to the mid-1800s, firearms used this rock to produce a spark that ignited the gunpowder |
flint
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In the 1st century Kanishka ruled a chunk of central Asia from what's now Peshawar in this country |
Pakistan
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Known as "The Wizard", this Hall-of-Fame Cardinal set records for most assists & total chances accepted |
Ozzie Smith
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Shakespeare said of this handsome mythological man, "hunting he lov'd, but love he laugh'd to scorn" |
Adonis
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Born in Minneapolis, he made billions off oil & picked up a little art along the way |
(Brad: Who is Getty?) (Alex: More specific?) (Brad: Uh, [*]?)
J. Paul Getty
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It completes the trio of nominative singular forms of the word for "this", hic, haec, ... |
hoc
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Gneiss & chlorite are regional types of this class of rock that forms when heat & pressure cause changes |
metamorphic
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Fingers were pointed at Syria when this ex-P.M. of Lebanon was killed in February 2005 |
(Jerome: Who is Bashir?)
Rafic Hariri
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Terry Sawchuk & Chico Resch wore blockers & catch gloves as stars in this sport |
hockey
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Chilean poet Lucila Godoy Alcayaga combined the names of 2 of her favorite poets to get this pen name |
Gabriela Mistral
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Vegas celebrity weddings go back at least to 1943 when trumpeter Harry James married this sex symbol of the day |
Betty Grable
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Remember Caesar's famous phrase & you'll know this first-person past tense of pando, "I extend" |
(Jerome: What is pindo?) ... (Alex: Veni, vidi, vici. Pando: [*].)
pandi
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Cuprite is an important ore at the Bisbee, Arizona mine called this metal's "Queen" |
copper
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In 1975 the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia & the left-wing group with this Laotian name took over in Laos |
Pathet Lao
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AKA "The Glove" for his defense, this guard got no love from the Lakers when they traded him to the Celtics in 2004 |
Gary Payton
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He was a bank clerk in the Yukon before he published "Songs of a Sourdough" in 1907 |
Robert Service
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His triumph as Richard III in 1741 made him the leading British actor of his time |
(David) Garrick
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For most adjectives, adding -issimus to the stem gets you this form |
the superlative
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These alpine mountains in Italy are named for the magnesian limestone of which they're made |
(Ken: Oops. What are the Apennines?)
the Dolomites
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These mercenaries from the Magar, Gurung & other Nepalese tribes defended the British Empire in WWs I & II |
(Alex: Yes, Ken gave that response two days ago to another clue.)
the Gurkhas
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One of the 2 200-meter medalists who each wore a black glove on the Mexico City Olympic victory stand |
(John) Carlos (or Tommie Smith)
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William Cullen Bryant was just 17 when he wrote this poem whose name comes from the Greek for "view of death" |
"Thanatopsis"
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The cover of her "Ballad Of Sexual Dependency" shows her photo of Nan & Brian in bed |
Nan Goldin
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It's an alliterative Latin idiom meaning "once the necessary changes have been made" |
(Alex: Sorry, Brad, not quickly enough. Did you have it though?) (Brad: I did.) (Alex: Good for you.) [Brad lets out audible breath]
mutatis mutandis
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Igneous rocks described as mafic are primarily made up of magnesium & this |
iron
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