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LET ME PAINT YOU A PICTURE |
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Mount Everest lies on the border between Tibet & this landlocked nation |
Nepal
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The Beatles: "And Molly says this as she takes him by the hand: Ob-____-Di" |
Louisiana (for La)
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The title of his Cubist masterpiece "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" refers to a notorious section of Barcelona |
Picasso
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This brand of insect repellents includes Active & Deep Woods lines |
Off!
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Dmitry & Ivan are 2 of this novel's title quartet |
The Brothers Karamazov
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...from a punctuation mark & you get this state of prolonged unconsciousness |
coma (from comma)
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The Rascals: "I asked my family doctor just what I had. I said Doctor... (Doctor) Mr. ____" |
Maryland (for M.D.)
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In the 1730s Canaletto was busy painting scenic views of this city, his birthplace |
(Alex: Canaletto--[*]. Canals of [*].)
Venice
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Heinz owns this line of frozen potato products |
Ore-Ida
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"The Devil's Sooty Brother' is a lesser-known tale by these real-life German brothers |
the Brothers Grimm
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..from a word meaning "easily bent"; now you have this word meaning "legally responsible" |
liable (from pliable)
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This Canadian province is in the Gulf of St. Lawrence |
Prince Edward Island
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Roy Orbison: "____ dreams I walk with you" |
Indiana (for In)
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He put the "class" in "neoclassical" with his portrait of Madame Recamier |
Jacques-Louis David
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Defunct car brand whose emblem is shown here |
Oldsmobile
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Walter J. Boyne fictionalizes the story of the Wright Brothers in "Dawn Over" this place |
Kitty Hawk
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...from a word referring to 2 lines of latitude & you get this word that refers to a subject for discussion |
topic (from tropic)
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In the Caribbean Sea, Cuba & Hispaniola are the only islands larger than this island nation |
Jamaica
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Queen: "All we hear is radio ____ ____" |
Georgia (for ga ga)
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He said that unconsciously he was probably "painting the loneliness of a large city" in "Nighthawks" |
(Edward) Hopper
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This blender came on the market in 1946 |
Oster
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This troubled teen had a brother named Allie who died; "You'd have liked him" |
(Alex: Who is [*]? Been awhile since you'd read it, obviously.)
Holden Caulfield
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...from a word meaning "oddly amusing" & you get this sandwich encloser |
roll (from droll)
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The name of this South American capital is believed to come from Magellan's exclamation: "I see a hill!" |
(Alex: [*], yes, [*], Uruguay.)
Montevideo
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Bob Dylan: "So don't fear if you hear a foreign sound to your ear it's alright, ____, I'm only sighing" |
Massachusetts (for Ma)
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About 36 of his paintings survive, including "The Guitar Player", seen here |
Jan Vermeer
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"Capture it all" is the slogan of this camera brand |
Olympus
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In this E.L. Doctorow novel set around 1900, the radical sibling is known only as Younger Brother |
(Alex: E.L. Doctorow's [*]. One category left. Two of you knew that, but you were afraid to ring in. It's too close.)
Ragtime
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...from a word meaning "gloomy" & you get this largest member of the deer family |
moose (from morose)
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