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BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID |
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The date on the first issue of the magazine, Sept. 6, 1896, was this day of the week |
Sunday
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William Blake & Wordsworth were early members of this movement characterized by exaltation of emotion & passion |
(Claudia: Who are the Pre-Raphaelites?) (Alex: No.) [Claudia curses, then apologizes, and the audience laughs]
Romanticism (the Romantics accepted)
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In the late 1300s Margaret of this European country took control of Sweden and Norway |
Denmark
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George Gershwin personally asked Howard University voice professor Todd Duncan to originate this title role |
Porgy
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The first known report of this Scottish lake dweller dates from 565 A.D. |
the Loch Ness Monster
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You might not want to tell your honey if you've got apiphobia, a fear of these |
bees
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Regular use of this began in the magazine in 1933, but didn't hit the Times' front page photos until 1997 |
color
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Flaubert led this movement in French literature, also called naturalism |
(Claudia: Who are the Fauves?)
realism
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His brothers Thorvald & Thorstein & his half-sister Freydis also traveled to Vinland |
Leif Ericson
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The works of this novelist & poet inspired "Lucia di Lammermoor", "La Donna del Lago" & "La Jolie Fille de Perth" |
Sir Walter Scott
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The Book of Job asks if this sea monster can be drawn out with a hook, or his tongue with a cord |
(Kate: Who is the whale?)
the Leviathan
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If you've got ailurophobia, avoid a musical by this composer that won Tony awards in 1983 |
(Alex: Yes, for Cats.)
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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This New Jersey-based bra company with a "girlish" name has been one of the magazine's advertising mainstays |
Maidenform
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Andre Breton wrote a manifesto of this artistic & literary movement that explored the unconscious mind |
surrealism
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This noted theologian was born in the Italian town of Aquino around 1225 |
(Claudia: Who is St. Francis?)
Thomas Aquinas
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This composer of "Cavalleria rusticana" wrote "Il Piccolo Marat", a sadly neglected opera about the Reign of Terror |
(Kate: Who is Rossini?) (Claudia: Who is Leoncavallo?)
Mascagni
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This "enemy from hell" in an 8th century epic poem was said to be a descendant of Cain |
(Brad: Who is Beowulf?)
Grendel
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She could have called her 1973 bestseller "Aviophobia" |
(Alex: Fear of Flying was the work.)
Erica Jong
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Nan Robertson won a 1983 Pulitzer for her writing on this "syndrome" abbreviated TSS |
[Claudia calls out the next clue before even being ruled correct, prompting the audience to laugh.]
toxic shock
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In 1129 she set up a convent in the building that once housed the monastery of Abelard, her ex |
Heloise
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If you dread operas about druids, this 1831 Bellini opus is sure to "Gaul" you |
Norma
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In mythology this fire-breathing monster wreaked havoc in Lycia before she was killed by Bellerophon |
(Brad: Who is the Hydra?)
the Chimera
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Be prepared to consume a daily Granny Smith if you've got iatrophobia, a fear of these |
doctors
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He coined the phrase "nattering nabobs of negativism" & now writes the magazine's language column |
Safire
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James Weldon Johnson & Zora Neale Hurston were writers associated with this 1920s movement |
[Following her correct response, Kate surveys the remaining clues, then interjects: "Ew!"]
the Harlem Renaissance
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In addition to being an historian & poet, Snorri Sturluson headed this Icelandic legislative body several times |
(Alex: Headed the Icelandic parliament, [*].)
the Althing
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This Greek tragic heroine is the subject of 2 Gluck operas, one set in Aulis & one in Tauris |
Iphigenia
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In "The Time Machine", the gentle Eloi are preyed upon by this monstrous race that lives underground |
the Morlocks
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If you suffer from phasmophobia, you might want to rethink attending an 1881 classic play by this Scandinavian |
(Alex: [*], for Ghosts, yes.)
Ibsen
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