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This Russian-born French painter served as art director of the Moscow Jewish State Theater from 1919 to 1922 |
Chagall
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1961: Holly Golightly |
Audrey Hepburn
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The symbol for this nasty gas is Cl |
chlorine
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Its what you get when you multiply the number of Rhode Island's senators by the number of California's |
4
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The Cold War was effectively over on Nov. 9, 1989 when large jubilant crowds tore down this symbol of world division |
the Berlin Wall
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Enthusiastic applause by an audience on its feet |
a standing ovation
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In 1926 this Belgian artist produced his first surrealist work, "Le Jockey Perdu" |
(Alex: Belgian artist--[*].)
René Magritte
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2008: Harvey Milk |
Sean Penn
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It makes up about 80% of the Earth's atmosphere |
(Michael: What is oxygen?)
nitrogen
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A soldier's "about face" involves a turn of this many degrees |
180
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62,000 crowded L.A.'s Memorial Coliseum on January 15, 1967 for the first of these |
(Alex: That was the first [*], before you were born.)
Super Bowl
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The permanent professional infantry force of a nation |
a standing army
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In 1976 this sports artist was presented with an award of merit from the American Athletic Union |
LeRoy Neiman
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1984: Antonio Salieri |
F. Murray Abraham
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Alphabetically, it's right after radium |
radon
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Number of days in Maxwell Anderson's 1948 play about Anne Boleyn |
1,000
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In 1896 more than 2,000 were trampled in the stampede for free beer at the coronation of this doomed czar |
(Susan: Who is, um, Nicholas?) (Alex: Be more specific.) (Susan: Um, who is Czar Nicholas?) (Alex: There were many Czar Nicholases.)
Nicholas II
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A permanent legislative group in Congress that meets regularly |
a standing committee
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His only figure portrait accepted for the salon was of his mistress Camille Doncieux, who in 1870 became his wife |
Monet
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1967: Luke Jackson |
(Alex: [*]. Cool Hand Luke.)
Paul Newman
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This synthetic element created in 1976 was named for a Danish pioneer of quantum physics |
(Susan: Who is Bohr?) ... (Alex: Yes, [*]. We were going for the element, not the man for whom it was named.)
bohrium
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We just got a call from the authorities to evacuate, in the system known as "reverse" this |
9-1-1
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Over 42 days in early 2007, an estimated 70 million gathered for the Ardh Kumbh festival in this country |
India
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Performing ostentatiously in order to impress or gain attention |
(Michael: What is standing out?)
grandstanding
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Bertoldo di Giovanni was a student of this great Florentine sculptor & a teacher of Michelangelo |
Donatello
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2001: Iris Murdoch (1 of the 2) |
Judi Dench (or Kate Winslet)
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Its symbol is the same 2 letters as Minnesota's postal abbreviation |
manganese
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(Jimmy of the Clue Crew uses an abacus.) On an abacus, beads above the bar represent units of 5; each bead below has a value of 1; only the beads touching the bar are counted, so the configuration here stands for this 3-digit number |
(John: [grimaces] What is 342?) ... (Alex: Three below the bar and one above, that's eight, so it's [*].)
828
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On Feb. 4, 2008 1 million gathered in this South American capital to protest against the FARC terrorist group & its actions |
Bogotá
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When the British want you to rise, as for a judge, they say, "be" this, also referring to an honorable citizen |
(Susan: What is upright?) ... (Alex: Susan forgot the category, yeah.)
upstanding
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