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The celebratory year 2011 marks 100 years since this radiant scientist's Nobel Prize for Chemistry |
(Jay: Who is Curie?) (Alex: Be more specific.) (Jay: Who is [*]?)
Marie Curie
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In "Kiss Me, Kate", the characters, as actors, perform this Shakespeare play at Ford's Theatre in Baltimore |
The Taming of the Shrew
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He issued the most recent Papal bull, "Incarnationis mysterium", "The mystery of the Incarnation", in 1988 |
Pope John Paul II
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While director of scientific affairs for this company, Joyce Kilmer's father invented its baby powder |
Johnson & Johnson
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In UFO, possibly an alien craft |
unidentified
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This word for "nothing" precedes "and void" to mean "not valid" |
null
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You exhale this gas first identified by British scientist Joseph Black in the 1750s |
carbon dioxide
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With Glenn Close starring as Norma Desmond, it opened in 1994 with the greatest advanced sales in Broadway history |
Sunset Boulevard
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Leo X's 1521 bull "Decet Romanum Pontificem" booted this guy out of the Catholic Church |
Martin Luther
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The state song "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away", was written by the brother of this "Sister Carrie" author |
(Theodore) Dreiser
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In SCUBA |
(Scott: Uh, [*].) ... (Alex: Scott outsmarted himself on that one.) [Scott hits head]
underwater
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Something that is in vain is "all for" this, from the Old English for "nothing" |
naught
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A chemical known as an anhydride is one that removes this from substances |
water
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"Tornado Ballet", "Mean Ole Lion" & "Funky Monkeys" were songs featured in this 1975 musical |
The Wiz
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Gregory XIII's bull of February 1582 reformed this |
(Jay: What is the... Inquisition?)
the calendar
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This "Naked Lunch" author was named for his paternal grandfather, who invented the adding machine |
(William) Burroughs
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In the government department HUD |
(Scott: What is Housing and [*] Development?) (Alex: [*] is right, yes.)
Urban
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In "Casablanca" Rick says, "It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to" this |
a hill of beans
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Chemist Frederick Soddy came up with this term for atoms having the same nuclear charge but different masses |
isotopes
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This triple Tony-winning show bears the name of Nigerian musician Kuti |
(Scott: What is The Lion King?)
Fela!
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John XXIII's bull of December 25, 1961 summoned the second of these |
the Vatican Council
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This acting son of British Poet Laureate Cecil won Oscars in 1990 & 2008 |
Daniel Day-Lewis
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In the ACLU |
(Scott: What is the American Civil Liberties [*]?) (Alex: Right. We only need what the U stands for. (Scott: You got it. Sorry about that.)
Union
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This man's "choice" is the absence of a real alternative--you take that which is offered or nothing |
Hobson's choice
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A solid can be finely analyzed using the EELS technique, which studies energy loss in these particles |
the electrons
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When this musical was tried out before moving to Broadway, it was known as "The Princess and the Pea" |
Once Upon a Mattress
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Clement V's 1312 "Vox in excelso" disbanded this knightly order |
(Jay: What is Order of Malta?)
the Knights Templar
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His father Nathaniel was a successful writer & his grandfather Robert was a noted humorist & drama critic |
Peter Benchley
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In the committee known as HUAC |
(Scott: What is the House [*] Activities Committee?) (Alex: Right...) (Scott: Sorry! Hard enough to get in on this thing.)
Un-American
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In math, a solution to an equation in which the value of every variable is equal to zero is called this, like certain "pursuits" |
trivial
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