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In 1905 biologist Nettie Stevens showed that these 2 chromosomes determine a person's sex |
the X and Y chromosomes
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One of these channels, built to bring goods by water to Madras, India, took 76 years to finish |
an canal
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An intuitive feeling |
a hunch
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In this film, Robert Hays: "Surely you can't be serious." Leslie: "I am serious... and don't call me Shirley" |
Airplane!
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Don't sign up for a cruise on this ship, Queequeg! Only one guy is escaping to tell the tale, & it's not you! |
the Pequod
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The Screen Actors Guild presented this child star with a lifetime achievement award in 2006 |
Shirley Temple Black
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Ada Yonath won a Nobel Prize "for studies of" this organelle, site of protein synthesis, from which RNA gets its name |
a ribosome
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The 62-mile Kings River flume in California wasn't built for a theme park but to float these |
logs
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In music it can mean "sharp" |
high
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Offered one of these in "The Naked Gun", Leslie is asked, "Cuban?" His response: "Dutch Irish. My father was from Wales." |
a cigar
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Faustus! Don't let Mephistopheles convince you to sign that deal with this "bright" chief devil! It's a trap! |
Lucifer
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Dramatist James Shirley moved to Dublin in 1636 after parliament closed Britain's theaters as a precaution against this |
the bubonic plague
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During the depression, this marine biologist & ecologist wrote radio scripts for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries |
Rachel Carson
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Martin Luther King hoped for righteousness to roll down "like a mighty" this, not quite a river |
a mighty stream
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To secretly devise something, like a plan for a really good door on my boat |
hatch
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One of Saskatchewan-born Leslie's last starring roles was in 2002's "Men with Brooms", about this sport |
curling
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Don't kill that old guy in the chariot over a little road rage, Oedipus! He's really this relation! |
your father
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In 1969 she became the first African-American congresswoman |
(Shirley) Chisholm
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In August 1969, after 34 years, Dorothy Hodgkin identified the atomic structure of this pancreatic hormone |
insulin
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In 1590 Sir Francis Drake built the 17-mile River Leat, one of these channels, bringing water to Plymouth, England |
an aqueduct
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The first ordinal number that fits the bill |
hundredth
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Leslie was captain of the ship in this 1972 disaster movie--no wonder things turned upside down! |
The Poseidon Adventure
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Jason! Don't leave this wife to marry king Creon's daughter! Think of the children! |
Medea
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Shirley Verrett, best known as one of these, was dubbed "la nera Callas" by enamored Italians |
an opera singer
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Rosa Smith Eigenmann, discoverer of the blind goby, was the first important woman in this -ology |
ichthyology
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In the 1950s this project opened up a 2,300-mile system of waterways |
the Saint Lawrence Seaway project
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"Love is not a victory march" is a line in this oft-covered Leonard Cohen tune |
"Hallelujah"
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Leslie starred opposite Anne Francis & Robby the Robot in this 1956 sci-fi classic based on "The Tempest" |
Forbidden Planet
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Don't drink that poison, Romeo! This friar is on his way to tell you Juliet isn't really dead! |
Friar Lawrence
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Her "The Haunting of Hill House" is considered a treasure of Gothic horror literature |
Shirley Jackson
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