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This Oscar winner played cab driver Max (not Maxx) in "Collateral" |
Jamie Foxx
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Alfred Barr Jr., the founding director of this museum, intended it to help people enjoy the visual arts of our time |
(Elisabeth: What is the Metropolitan Museum of Art?)
MOMA (the Museum of Modern Art)
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Fantastic Fitzgerald, neighbor Nick, car crash |
The Great Gatsby
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Phosgene gas was commonly used along the Somme in this war |
World War I
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Today with almost 8 million people, this island has talked of splitting from New York since the 1890s |
Long Island
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"The Measure of a Man" is "a spiritual autobiography" by this actor whose distinguished feature film career began in 1950 |
(Sidney) Poitier
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The Whitney Museum has 187 works by this artist, including a mobile called "Big Red" |
(Alexander) Calder
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Bunyan biggie, amply allegorical, Christian chronicles |
Pilgrim's Progress
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The venom of the Gaboon viper can affect the way your blood does this inside you--either too much or too little |
(Alex: We'll accept that, yes.)
flow
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State Senator Bob Morton has proposed that Washington east of these mountains go its own way |
the Cascades
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Dennis Haysbert's credits include "The Unit", "Far From Heaven" & ubiquitous ads for this insurance company |
Allstate
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The collection of industrialist Henry Clay Frick is on view in a mansion at East 70th St. & this avenue |
5th Avenue
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Rudyard ruminates, superb story, "wee" wonder |
Wee Willie Winkie
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The oldest record of murder with poison, from Egypt, refers to "death by peach"--this toxin |
cyanide
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Jefferson had a plan for dividing this "directional" territory into states like Cherronesus & Polypotamia |
the Northwest Territory
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Woody Strode, seen here in this Kirk Douglas film, helped integrate the NFL in 1946 with the Rams |
Spartacus
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This borough's museum of art upset folks with a 1999 exhibit featuring maggots, dung & formaldehyde |
Brooklyn
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Dickens delights, title teen, woeful Wackford |
(Joey: [Makes popping sounds]) (Alex: Joey?) (Joey: I...)
Nicholas Nickleby
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In 1935 actress Thelma Todd was found in her car, dead of this type of poisoning under unexplained circumstances |
(Alex: Correct, with less than a minute to go.)
carbon monoxide
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Absaroka, which in 1939 proclaimed a governor & a Miss Absaroka, had parts of this state, Montana & South Dakota |
(Joey: What is North Dakota?) (Tamara: What is Nebraska?)
Wyoming
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He's gone from "Ocean's Eleven" to "Hotel Rwanda" |
Don Cheadle
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This planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History has a 10,000-volume library on astronomy |
the Hayden Planetarium
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Melville man, Claggart clash, mutiny mitigation |
Billy Budd
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Jim Jones promised his followers a utopia in this country; it ended in mass suicide by poison |
Guyana
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This negative-sounding word means to render someone utterly perplexed |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
nonplus
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