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APRIL 23: BAD DAY FOR WRITERS |
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On the Snake River, it once was a pair of waterfalls (thus its name), but one no longer flows because of a dam |
Twin Falls
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Mcgraw-____, educational services & more |
Hill
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This musical won 7 Tonys as well as the 1962 Pulitzer for Drama |
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
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In 1996 this courageous actor appeared on the cover of time with the caption "Super Man" |
Christopher Reeve
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These falls are lucky enough to carry 90% of the Niagara River's discharge |
Horseshoe Falls
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Lockheed ____, planes & stuff |
Martin
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A singultus is simply one of these involuntary contractions of the diaphragm causing a sudden intake of air |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
a hiccup
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He was buried in Madrid April 23, 1616, not long after finishing "Don Quixote" |
Cervantes
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Jay Baruchel voiced a young Viking in this animated film |
How to Train Your Dragon
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He was first mentioned in Time in 1923, in a report on a military rehearsal of the Bavarian Fascista Army |
Hitler
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Ocqueoc, with drops as great as 5 feet, is one of the major waterfalls in the lower peninsula of this state |
Michigan
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Faber & ____, for your U.K. book needs, for your U.K. book needs |
Faber
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This word can precede "infinitive" or follow "banana" |
split
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David Halberstam, author of books about this event like 1965's "Anatomy of a Quagmire", died April 23, 2007 |
the Vietnam War
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Marilyn Monroe & Betty Grable set out to find rich men interested in matrimony in this 1953 classic |
How to Marry a Millionaire
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In 1956 Time said he had "a high, unpleasant quaver" & a "rich basso" marred by a "spasmodic delivery" |
(Mike: Who was Caruso?) (Dan: Who is Castro?)
Elvis Presley
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Add "S" to a Frank Lloyd Wright house & you get this, Florida's tallest cataract |
Falling Waters
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Ingersoll ____, an industrial technology company |
Rand
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A languet is something that resembles this body part either in function or shape |
a tongue
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This English poet laureate died April 23, 1850 at Rydal Mount in his beloved Lake District |
(Alex: Correct, with less than a minute to go.)
Wordsworth
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Kate Hudson is writing the titular column on a dating don't in this romantic comedy |
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
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"The ghostly, white-clad figure descended the ladder" was the lead for a cover story in July of this year |
(Mike: What is 2001?) (Alex: No. The reference was to Neil Armstrong going down the ladder in July of [*], landing on the Moon.)
1969
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Kentucky's Cumberland Falls often feature this; a rainbow with light from a satellite, not a star |
a moonbow
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Church & ____, household products |
Dwight
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Often concrete, this mass at each end of a bridge bears the weight of an arch |
(Dan: What is a piling?)
an abutment
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Before his April 23, 1915 death abroad, he wrote, "There's some corner of a foreign field / That is for ever England" |
(Cindy: Who is Joyce Kilmer?)
Rupert Brooke
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Brooklyn friends Ben & Cam hustle to try to make a buck without selling out in this comedic HBO series |
How to Make it in America
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A story on this transportation of black kids to white schools had an alliterative title including Boston & battle |
busing
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