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The airborne fungus Phytophthora infestans caused this crop to fail in 1845 |
the potato
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Add a letter to "smile" & you get this figure of speech |
a simile
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Talking to this villain, Smee says, "I have often noticed your strange dread of crocodiles" |
Captain Hook
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Gorki Park, The Revolution Museum |
(Alex: Yes, with a minute to go.)
Moscow
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To make change, the coin called a "piece of" this was cut into smaller pieces; "two bits" was a quarter of one |
eight
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The seductive Mrs. Robinson in the movie "The Graduate" |
(Jacob: Who is Crawford?)
(Anne) Bancroft
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A short-lived rebellion for independence began in Dublin on Monday, April 24, 1916, the day after this holiday |
Easter
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From the Latin for "true", it means to test the truth by comparison or investigation |
(Jacob: Veritas? What is veritas?)
verify
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The sinister Mrs. Danvers torments the second Mrs. de Winter in this 1938 novel |
Rebecca
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Alameda Park along Avenida Juarez |
Mexico City
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Corinth minted its own coins called pegasi that featured this type of animal in flight |
(Ben: What is a pegasus?) (Alex: No.) (Ben: What is a horse?) (Alex: Your response was, "What is Pegasus?" And we were going--"this type of animal". Pegasus is not a type of animal. Sorry about that.)
a horse
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Mrs. Smith in 2005's "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" |
Angelina Jolie
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Taken as a slave to Ireland in the early 400s, he escaped to France, where he studied for the priesthood before returning |
St. Patrick
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Pretending to be an ally of Winston Smith in this novel, O'Brien is a party leader who's been watching Winston for years |
1984
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The column of King Sigismund (built in 1644), the heart of Chopin (built in 1810) |
Warsaw
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The name of this unit of weight used in monetary transactions also means "natural ability" |
talent
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Dorothy Parker in "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle" |
Jennifer Jason Leigh
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In 1446 Dermot McCarthy built this castle & installed a stone taken from an earlier version of the castle |
Blarney
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The British borrowed this word for a table napkin from the French |
a serviette
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In "The Old Curiosity Shop", Little Nell's grandfather gambles away the shop to this evil dwarf |
Quilp
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The Reza Abbasi Museum |
Tehran
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This colorful currency printed during the Civil War lent its name to a political party of the 1870s & '80s |
(Alex: And that was [*] Party.)
the greenback
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Mrs. Bradley of Britain's "The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries" & Mrs. Peel of "The Avengers" |
Diana Rigg
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Ireland's four historic regions are Munster, Leinster, Connacht, & this one, most of which became Northern Ireland |
(Lydia: What is Derry?)
Ulster
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A narrow passageway; a restricted airspace for the passage of aircraft |
corridor
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This unscrupulous villain of "King Lear" betrays his father to Regan & her husband, the Duke of Cornwall |
Edmund
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The Tower of Belem, built in the 1500s to honor Vasco da Gama |
(Ben: What is Bilbao?)
Lisbon
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One of the world's earliest coins, it has a name from the Greek for "to grasp" |
a drachma
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Mrs. King, who starred opposite Bruce Boxleitner's scarecrow |
(Alex: One of the original Charlie's Angels--[*].)
Kate Jackson
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