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THANKS FOR THE TITLE, SHAKESPEARE |
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Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across this European body of water |
(Tori: What is the Mediterranean?)
the English Channel
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Currently the anchor of "ABC World News", she served as America's Junior Miss of 1963 |
Diane Sawyer
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"The Land of the Tulip" |
the Netherlands
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Talk about "big" this--Saudi Aramco is sitting on 260 billion barrels of it, 10 times more than Exxon Mobil |
oil
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A sonnet says "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up" this, the English title of a Proust work |
Remembrance of Things Past
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In a kids' song, "I lost my poor" this "when somebody sneezed" |
meatball
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He won the pentathlon & the decathlon at the summer Olympics in Stockholm |
Jim Thorpe
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Later one of the "Desperate Housewives", she was 1998's Miss Corpus Christi, Texas |
(Keith: Who is Teri Hatcher?) (Tori: [long pause] Oh. [shakes head]) (Meredith: Who is Nicollette Sheridan?)
Eva Longoria
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State capital that's "the Mormon Metropolis" |
Salt Lake City
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Lockheed Martin is big in security & I.T. but is still better known for making these, like its C-5 |
airplanes
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The title of this 2011 novel about the 3 daughters of a Shakespeare professor gets its title from a trio in "Macbeth" |
(Tori: What are The Witches of Eastwick?)
The Weird Sisters
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To put something into long-term storage, perhaps with small spheres of naphthalene |
mothball
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Later revealed to be a hoax, this fossilized man was presented at the Geological Society of London |
Piltdown Man
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Movie roles of this former Miss Teen All American include Catwoman & Leticia Musgrove in "Monster's Ball" |
Halle Berry
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Sicily's "Mountain of Fire" |
Mount Etna
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This 3-letter drugstore comes before "Caremark" in the name of a giant company |
CVS
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This collection of Hawthorne "Tales" probably got its title from a line in "King John": "Life is as tedious as" these |
Twice-Told Tales
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To prevent someone from joining a group by voting against him |
blackball
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In November Albania declared its independence from this crumbling empire |
(Keith: What is Austria-Hungary?)
the Ottoman Empire
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This movie star who appeared in 2012's "Dark Shadows" was a sun bunny who became Miss Orange County |
Michelle Pfeiffer
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"The Bay of Giant Tides" |
the Bay of Fundy
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A downloadable app called this company's "Greatest Hits" features Asteroids & Missile Command |
Atari
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Steinbeck didn't have to read much of "Richard III" to get the title of this 1961 novel |
The Winter of Our Discontent
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Fungus that discharges a cloud of spores when mature |
(Meredith: Um...) (Alex: Ooh, say something.) (Meredith: No. Sorry.)
a puffball
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The United Kingdom established the forerunner to the R.A.F.-- the R.F.C., short for this |
(Tori: What is flight? Oh, the Royal Flight Command?)
Royal Flying Corps
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She played former Miss Georgia World Suzanne Sugarbaker on "Designing Women" but in real life was 1974 Miss Florida |
Delta Burke
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A world capital since 1780, it's "The Venice of the East" |
Bangkok, Thailand
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This user review website made a "noise of pain" in March 2012 when its stock dropped after a promising IPO |
Yelp
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This title of David Foster Wallace's second novel comes from Hamlet's description of Yorick |
Infinite Jest
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Named for a famous engineer & inventor, it's a round molecule with 60 carbon atoms |
a buckyball
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