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(I'm Dr. Jane Goodall.) As a child, I dreamed of living among wild animals, influenced by my favorite book characters, Dr. Dolittle & this "Lord of the Jungle" (I knew I'd be a better jungle companion for him than that other wimpy Jane) |
(Alex: Yes, and I'm a little surprised that Jane was doing a little editorializing there and picking on poor Jane.)
Tarzan
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In chemistry, a base is a substance that turns red vegetable dyes this color |
blue
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Peter Griffin (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) |
(Alex: That's the show.)
Family Guy
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Built in the early 18th century as the mission of San Antonio de Valero in Texas, it made headlines in 1836 |
the Alamo
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The Schuylkill River in this city was an important subject for Thomas Eakins, as seen here |
(Alex: The Schuylkill--[*].)
Philadelphia
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A prison for serious offenders |
a penitentiary
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(Hi, I'm Jane Curtin.) I loved "World's Fair", a 1985 autobiographical novel by this author whose initials stand for Edgar Lawrence |
(E.L.) Doctorow
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A home run with the bases loaded |
a grand slam
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Ward Cleaver |
Leave It to Beaver
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This Boston market & meeting hall known for its grasshopper weather vane opened on September 24, 1742 |
Faneuil Hall
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Canova's statue "Daedalus And" this doomed son looked so real, he was accused of making casts of live models |
(Alex: [*] is the son.)
Icarus
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This philosophical attitude was associated with Jaspers & Sartre |
existentialism
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(Hi, I'm Kyra Sedgwick.) My favorite story is this author's "The Death Of Ivan Ilyich", about a man who only starts to understand what his life is about as he's dying |
(Phil: Who is Dostoevsky?)
Tolstoy
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If you're trying to accomplish this feat, know that South Base Camp is in Nepal & North Base Camp is in Tibet |
climbing Mount Everest
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On a TLC reality series: 4-foot-tall Matt Roloff |
Little People, Big World
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Permanent cultivation of this food in the Colonies began in the largely Irish area of Derry, New Hampshire in 1719 |
potatoes
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It took him to make a masterpiece in 1662 out of "The Syndics of the Amsterdam Drapers' Guild" |
(Alex: The most famous artist out of Amsterdam.)
Rembrandt
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A movie that plays shamelessly on your emotions has this maudlin quality |
(Mary: What is melodramatic?) (Phil: What is a three-hanky weeper?) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
sentimentalism
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(Hi, I'm David Duchovny.) I love Fitzgerald; Hank Moody, the novelist I play, is partial to this Prague-born writer who illustrated man's alienation in society |
(Franz) Kafka
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Each rung on the DNA double helix represents one of these, such as A-T |
(Phil: What is adenine-triphosphate?)
a base pair
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Reverend Eric Camden (played by Stephen Collins) |
7th Heaven
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In 1677 he drafted the first charter guaranteeing separation of church & state in the Quaker Colony of West New Jersey |
(Mary: Who is John Wesley?)
William Penn
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(Hi, I'm Aisha Tyler.) One of my favorites is "You Shall Know Our Velocity!" by this novelist who's also the founder of quirky publisher McSweeney's |
Dave Eggers
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Found in a British Harry Potter title, this stone was sought by alchemists to turn base metals into precious ones |
(Phil: What is [*] or sorcerer's stone?) [originally ruled correct] (Alex: A few moments ago, you gave us a response "what is the philosopher's or sorcerer's stone." Sorcerer is not correct, and that made your whole response incorrect.)
a philosopher's stone
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On ABC, Larry Bird, an alien from the planet Zabvron |
The Neighbors
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In July 1759, when the British took from the French a crucial New York fort, the headline could have read, this "falls" |
Niagara
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Merritt is his daughter, hence "Evening at Merritt's Cottage" by this beloved artist who died in 2012 |
(Alex: Very popular--[*]--the globe.)
Thomas Kinkade
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