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A deuterium atom is a hydrogen atom that has this keeping its proton company in the nucleus |
a neutron
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If you "can't smile without" the singer of "Copacabana", go to this last name.com, his official website |
(Barry) Manilow
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20 years after it was formed, this Korean company became a success in the U.S. with the 1986 Excel |
Hyundai
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His last novel, "A Passage to India", is considered his masterwork |
E.M. Forster
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From Aramaic & Hebrew words, this title of the savior of the Jews means "anointed one" |
(John: What is Jehovah?)
Messiah
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Harsh way Tom Swift told a music student, "You played that note a half step too high" |
sharply
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This largest nerve in the body arises in the sacral plexus, leaves the pelvis & runs down the thigh |
the sciatic
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In November of 2000 Bobby Brown & this singer held their first joint concert at the Aladdin in Vegas |
(John: Who is Tina Turner?)
Whitney Houston
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The Boxster and the 911 are popular models from this automaker |
Porsche
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He created the Nadsat language for his novel "A Clockwork Orange" |
(Anthony) Burgess
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Also a caste, it's a Hindu priest or scholar of Vedic literature |
a Brahman
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"I feel like a Native American warrior", said Tom in this courageous manner |
bravely
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Bears appeared during this epoch right before the Pliocene |
(John: What is the Pleistocene?)
the Miocene
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In 1984 she had her first Top 10 hit in the U.S. with "Borderline" |
Madonna
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This '70s model from American Motors sounds like an imp that used to torment WWII aircraft |
the Gremlin
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At the start of a novel by this author, Dombey is 48 years old & son, 48 minutes |
Dickens
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Think "fast": the name of this month in the Islamic calendar is from the Arabic for "to be scorched" |
Ramadan
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When he said, "We'll have to cross a treeless expanse of land", Tom spoke this way, very simply |
plainly
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This singer played detective Foxxy Cleopatra in the third "Austin Powers" movie |
Beyoncé Knowles
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With its GT and GTS versions, this model from Mitsubishi is blocking out a lot of the competition |
the Eclipse
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He wrote the poem "Gunga Din" to honor the Bhisti, the natives who aided British soldiers in India |
Rudyard Kipling
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This eighth incarnation of Vishnu is often depicted as a young cowherd |
Krishna
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It's the shrewd way in which Tom said, "We'll seal all our food in metal containers" |
cannily
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It equals mass divided by volume & is often expressed in pounds per cubic foot |
density
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This one-named singer, whose name means "most exalted one" in Swahili, tragically died in a plane crash in 2001 |
[ERRATUM: According to some sources, the name is of Arabic, not Swahili, origin.]
Aaliyah
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In 1965 Ralph Nader declared that this model from Chevrolet was "Unsafe at Any Speed" |
the Corvair
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This 19th century English author also wrote the books "Curiosa Mathematica" & "Symbolic Logic" |
(John: Who is [*]? Also known as [*].) (Alex: Good for you. Way to go. He taught math at Oxford. I mean, you took the hard road that time. I mean, it's so easy to say "Who is [*]?" But, no, "Who is [*]?")
Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
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Incorporating elements of Islam & others, this religion was founded in Iran in 1863 |
Bahá'í
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"I have no idea how to fill in the empty line", Tom said this way |
blankly
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