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Alexander Solzhenitsyn spent years in the Gulag after criticizing this leader he called "the whiskered one" |
Stalin
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"Key and Peele" & "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" |
Comedy Central
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The ancient city of Byzantium is today this city |
Istanbul
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Ants live inside these sharp projections of some acacia trees; the ants protect the trees, which produce ant food |
thorns
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It's 9 a.m. in New York City & most people are asleep at this corresponding hour in Los Angeles |
6:00 a.m.
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A painting of a bowl of oranges is said to be a this "life" |
still
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He spent 30 days in jail for vagrancy in 1894 before heading to the Klondike, the setting for some of his best stories |
Jack London
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"Friendzone" & "Snooki & JWOWW" |
MTV
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This modern African republic was once known as Abyssinia |
(Bridget: What is Egypt?) ... (Alex: I believe you misspoke, Bridget. You knew that.) (Bridget: I did, indeed.)
Ethiopia
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(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Alaska.) Parts of Southeast Alaska receive about 70 inches of precipitation a year, creating a lush, temperate type of this forest that you might expect to find much further south |
rainforest
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Noon. Lunchtime in NYC, but out West, only this good time for a snack in Salt Lake City |
10:00 a.m.
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The posterior muscular portion that separates the oral cavity from the nasal cavity is this palate |
the soft palate
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An author, statesman & saint, he was jailed in 1534 & later executed for an act of religious defiance |
Thomas More
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"Conan" & "King of the Nerds" |
TBS
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What was once the city of Christiania is today this Scandinavian capital |
Oslo
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The seeds of the red-bead tree were once used to weigh gold due to their uniform weight: 4 seeds equal this metric measure |
(Jerry: What is a karat?) (Bridget: What is a centimeter?)
a gram
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Turned on the TV to watch tennis from London but it was all over! I forgot they're this many hours ahead of NYC |
five
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"Goodness" this word from the Latin for "favor", "great balls of fire!" |
gracious
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"Le Morte d'Arthur" author Sir Thomas Malory was jailed often, the last time for favoring the Lancastrians in these wars |
the War of the Roses
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"Hell on Wheels" & "Talking Dead" |
AMC (American Movie Classics)
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For awhile in the 20th century, it was the Malagasy Republic |
[ERRATUM: "Awhile" should have read "a while".]
Madagascar
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Also called cape jasmine due to its fragrance, this corsage flower was named for a Charleston, South Carolina physician |
a gardenia
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Turned on the TV to watch the pope--good thing I remembered Rome was this many hours ahead of NYC |
six hours
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It precedes catch, deal & dinkum |
fair
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The "idiot"! He got mixed up with the Petrashevsky Circle of socialists & did 8 months in 1849 |
Dostoyevsky
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"Covert Affairs" & "White Collar" |
USA
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The city of Durban in this country was once known as Port Natal |
South Africa
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In the scientific name of the common onion, Allium cepa L., the "L" stands for this botanist |
(Bridget: What is I have absolutely no idea?)
Carolus Linnaeus
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Next, time to call a buddy in Tel Aviv, this many hours ahead of NYC |
seven
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In Congress-speak, "the chair recognizes" not "the man from Montana" but this type of "man from Montana" |
(Jerry: What is [*]? [*]man?) (Alex: [*]man -- the distinguished [*]man, usually.)
gentle
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