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According to the Shakespeare title, Othello is "The Moor of" this place |
Venice
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Seeing the Artful Dodger sing on stage made lyricist Alain Boublil think of turning this Victor Hugo novel into a musical |
[Miriam selected the first clue.]
Les Misérables
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On this scale, battery acid is listed as a 1, lye as a 14 |
pH
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From the Aramaic for "my father", it's the title of the superior of a monastery |
an abbot
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He was nominated for a supporting actor Emmy for each of the 11 years that he played Frasier's brother Niles |
(Matthew: Who is David Crane?)
David Hyde Pierce
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To accuse an official of misconduct before an appropriate tribunal |
impeach
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Bizet based this opera about a tempestuous gypsy girl on a novella by Prosper Merimee |
Carmen
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This 2nd-lightest gas is the only element that can't be solidified by cooling at normal atmospheric pressure |
helium
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Muslims believe that this angel revealed the Koran to the prophet Muhammad over a 22-year period |
Gabriel
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He played a DEA agent on "Twin Peaks" & later had a good time on "Californication" |
David Duchovny
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To make whiter chemically |
to bleach
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Gosh darn it! Douglass Wallop's "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant" hit a home run as this musical |
Damn Yankees
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Increasing the percentage of U-235 in a sample of uranium is called this process; Iran says it has the right to do it |
enrichment
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The name of Kung Fu Tzu, founder of a way of thought often termed a religion, was westernized to this |
(Michelle: What is Taoism?)
Confucius
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This TV host is anything but wooden; in fact, he's depicted in Legos |
David Letterman
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Deny connection with, as with an heir |
(Alex: ...with less than a minute to go.)
disown
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This Spanish word for Moor is used of a Muslim people of the Philippines with a separatist National Liberation Front |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
the Moros
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If "Memory" serves me, this Broadway musical was based on a 1939 book of humorous verse |
Cats
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Creating modern electronics depended largely on doping, adding impurities to pure silicon to increase this quality |
(Michelle: What is capacitance?)
conductivity
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In 1536 this French reformer moved to Geneva, which became the center for his form of Protestantism |
Calvin
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He has a lot of practice creating TV shows, like "Ally McBeal" & "The Practice" |
David Kelley
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Blackbeard's real last name |
(Edward) Teach
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It's said that in 1492 deposed ruler Boabdil glanced at Granada one final time, known as "the Moor's last" this |
sigh
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Massenet's tragic opera "Werther" was based on this longer-titled 18th century coming-of-age novel by Goethe |
The Sorrows of Young Werther
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The buckyball, a stable, spherical molecule of this element, occurs naturally in soot |
carbon
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This 71-member religious council of ancient Judea could name political leaders & even declare war |
the Great Sanhedrin
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Seen here, he's really sunk his teeth into the role of an FBI agent |
David Boreanaz
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Covered by adjacent tissues, especially referring to the toe |
ingrown
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