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"The Fifth Estate", with Benedict Cumberbatch as this man, is partly based on "Inside WikiLeaks" |
Julian Assange
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Some believe that Cretan, spoken mainly on an island of this country, is Europe's oldest living language |
Greece
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In the early 1980s, Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim attained this status |
billionaire
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Wilhelm I, 1871-1888 |
Kaiser
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In 2009 this hedge-fund manager pleaded guilty to 11 felonies in one of the biggest swindles in Wall Street history |
Bernie Madoff
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This line follows "Mary had a little lamb" |
(Matt: Whose fleece--what is "whose fleece was white as snow"?) (Nathan: What is "whose fleece is as white as snow"?) [Both originally ruled incorrect, but Matt's response was accepted at the Daily Double at clue 16, causing Nathan's to be effectively nonexistent.]
its fleece was white as snow
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Nicholas Pileggi's "Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family" got this title on the big screen in 1990 |
Goodfellas
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Still spoken by 10,000 in Spain, Aragonese developed in these mountains of the northeast |
(Alex: That would be [*], between Spain and France.)
the Pyrenees
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 1992-1996 |
(Alex: Less than a minute to go.)
Secretary-General (of the UN)
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Oh, so close--the ball was under the middle this, a "game" that was a specialty of Old West con man Soapy Smith |
(Nancy: What is a cup?) (Matt: What is Three Card Monte?) ... (Alex: "What is [*]?" [*] game.)
the shell
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This large-footed mammal, Lepus americanus, has white fur in the winter & brown fur in the summer |
(Nancy: What is the snow hare?) (Matt: What is the snow leopard?) (Nathan: What is the snow rabbit?)
the snowshoe hare
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Gustav Hasford's Vietnam War novel "The Short Timers" shot up the silver screen as this Stanley Kubrick film |
Full Metal Jacket
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Romansh is an official language of the Canton of Graubunden in this country |
Switzerland
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Pontius Pilate in Judea, 26-36 |
Governor
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Working in France after WWI, Victor Lustig was known as "the man who sold" this landmark to a scrap metal dealer |
the Eiffel Tower
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This Robert Frost poem says, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep" |
(Nancy: What is "Walking Through Woods on a Snowy Evening"?)
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
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This Shakespeare play was updated to a high school in 1999 & hit cinemas as "10 Things I Hate About You" |
(Matt: What is Much Ado About Nothing?)
Taming of the Shrew
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Corsican is related to the dialect of this Italian region, birthplace of Galileo, Leonardo & the Renaissance |
(Nathan: What is Milan?)
Tuscany
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Book of Common Prayer author Thomas Cranmer, 1533-1556 |
Archbishop of Canterbury
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This Maine senator is only the fourth woman in history to serve in both houses of Congress |
(Matt: Uh, who is, uh, Olympia Snowdon?)
Olympia Snowe
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1990 & 2012 films with this title were based on the Philip K. Dick story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" |
Total Recall
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Sail north from Estonia & you'll soon find people speaking this, one of the few close linguistic relatives of Estonian |
(Matt: What is Finland?) (Alex: Yes, that's right. No, we won't accept that.)
Finnish
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In the cabinet, Alphonso Taft, 1876-1877 |
Attorney-General
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Often preying on seniors, this type of phone-sales scam operation shares its name with part of a ship |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
a boilerroom scam
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After he married Princess Margaret in 1960, Antony Armstrong-Jones became Earl of this |
(Alex: [Chuckling] That--now is the time for [*], yes.)
Snowdon
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