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Last name of Sir Francis, who crisply published "The Advancement of Learning" in 1605 |
Bacon
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Detective Jim Brass, who's learned a lot about forensics since 2000 |
CSI
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See how you measure up to this movie boxer whose statue is located near the Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Rocky Balboa
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A small-time deal is called this, like a poker game with a really low buy-in |
penny ante
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In 2012 superstorm Sandy battered the boardwalk by this N.J. gambling city but locals want you to know it wasn't destroyed |
Atlantic City
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Christoph Scheiner said sunspots were satellites; this Italian armed with a telescope said, uh, no |
Galileo
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Danno Williams, at heart a Caan man |
Hawaii Five-O
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The Marine Military Academy in Harlingen, Texas boasts the original plaster statue of the flag-raising here |
Iwo Jima
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These episodes are marked by sudden fear, rapid heartbeat, shaking & sweating |
a panic attack
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For a little R&R in T&T, this country, head to Pigeon Point, one of the world's 100 best beaches, according to CNN |
Trinidad and Tobago
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A very stable source of energy, the Sun gives us 1.37 of these units abbreviated kW per square meter of earth |
kilowatt
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Before founding the "Quaker State", he upheld Quaker doctrines in a pamphlet called "Truth Exalted" |
William Penn
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Sergeant Joe Friday, long ago |
Dragnet
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The first equestrian statue cast in the United States shows Andrew Jackson during this war |
the War of 1812
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If Brutus makes 10 denarii a month, he makes 120 denarii calculated this way |
per annum
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90 miles south of Jacksonville, this beach city hosts the Coke Zero 400 & some other race event |
Daytona
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This outermost zone of the solar interior is named for a process of transferring heat, as in a type of oven |
convection
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His 1637 "Discourse on Method" was unusual in that it was written in French, not Latin |
René Descartes
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Seattle detective Sarah Linden on AMC |
The Killing
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It's no fairy tale--in 2013 this beloved Danish statue celebrated her 100th birthday |
(Derrick: What is the Mermaid?) (Alex: I want you to be a little more specific than that.) (Derrick: [Pauses, shakes head back and forth] That's all I got.) (Alex: Yeah. It's called [*]. It's a world-famous statue. So, you're at $8,600. Go again.)
the Little Mermaid
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What do you call it when Ed gets up on stage & dances with a mongoose puppet to opera? This term dating to the 1970s |
(Michelle: What is play acting?) ... (Alex: ...and we have less than a minute to go now, Derrick.)
performance art
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This double named island near Tahiti is just 6 miles long, but as you can see, it's worth the trip |
Bora Bora
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This field on the Sun is typically twice that of Earth but can reach 3,000 times as strong in areas with uneven surface rotation |
the magnetic field
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This seminal Dutch thinker of the Enlightenment was the son of parents who fled the Inquisition in Portugal |
(Alex: Nothing?) (Derrick: Nope.)
Spinoza
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Officers Quinn & Campo, known to break into song |
Cop Rock
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The Harlem statue of this jazz man and bandleader just might put you in a sentimental mood |
(Duke) Ellington
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Harry Truman referred to the fighting in Korea not as a war but as this phrase |
a police action
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Matthew Arnold mixed pessimism & hope for love in his poem titled this "beach" in southeast England |
(Annalisa: What is Brighton Beach?)
Dover Beach
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The Sun formed from a giant, rotating cloud of gas & dust known as a solar this |
(Michelle: What is a cloud?) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
a solar nebula
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