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Called Valentino's best film, this sequel to "The Sheik" was unfortunately his last |
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The 1st solvent widely used by modern dry cleaners, it was unleaded |
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Mumblety-peg is played by throwing this implement |
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Tho German-born, this 18th century composer famed for his "Messiah" is buried in Westminster Abbey |
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Invented in ancient Greece, the wine press was more productive than this time-honored method |
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Older women & worrywarts are the most common victims of this sleep disorder |
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When John Barrymore played Ahab in the original film version, it was called "The Sea Beast" |
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It's the solar system's 2nd largest planet |
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In Monopoly, Atlantic Avenue is yellow & Pacific Avenue this color |
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Robert Schumann was a noted composer of this 19th C. period which immediately followed the Classical |
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The name for this liquor is a corruption of French for "juniper", whose berries flavor it |
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Women dream equally about both sexes, but in men's dreams, members of this sex appear most often |
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(video Daily Double) Many consider this 1925 film Charlie Chaplin's greatest comedy: |
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Depending on the length of the path this takes, thunder might be a short clap or a long rumble |
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On a standard craps table, this 4-letter word is spelled with the biggest letters |
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In 1929 Arturo Toscanini, not Bo Derek, conducted the U.S. premiere of this Ravel work |
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Alexis Lichine says it's "like liquid fire in the throat" when tossed down after licking salt |
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This largest of all seals can suspend breathing during sleep for half-hour stretches |
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"A Fool There Was", based on Kipling's poem "The Vampire" made this siren the very 1st "vamp" |
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20th century Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch discovered the dance of these insects |
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Board game in which a player can create a prime, a barrier of 6 points which an opponent cannot pass |
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From Greek for "recitation of epic poetry", Rachmaninoff wrote one "on a theme of Paganini" |
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Term for a jigger of liquor, even in the dark |
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It's the instrument scientists use to record brainwaves during a sleep study |
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The 1st film to win an Oscar as "Best Picture", it starred Clara Bow & featured Hedda Hopper |
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It's the special field of computer science trying to come up with machines that think for themselves |
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Author J.R.R. Tolkien helped inspire G. Gygax & D. Arneson to invent this role-playing game |
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His operas include "Il Trovatore" & "La Traviata" |
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Tia Maria is a West Indian liqueur made with this liquor |
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