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A sonata is to be played; the word "cantata" means a work to be performed this way |
sung
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This mark of punctuation combines 2 other punctuation marks |
semicolon
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At Harvard, Tony Hsieh sold pizzas out of his dorm room; today he's the CEO of this largest online shoe retailer |
Zappos
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The company named for him traces its origins to the founding of Muppets, Inc. in 1958 |
Jim Henson
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She was the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
(Brandon: Who is Nikki Giovanni?) (Julia: Who is Toni Morrison?)
Alice Walker
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Alessandro Scarlatti's "O di Betlemme altera" was written for this holiday |
Christmas
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This fuse or percussion cap is used to set off an explosive charge |
detonator
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It's Nebraska's top plant crop |
(Julia: What is wheat?)
corn
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Penn.-raised Daniel Dae Kim had to relearn Korean to play Jin Kwon on this early 2000s adventure series |
Lost
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In 2013 this onetime Thomas Edison company sold its stake in NBC & Universal Studios |
General Electric
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The life & death dates for this poet in Britannica simply say, "flourished 9th or 8th century BCE?, Ionia? (now in Turkey)" |
Homer
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A Handel cantata tells the story of this Greek god & his pursuit of Daphne |
Apollo
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The derivation & history of a word |
etymology
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The people of this Indiana city call themselves Hauteans |
Terre Haute
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Husband & wife Andrew & Peggy Cherng founded & run the 1,500-plus restaurants in this chain; who ordered orange chicken? |
Panda Express
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In this company's full name, the "G" stands for David Geffen |
DreamWorks SKG
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This hard-boiled writer took the big sleep for real on March 26, 1959 |
Raymond Chandler
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"Wachet Auf", one of Bach's greatest cantatas, is based on a hymn of this Christian denomination |
Lutheran
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In computer lingo, it's the reduced "digital" image of a graphic used so that multiple images can be viewed on a page |
thumbnail
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Its state song is heard here |
(Steve: What is Michigan?) ... (Alex: "On [*]", yes.)
Wisconsin
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This daughter of Chinese immigrants competed nationally as a figure skater before going into bridal wear design |
Vera Wang
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In a 2013 spat, this cable company's customers lost CBS for a month |
Time-Warner
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Published posthumously in 2003, a novel by this Brooklyn guy was titled "Catch as Catch Can" |
Joseph Heller
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This German was only 1 opera into his career when he wrote a New Year's cantata to welcome 1835 |
Richard Wagner
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From the Latin for "rise up", it's one who rebels against an established government; today it's often used to mean "terrorist" |
insurgent
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Tonka Toys got their name from this lake, one of the largest in the Land of 10,000 Lakes |
(Julia: What is Minnesota?)
Minnetonka
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In 1989 he became the youngest male winner of tennis' French Open |
Michael Chang
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Once there was a "Big Six" of these; the 2012 breakup of EMI took it down to 3 |
record labels
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In 1991 this Brooklyn guy penned "Harlot's Ghost", focusing on the CIA |
Norman Mailer
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