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NONFICTION BOOKS ON THE BIG SCREEN |
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This inner London borough is home to Buckingham Palace & Victoria Station, not just an abbey |
Westminster
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"Fringe" is a synonym for this, hair that's combed over the forehead |
bangs
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After the Owl & the Pussy-cat were married, "they danced by the light of" this |
(Nick: What is [*] silvery [*]?)
the moon
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This 2005 film about Johnny Cash comes from his autobiography "Man in Black" |
Walk the Line
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Seen here 3,000 feet up is William Henry Jackson, who was the official one of these for the U.S. Geological Survey of the Territory |
a photographer
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When President Buchanan (a man with no wives!) removed me as Utah governor, hostilities ensued |
(Brigham) Young
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Run away & join this neon-lit intersection of 4 London streets first formed in 1819 |
Piccadilly Circus
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This synonym for "voluptuous" is named for a Flemish painter |
Rubenesque
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"Little Robin" this "sat upon a tree, up went Pussycat and down went he" |
Redbreast
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"See No Evil", about the CIA in the Middle East, became "Syriana", which won an Oscar for this actor |
(George) Clooney
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This state capital came into being in one day, on April 22, 1889, when 50,000 swarmed onto 2 million acres |
(Nick: What is Salt Lake City?) (Sara Tess: What is Sacramento?)
Oklahoma City
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My pop song parodies include polkas, & I have the same last name as the winner of the first polka Grammy |
"Weird Al" Yankovic
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The British Museum is in this London neighborhood once home to a famous writers' "group" |
Bloomsbury
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"To moo like a cow" & "degraded" are synonyms for 2 different definitions of this 3-letter word |
low
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For losing their mittens, the 3 little kittens "began to cry" & were denied this dessert by their mother |
pie
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"Lost Moon" followed this ill-fated space mission |
Apollo 13
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(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1863, the Central Pacific Railroad broke ground in Sacramento, & the Union Pacific Railroad did the same in Omaha. The 1869 joining of the two in Promontory, Utah, was symbolized by this 2-word item |
the Golden Spike
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I starred in "The Three Musketeers", "The Four Musketeers", "The Return of the Musketeers" & "Austin Powers" |
Michael York
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A post-WWII planning act surrounded London with a ring of open land known by this colorful name |
the Green Belt
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"Apex" is from the Latin; this 4-letter synonym is from the Greek for "point" |
(Alex: You can see the score.) (Nick: Yeah. Yeah, I can.)
acme
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With a crooked one of these coins, the crooked man "bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse" |
a sixpence
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"A Mighty Heart" was the story of Daniel Pearl, a reporter for this newspaper who was killed in Pakistan |
The Wall Street Journal
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Published in 1810, this explorer's journals "peaked" interest with the first descriptions of the Southern Plains & Rockies |
(Zebulon) Pike
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I was a humble 19th century Japanese organ maker, yet today my name is on guitars, MP3 players & motorcycles |
(Torakusu) Yamaha
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This London neighborhood took its name from an old hunting cry; the one in NYC, from a street & a direction |
Soho
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Another name for a wine steward is this French word |
a sommelier
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"The gingham dog and" this feline "side by side on the table sat" |
(Nick: Who is the Cheshire cat?)
the calico cat
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Tina Fey used "Queen Bees and Wannabes" as fodder to write this Lindsay Lohan film |
Mean Girls
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Though he had a Native American wife, Kit Carson followed orders to subdue this people & relocate 8,000 in New Mexico |
the Navajo
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In 1713 I gave a bunch of books to a school at Saybrook, Connecticut |
(Elihu) Yale
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