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Persephone's hubby, he isn't always counted as an Olympian god, since he didn't live on Mount Olympus |
Hades
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She's the threshold lassie being crooned over by Nat King Cole here
"Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep, they just lie there..." |
"Mona Lisa"
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Jabal Katrinah, this country's highest point, rises 8,668 feet over the Sinai Peninsula |
Egypt
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This bodybuilder became world famous marketing a technique he conceived while watching a lion in a zoo |
(Alex: Yes, the lion was stretching.)
Charles Atlas
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"Brighter than a Thousand Suns" is a 1956 book about the men who built the first one of these |
the atomic bomb
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All the unknown senoritas were interested in this desirable bachelor whose name can also mean "qualified" |
El Igible
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Also the god of horses & earthquakes, this guy was a real "Adventure" |
Poseidon
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Five-word song title that precedes the lyric line heard here
"It will be forever..." |
"When I Fall In Love"
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The closest European country to Greenland is this country only 200 miles to the east |
Iceland
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Colorful nickname of Charles E. Bolton, the robber & poet who held up 27 stagecoaches from 1875 to 1883 |
Black Bart
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"The sun's coming up"? No, this character says, "Envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east" |
Romeo
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He was named for his sub-high school level of formal education |
El Ementary
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A noted thief, this messenger of the gods probably wouldn't be welcome at a certain B.H. silk tie store |
Hermes
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The two things required of you in the title of this song
"A brother took a monkey for a ride in the air / The monkey thought that everything was on the square / The brother tried to throw the monkey off his back / But the monkey grabbed his neck and said, 'Now listen, Jack...'" |
"Straighten Up And Fly Right"
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Famed cube-ist Erno Rubik was born in this country |
Hungary
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The National Museum of Health & Medicine performed the autopsies on James Garfield & this assassin |
Charles Guiteau
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This phrase, meaning the prospect of relief after struggle, is reported as part of near-death experiences |
the light at the end of the tunnel
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Elvis Costello (another unknown Spaniard) sang, "Don't get smart or sarcastic, he snaps back just like" this |
El Astic
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This goddess was "mighty" fertile, bearing Harmonia, Aeneas & Eros, among others |
Aphrodite
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It's the travelin' lyric line that follows Nat singing here
"If you ever plan to motor west..." |
(Aaron: What is "Route 66"?) (Alex: Little more.) (Aaron: What is "Take Route 66"?) ... (Alex: Less than a minute now.)
"Get Your Kicks On Route 66"
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This African country's name is from the Spanish for "Lion Mountains" |
Sierra Leone
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No myth, this Boston-born architect & father of "Age of Fable"'s Thomas helped design the U.S. Capitol |
Charles Bulfinch
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"The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light" is sung in this opus at Christmastime |
(Handel's) Messiah
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He was named for the quality that let him convince you of just about anything when he got up to make a speech |
El Oquent
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This Greek god's smoky workshop was supposed to be located beneath Mt. Etna |
Hephaestus
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6-word suggestion in the title of this hit
"There may be trouble ahead..." |
(Britney: What is "Face The Music And Dance"? [*]?) (Alex: Okay! Good girl.)
"Let's Face The Music And Dance"
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Now its own country, this former Yugoslav republic borders Italy near the city of Trieste |
Slovenia
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Caril Ann Fugate was the girlfriend of this Nebraska-born killer of the 1950s |
Charles Starkweather
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The Psalmist sayeth, "Thy word is" this (also an old CBS religious show) "and a light unto my path" |
(Britney: What is "my beacon"?)
"a lamp unto my feet"
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It was futile to try to capture or pin down the man with this name |
(Alex: [To Britney] Hey, you did well. Boy, I bet you were hoping that we had had a whole board of UNKNOWN SPANIARDS.)
El Usive
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