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Frances Gumm took her new last name from writer Robert Garland & this first name from a Hoagy Carmichael song |
Judy
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A 7-mile-high peak in the mountain range called Maxwell is the highest feature on this planet, Earth's twin |
Venus
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He exposed questionable design practices in the auto industry in "Unsafe at Any Speed" |
Ralph Nader
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This love story by Robert James Waller spent more than 3 years on the bestseller list |
The Bridges of Madison County
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Using a slang superlative, Leroy Brown is described as this "man in the whole damn town" |
baddest
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On a Halloween night in the 1750s, this seducer made a daring escape from a cell beneath the Doge's Palace |
Casanova
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Born Roy Scherer, he's the movie star seen here |
Rock Hudson
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By studying lunar eclipses this Greek philosopher proved that the Earth was ball-shaped |
Aristotle
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He created his "Safari" fragrance in 1990 |
Ralph Lauren
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Failed poet Von Humboldt Fleisher is the title character in this Saul Bellow novel |
Humboldt's Gift
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The superlative of the word "old" can start with this letter instead of o |
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In 1988 this actress, born Margarita Ibrahimoff, married Tom Hanks, born Tom Hanks |
Rita Wilson
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In 2002 the Odyssey space probe determined ice lies just below the surface of this planet's poles |
Mars
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He won the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his work as a U.N. mediator resolving Arab-Israeli conflicts |
Dr. Ralph Bunche
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His "Postman Always Rings Twice", "Double Indemnity" & "Mildred Pierce" were all made into movies |
James M. Cain
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It's the superlative of "little", as in the proverb This "said, soonest mended" |
least
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Venice is the setting for Act I of this tragedy about a man who loved his wife "not wisely but too well" |
Othello
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This larger-than-life model & reality show subject was born Vickie Lynn Hogan |
Anna Nicole Smith
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Ceres, one of these objects, is about 600 miles in diameter & was named for the Roman goddess of agriculture |
asteroid
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Encapsulating the essence of his philosophy, he published "Nature" in 1836 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He's kept readers in suspense with novels like "Whispers", "Watchers" & "Sole Survivor" |
Dean Koontz
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Superlative in a famous nickname of the NYPD |
(Micah: What is bluest?)
finest
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TV's Tonto, Mohawk Indian Harold Jay Smith got this nickname playing lacrosse by running on the balls of his feet |
Jay Silverheels
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When William Herschel discovered this planet in 1781, he first thought it was a comet |
Uranus
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Later SCLC President, he co-founded the Montgomery (Alabama) Improvement Assoc. in 1955 |
Ralph Abernathy
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"The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant retells the story of this Biblical woman, the daughter of Jacob & Leah |
(Clint: Who is Rachel?)
Dinah
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Superlative in the name of a Minnesota-based retail electronics behemoth |
best (Best Buy)
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