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The prologue of this novel is called "The Bite of the Raptor" |
Jurassic Park
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In French, this nation is Afrique du Sud |
South Africa
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Muhammad Ali used this strategy by leaning against the ropes while George Foreman got tired punching him |
rope-a-dope
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J.K. Rowling's is Robert Galbraith |
a pseudonym
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This brother of John Foster Dulles resigned as C.I.A. director in 1961 after the Bay of Pigs failure |
Allen Dulles
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"Catch Me If You Can" |
(Steven) Spielberg
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He narrates "The Catcher in the Rye" |
Holden Caulfield
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While this empire controlled Libya, it was part of the region known as Africa Nova |
(Ryan: What is the Italian?)
the Roman Empire
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The first synthetic fiber rope was made of this & used for glider tow ropes & parachute cords in World War II |
nylon
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Here's the drill; this adjective is associated with tires or pertains to air, gases or wind |
pneumatic
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Once President Clinton's Chief of Staff, he served as Secretary of Defense & C.I.A. director in the Obama administration |
Leon Panetta
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"American Hustle" |
(Conor: Who is... ahh!) (Alex: Oh, you rang in without knowing.) [NOTE: This was the 270,000th clue entered into the J! Archive, on 2014-11-04.]
David O. Russell
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He wrote "I, the Jury" in less than 3 weeks & introduced us all to Mike Hammer |
Mickey Spillane
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Gazing from space at Victoria Falls, we're looking at the border of these two nations that start with the same letter |
(Conor: What are Niger and Nigeria?)
Zambia & Zimbabwe
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The name of this largest island in the Ryukyus is Japanese for "rope in the sea", referring to its shape |
(Casey: What is Honshu?)
Okinawa
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Time to deal with the heartbreak of this skin disease marked by scaly patches |
psoriasis
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This general resigned as director in 2012 after a little bit of hanky panky came to light in the press |
David Petraeus
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"The Silence of the Lambs" |
Jonathan Demme
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This 1961 novel is about an Air Force bombardier named Yossarian |
Catch-22
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It's the second-largest desert in Africa |
(Ryan: What is the Namib?)
the Kalahari
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The Dutch gave us this word meaning a mop made of rope or yarn that's used for cleaning a ship's deck |
a swab
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The state bird of Alaska, the willow this, has feathers on its feet |
a ptarmigan
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Appointed by Gerald Ford, he's the only man to serve as both C.I.A. director & U.S. president |
(Casey: Who is Reagan? [Grimaces])
George H.W. Bush
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John Galt stops the motor of the world in this Ayn Rand novel |
Atlas Shrugged
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Governing for the Ottoman sultan, the khedive was the title of the ruler of this North African nation until 1914 |
Egypt
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From the abaca plant in the Philippines, the natural fiber most often used in ropes is called this type of "hemp" |
Manila hemp
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What's now called food poisoning was once named for this stinky substance made by bacteria during putrefaction |
(Ryan: What's phthisis?)
ptomaine
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An Air Force base on California's Central Coast is named for this general & 1940s C.I.A. director |
(Ryan: Who is Hoover?)
Hoyt Vandenberg
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"Dog Day Afternoon" |
(Sidney) Lumet
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