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This Muppet loves pigeons & bottlecaps & shares a fashionable "Sesame Street" address |
Bert
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Kevin Spacey plays a manipulative politician on this series from Netflix |
House of Cards
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Its ruling monarchy was chased out in 1979 |
Iran
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A trite or stereotyped phrase, it's literally French for "stereotype", a printing term |
cliché
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A command to the Lone Ranger's companion to move quickly |
"Pronto, Tonto"
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First name of 20th c. cardinal Ottaviani, or a rich butter & cream sauce |
Alfredo
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This '30s movie star said, "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it" |
Groucho Marx
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Fans of this soapy series are called Gladiators |
Scandal
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It's about 650 miles west of Norway |
Iceland
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Using a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal meaning |
irony
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An Athenian computer nerd |
a Greek geek
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Fittingly, Luca Spaghetti is one of the people Elizabeth Gilbert meets in the first section of this 3-word book |
Eat, Pray, Love
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Seen here are the brows of this sage of Sunday night television |
Andy Rooney
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On "The Americans" she stars as Elizabeth Jennings, just your KGB spy next door |
Keri Russell
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About 6,000 of its more than 17,000 islands are inhabited |
Indonesia
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Dude, that was so this! A long narrative poem that tells of the deeds & adventures of a hero |
epic
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Home for a king in the "Big D" |
a Dallas palace
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Mario Cipollini ("Mario Wild Onions") is a famed sprinter in this beloved Euro-sport |
cycling
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The Coyoacan house of this Mexican artist is now a museum bearing her name |
Frida Kahlo
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Hugh Dancy is criminal profiler Will Graham, trying to track down serial killers on this drama |
Hannibal
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Some 250 million of its people are ethnically Dravidian |
India
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Parody makes fun of a literary style; this other 6-letter term makes fun of human weaknesses |
(Aric: What is folly?)
satire
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A pleasant-smelling tramp or rover |
(Aric: What is a... ah...) (Alex: Oh, you took too much time.)
a fragrant vagrant
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Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo, reputedly a gunman in this 1929 slaughter, died aged 86 in 1992 |
the Valentine's Day Massacre
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In 1976, he was made Marshall of the U.S.S.R., the only party leader after Stalin to hold the highest military rank |
Brezhnev
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"24: Live Another Day" was shot in & is set in this city |
[Applause for Hilary's run of the category] (Alex: You've been spending a lot of time watching television and today it pays off.)
London
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It was created from 3 Ottoman provinces shortly after World War I |
Iraq
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It's the usual lit crit term for prefiguring or hinting what is to come later in a story |
foreshadowing
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The sense that the science of plants is getting repetitive, day in & day out |
botany monotony
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The last name of 18th century composer Pietro was the word for these dumplings |
gnocchi
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