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A neolithic skeletal pair were unearthed "embracing" near this city where Romeo & Juliet lived |
(Alex: Good, with less than a minute now.)
Verona
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Something at a very low price can be had "for" this |
a song
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I don't give a fig if you know that this standard unit of force is equal to about .225 pounds |
a newton
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"The people will waken & listen to hear / The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed, / & the midnight message of" him |
Paul Revere
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Fred, Wilma, Pebbles |
The Flintstones
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It's property that a debtor has pledged, mortgaged or assigned to a creditor |
collateral
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To "play" this stringed instrument means to serve in a subsidiary capacity |
second fiddle
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The nautilus fills its shell's internal chambers with fluid to adjust this upward force that causes objects to float |
buoyancy
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She titled an 1851 collection of her poems "Casa Guidi Windows" |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The Bluth family, including George Sr., Michael & George-Michael |
[ERRATUM: The character's name was "George Michael Bluth", not 'George-Michael Bluth".] [NOTE: This was the 275,000th clue entered into the J! Archive, on 2015-02-03.]
Arrested Development
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The Fed says bigger banks can risk more because Uncle Sam won't let them go under, this 4-word principle |
too big to fail
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The earth from this Tuscan city lent its name to a yellow-brown pigment & a "burnt" reddish-brown one |
Siena
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Like that Roy Scheider movie about Broadway, it means "those other similar things" |
all that jazz
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We all feel it, but Britannica calls this "by far the weakest known force in nature" |
gravity
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He had the ideas used in "The Divine Comedy" by around 1293 & took from about 1308 to 1320 to write it |
Dante
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Set back in the '80s: Murray, Beverly, Adam, Barry & Erica |
The Goldbergs
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Term for the amount by which the economic value of something is reduced over time by wear & tear & other factors |
depreciation
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In 2003 a campaign was launched to change the name of this Sicilian town, associated with the Mafia due to U.S. pop culture |
(Alex: Yes, indeed. From The Godfather.)
Corleone
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To trigger a potent memory is to do this 3-word phrase, play a combination of 3 notes |
strike a chord
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In physics, forces have magnitude & direction, so they're this type of quantity represented by an arrow |
a vector
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Whittier wrote, "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these" 4 of regret that complete the line |
it might have been
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A bunch of Bravermans, including Adam, Sarah & Crosby |
(Marissa: What is The Middle?)
Parenthood
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FDIC-insured banks will now protect deposits up to this amount, up from $100,000 |
$250,000
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Over 700 years old, the Palazzo Vecchio was the seat of government of this city back when it was a republic |
(Amy: What is Venice?) (Marissa: What is Rome?)
Florence
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You have to live with the consequences; you can't do this, reverse what you did to the carillon |
unring that bell
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Next time you're falling from a great height, thank air resistance, aka this 4-letter force, for slowing you down |
drag
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In an Ode to the West Wind, this Romantic poet called it "thou breath of Autumn's being" |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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On Showtime, Frank Gallagher & his 6 kids |
Shameless
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It's a contract that gives someone the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell something before a certain date |
an option
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