JOLLY OLD CITIES IN ENGLAND |
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REMEMBERING LAUREN BACALL |
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It's home to the International Slavery Museum, but you may know it as the home of the Beatles |
Liverpool
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982: Greenland gets its name from this man with another color in his name |
(Alex: You are right, with less than a minute to go now.)
Erik the Red
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She's "The Mockingbird Next Door" |
Harper Lee
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I have a natural inclination for this term meaning lying face down |
prone
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The Golden Horn, the Bosporus & the Sea of Marmara are the "3 seas" that converge on this city |
Istanbul
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This city on the River Cam is home to a univ. founded in the 1200s; the same-named one in Massachusetts has good schools too |
Cambridge
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In 1999 Lauren starred in "Too Rich: The Secret Life of" this alliterative tobacco heiress |
Doris Duke
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1592: Starting a long-brewing fight with Argentina, Englishman John Davis lays eyes on these |
the Falklands
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Thomas Beller calls this reclusive man of letters "The Escape Artist" |
(J.D.) Salinger
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John Lamb Reed was a primary one for Gilbert & Sullivan |
a baritone
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From the 16th to 18th centuries, the hornbook was this type of schoolbook whose name is from the Latin for "first" |
a primer
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Associated with a mean sheriff, this city on the River Trent used to have an "S" in front--ewww |
Nottingham
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In "How to Marry a Millionaire", Lauren, Betty Grable & this gal play models out to snag rich husbands |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Marilyn Monroe
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1456: In the service of this Portuguese prince of a guy, Alvise Ca' da Mosto explores the Cape Verde islands |
Prince Henry the Navigator
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Scholar Rosamund Bartlett dissected "Scenes from a Life" of this Russian playwright |
(Anton) Chekhov
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Before "Barefoot in the Park" in 1963, this playwright struck gold in 1961 with "Come Blow Your Horn" |
Neil Simon
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The Thermae Spa has updated the millennia-old hot springs tradition of this city |
(Dave: [in a British accent] What is [*]?) (Alex: [*], yes. I love your pronunciation.) (Dave: Oh. It's lovely.) [Laughter]
Bath
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In 1964 Lauren played a bickering wife in the film based on this Helen Gurley Brown bestseller |
(Alvin: What is The It Girl?)
Sex and the Single Girl
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1522: The Spanish king honors Juan Sebastian del Cano for this first; history honors his late boss Magellan |
circumnavigation of the Earth
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"The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans" paints a portrait of this author |
George Eliot
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A type of clam, or the center of a Bing |
(Laura: What is a stone?) (Alex: Be more specific.)
a cherrystone
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Due to the small horns above each eye, the sidewinder is also called a "horn" this type of poisonous snake |
a viper
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The frame of a ship, or a Yorkshire port city of 250,000 people |
Hull
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Lauren was into couture in the 1957 film titled this kind of "Woman" |
Designing Woman
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1761: John Harrison wins a Parliament prize for finding a way to measure this at sea; his secret? A good timepiece |
longitude
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There's an entire book just about him & the Church of Ireland, 1710-1724 |
(Alvin: Who is... Saint Patrick?)
Jonathan Swift
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A speaker of the native tongue in Chartres |
(Laura: Un Français?)
a Francophone
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It's home to the Ethiopian Plateau & the Ogaden Desert |
(Dave: What is Cape Horn?)
the Horn of Africa
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