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19th C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS |
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From 1928 to 1931 Ford built almost 5 million of these Model T successor cars |
the Model A
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You might have a knife bearing the flag of this country |
Switzerland
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This musical opened in 1986 with Michael Crawford & Sarah Brightman in the lead roles, & it's still going strong |
Phantom of the Opera
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To throw with violence, or a brief romantic relationship |
fling
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Jesper Harding, publisher of what's now this Philly newspaper, was for a time the USA's largest Bible publisher |
the Inquirer
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Early on, a seagull pecks at Melanie's head in this Hitchcock film; things go downhill from there |
The Birds
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By the mid-1970s no aspiring nerd was without one of these, like the TI-30 |
a pocket calculator
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The 5 red crosses on this former Soviet Socialist Republic's flag are the symbol of a certain saint, the Union Jack has one such cross |
Georgia
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As seen in a photo, "Handbag" is a recent comedy that examines the relationship between these two women |
Queen Elizabeth and Margaret Thatcher
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A type of canine tooth |
a fang
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In 1885 bartender Harry Tammen & lottery promoter F.G. Bonfils founded this rival of the Rocky Mountain News |
The Denver Post
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Hitchcock said this 1958 film was his most personal one, & it took him to dizzying heights |
Vertigo
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From 1947 to 1953 U.S. production of these devices rose from fewer than 200,000 to more than 7 million a year |
(Darren: What are transistors?)
television sets
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In 1776 Col. William Moultrie chose the crescent for what's now the flag of this state |
South Carolina
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In 2013 "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." Robert Vaughn played Juror No. 9 in a new version of this courtroom drama |
Twelve Angry Men
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This pouch that fits over a horse's muzzle contains his chow |
a feedbag
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His father acquired the San Francisco Examiner in 1880 as payment for a gambling debt & later gave it to him to run |
(William Randolph) Hearst
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Binoculars plus broken leg equals big problems for the photo-journalist played by this actor in "Rear Window" |
James Stewart
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The Victor Company enclosed the horn of a gramophone in a cabinet to create this hot-selling brand of the 19-teens |
Victrola
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This monarchy in the Pacific is about two-thirds Protestant |
Tonga
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In 2012 this murder mystery snared a record 60th year on the London stage |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
The Mousetrap
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This dance developed around 1964 as a variation of the twist |
the Frug
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After his editorial writer killed an opponent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, he left for NYC & bought the World |
(Joseph) Pulitzer
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Grace Kelly didn't phone in her performance as the wife of a British tennis pro in this 1954 film--she was killer! |
Dial M for Murder
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Once endorsed by Andre Agassi, this company's Rebel camera was a Consumer Reports Top 10 electronics product of 2013 |
Canon
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The flags of these two countries that begin with the same two letters both use imagery from earlier Ottoman designs |
Turkey and Tunisia
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This sheet metal reinforces & waterproofs the joints & angles of a roof |
flashing
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Charlestown-born Charles Taylor became publisher of this newspaper in 1873, it remained in the family for the next 126 years |
(Kristen: What is The Boston Herald?)
The Boston Globe
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This composer scored 8 Hitchcock films, including "Psycho" & "The Man Who Knew Too Much", in which he had a cameo |
(Alex: You are right, with less than a minute to go.)
Bernard Herrmann
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