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During the Cold War, the CIA had this Pasternak novel printed in Russian & given to Soviet citizens as propaganda |
Doctor Zhivago
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This fictional libertine appeared in 1630's "El Burlador de Sevilla" ("The Seducer of Seville") |
Don Juan
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Intensely bright, or a type of bulb with a warm yellow glow |
incandescent
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April 4, 1968 in Memphis |
Martin Luther King Jr.
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In 2010 one of these measuring a whopping 8 inches across fell to Earth in Vivian, South Dakota |
(Sharon: What is an asteroid?) (Niels: What is a meteorite?) ... (Alex: That size not impressive for a meteorite, but [*], [*] 8-inches across. Ooh, pain.)
a hailstone
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This husband of Barbra Streisand screen-tested to play Bond in "Octopussy" |
James Brolin
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Familial titles from Chekhov include "The Three Sisters" & this one subtitled "Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts" |
(Niels: Uh, what are pastorals?)
Uncle Vanya
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Term for a pair of beloveds or the conversational candy seen here |
Sweethearts
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The biblical golden calf is an example of this forbidden practice |
idolatry
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November 24, 1963 at Parkland Memorial Hospital |
(Niels: Who is JFK?) ... (Alex: We're not talking about November 22nd, but November 24th and that was not JFK but [*].)
Lee Harvey Oswald
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In 1926, the year before his historic crossing, he twice parachuted to safety while delivering airmail |
(Charles) Lindbergh
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He's been "Luther" & "Mandela", & some say it's time to make him the first black Bond |
Idris Elba
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His verse novel "Eugene Onegin" is set in 1820s imperial Russia |
Pushkin
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On the back of the envelope of a love letter, write "S.W.A.K.", short for this |
(Niels: What is "sent with a kiss"?) [Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before Final Jeopardy!]
sealed with a kiss
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You can buy gold in coins or bars, which are often called these |
(Niels: What are investments?)
ingots
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February 3, 1959 in an Iowa cornfield (one of 3 musicians) |
the Big Bopper (or Buddy Holly or Ritchie Valens)
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The Perseid meteor shower occurs each August, when the Earth passes through the orbit of Swift-Tuttle, one of these |
a comet
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A candidate to play Bond at the start was this suave superstar who did capers like "To Catch a Thief" & "Charade" |
Cary Grant
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His "Notes from the Underground" was written in response to a utopian novel called "What Is to Be Done?" |
Dostoevsky
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Perhaps a poem will be inspired by seeing in Greek the name of this muse of love poetry
Ἐρατώ |
(Niels: Who is Eros?)
Erato
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IPA, the golden brew originally shipped from England to Asia, is short for this |
India Pale Ale
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October 31, 1926 in Detroit, of peritonitis from a stomach injury |
Houdini
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In 1966 71.8 inches of rain fell in 24 hours on this Indian Ocean island that sounds like where classmates might get together |
Reunion
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The rumors won't go away that this star of "The Knick" & "Children of Men" might be Bond |
Clive Owen
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Britannica calls this Roman poet's "Ars Amatoria" "a manual of seduction and intrigue for the man about town" |
Ovid
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Gilding was a big part of this process of adorning medieval manuscripts |
illuminating
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April 18, 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey |
Einstein
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Perhaps caused by a tornado, a strange rain of these sporting objects fell on Punta Gorda, Florida in 1969 |
golf balls
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This Aussie actor does have a 4-letter "B" name, which would have made for great he "is Bond!" posters |
Eric Bana
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