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3,500 feet long, it crossed the Hudson, not the Delaware, in 1931 |
the George Washington Bridge
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In the 1400s Christian I was king of Denmark, Norway & this country |
Sweden
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"Holly Golightly had been a tenant in the old brownstone; she'd occupied the apartment below mine" in this work |
Breakfast at Tiffany's
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This former Lakers cheerleader choreographed Janet Jackson's "Control" video |
Paula Abdul
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A delusion that your life is scripted & being filmed has been named by doctors after this Jim Carrey film |
The Truman Show
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As a poker term, it's a word on its own; as a prefix, it means "before" |
ante
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The Humber Bridge over the Humber Estuary in this country stretches 4,625 feet |
England
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Under his rule from 1740 to 1786, Prussia became one of the great military powers & intellectual centers of Europe |
Frederick the Great
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This 1852 novel says, "It is a sin to hold a slave under laws like ours" |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Fired before "West Side Story" was completed, he won an Oscar for Best Director anyway |
Jerome Robbins
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Adjective for info received by the brain on an unconscious level, from the Latin for "below the threshold" |
subliminal
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Another word for your rump, this word also means subsequent |
(Jan: What is behind?) (Evan: What is rear?)
posterior
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Completed in 2010, one of the world's longest concrete arch bridges bears the name of this football player & war casualty |
Pat Tillman
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Under this king, Jordan expelled the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1971 |
King Hussein
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This novel ends, "Yes, thought Montag, that's the one I'll save for noon. For noon... when we reach the city" |
Fahrenheit 451
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A trip to the U.S. Southwest in 1930 led her to create historical dances like "Appalachian Spring" |
Martha Graham
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Sometimes used in police work, hypermnesia is the technique of increasing a person's memory using this |
hypnosis
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Adverb heard often in viewing scenes from the last episode of a show, as in this "on AMC's 'The Walking Dead'..." |
previously
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17.6 miles of bridge & 2 miles of tunnel help travelers cross this bay from Virginia to Maryland |
the Chesapeake
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Let's see if you know that Letsie III has been king of this African country since the 1990s |
Lesotho
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This 1906 novel was meant to be a companion piece to "The Call of the Wild" |
White Fang
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This "tap dance kid" won a Tony for Best Choreographer for "Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk" |
Savion Glover
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Ablutomania is an obsession with doing this |
(Alex: [*] the hands, particularly.)
washing
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As well as ensuing, it can mean accomplishing a goal |
succeeding
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A nearly 24-mile causeway over this lake links Metairie & Mandeville |
(Alex: You are right, in Louisiana.)
Lake Pontchartrain
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In a short story by this man, Percy says his father has "a diamond bigger than the Ritz-Carlton Hotel" |
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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He brought amazing geometry to movie musicals like "42nd Street" & "Footlight Parade" |
(Busby) Berkeley
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It's "de" treatment of a phobia by gradual exposure to the source of the fear |
(Kerry: What is desensitation--[*]?)
desensitization
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This Shakespearean 3-letter word means before |
ere
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