BASKETBALL: SCREEN & ROLE |
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MOVING FORWARD IN SCIENCE |
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"They needed a second chance to finish first" was a tagline for this 1986 Gene Hackman film |
Hoosiers
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This author of "The Hotel New Hampshire" was born in New Hampshire in 1942 |
John Irving
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Turn 180 degrees from the position of attention! |
about-face
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Positive, negative or zero, the electric type of this is a basic property of elementary particles |
charge
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...in Poland, where I was born in 1810; the rest of me is de-composing in Paris |
Chopin
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At Market & Powell Streets, you'll find the southern turntable for these conveyances |
cable cars
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Michael Jordan & other NBA stars teamed with Looney Tunes characters to defeat aliens in this 1996 film |
Space Jam
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Her uncle was president of Chile from 1970 to 1973 |
Isabel Allende
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One of these by Leonardo da Vinci is seen here |
a self-portrait
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In medicine, depressants are the opposite of these, which include adrenaline & caffeine |
stimulants
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...in this ancient Greek town, far from the rest of me in Lausanne; I am ancient-games reviver Pierre de Coubertin |
(Shayna: What is Olympus?) (Matt: What is Athens?)
Olympia
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The Giants' home base is at 24 this plaza named for the beloved No. 24 |
Willie Mays
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Former NBA player Bob Lanier was hired to coach Woody Harrelson & Wesley Snipes for this 1992 film |
White Men Can't Jump
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Tales of bounty hunters chasing down escaped slaves inspired her to write "Beloved" |
Toni Morrison
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It's a synonym for Old English, spoken before about 1150 |
(Matt: What is... Middle English?)
Anglo-Saxon
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...in Rouen in 1199; hear it roar for the royal rest of me |
Richard the Lionheart
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The 1960s home of the Grateful Dead was 710 this street, near the intersection with Haight |
(Pat: What is Asbury?) [Originally accepted as correct; reversed before Daily Double at clue 30.]
Ashbury
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This Bucks, Celtics & Heat sharpshooter played a high school phenom in Spike Lee's "He Got Game" |
Ray Allen
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He was a staff writer for the New Yorker before writing novels like "Rabbit, Run" |
John Updike
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Making no net contribution to the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere |
carbon-neutral
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Arthur Eddington used the image of this object, a weapon & indicator, to explore why time only goes forward |
the arrow
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...in my beloved Wessex; the ashes of the rest of me were interred in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner |
(Thomas) Hardy
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This famously crooked street winds down Russian Hill |
Lombard Street
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In a 1978 pilot, coach Ken Howard: "I'll be behind you every step of the way"; Kevin Hooks: "Yeah, like a" this title phrase |
a white shadow
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For refusing to testify against fellow Communists, this "Maltese Falcon" author spent 5 months in prison |
Dashiell Hammett
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This alliterative 1941 act allocated $7 billion in military credits to Britain |
the Lend-Lease Act
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This verb can mean "to cause to happen" or "to fall from the sky", the way snow does |
precipitate
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...in a Swiss churchyard; the rest of me went to Poland 40 years after it helped free the American colonies |
(Pat: Who is Pulaski?)
Kosciuszko
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These "Heights" are home to classic Victorian homes, one of which Michael Keaton moves into in a 1990 thriller |
Pacific Heights
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