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LESSER-KNOWN ANCIENT ROMANS |
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Like his brother Peyton of the Colts, Eli Manning has made a name for himself playing this position |
quarterback
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These insects make up the animal kingdom's largest order; over 600 species may be found in 1 rainforest tree |
(Grant: What are ants?)
beetles
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In 1994 Meryl provided the voice of Bart's naughty little girlfriend Jessica Lovejoy on this series |
The Simpsons
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He was the Englishman whose blood was smelled by a fe-fi-fo-fummer |
Jack
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Yale's chaplain William Sloane Coffin was convicted of helping young men avoid this |
the draft
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What a social climber! His name precedes "symbol" to mean something that represents high position |
Status
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This pharmaceutical company introduced Prozac to a grateful world in the 1980s |
Eli Lilly
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Divers seek the butterfly fish and other colorful creatures in this type of habitat, like Australia's "Great" one |
a reef
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Meryl starred in a TV version of "Uncommon Women and Others", a play that this "Heidi Chronicle"r wrote at Yale |
Wendy Wasserstein
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In 1995 he played "The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain" |
Hugh Grant
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FSM, formed by Berkeley protesters in 1964, stood for this "movement" |
the Free Speech Movement
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His hand turned red when he touched orange juice, blue when he touched seawater |
Litmus
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"Uncle Eli" has a "special-for-kids, most fun ever, under-the-table" edition of this liturgy for the Passover seder |
haggadah
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You'd find the marsh hen & the swamp lily in these, a general term for areas like marshes & swamps |
wetlands
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(Sofia of the Clue Crew at Yale.) As a drama student at Yale, Meryl frolicked in the forest as the lovestruck Helena in this Shakespeare play |
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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In this peripatetic book, Jules Verne wrote, "An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet" |
Around the World in Eighty Days
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Wisconsin kids protested campus recruitment by this chemical company, maker of Napalm |
(Josh: What is DuPont?)
Dow
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In Rome his name meant simply "good"; to us it implies that he gave a little something extra |
Bonus
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This inventor (Yale, 1792) built machines that mass-produced interchangeable parts |
Eli Whitney
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This U.S. national park is the only place where alligators & crocodiles exist side by side |
the Everglades
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This 2002 film told several stories, & featured one tumultuous day in the life of Meryl's character, Clarissa Vaughan |
The Hours
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In 1912 he wrote, "Had we lived, I should have had a tale ... which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman" |
Robert Falcon Scott
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In 1968 at this NYC university, students took over President Kirk's office & even drank his sherry |
Columbia
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His name came from the Latin for "dispute" & he would drag you into court any chance he got |
(Josh: [Long pause] Who is Plaintiff?)
Litigious
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Eli Yale went to Madras in 1672 as an employee of this trading company |
British East India Company
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These rodents of the genus Cynomys are named for their western U.S. habitat |
prairie dogs
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In 1974 Meryl sang in "The Frogs", with music by this "Into the Woods" composer; it was performed in Yale's swimming pool |
Stephen Sondheim
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Operetta that includes the following:
For he himself has said it, And it's greatly to his credit, That he is an Englishman! |
HMS Pinafore
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At Harvard in 1966 Congressman-to-be Barney Frank helped this Defense Secretary escape angry students |
Robert McNamara
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Nobody was more skillful than him with a tool in his hand -- his right hand, of course |
Dexterous
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