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The Satchmo Summerfest in New Orleans pays tribute to this native son & jazz great |
(Louis) Armstrong
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The British Museum displays an iron one of these with a gilded bronze scabbard from the Roman emperor Tiberius |
a sword
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The story of a scandal-disgraced minister, "A Month of Sundays" by John Updike is a takeoff on this Hawthorne work |
The Scarlet Letter
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Your present spouse is your this 2-word phrase |
better half
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There were 4 seasons of the Wodehouse pair known as "Jeeves and" this employer of his |
Wooster
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Take you from your loft in Soho to a gallery across Houston in this "village"? Tell ya the truth, it'd be faster to walk |
(Jayne: What is the West Village?) [Originally ruled incorrect; ruled correct before the first Daily Double because "the borderline is very close"]
Greenwich Village (or the West Village)
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"In the mood" for a festival honoring this bandleader? Drop by Clarinda, Iowa the second week in June |
(Glenn) Miller
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Crystallized some 4.4 billion years ago, zircons found in Australia are the Earth's oldest known of these rock constituents |
minerals
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This 1975 E.L. Doctorow novel captured the spirit of the U.S. from the turn of the 20th century to World War I |
Ragtime
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Your future spouse is your this word |
betrothed
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3 decades after the original, this tale of British masters & household servants returned in 2011 |
Upstairs, Downstairs
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Sure, I can take you to this L.A. sports arena where Kobe plays; you know it doesn't sell office supplies, right? |
the Staples Center
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"Leaving no trace" of 50,000 people camping in the Nevada desert is a principle of this late summer festival |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Burning Man
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Since the 8th century, a 230-foot-tall statue of this man has loomed over China's Sichuan Province |
Buddha
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"Son of the Morning Star" is Evan S. Connell's study of this lt. col.'s death in June 1876 in Montana |
Custer
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To hurt someone who trusts you |
betrayal
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Keira Knightley played Lara Antipova in an adaptation of this Russian tale |
(Dave: What is Anna Karenina?)
Doctor Zhivago
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Oui, we are at 27 Rue de Fleurus, Paris, where this writer lived with Alice B. Toklas! We are not a lost generation! |
Gertrude Stein
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Homo naledi, a 2-million-year-old discovery announced in 2015, is notable for a long, powerful this digit |
thumb
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This day of the week is the title of a 2005 Ian McEwan novel about a surgeon named Henry |
Saturday
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It designates any constellation's second-brightest star |
beta
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Bring your whole entourage to see this actor play the title role in Masterpiece's "Mr. Selfridge" |
(Dave: Who is Jeremy...) ... (Alex: Less than a minute now, Jayne.)
(Jeremy) Piven
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Maggie Daley Park to Soldier Field, sure--we'll take da 41, aka this "Drive" with a water view |
(Alex: Sean, from Illinois?) (Sean: What is [*]?)
Lakeshore Drive
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Mad King Ludwig began construction of this fairy-tale castle in 1869 |
Neuschwanstein
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Mark Haddon's novel, "The Curious Incident of" this came to Broadway in 2014 with Alex Sharp as the teen sleuth |
the Dog in the Night-Time
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Pair it with "between" to mean in an awkward middle position |
betwixt
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In Masterpiece's "Wolf Hall", this actor of "Homeland" fame portrays a young Henry VIII |
Damian Lewis
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Pall Mall? Sure, guv, but it might get slow at this intersection of Regent & Haymarket-- it's a real circus |
Piccadilly Circus
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