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This game from Rovio has been downloaded more than 2 billion times |
Angry Birds
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This brand is named for a real doctor, the grandson of a cobbler who got his medical degree in 1904 |
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)
Dr. Scholl's
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The quiet joys of fishing are described in Izaak Walton's 1653 work "The Compleat" this |
Angler
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Quit moving these, which support the crossbars on a football field |
goalposts
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In the 1700s William Stukeley was the first to recognize that the objects of this British site were aligned on the solstices |
Stonehenge
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First Lady Mary Lincoln: This couple, Robert & Eliza |
the Todds
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This TV series was based on Chris Rock's childhood |
Everybody Hates Chris
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The Salish language gives us this other name for Bigfoot |
(Theresa: What is Yeti?) ... (Alex: Yeti is in the--Tibet in the Himalayas.)
Sasquatch
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On Dec. 9, 1854, just 45 days after the event, The Examiner published this Tennyson poem |
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
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Hyphenated term for an aggressively enterprising person |
a go-getter
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18th century archaeologists uncovered the Villa of the Papyri, an ancient library, in this neighbor to Pompeii |
Herculaneum
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Mary I: Henry VIII & this Spanish import |
Catherine of Aragon
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In vaudeville, future "I Love Lucy" co-star William Frawley helped popularize the song about this sad "baby" |
[Alex did not say the first word of the song title ("My") when giving the correct response; the song was popularly referred to without it, as in A Star Is Born (1954).]
"My Melancholy Baby"
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This 1895 H.G. Wells book was subtitled "An Invention" |
The Time Machine
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Colorful term for the winning score in an overtime soccer match |
golden goal
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In 1970 the wreck of the El Gran Grifon, part of this fleet, was found off Scotland 382 years after it sank |
the Spanish Armada
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Mary who painted "The Boating Party" in the 1890s: This banker & his wife Katherine |
(Robert) Cassatt
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The '80s group New Order rose from the ashes of this British post-punk band |
Joy Division
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To do this soccer kick, you throw both feet in the air & kick the airborne ball toward the goal behind you |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
bicycle kick
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The subject of 52 G.K. Chesterton stories, this cleric had a simple face "as round and dull as a Norfolk dumpling" |
Father Brown
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Land o' this pastoral part of lower Egypt |
Goshen
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3rd c. Roman soldiers found near sulfur crystals were apparently early victims of this type of warfare |
chemical warfare
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Mary, Queen of Scots: Mary of Guise & this Scottish king V |
James V
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Javier Bardem starred in the movie adaptation of this Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel |
(Theresa: What is One Hundred Years of Solitude?)
Love in the Time of Cholera
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Dickens' artist Luke Fildes said Dickens told him the solution to this was that John Jasper strangled his nephew |
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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For the tangles of knots it sometimes forms, a species of nematomorph is called this worm |
the Gordian worm
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Robert Koldewey began excavating this 8th gate of Babylon; it was reconstructed at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin |
the Ishtar Gate
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Mary Poppins: This author |
P.L. Travers
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