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Apulia & the Southeastern Plains form the "heel" of this country to Austria's south |
Italy
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In an 1868 song, he'd "fly through the air with the greatest of ease" |
the man on the flying trapeze
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Fill in AD __ __ T & you're this skillful word |
(Fred: What is E-P?) (Colin: What is... uh, R-O-I?)
adept
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In weaving it's the machine used for interlacing the horizontal & vertical elements |
a loom
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She made her European racing debut in 1998, competing in the Formula Vauxhall Winter Series |
Danica Patrick
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Bernstein & von Karajan were famous in this job |
conductor
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The European headquarters of the U.N. are in this country, due in part to its foreign policy |
Switzerland
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Matthew 6:26 says, "Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they" this |
reap
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Fill in AD __ __ __ T & you're this skillful word |
adroit
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A stopcock is an external this 5-letter item used to control a liquid flow through a pipe |
(Fred: What is a gauge?)
a valve
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It was Martina Navratilova who suggested this Russian tennis player move to Florida; she turned pro at 14 |
Maria Sharapova
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British landscape painter John, or a British police officer |
Constable
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The geographic center of the European Union is in this country |
(Fred: What is the Czech Republic?) ... (Alex: You were thinking of your son there with that geography clue.) (Bianca: That's correct. [Laughs])
Germany
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Critic Dave Hickey called criticism "the written equivalent of" this, such as playing imaginary Stratocaster |
air guitar
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It's a 2-word sweet popcorn treat made into 1 word |
crackerjack
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The first atom bomb using this transuranium element was detonated on July 16, 1945 in New Mexico |
plutonium
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This MMA champ said, "What makes me so confident that I can win is I'm the greatest fighter in the world" |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Ronda Rousey
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First name of Mr. Nast, who in 1909 began a publishing empire that today includes W, GQ, Vanity Fair & more |
Condé
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Northward ho! You'll find the Moravian Lowlands & Bohemian Basin in this country |
the Czech Republic
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"These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air" in this island-set Shakespeare play |
(Alex: You are correct, and we have less than a minute now to finish the round.)
The Tempest
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From the Latin for "wise", it has the rare double-V |
savvy
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To shape molten metal, or the furnace used to melt metal |
(Colin: What is a smelt?)
forge
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Unlike Edward the Martyr, English king Edward may have been called this to mean he died naturally & had time to see a priest |
Edward the Confessor
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In 2015, thousands of Middle Eastern migrants headed for the Austrian border, many via this ex-Yugoslav republic due south |
(Fred: What is Croatia?)
Slovenia
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Her poem "Lady Lazarus" ends, "Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair / And I eat men like air" |
Sylvia Plath
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A skilled professional might be this, with the same first 4 letters as "professional" |
proficient
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Most welding torches use this colorless gas, C2H2, burned with oxygen to produce a heat high enough to cut metal |
acetylene
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Iimbermen.com touts "men's flexibility at its best" & is a website for these guys |
contortionists
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