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Add one letter to "titan" to get this titan of Italian art, seen here in a self-portrait |
Titian
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A story from the early 1900s says, "Undoubtedly the grimmest part of" him "was his iron claw" |
Captain Hook
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I'm giving you this type of check with no dollar amount--fill in $400 |
blank check
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This 1991 Disney film contains the song "Be Our Guest" |
Beauty and the Beast
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Cairene Arabic is perhaps the most widely understood form of Arabic due to this country's films & TV shows |
Egypt
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After seizing the ring from Frodo in "The Return of the King", he falls to his death with a last cry of "Precious" |
Gollum
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Pope Alexander VII was a patron of Bernini, who designed the forecourt of this basilica |
St. Peter
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This colorful pirate's reign of terror along the Carolina coast ended when he was killed in battle on Nov. 22, 1718 |
Blackbeard
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It's the rhyming Spanish word that means "nothing" or "very little" |
nada
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This Pixar film opens with the song "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" from "Hello, Dolly!" |
Wall-E
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This language's many dialects include kiMvita spoken in Mombasa |
Swahili
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In this Russian novel, Raskolnikov calls a pawnbroker a "louse" & then brutally kills her with an ax |
Crime and Punishment
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Wordsworth wrote of this Leonardo painting, "The annunciation of the dreadful truth made to the twelve, survives" |
"The Last Supper"
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At the end of a sword fight, Will Turner says, "You cheated"; this marauding movie character replies, "Pirate" |
Jack Sparrow
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3-letter Brit speak for zero in soccer, as in "Man U dominates the pitch & wins, 4-this" |
nil
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In "Bee Movie" you'll hear the words "honey honey" in this song by the Archies |
"Sugar, Sugar"
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The Khoisan languages are rare in that they employ these sounds as consonants |
clicks
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In this kids' classic, Travis has to shoot his dog because it's been bitten by a wolf infected with rabies |
Old Yeller
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Botticelli's masterpiece "Allegory of Spring" also has this Italian title |
"La Primavera"
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This canine term was used for naval captains sent by Queen Elizabeth I to raid Spanish fleets in the Caribbean |
sea dogs
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It means to crouch down but also denotes not much |
squat
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Danny Elfman composed a "Wedding Song" for this unfortunate title gal |
Corpse Bride
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To ask, "How are you?" in this language, say "Hoe gaan dit met jou?" |
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Afrikaans
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While mailing letters exposing this man, Lolita's mother Charlotte Haze is struck by a car |
Humbert Humbert
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One of Raphael's most famous works is an allegory of philosophy called "The School of" this place |
Athens
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"To the shores of Tripoli" in the U.S. Marine's Hymn refers to the Marines' 1805 defeat of these N. African pirates |
the Barbary pirates
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The frequent pairing of these 2 4-letter words to mean "without legal force" is redundant |
(Alex: Erin? It's not coming?) (Erin: It's not.)
null and void
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A song in the "South Park" movie told us this alliterative skater built the pyramids & beat up Kubla Khan |
Brian Boitano
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Countries using this as their official language include Mozambique & Guinea-Bissau |
Portuguese
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This inspector who pursues Jean Valjean in "Les Miserables" commits suicide by jumping into the Seine |
Javert
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