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HUGO AWARD-WINNING NOVELS |
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The melody of the third movement of Gustav Mahler's "Titan" symphony is based on this French children's song |
"Frère Jacques"
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Despite being a total chicken, this animated Great Dane stumbles on clues to help Fred & the gang solve mysteries |
Scooby-Doo
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A fruity pink wine is white zin, short for this |
Zinfandel
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If your celebrating your octingentenary in 2016, you were born in this year |
(Laura: What is 1936?) ... (Alex: It's an 800-year period, so the correct response is [*].)
1216
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The 48 B.C. Battle of Pharsalus: This comer, seer & conqueror |
Julius Caesar
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J.K. Rowling won in 2001 for this novel partly about an object full of flames |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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"Merrymaking of the Country Folk" is the third movement of his "Pastoral" symphony |
Beethoven
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Mickey Mouse's companion, he had his own cartoon shorts including 1945's "Canine Casanova" |
Pluto
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The CMS, the Court of Master these, has guidelines for its professionals, including what to do if wine is spilled on a guest |
a sommelier
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Buffy Summers knows that sanguivorous means subsisting on this |
blood
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The Wars of the Roses: This noble house |
Tudor or Lancaster
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This author's 5 Hugo-winning novels include "Farmer in the Sky" & "Starship Troopers" |
Robert Heinlein
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Fitting 4-word subtitle of the Dvorak symphony Neil Armstrong listened to on his trip to the moon |
(Laura: What is "The New World Symphony"?)
"From the New World"
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Lucky dog! Legend has it that this Warner Bros. German Shepherd died in the arms of Jean Harlow |
Rin Tin Tin
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In the U.S., if a wine label says "contains" these, SO2 was used, probably as a preservative |
sulfites
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Decorticate a birch & you are peeling this from it |
bark
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In 2 Samuel: This King of Israel over the Philistines, whom he smote from Gera to Gazer |
David
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Frederik Pohl's 1978 winner "Gateway" is about an abandoned alien base "formed around" one of these space rocks |
an asteroid
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"Lamentation" is one movement of Leonard Bernstein's symphony named for this Biblical prophet |
(Todd: Who is Job?)
Jeremiah
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This boy reporter & adventurer created by Herge has a dog named Snowy |
(Laura: Who is Asterix?)
Tintin
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This adjective means that wine has been made stronger by the addition of a spirit; sherry is one type |
fortified
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A zapata, inspired by Emiliano Zapata's, is one of these that curves down on each side |
(Todd: What is a shoe?)
a mustache
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The Battle of Antietam: The Army of this river |
the Potomac
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This author won twice in a row in the 1980s, for "Speaker for the Dead" & "Ender's Game" |
Orson Scott Card
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An 1829 visit to Holyrood Palace inspired Felix Mendelssohn to write this "national" symphony |
"The Scottish Symphony"
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Brad Anderson created this comic strip canine back in 1954 |
Marmaduke
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Mafficking, which means boisterous celebrating, was inspired by the end of the Siege of Mafeking in this war |
the Boer War
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The 431-404 B.C. Peloponnesian War: The alliance headed by this city-state |
Sparta
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A new planet's appearance wreaks havoc on Earth in this 1965 winner named for what "planet" means in Greek |
The Wanderer
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