A LITERARY MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH |
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A 1925 bestseller, "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" takes place after Helen returns to this Greek city-state |
(Katie: What is Athens?)
Sparta
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He was first elected to the Senate from Arizona in 1986 |
John McCain
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Moscow's "Seven Sisters" are 1940s buildings in the style named for this leader |
Stalin
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Hear the howls & clanking chains from this dark underground chamber used to hold prisoners |
a dungeon
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The Art Deco Oviatt Building was used for exterior shots of this anthology series' "Hotel", the Cortez |
American Horror Story
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Dividing Cambridge & Boston, this river winds its way over 80 miles from Hopkinton to Boston Harbor |
the Charles River
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This 1883 Mark Twain memoir begins with a short history of Hernando de Soto & his first sighting of a river |
(Katie: [Shakes head])
Life on the Mississippi
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This author has written Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of John Adams & Harry Truman |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
David McCullough
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John Lautner's Googies coffee shop in this metropolis lent its name to a style of futuristic architecture |
Los Angeles
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The largest tree-dwelling mammal in the world, this ape from Sumatra & Borneo can weigh 220 pounds |
an orangutan
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Taking place in the same zombie-killing universe, this TV show adds a word to the title of its predecessor |
Fear the Walking Dead
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The warning "one if by land, two if by sea" referred to lanterns hung in this Boston church's steeple |
the Old North Church
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A man must come to terms with his own impending end in "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by this Russian |
(Lani: Who is Dostoevsky?)
Tolstoy
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Today an asteroid bears the name of this New Hampshire teacher |
(Doug: Who was McKinney?)
Christa McAuliffe
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Jon Jerde honeymooned at Lake Como, inspiring his design for this Italian-themed Vegas hotel |
the Bellagio
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When vaulting, gymnasts use this flexible device |
the springboard
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A corpse character was the master of "scaremonies" for this HBO horror anthology |
Tales from the Crypt
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The July 4, 2015 concert at the Hatch Shell featured this orchestra & of course, some serious fireworks |
the Boston Pops
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In "Gone with the Wind", this actress played Prissy, who admitted her ignorance of matters perinatal |
Butterfly McQueen
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The 2016 Victorian Architecture Medal went not to a 19th-century styled building, but to the Geelong Library in Victoria in this country |
(Lani: What is Canada?)
Australia
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It's a group of persons organized for a specific purpose, such as a bucket one to carry water to a fire |
a brigade
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On "The Twilight Zone" episode "To Serve Man", the aliens' intentions are revealed, as "it's" this kind of book! |
(Alex: Yeah. Why did that make you laugh? You have a strange sense of humor, young lady. You'd better pick again.)
a cookbook
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The "Big Dig" put 800,000 more residents within a 40-minute drive of this airport |
Logan
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Hillary & Jackie O are honored at the National First Ladies' Library at this woman's Canton, Ohio home |
Ida McKinley
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A certain conquest made this style similar on both sides of the Channel, as in the churches of St.-Etienne & Ely |
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)
the Norman Conquest
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A synonym for a painkiller |
an analgesic
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This Showtime series features Eva Green as a Victorian-era medium with a troubled past |
Penny Dreadful
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Despite an infamous heist, there is still great art, like the work seen here, in this museum named for its patroness |
the Gardner
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