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The Pachebel Canon is often played at this type of event & is heard in movies about its planner & crashers |
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)
a wedding
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"White Men Can't Jump", "True Detective" |
Woody Harrelson
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A No. 1 song by this duo said, "They say our love won't pay the rent"; after their 1975 divorce, it was "I Don't Got You, Babe" |
Sonny & Cher
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Buffalo & other bovines gather in these |
herds
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Mary Mapes Dodge penned this guy, "Or, The Silver skates"; within her lifetime, the book appeared in more than 100 editions |
Hans Brinker
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It's the word usually seen on the sign here |
yield
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The Canon was written for 3 violins & continuo, the 17th c. version of this instrument of Sting, Flea & Paul McCartney |
the bass
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"The Imitation Game", "Sherlock" |
(Benedict) Cumberbatch
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The hardships of the Civil War & the death of daughter Bonnie Blue finally took their toll on this iconic couple of page & screen |
Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara
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Just as you can have a this "of roses", you can also have one of oysters |
(Ryan: What is a bouquet?)
a bed
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After leaving Rochester-- the man, not the city--this Bronte title woman finds herself destitute & friendless |
Jane Eyre
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It was a popular abbreviation for the year 2000 |
Y2K
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This 1980 film with Timothy Hutton as Mary Tyler Moore's troubled son was one of the first to make the Canon a soundtrack fave |
Ordinary People
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"Limitless" (as Eddie Morra), "Limitless" (as Senator Eddie Morra) |
Bradley Cooper
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This plastic couple got together in 1961; they split in 2004, but in 2011 she welcomed him back to her dream house |
Barbie and Ken
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A stench, sometimes used for a group of these mammals, may be appropriate but seems a bit unfair |
skunks
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The daydreams of this James Thurber character include being a surgeon & the world's greatest pistol shot |
Walter Mitty
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George Bernard Shaw supposedly said, this "is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children" |
youth
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The tune was popularized by a 1968 recording from the Paillard this small-room type of orchestra |
a chamber orchestra
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"Knocked Up", "Grey's Anatomy" |
(Katherine) Heigl
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These Mexican painters wed in 1929 & divorced after a volatile decade; remarried in 1940, they had a rocky 2nd marriage |
(Diego) Rivera and (Frieda) Kahlo
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It's a cloud of grasshoppers & a plague of these relatives |
locusts
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"T.S. Garp cried in the airplane that was bringing him home to be famous in his violent country", penned this novelist |
(John) Irving
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This website's stated purpose is "to connect people with great local businesses" |
Yelp
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The Canon shows expert use of this technique in which composers use multiple melodies together |
counterpoint
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"9 to 5", "Grace and Frankie"-- both women, please |
(Asim: Who is Tomlin?) (Alex: Both women, please.) (Asim: Uh, Lily Tomlin, and, uh--) (Alex: No, sorry.)
Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin
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This couple fell in love while filming "Cleopatra"; they wed in '64, divorced after a decade, remarried in 1975--& split again in 1976 |
Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
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Termites & penguins both get collective with this collective name |
colony
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Though the play did not hit Broadway until 1946, "The Iceman Cometh" by him first cameth in 1939 |
(Eugene) O'Neill
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Add 1 letter to a device used to pair draft animals to get this term for a country bumpkin |
a yokel
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