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Dry valleys appear where these have retreated & wind prevents snow from collecting |
glaciers
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On the day she won Wimbledon in 2015, you could see her cameo on HBO's "Seven Days in Hell" |
Serena Williams
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From 1947: "A street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields & runs between the L & N tracks & the river" |
Streetcar Named Desire
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In the 8th century B.C., Phoenician traders founded this future capital of Sicily |
(Loren: What is Sardinia?)
Palermo
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As 2 words, it's what a light bulb will finally do; as one word, it's extreme stress & emotional fatigue |
burnout
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Every college student knows it's from Latin for "6 months" |
semester
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Blood Falls, which flows into Lake Bonney, gets its color because it is rich in this element |
iron
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Robert Mitchum, who co-starred as an ex-con in this 1962 film, had a cameo in its 1991 remake |
Cape Fear
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From around 1606 (Act III, Scene viii): a plain near Actium |
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)
Antony and Cleopatra
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This movement that spread across the Middle East began in late 2010 when protests in Tunisia led to the ouster of Pres. Ben Ali |
the Arab Spring
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Agonists are drugs that can mimic the activity of these brain chemicals that send impulses across synapses |
(Sean: What are dopamines?) [Originally ruled incorrect; ruled correct before the first Daily Double]
neurotransmitters (or dopamines)
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Evanston, Illinois is named for John Evans, a founder of this university |
Northwestern
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In "A Million Ways to Die in the West", this actor turns up in a barn next to a DeLorean |
Christopher Lloyd
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From 1959: In and around the Keller homestead in Tuscumbia, Alabama |
(Derek: What is The Sound and the Fury?)
The Miracle Worker
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In 1966 Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded this militant party in Oakland |
the Black Panthers
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Greek words meaning "difficult speech" give us this reading disorder that affects about 15% of the U.S. population |
dyslexia
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John Waters could tell you that dacron is one type |
polyester
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This avian character who had a movie of his own in 1986 shows up in "Guardians of the Galaxy" drinking a cocktail |
Howard the Duck
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From 1895: Algernon Moncrieff's flat in Half-Moon Street |
The Importance of Being Earnest
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In 1756 this mistress' meddling led to Louis XV allying with Austria in the disastrous 7 Years' War |
Madame de Pompadour
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Meaning "clear", this type of dreaming is the practice of controlled awareness in REM sleep |
lucid
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A combine, to a farmer |
(Sean: What is a thresher?)
a harvester
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King penguins are big, about 35 pounds; these penguins are twice as heavy |
emperor penguins
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This director helped to deliver Geena Davis' larval offspring in a dream sequence in "The Fly" |
David Cronenberg
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From 1879: The Helmers' sitting room |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
A Doll's House
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The ancestors of this Aboriginal people of Hokkaido Island are thought to have reached Japan around 1000 B.C. |
the Ainu
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This cognitive "bias" is the tendency to search only for information that supports one's preconceptions |
confirmation bias
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An English town with a famous cathedral, or a famous American maker of Western rifles |
Winchester
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