THE FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSE |
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VY Canis Majoris will eventually go not just "super" but "hyper" this-- that's gonna be one big bang! |
hypernova
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On Sept. 12, 2001 Norman Mineta, secretary of this govt. department, announced the deployment of sky marshals |
Transportation
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In 1972 Don Henley dealt with a "Witchy Woman" singing lead for this group |
the Eagles
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A Donne sonnet says this, "Be not proud" for "one short sleep past, we wake eternally, and" this "shall be no more" |
death
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This word for a person making negative statements sounds like it refers to a horse |
a naysayer
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It produces more than 1,500 feature films in a good year |
India
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Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, one of these, will be swinging by Jupiter in 2037 |
a comet
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Someone in his or her seventies |
a septuagenarian
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"Beth", I hear you calling, but I hear Peter Criss singing that Top 10 hit for this group |
Kiss
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On this day, 1613, while traveling to Wales, Donne wrote a poem imagining the crucified Christ on the cross |
Good Friday
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Grover Cleveland holds the record for these in a single session of Congress with 212 |
a veto
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Home to Europe's largest glacier by volume |
Iceland
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In a few billion years, the sun will expand to 1.2 AU, these "units"-- that's not good news for Earth |
astronomical units
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Adjective for a speech given with no preparation or forethought |
(Ben: What is improvised?) (Alex: No.) (Ben: What is improvisational?) (Alex: No.) (Doug: What is improvisational?)
extemporaneous
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In 1975 Phil Collins decided to front (& back) this band after singer Peter Gabriel left |
Genesis
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In 1610 Donne criticized his former Catholic faith in "Pseudo-Martyr", which was dedicated to this king |
(Doug: Who is Henry VIII?)
James I
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For decades J. Edgar Hoover denied the existence of this 5-letter organization |
the Mafia
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You can find the Negev Desert here |
Israel
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We "fear" that in 10 million years, this largest of Mars' moons will crash into the planet |
Phobos
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The name of these breeches was inspired by Washington Irving's 1809 work "A History of New York" |
knickerbockers
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Meg White stepped out from behind the kit to croon "In The Cold, Cold Night" for this duo |
the White Stripes
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The first biography of Donne was by this "Compleat Angler" author & appeared as a preface to Donne's "LXXX Sermons" |
Izaak Walton
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Agricultural product boycotts led by this man included one in the 1980s he called "Wrath of Grapes" |
Cesar Chavez
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Country with the most Shia Muslims |
Iran
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The Milky Way will one day collide with this neighboring galaxy, M31-- someone call Perseus |
Andromeda
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Mais oui, it was the philosophy of the man who turned down the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature |
existentialism
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A Prince protege, she led "The Glamorous Life" to a Top 10 position in 1984, but without love, it ain't much |
Sheila E.
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The "No man is an island" passage continues, "Never send to know" this, later a book title |
for whom the bell tolls
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Sir Richard Owen, who had been Mr. Biology in Britain, wrote a bitter, negative review of this seminal 1859 book |
On the Origin of Species
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Home to the Wicklow & Blue Stack Mountains |
Ireland
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