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THE OED, FROM POISE TO QUELT |
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Secretly in love with Roxane, this title play character with a huge nose helps his inarticulate rival with love letters |
Cyrano de Bergerac
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On "Gilligan's Island", the skipper often called Gilligan his "little" this |
little buddy
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"A period (orig. of forty days) during which persons who might serve to spread a contagious disease are kept isolated" |
a quarantine
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"London!--that great place!--Nobody--not even Mr. Bumble--could ever find him there!" thinks this poor Dickens lad |
Oliver Twist
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For a B.S. degree in this -ology, you have to take courses like weather forecasting & climate dynamics |
meteorology
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Traditional, simple & safe harbor are 3 types of these retirement plans |
(Megan: What is an IRA?)
a 401(k)
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L'amour is the raison d'etre of this character who does "zee woo-ing" in cartoons like "For Scent-imental Reasons" |
Pepé le Pew
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In season 5 of "Entourage", it was revealed that Sal was the actual first name of this character |
Turtle
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"Situated behind" or "the hinder part or back side" |
posterior
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The canals are frozen over as Det. Lotte Meerman tries to solve a really cold case in "A Cold Death in" this European city |
(Kate: What is Venice?) ... (Alex: The other place with canals, yes.)
Amsterdam
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It's the -ology associated with the symbol seen here that was created back in the '60s |
ecology
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The first attempt to reach the summit of this mountain came in 1902; the first success? 1954 |
K2
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From the Greek for "carry", these scents are released by some insects to attract members of the opposite sex |
pheromones
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On the BBC's "Sherlock", this character is sometimes called "Mike", though he abhors it |
Mycroft Holmes
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"One who practices the art of boxing" |
a pugilist
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Willa Cather's 1931 novel "Shadows on the Rock" details the lives of French colonists in the "rock" that is this Canadian city |
Quebec City
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Piscatology is the art or science of this activity |
fishing
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HB2 is this state's controversial 2016 Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, AKA the bathroom bill |
North Carolina
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This Old Testament book, an 8-chapter love poem, has lines like "Behold, thou art fair, my love...thou hast doves' eyes" |
the Song of Solomon
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"Condensation and deposition of moisture... esp. in the formation of dew, rain" |
precipitation
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Herbert Asbury's "The Barbary Coast" is an informal history of the underworld of this West Coast city |
San Francisco
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From a Greek word for "creeping", it's the branch of zoology that deals with snakes & other reptiles |
herpetology
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In 1989 this group hit No. 3 with "Love Shack", baby |
the B-52s
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One of Gustav Klimt's most famous works portrays a pair of embracing lovers, united by this, the title of the work |
The Kiss
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In the 1950s Theodore was the real name of this son of Ward & June |
the Beaver
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"To drink (liquor) copiously" |
[Applause for Kirstin's running the category]
quaff
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This writer from Lowell portrayed small-town Mass. & big New York City in his first novel, 1950's "The Town and the City" |
Jack Kerouac
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It's the 11-letter name for the study of how extremely low temperatures affect living organisms |
cryobiology
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Niacin |
(Kate: What is Vitamin B12?) (Megan: What is B6?)
B3
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