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She finished writing the first "Harry Potter" book while living in Edinburgh |
Rowling
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AKA Provitamin A, it gives a bright orange color to vegetables |
beta-Carotene
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The standard blues musical form is one of this many bars |
twelve
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With over 250 billion barrels of crude reserves, this Mideast nation is the world's No. 1 oil exporter |
Saudi Arabia
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In 2016, 40 years after she became a "Today" show regular, she became the new host of CBS' "Sunday Morning" |
Jane Pauley
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A prophetic sign & a prayer ending |
omen and amen
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It's elementary! Here's this author who was born in Edinburgh |
(Sir Arthur Conan) Doyle
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These drugs that suppress reactions in heart cells are prescribed to treat anxiety & angina |
beta blockers
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Legend has it, having forgotten about a 1924 deadline, George Gershwin wrote this piece in 3 weeks |
"Rhapsody In Blue"
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In oil exploration geologists look for these compounds that consist only of the 2 elements symbolized by H & C |
(Robert: What are hydrogen and carbon?)
hydrocarbons
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In 1889 journalist Nellie Bly tried to beat the record of Phileas Fogg in this novel & did, by more than a week |
Around the World in Eighty Days
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Large & heavy & a written message or letter |
massive and missive
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In this time-traveling series, Jamie & Claire Fraser visit Bonnie Prince Charlie at Edinburgh's palace of Holyroodhouse |
Outlander
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It's the second-brightest star in a constellation named for a man-horse hybrid |
Beta Centauri
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Before going solo, Teddy Pendergrass was the lead singer of Harold Melvin & this group |
the Blue Notes
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The jackknife type of this tower over an oil well comes in 2 sections that are assembled on site |
an oil derrick
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This historian wrote the memoir "Wait Till Next Year" about her childhood as Brooklyn Dodgers fan Doris Kearns |
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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The two Greek letters seen here |
epsilon and upsilon
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This Irvine Welsh novel about heroin addicts in Edinburgh became a film starring Ewan McGregor |
Trainspotting
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It was founded at the College of William & Mary in 1776; are you a member? |
Phi Beta Kappa
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He retitled his 1909 song "Mr. Crump" "Memphis Blues" & the rest is history |
(Stephanie: Who is Robert Johnson?)
W.C. Handy
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The site of a major oil leak in 1979, the Bay of Campeche is the southernmost part of this body of water |
the Gulf of Mexico
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After the Battle of Cedar Mountain in 1862, a surgeon wrote, "If heaven ever sent out a(n)...angel," she "must be one" |
Clara Barton
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To give an order & to give praise |
command and commend
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Muriel Spark wrote about "The Prime of" this title miss, "An Edinburgh Spinster" |
Miss Jean Brodie
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Electron emission & positron emission are types of this radioactive disintegration |
beta decay
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The 1970 hit song "Roadhouse Blues" by this band warns "Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel" |
The Doors
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Last name of Erle, who started an oil well services firm in 1919 that spread worldwide, including Iraq |
(Robert: What is Enron?) (Jon: What is Hess?)
Halliburton
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This New York-born Supreme Court justice was the first female U.S. Solicitor General |
(Robert: Who is Sotomayor?) (Jon: Who is Ginsburg? Ruth Bader Ginsburg?) (Alex: They narrowed it down for you, Stephanie.) (Stephanie: Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?)
Elena Kagan
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A vow to do something & the basis of a theory or plot |
promise and premise
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