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This Louisiana venue has hosted events featuring Barry Manilow & Leon Spinks, but not at the same time |
the Superdome
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"Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven" is a sentiment from this Milton epic |
Paradise Lost
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Iznik, in Anatolia, is historically a center of production of these ceramic wall & floor coverings |
tile
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The guy for whom this device was named said of it, "I can whisk off your head in a twinkling" & you won't feel it |
the guillotine
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A lobotomy is an operation on the brain; a lobectomy is usually an operation on this body part |
(Jace: What is the ear?)
the lungs
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A global fave: RED CHAD |
cheddar
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Demolished in a kind of "Viking funeral", the Metrodome in this state was no longer dome sweet dome after 2014 |
Minnesota
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In a 1934 speech, this Italian dictator said, "We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty" |
Mussolini
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This amusement park ride made the rounds in Chicago in 1893 & carried passengers 264 feet into the air |
a Ferris wheel
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From Latin for "draw back", it's a medical tool used to pull away edges of an incision for surgical access |
(Lena: What is a scalpel?)
a retractor
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Made into dressing: FOR TORQUE |
Roquefort
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In 2011 the Georgia Dome hosted this event XXVII; matches included the Undertaker v. Triple H & the Miz vs. John Cena |
WrestleMania
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In 1996 Bill Clinton told the country, "I still believe in a place called" this, "a place called America" |
Hope
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Turkey is noted for this art of fine handwriting; a practitioner is called a hatta |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
calligraphy
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This disease first described by a German physician in 1906 was once known as presenile dementia |
Alzheimer's
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Term for the transplanting of tissue from one part of the body to another, or the tissue itself |
a graft
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Just grate: SPEAR MAN |
(Alex: With less than a minute to go.)
Parmesan
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In 1965 this baseball venue had female ushers dubbed "Spacettes" |
the Astrodome
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This director told Francois Truffaut, "What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out" |
Alfred Hitchcock
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The name of this type of pipe is German for sea-foam, but the Turks excel at making decorative ones |
Meerschaum
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This brand of mouthwash is named in honor of a British doctor who pioneered antiseptic surgery |
Listerine
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6-letter name for the process of treating patients in order of the seriousness of their injuries |
triage
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It can be quite pungent: RUMBLE RIG |
Limburger
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Lucas Oil Stadium, "The House That Peyton Built" in this city, replaced the RCA Dome |
Indianapolis
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From his "Analects": "To go too far is as bad as not to go far enough" |
Confucius
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The Kutahya Archaeological Museum houses relics of this empire that fell in the 15th century |
(Abigail: What is the Ottoman?)
the Byzantine
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(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports.) Lots of cattle ranching terms come from here in Texas, including this one, meaning an unbranded calf or a person who does things his own darned way |
a maverick
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Abbreviated P.O., "per os" means to take medication this way |
by mouth
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Often stretched into sticks: POOR NOVEL |
provolone
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