OTHER THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN 1776 |
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In Salzburg that summer, he composed his "Serenade No. 7" for a wedding |
Mozart
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In this film, the first in a series, Shailene Woodley stars as Tris, who discovers that she's not like the others |
Divergent
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Pommes frites |
(Jon: What are French fries?)
potato
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Before it referred to 2 baseball games played on the same day, it was a train pulled by 2 locomotives |
a double-header
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It's the elected medical official whose job it is to investigate deaths not due to natural causes |
(Mackenzie: What is medical examiner?) (Alex: Be more specific.) (Mackenzie: What is [*]?) (Alex: That's it, yes. All right. You corrected yourself in time. And we have less than a minute now.) [Originally ruled correct. Before the start of the Double Jeopardy! Round, Alex's "Be more specific" was judged to be incorrectly given and Mackenzie lost the $200 for giving a correct answer, though he was not penalized for giving an incorrect one.]
a coroner
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Yes, you can stay at a Hilton resort on this island on South Carolina's Port Royal Sound |
Hilton Head
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In 1776 he captained the Resolution in search of the NW Passage but later should not have taken a Hawaiian vacation |
Captain Cook
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In "Her", Joaquin Phoenix falls in love & has a relationship with a computer operating system voiced by her |
Scarlett Johansson
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"Keeping up with" this family dates back to a 1913 comic strip |
the Joneses
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This emblem of death is used as a warning sign on poisons, ya scalawag! |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
skull and crossbones
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With a Celtic heritage, the "Isle of" this off the northwest coast of England has its own kilt with a national tartan |
(Melanie: What is Wight?)
Man
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In a work by Edward Gibbon from 1776, this pair of problems precedes "of the Roman Empire" |
The Decline and Fall
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This 1995 film with Kevin Costner as The Mariner became a Universal Studios "tidal wave of explosive action" |
Waterworld
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The 2 main vegetables in succotash |
(Mackenzie: What are green peppers and corn?)
corn and lima beans
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This word comes from the Latin for "little book"; when a Roman wanted to defame another, he issued a book of his foe's misdeeds |
libel
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Someone who dies intestate does so without one of these at the time of death |
a will
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Gomera in this Spanish group was the last stop for Columbus before he headed across the Atlantic to the New World |
the Canary Islands
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The Treaty of Purandar was signed by the Maratha & the "Supreme Government" of this U.K. company |
the (British) East India Company
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NTIs, or non-terrestrial intelligences, live very, very deep in the ocean in this 1989 James Cameron film |
The Abyss
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One of the 2 blacksmith tools used in an expression that means to fight with all one's resources |
(Mackenzie: What is tooth?) (Jon: What is nail?)
hammer or tongs
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One kind of muscle stiffness you don't want is this 2-word Latin type that happens soon after death |
rigor mortis
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In 2009 Boggy Peak on this companion isle to Barbuda was renamed Mount Obama |
Antigua
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Founded in 1775 but soon abandoned, this mission north of San Diego named for St. John was re-founded for good in 1776 |
(Alex: St. John is San Juan, and this mission is [*].)
San Juan Capistrano
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The name of this title substance combines the 2 legumes that it's said to contain |
Soylent Green
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This word for a gin cocktail comes from a tool used for boring holes |
a gimlet
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This ultimate accounting of souls is a common subject in European art; here's Hans Memling's take |
the Last Judgment
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It's the largest permanently populated Mexican island |
Cozumel
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