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To commit suicide "Madame Bovary" ate a handful of this, not old lace |
arsenic
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In the U.S., time zone which falls between Mountain & Eastern |
(Mary: I live there. What is the [*]?)
Central time zone
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Guinness says this current resident of 10 Downing Street was 1st portrayed on film in "For Your Eyes Only" |
Margaret Thatcher
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In the ads, Tareyton smokers who'd "rather fight than switch" sported this injury |
black eye
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Known ironically, for showy blossoms, this "shy" flower really does grow on walls |
wallflower
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James Dean was considered the embodiment of the title of this film in which he starred |
Rebel Without a Cause
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This young man's father wrote him a letter of recommendation to the captain of the king's musketeers |
d'Artagnan
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Theoretically, this "line" is halfway around the world from the Greenwich Prime Meridian |
International Date Line
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R. Chandler's novel was set in L.A., but this '77 remake was "curiously & ineffectively set in London" |
The Big Sleep
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Since it's world's best selling brand, we could say this cigarette's "country" is the largest |
Marlboro
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A prolonged high-pitched scream associated with Confederate soldiers |
rebel yell
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Name by which Eva St. Clare is better known in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
Little Eva
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For the Los Angeles Lakers & Clippers, it's Floyd Jensen, a man in his mid-sixties |
(official) timekeeper
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In "My Fair Lady", Eliza Doolittle peddled her posies here, in front of the opera house |
Covent Garden
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1 of Columbus' men, Rodrigo de Jerez, introduced tobacco to Spain & was imprisoned for smoking by this institution |
(Mary: What is the Catholic Church?) (Alex: More specific.) ... (Alex: That's it, yeah, they saw smoke coming out of his mouth & nose and they figured the devil's got him, boy. Gotta lock him up.) [Laughter]
Spanish Inquisition
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Tho The Crystals were a real group, this, their biggest hit, was actually sung by Darlene Love & The Blossoms |
"He's a Rebel"
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"The Moon & Sixpence" is his novel based on the life of Gauguin |
Somerset Maugham
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In Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life", it's where we leave footsteps when departing |
in (or on) the sands of time
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The bird woman in "Mary Poppins" sells feed for birds in front of this church build by Wren |
St. Paul's
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In 1924, Durham N.C.'s Trinity College was endowed by an owner of Amer. Tobacco Co., & renamed this |
(Alex: Less than a minute to go.)
Duke University
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This 1970 ABC series set in 1777 showed exploits of Pennsylvania's Yankee Doodle Society |
The Young Rebels
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James Joyce depicted himself as Stephen Dedalus in both "Ulysses" & this novel |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Book on the Kennedy administration that won Arthur Schlesinger Jr. a Pulitzer Prize |
A Thousand Days
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1973 film in which George Segal trysts with Glenda Jackson in a Garrard St. flat |
A Touch of Class
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Among the "patterns" in this fat Massachusetts poetess' life was smoking fat black cigars |
Amy Lowell
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This pink flower, which resembles a broken heart, blooms "liberally" from March to July |
[Ohs, groans, and laughs] (Alex: We don't editorialize except in botanical matters.) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
bleeding heart
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Called rock & roll's No. 1 instrumentalist, Duane Eddy had his 1st big hit with this: |
[Instrumental music played.] (Alex: Why do I get the feeling, Joel, that you're just enjoying listening to this and you don't have a clue?) (Joel: I have no idea.)
"Rebel-'Rouser"
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