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The seventh planet from the Sun |
(Susan: What is Jupiter?)
Uranus
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Prince Andrei is contemptuous of his silly society girl wife Lise in this Tolstoy epic |
War and Peace
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Most snake moms abandon their eggs, but the female of this "regal" venomous species builds a nest & stays |
the king cobra
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This woman scientist named a new phenomenon "radioactivity" |
Madame Curie
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No relation, she earned an Oscar nomination under Ingmar Bergman's direction in 1978's "Autumn Sonata" |
Ingrid Bergman
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The seventh month of the calendar in first-century Rome |
(Alex: And Diane, before I ask you to make your wager, we have a change in score. Good news for you, Susan--although none of the American dictionaries list "wolfbane", the Oxford does, and so we're going to credit you with a correct response, and that will augment your score up to... $7,700, so you're now in third place, Diane.) (Diane: Ah, that makes a big change, doesn't it?) (Alex: Well, you still have to catch Jeff.) (Diane: I know!) ... (Diane: What is July?) ... (Alex: First century. Remember, it changed later.) (Diane: No, I knew Augustus added... I wasn't... sure, earlier.)
September
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Elinor Dashwood finally marries Edward Ferrars in an autumn wedding at the end of this Austen novel |
(Alex: You picked the right one.)
Sense and Sensibility
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A python doesn't need to see or smell its prey; the pit organs in its head detect this given off by its victims |
body heat
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In 1609 this English explorer sailed for the Dutch in the Halve Maen |
(Henry) Hudson
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It's the politically incorrect noise heard here |
a wolf whistle
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Bergman went into exile after a traumatic arrest for this in 1976 |
tax evasion
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Heard here, it was The Beatles' seventh U.S. No. 1 hit single |
(Diane: I know my Beatles.)
"Eight Days A Week"
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Dorothea Brooke makes a serious mistake when she marries Edward Casaubon in her novel "Middlemarch" |
(George) Eliot
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The death adder, Acanthophis antarcticus, is actually from this continent where most snakes are poisonous |
(Diane: What is Asia?) (Susan: What is Africa?)
Australia
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He published the results of his ink-blot tests in 1921's "Psycho-Diagnostics" |
(Hermann) Rorschach
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This park for the performing arts is found in Virginia just outside of Washington, D.C. |
Wolf Trap
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The seventh-largest island in the world, it's home to Mt. Fuji |
(Jeff: What is Hokkaido?)
Honshu
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In this novel, Cathy Earnshaw admits, "I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton, than I have to be in heaven" |
Wuthering Heights
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The pose of the water moccasin seen here shows why it has this other name |
a cottonmouth
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He was the third & favorite son of King David |
(Diane: Who is Solomon?)
Absalom
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He's the noted defense thinker seen here |
(Paul) Wolfowitz
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The Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees your right to this |
trial by jury
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In "Vanity Fair" this poor, scheming girl secretly marries Rawdon Crawley, who is then disinherited |
Becky Sharp
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There are 4 species of these dangerous African snakes: 1 black, 3 green |
(Susan: What is a mambo?) ... (Alex: Oh, once again, you changed just one letter. It's not a mambo, it's a black or green [*].)
the mamba
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President Loubet pardoned this Army captain in 1899 |
Dreyfus
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Of the genus Aconitum, this poisonous garden plant is sometimes used medicinally |
(Susan: What is wolfbane?) [Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before Daily Double on the basis of an OED entry]
wolfsbane (wolfbane later accepted)
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In Swedish Bergman's 1982 film is "Fanny Och Alexander" & this harrowing 1972 film, "Viskningar och rop" |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Cries and Whispers
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