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Gustav Mahler consulted this famous Viennese psychiatrist about his marriage problems |
Freud
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Unlike other mammals, these dam rodents continue to grow throughout their lives |
beavers
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Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn that he ran away from home at 16 & worked in a tire factory |
Clark Gable
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From Jun '87 to June '88 it tipped another 1/20th of an inch according to a University of Pisa spokesman |
the Leaning Tower of Pisa
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Ironically, this English king wrote "Green Groweth The Holly", a poem about romantic faithfulness |
Henry VIII
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The "G" in G-Man stand for this |
government
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Schubert died less than 2 yrs. after carrying a torch at the funeral of this great German composer in 1827 |
Beethoven
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Boas & pythons kill their prey by this means |
(Penny: What is smothering, or surrounding them?) (Alex: Yeah, we'll give it to you. It's called [*], constriction.
constricting
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Star of "The Color Purple", she said early influences included Gracie Allen & C. Colbert |
Whoopi Goldberg
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The Atomic Bomb Memorial Dome, a building left unreconstructed after WWII, is a peace symbol in this city |
Hiroshima
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This title used in India means "Great King" |
Maharajah
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The FBI is the chief investigative arm of this U.S. department |
(Penny: What is the Treasury?)
(Department of) Justice
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Considered unfriendly to Mozart, this Italian composer taught his son after Mozart's death |
(Antonio) Salieri
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Animal in the title of the following 1972 No. 1 hit:
"On the first part of the journey..." |
(Alex: "A Horse With No Name" to be very specific. The group was America.)
a horse
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1928 grad of Bryn Mawr, this star of "On Golden Pond" was once suspended for smoking |
Katharine Hepburn
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The oldest military org. in the U.S., the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co. meets in this Boston landmark |
Faneuil Hall
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After this country's King George I was killed in 1913, his son Constantine succeeded him |
Greece
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The identification division has the largest collection of these in the U.S., some 169 million |
(Alex: Yep. Mine's in there.)
fingerprints
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This Baroque composer's name translates to "John S. Brook" |
(Alex: That's right, and we've got a minute to go.)
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Lemurs, the world's smallest primates, are native to this island off Africa |
Madagascar
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This "Meatball" was described as someone who "would think up fraternity initiation rites" |
(Penny: Who is, um, Reiner, Rob Reiner?) (Alex: Nope, Sorry.) (Penny: "Meathead".)
Bill Murray
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The Spanish Steps aren't in Madrid, but this world capital |
Rome
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Princess Grace's 3 children |
Albert, Stephanie & Caroline
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In this program from 1978-80, agents posed as representatives of an Arab sheik, offering bribes to local officials |
Abscam
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Geo. Washington & the Austrian composer, affectionately called "Papa", were both born in 1732 |
(Franz Joseph) Haydn
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The Information Please Almanac describes them as "insects of the grasshopper family, but much more powerful" |
locusts
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Star of "Ragtime" who dropped her dream of being a ballerina because she couldn't do a pirouette |
(Penny: Who is Mary Steenburgen?)
Elizabeth McGovern
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On 1/22/05 troops of Nicholas II shot 100s of demonstrators in front of this Leningrad landmark |
the Winter Palace
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Before he died in 814, he crowned his son, Louis the Pious |
Charlemagne
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On Sept. 18, 1975 FBI agents captured this young woman wanted for bank robbery |
(Alex: Pat Heart, Patty Hearst is right, yes.)
Patricia Hearst
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