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Moscow, how was your 51 years? Terrible, with this man as the city's Grand Prince from 1533 to 1584 |
(Tom: Who is Ivan?) (Alex: Be more specific. Well, we'll give it to you. [*].)
Ivan (the Terrible)
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It's also the postal abbreviation for a New England state |
me
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In 2001 he stung like a bee as "Ali" |
Will Smith
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This great structure in Touba, Senegal, has room for more than 7,000 worshippers |
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)
a mosque
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Best not have one of these on stage; if it breaks, it's 7 years bad luck & it also interferes with the lights |
a mirror
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The Matilda Effect, the marginalizing of women in sci., was named for Matilda Gage, one of these fighters for the vote |
a suffragette
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53 years as grand duke of Tuscany made Cosimo III the longest-reigning member of this family |
the Medicis
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It's first alphabetically of a news reporter's 5 Ws |
what
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Hilary Swank donned the gloves in this film & won an Oscar for her performance |
Million Dollar Baby
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This capital's mummy-rich antiquities museum dates back to 1902 |
Cairo
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Hopefully it won't really happen, but instead of wishing an actor good luck, tell him to do this |
break a leg
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This woman's record was not glowing enough to get her into the French Academy of Sciences--husband Pierre got in |
Marie Curie
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In the 11th century al-Mustansir ruled Egypt for 58 years as the 8th Fatimid one of these political Muslim leaders |
a caliph
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To know this detergent introduced in 1959 is to know "everything" about laundry |
All
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In this film Russell Crowe as James J. Braddock defeats Max Baer in a big upset & lives happily ever after |
Cinderella Man
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One of the highest on the continent, the Maletsunyane Falls tumble 630 feet in this nation surrounded by South Africa |
(Carolyn: What is Lethoso? Lethutu? Lethoso?)
Lesotho
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Never say the name of this play in a theater or there may really be "double, double toil and trouble" |
Macbeth
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Nettie Stevens worked on sex determination & suffered sex discrimination discovering the XY these |
chromosomes
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During his 68-year reign that ended in 1916, he was king of Hungary, Croatia & Bohemia & emperor of Austria |
Franz Joseph
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From Latin for "separate", it means more than 2 |
(Alexandra: What is few?) (Tom: What is other?)
several
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He put up a good fight as Billy "The Great" hope in 2015's "Southpaw" |
Jake Gyllenhaal
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Site of a former slave trading post, an isle in the Gambia River today bears this "Roots" character's name |
Kunta Kinte
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Never carry one of these feathers on stage--the evil eye may curse the show |
(Carolyn: What is... a raven's feather?)
a peacock feather
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Lise Meitner coined this phrase for the splitting of atomic nuclei, but only her partner Otto Hahn got the Nobel |
fission
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Sobhuza II of this kingdom of southern Africa ruled for 82 years transitioning to independence from the U.K. in 1968 |
Swaziland
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Giant mutant ants were this 1954 movie title pronoun! |
them
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This successor organization to the Organization of African Unity has its headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
the African Union
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For safety reasons & to ward off resentful spirits, don't turn off the light called this |
the ghost light
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Rosalind Franklin was the British woman who took the X-ray photos that allowed two dudes to find the structure of this |
DNA
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