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Around 1910 an immigrant named George Washington marketed the USA's first successful instant type of this hot drink |
(David: What is tea?)
coffee
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"Whatever Will Be, Will Be" also known by this Spanish title, won the Oscar |
"Que Sera, Sera"
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Ex-slave & conductor on the Underground Railroad who served as a spy for the Union in the Civil War |
Harriet Tubman
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The front section of a semi where the driver sits |
a cab
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The technology of a galaxy far, far away is the subject of Patrick Johnson's "The Physics of" this film series |
Star Wars
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St. Petersburg is in this oblast, or Russian province, that didn't seem to get the name-change memo |
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)
Leningrad
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In 1998 this I.T. company bought ICQ, a program that launched large-scale instant messaging |
AOL
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Sung by Celine Dion, it was a "Titanic" hit, winning a 1997 Oscar |
"My Heart Will Go On"
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This artist began living in New Mexico in the 1930s, eventually buying a hacienda in Abiquiu with a large garden |
Georgia O'Keeffe
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This word for a school ground is from Latin for "field" |
campus
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"Hunting Monsters" takes a scientific look at the myths behind creatures like Bigfoot, dragons & this "plesiosaur" |
the Loch Ness Monster
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During WWII a vodka factory in Moscow oblast made these "cocktails" for military use, with some of its peace-time ingredients |
Molotov cocktails
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1 Corinthians is where you'll find the dead being raised & the phrase "in the twinkling of" one of these |
an eye
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The 1939 Oscar went to this song with music by Harold Arlen |
(David: What is "Singin' In The Rain"?)
"Somewhere Over The Rainbow"
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"Always, Rachel" is a collection of letters by this author of "Silent Spring" |
(Rachel) Carson
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Get out the blowtorch--it's time to make this custard dessert |
creme brulee
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In his memoir "Endurance", NASA astronaut Scott Kelly recounts his one year here |
the International Space Station
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Part of the Sakhalin oblast was acquired from this country in 1947 |
Japan
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This brand of modified pressure cooker combines several kitchen appliances in one |
an Instant Pot
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"Talk To The Animals", from this 1967 film, was a winner |
Doctor Dolittle
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A 1917 Carnegie Hall audience heard her defend birth control, saying she was 1 of 11 kids, causing her mom to die young |
Margaret Sanger
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A judge in his private chamber, not in open court, is said to be "in" this |
in camera
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Recalibrating our emotions & restocking our immune systems are 2 good reasons "Why We" do this in a recent title |
sleep
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The Kursk oblast is home to the Kursk magnetic anomaly, which over the years has yielded vast amounts of this ore |
iron ore
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The main action of an Ambrose Bierce short story takes place in the instant of a hanging on this bridge |
(Alex: "An Occurrence at [*]".)
Owl Creek Bridge
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Songs from both "The Towering Inferno" & this maritime disaster movie won Oscars in the early 1970s |
The Poseidon Adventure
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She coined the term "Lost Generation" for expatriate writers like Ernest Hemingway |
(Alex: Tracey?) (Tracey: Who is... Dorothy Parker?)
Gertrude Stein
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It's the typical sailors' & pirates' weapon seen here |
a cutlass
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Pick a home or when to marry with these series of steps "to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions" |
(David: What is a program?)
algorithms
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The Potsdam Agreement gave Russia the Kaliningrad oblast bordered by Lithuania & this country |
(Catherine: What is Finland?)
Poland
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