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Byzantium became known as this city named after the man who made it a capital of the Roman empire |
Constantinople
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"The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye" is the latest story regarding this Scandinavian heroine |
(Lisbeth) Salander
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It's half of the globe, or half of the cerebrum |
a hemisphere
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This letter symbolizes potassium; in baseball it represents a strikeout |
K
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California picked this ancient feline |
the saber-toothed tiger
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He put in 20 seasons as Frasier Crane & 2 as a ruthless mayor on "Boss" |
Kelsey Grammer
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Built by Emperor Valens in the 300s A.D., this piece of infrastructure is integrated into modern Istanbul |
the Aqueduct
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Britannica says this John Bunyan allegory was at one time second only to the Bible in popularity |
Pilgrim's Progress
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In Hindu myth, it's the incarnation of a god; on the internet, it's a graphic image that represents you |
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)
an avatar
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World Series goat Bill Buckner made a diving catch of a baby thrown from a burning building on this Larry David show |
(Erik: What is Seinfeld?)
Curb Your Enthusiasm
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Arizona's is this rock-hard wood; there's a whole "forest" of it in the north of the state |
petrified wood
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Mudka's Meat Hut waitress & girl at pool were fine roles but Hannah Montana got a little more press |
Miley Cyrus
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Leading to trouble, in 726 A.D. Emperor Leo III banned the use of this type of 4-letter religious image |
an icon
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One of his most famous works is called "Du Côte de Chez Swann" in the original French |
(Marcel) Proust
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Diglot means the same as this adjective |
(Rock: What is... polyglot?)
bilingual
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A headline about "switch-pitcher" Pat Venditte used this land & water word instead of "ambidextrous" |
amphibious
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This Southern state's capital & state fossil, a species of mammoth, are both named for Columbus |
South Carolina
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Who? Her, as Mrs. Which, & also as Deborah Lacks |
Oprah
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Killing thousands, the Nika revolt of 532 A.D. began as a fight involving different groups of fans of these races |
(Rock: Who are the... Ottomans?) (Alex: No, I think you misunderstood the word "races". We're talking about [*].)
chariot races
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He dedicated his novel "Texasville" to Cybill Shepherd, who starred in "The Last Picture Show" |
(Larry) McMurtry
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From an Old English word for "tenth", it's the act of giving one-tenth of your income to a church |
tithing
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In "Ball Four", Jim Bouton wrote, "My great roomie... (had) gotten me smashed on" these rhyming rum cocktails |
mai tais
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There's debate as to the placement & purpose of the plates on the back of this state fossil of Colorado |
the stegosaurus
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We'd give an "A" to his work as Oscar Grant & Killmonger, but he's going to get a "B." from you |
(Michael B.) Jordan
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This emperor reigned for 38 years, built the Hagia Sophia Cathedral, & married Theodora |
(Rock: Who is Constantine?)
Justinian
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John Kennedy Toole won a posthumous Pulitzer for this New Orleans-set comic novel |
A Confederacy of Dunces
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One of the last entries in the dictionary is this enzyme in yeast that promotes fermentation |
zymase
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The Field Museum contains this state's fossil, the Tully Monster; the illustration shows what it looked like |
(Rock: What is a plesiosaurus?) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Illinois
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High schooler Kyle & Elio Perlman; call him by his name |
(Timothée) Chalamet
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