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HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS GREAT COMPOSERS |
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Change the last 2 letters in "flow" to get this term for the rate of flow through an area |
flux
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Fiorello La Guardia got to be mayor by promising to oust this infamously corrupt NYC Democratic organization |
Tammany Hall
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In marketing there are 5 categories of these consumers; "early" these help popularize a new product |
an adopter
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"Love is blind", sighs Jessica, a nice Jewish girl in this Shakespeare play |
The Merchant of Venice
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Golfers "drive for show" & do this "for dough" |
putt for dough
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(Hershey Felder presents from the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.) Perhaps music's most famous motif is often said to represent fate knocking, but others attribute the opening of this work to the deaf Beethoven feeling the vibrations of a little bird tapping on a tree |
(Alex: And our thanks to Hershey Felder for all of those categories. I saw him perform the music of Beethoven. He is just fantastic.)
Beethoven's 5th
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2 basic types of motion are moving along a line & this type of movement around an axis |
rotational movement
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As he was president of this august body, it was only fair that John Hancock got to sign the Declaration of Independence first |
the Second Continental Congress
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It's French for "Why?" |
pourquoi
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Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in" this 2-word place is thought to be that of St. Giles', where the poet is now buried |
a country churchyard
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Sault Ste. Marie is on this peninsula in Michigan |
Upper
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This "O" word refers to 1 complete cycle of a pendulum; the time it takes is called the period |
oscillation
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At the 1988 Democratic convention, this fellow Texan said George H.W. Bush was born with a silver foot in his mouth |
Ann Richards
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Introduced in 1991 & already one of the USA's favorite varieties, this apple is named for its sweet taste & firm crunch |
a honeycrisp
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A ruined statue in Egypt inspired this sonnet by Percy Shelley |
"Ozymandias"
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Grateful waiters know Johnny Depp is famous as a big one |
a tipper
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Victor Hess showed that certain rays intensify with altitude, so they must be from space; Robert Millikan named them these |
cosmic rays
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Before going to the Supreme Court, he made history by winning 3 straight California gubernatorial elections |
[After the 15th clue, the show breaks for commercial.]
(Earl) Warren
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This white anesthetic called "milk of amnesia" was involved in the death of Michael Jackson |
propofol
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In this novel by E.M. Forster, Lucy Honeychurch & her cousin visit Florence, Italy |
A Room with a View
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Physicist James gave his name to this law saying heat from electricity is proportional to the square of the current |
Joule's law
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After the financial crisis of 2008, Christopher Dodd teamed up with this Massachusetts man for a regulatory bill |
Barney Frank
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This synonym for "silly" is used of a pointless lawsuit; SCOTUS defines it as alleging facts irrational or incredible |
frivolous
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Dr. Primrose is the title priest living in the title parish with his wife & kids in this novel by Oliver Goldsmith |
The Vicar of Wakefield
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A round hide- or felt-covered central Asian tent |
a yurt
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