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THAT'S MY MATH OR SCIENCE THING! |
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INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES |
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This 2018 superhero film begins & ends in Oakland |
Black Panther
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He had a theorem--the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other 2 sides |
Pythagoras
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It officially became France's Fete nationale in 1880 |
Bastille Day
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By Shaw: "Pickering! Nonsense! She's going to marry Freddy! Ha ha! Freddy! Freddy! Ha ha ha ha ha" |
[Alex reads the clue in an English accent.]
Pygmalion
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In the 1930s, maps and little weights called shrimp boats were used by the first en-route centers for ATC, short for this |
air traffic control
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This Greek letter gave us part of the word for all the letters that make up a language |
(Kevin: what is alphabet?) (Alex: No.) (Kevin: Oh!) (Barton: What is [*]?) (Alex: Yes! No "B-E-T". No bet!)
alpha
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Much of the action of this 2011 Brad Pitt film takes place at the Oakland Coliseum |
Moneyball
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Here's our in-depth examination of cats and dogs in this diagram, named for a 19th-century English logician |
Venn
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The 2017 movie "Coco" takes place during this Mexican holiday |
the Day of the Dead
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By Ibsen: "Nora! Nora! Empty. She's gone. The greatest miracle--"(door slams) |
A Doll's House
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Manhattan subway lines the 7, the L & the S travel east-west, also called this direction |
(Alex: Called [*], east-west.)
crosstown
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In comic books she's in a rivalry for the affections of Archie Andrews |
(Alex: Yes, not Betty, [*].)
Veronica
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This late rapper drives Janet Jackson up to Oakland in a mail truck in the 1993 film "Poetic Justice" |
Tupac Shakur
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This Heisenberg principle says some things, like energy & time, can't be accurately measured simultaneously |
(Lindsey: What is the Theory of [*]?) (Alex: Yes! [*].)
the Uncertainty Principle
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People lay flowers at an eternal flame in Yerevan on April 24, this country's genocide Remembrance Day |
Armenia
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A musical: "How many can I kill... & still have one bullet left for me? Don't you touch him! Te adoro, Anton" |
[Alex reads the clue in a Puerto Rican accent.] (Barton: What is [*]?) (Alex: Correct! Must've been the way I read the clue. Go again.) (Barton: Certainly was.)
West Side Story
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A word also used in the navy, it's an airline's planes as a whole; spirit airlines has a young one, averaging about 6 years old |
fleet
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Before "Silver Streak" & "Stir Crazy", this comic went to Oakland for "The Mack" |
Richard Pryor
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This boat festival in China is said to have begun as a search for the poet Qu Yuan, who drowned himself in a river |
the Dragon Boat Festival
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By Oscar Wilde: "No one in particular. A man of no importance" |
A Woman of No Importance
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AMC TV series that introduced Mike Ehrmantraut, played by Jonathan Banks |
Breaking Bad
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Oscar Grant, played by Michael B. Jordan, is shot by a cop at this title station in Oakland |
Fruitvale
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This German created 2 tetrahedrons that mutually circumscribe & inscribe each other; now "strip"! |
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)
Mobius
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This Christian sect in Egypt celebrates Christmas Day on January 7 |
the Copts
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By Woody Allen: "Well, you see, the thing about Bogart that most people don't know is that..." |
(Alex: Correct. You did well in the category. You're leading now with $15,600. Keep it going.)
Play It Again, Sam
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This character is in the French title of the fairy tale "Beauty & The Beast" |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Belle
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