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A statue of a seated Genghis Khan graces an entrance to the government palace in Ulaanbaatar in this nation |
Mongolia
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Surprisingly, a Richard Russo tale about a dismal road trip is titled this happy "Ride" |
"Joy Ride"
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It's from the Latin for "careful" but it's what "killed the cat" who wasn't careful enough |
curiosity
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When entering a Japanese house, you traditionally leave these paired items in the genkan near the door |
shoes
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For a 2018 festival Paul McCartney & Metallica were in the "City Limits" of this Texas "Live Music Capital of the World" |
(Alex: You are right, and that takes you to $72,600. $4,400 off the one-day record, James.) (James: Okay, I'll try.)
Austin
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It's believed that Scandinavians built the first log cabins in America on the Delaware River at Nya Sverige, or New this country |
Sweden
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This Israeli city was founded in 1909 as a suburb of the ancient Mediterranean port of Jaffa |
Tel Aviv
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Alice Munro set many stories like "Royal Beatings" in small towns in this country |
Canada
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To appear bedraggled is to look like something that arrived this way |
like something the cat dragged in
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In Andalusia Arabic calligraphy represents this style named for medieval visitors from Africa |
Moorish
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The 2001 edition of this city's Jazz Fest, commemorating Louis Armstrong's centennial, drew 650,000 fans |
New Orleans
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Proof the U.S. had secretly bombed Cambodia was in these "Papers" that were first leaked on June 13, 1971 |
the Pentagon Papers
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The only big city in a nation of small towns & villages, this Asian capital is located on the delta of the Chao Phraya River |
Bangkok
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"A Boring Story" is by this Russian playwright/story master |
(Anton) Chekhov
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If a secret has been exposed, it's where "the cat" is |
out of the bag
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Former Yankee catcher Jorge could tell you this Spanish word means "inn" |
(Ariana: What is hostal?)
posada
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At the Montreux Jazz Festival, you might see smoke on the water of this Swiss lake's shoreline |
(James: What is Lucerne?)
Lake Geneva
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In 1976, more than 175 years after his death, this man was promoted by Congress to general of the armies of the United States |
George Washington
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Also famous for its textiles, this traditional center of Japanese culture & Buddhism was the capital for 1,000 years |
Kyoto
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Competes the title of Susan Glaspell's 1917 tale with a feminist angle, "A Jury of..." |
(Sameer: What is peers? [*]?)
of her peers
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A fleeting rise in a stock's price after a fall is this type of "bounce" |
dead cat
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Tame Impala & Lauryn Hill headlined the 2018 edition of this "pointed" online music magazine's Chicago festival |
Pitchfork
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In 1904 Oklahoma City policeman Joe Burnett killed Ed O'Kelley, who had killed Robert Ford, who had killed this outlaw |
(Alex: [After Daily Double is revealed] You have an $11,000-plus lead over Sameer.) [James does the pushing motion.] (Alex: All of it?) [James nods.]
Jesse James
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Bishkek, which began as a fortress in 1825, is today the leading city of this "stan" |
Kyrgyzstan
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J.D. Salinger paired "Franny" with a story about him |
Zooey
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Act assertively! "A cat in gloves" has this inability |
a cat in gloves catches no mice
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Lukovitsa is the Russian name for this vegetable-shaped style of tower dome |
onion
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2018 was a "fallow year" for this "G"iant English festival, skipped to give its fields time to recover from the huge crowds |
Glastonbury
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As a young man Frederick Douglass heard if he learned to do this "it would forever unfit him to be a slave"--so he did |
read and write
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