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Indium is named for this deep blue color |
indigo
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This former "Daily Show" correspondent hosts his own news satire, "Last Week Tonight" |
John Oliver
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An apartment dweller |
a tenant
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Ulysses S. Grant said the story that this general had offered his sword & Grant had returned it was "the purest romance" |
Lee
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1.5 by 3.5 inches is the usual size of this piece of lumber; its name comes from its unprocessed dimensions |
a 2x4
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Gothic is common for churches, and, though much less common, was used for these, like the neo-Gothic Mickve Israel in Savannah |
a temple (synagogue)
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Palladium honors one of these space objects that's named for Pallas Athena |
an asteroid
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Omar Little on this Baltimore-set series was a big fan of Honey Nut Cheerios |
The Wire
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In the U.S., it's the most popular form of bowling |
ten pin
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When fellow West Point cadets saw the name U.S. Grant, they mockingly called him this, after a national symbol |
Uncle Sam
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Despite the name, this decaying wood, caused by fungal growth, usually happens in moist, unventilated areas |
dry rot
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In 1798's "Wieland", the 1st Amer. Gothic novel, a character seems to die from this: "In a moment, the whole was reduced to ashes" |
spontaneous combustion
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Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius named this element for a thunder god |
thorium
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On a '90s nighttime soap, Heather Locklear was a resident of the apartment complex at 4616 this title street |
Melrose Place
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It's an adjective meaning pertaining to the most popular British poet of the Victorian era |
Tennysonian
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As a young man, Grant's dad lived with this militant abolitionist & thought he was a man of high morals but a fanatic |
John Brown
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For easy woodcutting, strike up this 4-letter power saw that uses a continuously looping blade |
a band saw
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Before he became an Oscar-winning film composer, he brought a Gothic feel to '90s hard rock |
Trent Reznor
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This noble gas is named for an element discovered by the Curies |
radon
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Seen here, he plays Abe Weissman, father of the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel |
Tony Shalhoub
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In a state of anxiety? You're "on" these 11-letter items |
tenterhooks
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As president, Grant tried to annex this Caribbean "Republic", but the Senate rejected his treaty |
(Anthony: What is Haiti?)
the Dominican
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A froe is a woodworking tool; coopers used curved froes to cut these pieces to form the sides of barrels |
(Anthony: What are slats?)
staves
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The style Collegiate Gothic began with Pembroke Hall & other buildings at this women's college outside Philadelphia |
Bryn Mawr
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Symbol Ga, this element is named from the Latin for France & maybe also the Latin for rooster (it was named by M. Lecoq) |
gallium
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Sanchez & Smith are the last names of the title duo of this Adult Swim show |
Rick and Morty
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The khayyam in Omar Khayyam means this profession |
tent maker
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Grant said, "I do not think there was ever a more wicked war than" this one, the first in which he fought |
the Mexican-American War
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Visit Mandalay in Burma & you may come home with a table of this wood from which the city's U Bein Bridge is built |
(Steve: What is balsa?)
teak
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This southern Gothic O'author wrote her novel "Wise Blood" about a preacher in the church without Christ |
(Alex: Way to go.) [Applause] (Alex: It helps to be a playwright, doesn't it?)
Flannery O'Connor
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