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BIG & SMALL SCREEN CLASSICS |
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On Nov. 28, 1848 the parliament of this country chose Bern as its federal capital |
Switzerland
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Gwen Verdon said she helped dub in the tapping & splashing in the title number in this 1952 film |
Singin' in the Rain
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Farmers plant trees around farms to create windbreaks as they battle this, attrition of soil by wind |
erosion
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Why'd you do that? "Just..." this 5-letter contraction |
'cause
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This Tom Wolfe work was spacey but had the correct contents to win a 1980 Nonfiction Award |
The Right Stuff
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Starting around 600 B.C. many Jews were deported east from the kingdom of Judah in what's known as the Babylonian this forced departure |
Babylonian Exile (or diaspora)
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Finn, Bjork & Ursina are a family of brown these big animals, fishing & climbing in a park in the heart of Bern since 2009 |
bears
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It's 10 years later as Al Swearengen & friends celebrate South Dakota statehood on the 2019 movie based on this HBO series |
Deadwood
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A 138-pound cabbage set a world record for Scott Robb, a farmer in this state, benefiting from the above-average amount of sunlight |
(Andrew: What is California?)
Alaska
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The American Heritage Dictionary calls it "perhaps the single most famous feature of southern United States dialects" |
y'all
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The 2017 Nonfiction winner was Masha Gessen's "The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed" this superpower |
Russia
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Human occupation on Corsica dates from at least the 3rd millennium B.C., as evident from dolmens & menhirs, standing these |
stones
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Tour the 2nd floor apt. of Kramgasse 49 where this scientist began to live in 1903 & did some incredible work, relatively speaking |
Einstein
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Charlie Chaplin faces the perils of technology in this 1936 film that was also the last appearance of "The Tramp" |
Modern Times
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In France & Germany, asparagus is grown underground to inhibit this pigment, creating a delicious white variety |
chlorophyll
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A contraction of "would rather"; having these would mean you'd get your way |
druthers
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Colson Whitehead liberated the 2016 Fiction Award for his novel about this title 19th century "conveyance" |
The Underground Railroad
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Ostia, at the mouth of this river, served as Rome's naval base & commercial harbor |
the Tiber
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Any pirate could tell you that Bern lies along this river with a double "a" rating that rises in the Alps |
the Aare
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Howie Mandel & Denzel Washington were on staff at this '80s show set at St. Eligius Hospital |
St. Elsewhere
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This 11-letter type of farming supplies produce for the farmer to eat, but not enough for market |
(Andrew: What is sustainable?)
subsistence
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There is a contraction in this French phrase for "please"; it's literally "if it pleases you" |
s'il vous plait
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Thomas Pynchon found the Fiction Prize at the end of this 1973 novel |
Gravity's Rainbow
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In the 1st century B.C. Philo of Larissa taught his skeptical Philo-sophy at this school founded by Plato |
the Academy
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Renzo Piano designed the Bern museum here, dedicated to this painter, a local boy who taught at Bauhaus in the 1920s |
Paul Klee
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In this Alexander Payne film, Paul Giamatti is asked, "Why are you so into Pinot?" |
Sideways
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Most of the dairy cows in the U.S. are descended from this cattle breed named for an area of northern Germany |
(Andrew: What is Hessen?)
Holstein
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The poem "Home, Sweet Home" doesn't begin, "'Mong pleasures & palaces though we may roam"; the first word is this contraction |
Mid
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He won Fiction Awards for "The Magic Barrel" & "The Fixer" but not for "The Natural" |
Bernard Malamud
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The 6th century B.C. Temple of Artemis was a mainstay of this city whose residents St. Paul would later pen a letter to |
Ephesus
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