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Scottish King Malcolm III Canmore slew this king who'd brought down Duncan I |
Macbeth
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The largest of these was over 50,000 square feet; a much smaller one had the most pieces, 204,484 |
(Len: What is a [*]?) (Alex: Do we call them [*]? Be a little more specific.) (Len: I can't give you anything other than that.) (Alex: I've never heard of that term.) [After the break Alex announced that [*] is in Webster's and the ruling was reversed.]
a jigsaw puzzle (*picture puzzle)
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The left arm of this over 14-foot marble statue was broken in 1527 & not repaired until later |
David
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Scows & lighters are types of these flat-bottomed, cargo-carrying boats |
barges
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Shelikhova Gulf is an extension of this country's Sea of Okhotsk |
Russia
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John Ray's 1670 book of English proverbs told us, "If wishes were horses", these people "might ride" |
beggars
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In 1854 a group of local Whigs founded this political party in Ripon, Wisconsin |
the Republicans
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An example of one of these is "flit on cheering angel" for Florence Nightingale |
(Len: What is a palindrome?)
an anagram
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Born in Caprese, Michelangelo was taken to this city while still an infant |
Florence
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This U.S. government agency regulates the manufacture of civilian aircraft |
the FAA
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Colombia's Magdalena Riverer & Guatemala's Motagua River flow into this sea |
the Caribbean
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Prince Charles once said, "I sometimes wonder if two-thirds of the globe is covered in" this color "carpet" |
red
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On Dec. 10, 1848 this nephew of Napoleon I was elected president of France |
(Len: [Sighs and shakes head]) (Alex: Oh, that's too bad.) (Bill: Uh, who is Louis Philippe?)
Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III)
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These are the foundation cards in regular or Klondike solitaire |
(Carol: What are kings?)
aces
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'Bacchus", his first surviving large statue, led to a commission for this sculpture now in St. Peter's |
the Pieta
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4 path tubes, rapid transit tunnels connecting New Jersey with New York City, run under this river |
the Hudson
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In 1971 the first oil field on the Norwegian sector of this sea went into production |
(Carol: What is the Black Sea?)
the North Sea
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In his 17th century play "The Rehearsal", George Villiers wrote, "Ay, now" this "thickens" |
the plot
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The Scorpion, this type of ship, sank off the Azores in 1968 |
(Bill: What is an oil tanker?) (Carol: What is a cruise ship?)
a nuclear submarine
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This game has 108 suit tiles, 28 honor tiles & 8 flower tiles |
mahjong
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Michelangelo's enormous statue of Pope Julius II in this metal was later recast into a cannon |
bronze
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Types of this vehicle include mountain, touring, hybrid & specialty |
bikes
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This eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea was once known as the Archipelago |
(Carol: What is the Sargassus?)
the Aegean
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This poetic pair "dined on mince, and slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible spoon" |
the Owl & the Pussycat
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This prime minister took over as leader of India's Congress Party September 9, 1951 |
Nehru
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It's Elizabeth Kingsley's puzzle creation in which the letters of defined words form a quote in a grid |
(Carol: What's a cryptogram?) (Len: What's an acrostic?)
a double-crostic
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In 1489 Michelangelo enrolled at an art school established by this "Magnificent" Medici |
Lorenzo
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Built in 1962 for the Seattle World's Fair, it's still in operation as public transportation |
the Monorail
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Though shallow off the Australian coast, this tropical sea reaches depths of 25,000' near Vanuatu |
the Coral Sea
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"At bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father", he wrote in "Totem and Taboo" |
Freud
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