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Around 1500 B.C. the kings who ruled from the city of Knossos on this Greek island dominated the Aegean |
Crete
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Housed at the Smithsonian, this sparkling object is said to be cursed |
the Hope Diamond
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The act of renouncing the throne |
(Matt: What is [*]?) (Alex: Yes.) (Matt: What is abdicate?) (Alex: Yes. No. The first one. I ruled on you on the first.) (Matt: Okay.) (Alex: Don't change your mind after I've ruled on you.)
abdication
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In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" it was this, this "every where, nor any drop to drink" |
water
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The third iteration of this game named for the virtual people created has an add-on where you fight with Charles the evil chicken |
The Sims
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Of the elements that are naturally ferromagnetic, it's the one the phenomenon of ferromagnetism is named for |
iron
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A half cocoon discovered in Shanxi Province in 1926 is evidence of Chinese cultivation of this fabric 6,000 years ago |
silk
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Any substance known to produce cancer, like benzene or coal-tar pitch |
(Matt: What is carcinogenic?)
a carcinogen
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Maya Angelou wrote that it "sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still" |
a caged bird
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A fictional radio senator named Claghorn influenced this bombastic animated rooster |
Foghorn Leghorn
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You can magnetize a needle & place it on a cork in a bowl of water to make one of these |
a compass
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Dating back to the 3rd Millenium B.C., the Iranian city of Rayy was sacked by Mongols in 1220 & the survivors moved to this new capital |
[ERRATUM: Millennium is misspelled.]
Tehran
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That's Fidel Castro on the left in 1959, sharing a laugh with this guerilla leader, his second in command |
Guevara
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Dive in to this, the tile on the wall behind a kitchen countertop |
backsplash
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In Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop for Death", the narrator rides with death in one of these that "held but just ourselves" |
a carriage
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In the opening of this stop motion Adult Swim show, a mad scientist breathes life into a recently smooshed fowl |
Robot Chicken
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In the early 1950s IBM gave these better memories with the introduction of magnetic core storage |
computers
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Algebra was around in Ancient Egypt & shows up in the scroll known as the Rhind this, for the material it was written on |
Papyrus
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Germany's Stuttgart City Library has been described as having the feel of this Dutch artist's mind-bending works |
(M.C.) Escher
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One who has left his or her native land; Americans living in, say, Ecuador form this "community" |
expatriate
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This eminent Harlem Renaissance poet wrote, "Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be" |
(Langston) Hughes
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On "The Muppet Show" the love of this Muppet's life was Camilla the chicken |
Gonzo
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One of the most powerful non-destructive magnets in the world is in this state at Los Alamos National Laboratory |
New Mexico
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Plutarch wrote that the same day Alexander the Great was born, this temple, a wonder of the world, burned in Ephesus |
(Alex: Right you are, good going.) [No applause for running the category]
the Temple of Artemis
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From Greek meaning "bearer on both sides", it's the name of the ancient two-handled vessel seen here |
an amphora
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The Greek for "stomach" gives us this word for the science of good eating |
gastronomy
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Though this romantic poet lived to be 80, he didn't manage to publish his long poem "The Prelude" before he died in 1850 |
William Wordsworth
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In one punishment of this truTV reality game show, Sal had to match wits with some chickens on the loose |
Impractical Jokers
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An 1845 letter from the 21-year-old future Lord Kelvin inspired this British scientist to show how magnetism & light are related |
(Mary Kate: Who is... Cavendish?)
(Michael) Faraday
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