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This Michigan industrial city bears the name of a river named for a "fire stone" |
Flint
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Tobey Maguire: "With great power comes great responsibility. This is my gift. My curse. Who am I? I'm..." |
Spider-Man
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This apostle was not present when Jesus first reappeared after the crucifixion, so he had his doubts |
Thomas
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Alfred Hitchcock's "The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog" was inspired by this notorious Whitechapel prowler |
Jack the Ripper
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Unlike Hägar's, the first complete Viking helmet ever found lacks these, largely an invention of a 19th century Wagner opera designer |
(Joe: What are wings?)
horns
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It's a compound of the element with symbol Te; it's also a Colorado ski town |
(Herman: What is... vail?)
telluride
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Morgan Freeman: "I hope to see my friend & shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope" |
The Shawshank Redemption
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Matthias beat out Barsabas in a lottery to replace this apostle who was not a good team player |
Judas (Iscariot)
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The Semitic word abaq, meaning "sand", gave us this word for a device that did arithmetic much faster than a sand table |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
an abacus
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The first chapter of his 1910 work "Burning Daylight" mentions roulette, the Klondike & a sack of gold dust |
Jack London
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In 2000 the U.S. & Iceland each issued a coin to honor the 1000 A.D. discovery of the New World by this man |
Leif Erikson
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"U" oughta know that this city in Saskatchewan got its name from ore deposits of a radioactive element |
Uranium City
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Guy Pearce: "Now, where was I?" |
Memento
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This man wasn't one of the 12, but he has "The Apostle" for his epithet & much of the Acts of the Apostles is about him |
Paul
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A delphinestrian is someone who rides this sea creature |
a dolphin
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From 1982 to 1985 he rushed for over 4,000 yards in college before signing a baseball contract with Kansas City |
Bo Jackson
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Norse games of myth included hnutukast, taking these from the carcass after a meal & throwing them at each other with intent to injure |
(Herman: What are teeth?)
bones
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This alliterative Maryland place is named for the color of the mica flakes found in the local water |
(Joe: What is Silver Springs?) ... (Alex: Less than a minute.)
Silver Spring
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Barnard Hughes: "One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach: all the damn vampires" |
The Lost Boys
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There were 2 Apostles with this name, so we use "the Greater" & "the Less" to tell them apart |
James
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Originally a sci-fi term for a trainee astronaut, this 2-word term now describes someone not in touch with reality |
a space cadet
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This name given to the northeast coast of North America by the Norsemen reflected the plants they found growing there |
Vinland
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An area of Lebanon County in this state is called Anthracite |
(Herman: What is New Hampshire?)
Pennsylvania
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Patricia Arquette: "Except maybe I wouldn't have named our son Elvis" |
True Romance
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As depicted here, Jesus told Peter and this brother, another fisherman, "Follow me and I will make you fishers of men" |
Andrew
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The sensation of being creeped out by robots that look close to, but not exactly human, is called the "uncanny" this |
valley
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The longest known inscriptions in this Viking alphabet is on the Rökstenen, seen here |
the Runic alphabet
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