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CHARACTERS WHO SHOULD PLAY JEOPARDY! |
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With an innocent bride & a scheming villain, 1860's "The Colleen Bawn" was this popular type of play with "drama" right in the word |
(Tuan: What is a dramedy?)
a melodrama
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One of the oldest repositories of African-American history, the DuSable Museum is a fixture of this Midwest city's South Side |
Chicago
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Spelled with a "C", it's a unit of weight for diamonds; spelled with a "K", it's a measure of the purity of gold |
carat
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187 countries--but not the U.S.--are party to the Basel Conv. on "movements of hazardous" these, like asbestos & mercury |
(Tuan: What are chemicals?) (Andy: What are materials?)
wastes
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This title janitor played by Matt Damon could run categories from linear algebra to American Revolution historians |
Will Hunting
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On a clock's face, these parts show you the time |
hands
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Guy ends his family line by picking this non-reproducing profession in "Guy Domville", a painful flop for playwright Henry James |
a priest
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Arturo Schomburg's collection in a branch of the N.Y. Public Library in this Manhattan area contributed to a renaissance there |
Harlem
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Mieszko I, a duke of this country, expanded its borders to the Baltic Sea in the 960s |
Poland
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A 1963 treaty banned these tests "in the atmosphere, in outer space, and under water" |
nuclear tests
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Brilliant German historian Oswald Spengler inspired the name of Egon Spengler in this 1984 movie |
Ghostbusters
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The outwardly projecting parts on the rim of a gear or saw |
teeth
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Marie Duplessis, who died of this disease at age 23 in 1847, inspired Alexandre Dumas fils to write "La Dame aux Camelias" |
consumption (tuberculosis)
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E.E. Ward Moving & Storage is the oldest Black-owned co. in the U.S., dating to the 1840s when a Ward was a conductor on this |
the Underground Railroad
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He composed the classic songs "I'm A Yankee Doodle Dandy" & "Give My Regards To Broadway" |
George M. Cohan
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Spain agreed to a 1958 high seas conservation treaty but said it didn't change things in the waters around this British territory |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Gibraltar
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Maybe ANAGRAMS or BEFORE & AFTER would challenge this omniscient guy |
Rick
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If you face up to your actions, you've done this to the blame, taken responsibility |
shouldered
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This Scandinavian's last play, "When We Dead Awaken", ends with an avalanche burying the 2 main characters |
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)
Ibsen
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In 1870 Hiram Revels was almost blocked as the first African-American in this job because he hadn't been a citizen for 9 years |
a senator
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More than 55 million people in Guangdong & Guangxi speak this variety of Chinese that's also called Yue |
Cantonese
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The evil genius from the world of the "Watchmen" can sign in as Adrian Veidt or with this other name, whatever he likes |
(Tuan: Who is Dr. Manhattan?) (Andy: What is "Ozzy-man-die-us"?)
Ozymandias
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You can finger a suspect; this other digit means casually turn through the pages of a magazine |
thumb
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His 1893 "A Woman of No Importance" has lines like "Never trust a woman who tells one her real age"; she "would tell one anything" |
Oscar Wilde
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In 1919, as part of his Back to Africa plan, Marcus Garvey founded this, contrasting with the name of a British ship line |
the Black Star Line
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It's the "CN" in CN Tower, a communications tower in Toronto |
Canadian National
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Arthur Dietrich was the brilliant police detective played by Steve Landesberg on this 1970s sitcom |
(Alex: Before your time, obviously, what is [*]?)
Barney Miller
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An extensive deposit in a rock fissure containing desirable minerals or ore |
a vein
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