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"Dear, old, sleepy place... full of spells", wrote Amy Lowell about this city's Athenaeum Library, founded by her ancestor |
Boston
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Pop musicians joined together & recorded "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in 1984 to raise money for famine relief in this country |
Ethiopia
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Major towns in this Caribbean nation include Jacmel, Pétion-Ville & Port-de-Paix |
Haiti
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To be merciless to an enemy is to show "no" this coin |
a quarter
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The closest star to our sun, Proxima this has an Earth-like planet that was discovered in 2016 & could possibly support life |
(Zach: What is Alpha Centauri?)
Proxima Centauri
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Going low, Meghan Trainor was "All About That" this in a 2014 No. 1 |
that Bass
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George Herbert's poetic query "Is there in truth no" this? became the title of the "Star Trek" episode with the Medusans |
(Bo: What is stone?)
beauty
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In 1983 this Swiss company introduced its iconic new timepieces, which became a craze |
a Swatch
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The largest range in Jamaica, these mountains are famous as a source of coffee beans |
(Kristen: What is Arabica?)
the Blue Mountains
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To "drop" one of these is to inform on someone, like by calling the cops from an old payphone |
a dime
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Castor & Pollux are the 2 brightest stars in this constellation that's also a sign of the zodiac |
Gemini
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In 1994 this R&B group spent 14 weeks at No. 1 singing, "I'll make love to you, like you want me to" |
(Bo: Who are K-Ci & JoJo?)
Boyz II Men
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Joseph Severn went with this poet to Rome, made a deathbed drawing of him & was buried next to him when Severn died 58 years later |
(Zach: Who's Lord Byron?)
Keats
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Not your typical sitcom, this TV show featuring a shoe salesman's less-than-perfect family life premiered in 1987 |
Married... with Children
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The easternmost of Cuba's 15 provinces is this single-named one near where the U.S. maintains a military base |
Guantanamo
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Something valueless is "not worth a" this colorful 2-word coin phrase |
a red cent
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In the top 5 brightest stars, Arcturus is found in this constellation in the northern sky; oh, shake shake shake, shake your... |
Bootes
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This 1998 Cher megahit with a 1-word title took 6 songwriters & almost a decade to put together |
"Believe"
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In 1920s London Virginia Woolf & others were baffled by this transplanted American poet's habit of wearing green face powder |
(Kristen: POET, $2000.) (Ken: All right, it can't get worse.) [Laughter]
T.S. Eliot
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In 1989 Tom Petty sang, "My sister got lucky, married" this kind of successful person, a word coined earlier in the decade |
a yuppie
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Boulders form secluded pools at the Baths, a beach area in this colony of the queen |
(Bo: Uh, what are the Bahamas?)
the British Virgin Islands
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"Don't take any" of these, like the commemorative souvenirs made for the 1933 Chicago World's Fair |
a wooden nickel
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When you see this Down Under constellation for the 1st time, check out Alpha Crucis & the Coalsack molecular cloud |
(Ken: Less than a minute now.)
the Southern Cross
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Despite the fact that "We had joy, we had fun, we had" this title in 1974, it really is one seriously depressing tune |
"Seasons In The Sun"
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This 11th century Persian "Rubaiyat" poet was an astronomer who devised a calendar more accurate than ours |
Omar Khayyam
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This Democrat was governor of Massachusetts for most of the decade |
Dukakis
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2 capital cities are located on this Caribbean island: Marigot, which is French, & Philipsburg, which is Dutch |
St. Maarten
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When this alliterative phrase offering to wager money against bakery treats first appeared, the coins were still silver |
dollars to doughnuts
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The name of this bright red star in the constellation Scorpius denotes it as a rival of the Greek god of war |
(Ken: Bo?) [Bo says nothing.]
Antares
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About 20 years after Ray Charles hit No. 1 with this tune, it became a state song |
"Georgia On My Mind"
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