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CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE FILMS |
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A recent theory says the teeth-on-lip consonants "F" & "V" evolved as chewing softer foods gave more humans this condition |
an overbite
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"How Green Was My Valley" beat out this Orson Welles movie to win the 1941 Best Picture Oscar |
(Katie: How Green Was My Valley, Alex Trebek's favorite movie.)
Citizen Kane
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Like Hanukkah, Diwali is known as "the festival of" these |
lights
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One of these birds not native to the area flies proudly on the flag of American Samoa |
an eagle
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In "The Faerie Queene", the monarch's "beautie did assay / to dim the brightnesse of her glorious" this seat |
the throne
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The president has this many days to sign a bill--if it runs out when Congress is adjourned, it's called a pocket veto |
(Dave: What is 30?) (Lori: What is 21?)
10 days
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The boxing matches just before a featured bout, with up-&-coming or down-&-going fighters |
the undercard
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The Bogie & Bergman classic "Casablanca" was loosely based on the play "Everybody Comes to" this possessive name |
Rick's
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A cross marked on the forehead is traditional on this first day of Lent |
Ash Wednesday
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Including lands below 60 degrees south latitude, the British Antarctic territory has this native bird on its flag |
the penguin
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T.S. Eliot asked, "Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat" this fruit? |
(Katie: From "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".)
a peach
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Russia, China & the U.S. regularly use their U.N. security council veto but these 2 other perm. members haven't used theirs since 1989 |
France & the U.K.
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Toronto has an innovative park named for this type of area, even making use of the big columns supporting the highway above |
(Lori: What is the underground?) (Dave: What is the overpass?)
the underpass
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Max Schreck played the title vampire in this silent classic |
Nosferatu
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Eid-al-Fitr, Arabic for "festival of breaking fast", marks the end of this holy month |
Ramadan
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The flag of Bolivia features the condor named for these mountains |
the Andes
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"Endymion" says, "The Centaur's arrow ready seems to pierce / Some enemy: far forth his" this "is bent" |
bow
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In 1708 this queen, the last Stuart monarch, vetoed the Scottish militia bill; no bill has been vetoed by a king or queen since |
Anne
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To use a literary style that's too elaborate; in word processing, it's also the opposite of insert |
overwrite
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Charlie Chaplin starred in films like "Modern Times" & this satire of Hitler |
The Great Dictator
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In Judaism this holy day begins the 10 days of repentance that end on Yom Kippur |
Rosh Hashanah
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The bird on the flag of this end of the alphabet African country was found on carvings in an ancient city of the region |
Zimbabwe
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In a Maya Angelou poem, "the dark" one of these old-time lamps "of world sadness has cast its shadow upon the land" |
a lantern
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Gov. Tim Pawlenty once vetoed giving this state a poet laureate, saying, "We could also see requests for a state mime" |
Minnesota
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One of few words with the letter sequence "rwr", it means too excited or agitated |
overwrought
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As Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard", this actress says, "All right Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up" |
(Gloria) Swanson
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Coptic Christmas on January 7 is an official holiday in this country |
Egypt
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The bold rooster struts on the flag of this French-speaking part of Belgium |
(Katie: You know your geography.)
Wallonia
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Edward Lear's owl & pussy-cat "dined on mince, and slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible" this |
a spoon
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Gerald Ford vetoed the beefed-up version of this act, FOIA for short, but congress overrode the veto in 1975 |
Freedom of Information Act
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