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It's the alliterative volume in "The Lord of the Rings" |
The Two Towers
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Carl Sagan was director of the laboratory for planetary studies at this Ithaca, New York university |
Cornell
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In Wood's depiction of Longfellow's "Midnight Ride of" this man, he is a tiny figure on horseback |
Paul Revere
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Joe Biden used to read poetry for hours in front of a mirror to help overcome this speech disorder |
a stutter
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This group's "The Dark Side of the Moon" |
Pink Floyd
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Simple wooden furniture for lunch in a park that outlines what's contained in a book |
a picnic table of contents
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First name of C.S. Forester's creation Captain Hornblower of the Royal Navy |
Horatio
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Located near Chicago, a national physics lab bears the name of this Italian who helped develop the atom bomb |
Fermi
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Grant Wood won a $300 prize for this painting that mixes northern renaissance style with Iowa pitchforks |
American Gothic
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This Swedish teen activist says of her Asperger's, "I'm sometimes a bit different... and... being different is a superpower" |
[NOTE: Katie corrected Michalle's pronunciation.]
(Greta) Thunberg
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This Beatles album, on whose cover John is wearing white & Paul is barefoot |
Abbey Road
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The "IT" in finance's REIT tips over backward, believing that it'll be caught |
investment trust fall
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He was known as a writer of political pamphlets before he hit it big with the 1719 tale of a castaway |
Daniel Defoe
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Since 1997 multiple Mars rovers have been operated from this Caltech lab |
JPL (the Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
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A painting commissioned for the John Ford film "The Long Voyage Home" depicts its actors, including him, aka "Duke" |
John Wayne
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Diagnosed with ALS in the '60s & given a few years to live, he lived another 50+ to become one of the greatest scientific minds of all time |
Hawking
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"The Best of" this singer-songwriter, including his classic "American Pie" |
Don McLean
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We'll see "The Friendly Confines" & lots of ivy on this group school outing in Chicago |
Wrigley Field trip
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In "The Raven", "while I nodded, nearly ____, suddenly there came a tapping" |
napping
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This European research facility operates the largest particle accelerator in the world |
CERN
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Wood painted West Branch, Iowa in a work titled "The Birthplace of" this president |
[Time's up] (Michalle: Who is Truman?)
Herbert Hoover
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Legally deaf, this Oscar-winning actress was instrumental in getting closed captioning on TV & streaming |
(Marlee) Matlin
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This jazz trumpeter's "Birth of the Cool" |
(Dave: Who is Gillespie?)
Miles Davis
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It's "your old" home turf where you really put your foot down about having that hamburger meat |
stomping ground beef
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Dickens debuted with this serial about a club & its eccentric members |
The Pickwick Papers
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It's the stinky name for Lockheed Martin's advanced aeronautics lab that developed aircraft like the SR-71 Blackbird |
the Skunk Works
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Wood illustrates the story of Washington cutting down the cherry tree; pulling back the curtain is this parson who wrote the tale |
Mason Weems
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Born without a right hand, he pitched with his left, playing 10 seasons for 4 different MLB teams |
(Katie: He even pitched a no-hitter.)
Jim Abbott
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Her French song "La Vie En Rose", on an old 78 |
Edith Piaf
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Free 2-day shipping for $12.99 a month from Aristotle's entity that causes all motion |
Amazon Prime Mover
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