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This show premiered on Oct. 5, 2000 with Rory getting into Chilton Prep |
the Gilmore Girls
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Your most vulnerable area, it resulted in myth from a mother incompletely dipping her son in the Styx |
[Monica selected the first clue per "the rules".]
your Achilles heel
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NFL defensive end Justin James |
J.J. Watt
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This heroine's seduction by Alec d'Urberville begins a tailspin that leads to a job picking rutabagas |
Tess
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It was at the insistence of Louis Wadsworth, an 1850s first baseman, that baseball games got this length |
nine innings
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During the Peloponnesian War, a plague killed 1/5 of this city; Thucydides survived it to write the war's history |
Athens
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In Chicago, a 19th century kaleidoscope was one of the title artifacts on this PBS show's first episode in 1997 |
Antiques Roadshow
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To open this container is to unleash untold problems, as happened with a gift Zeus gave |
Pandora's box
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Architect Ieoh Ming |
(Kelly: What is... uh...)
I.M. Pei
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"A Painted House", his first novel that wasn't a legal thriller, is set in 1952 among people who pick cotton |
(John) Grisham
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Fast to dial & not an area code--those are the basic rationales for this 3-digit number introduced in 1968 |
(Mike: What is an area code?)
911
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Named for British Major James Abbott, this Pakistani city was in the news in 2011 as the last residence of Osama bin Laden |
Abbottabad
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In 2014 Wes Gibbins began taking a law course on this ABC drama; also during the episode, the students were disposing of a body |
How to Get Away with Murder
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Meaning a very beautiful woman, this idiom refers to the fleet that went to war after Helen's abduction |
(Mike: What is... Hellenic?)
a face that launched a thousand ships
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Financier John Pierpont, whose company merged with Chase Manhattan |
J.P. Morgan
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A standard dose of this medication was once 325 mg,, so a common preventive dose is 1/4 of that or 81 mg |
[ERRATUM: The clue's wording had two commas after the first "mg".]
aspirin
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Cleopatra & Mark Antony fought a doomed naval battle against Octavian at this Greek promontory |
Actium
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An aspiring journalist named Augie kicks off our tour of this actress' "Love Life" in a 2020 HBO Max show |
Anna Kendrick
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Being "under the Aegis" of someone comes from being protected by the breastplate of this goddess |
Athena
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Author Howard Phillips |
H.P. Lovecraft
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Picking these is depicted in Jane Hamilton's "The Excellent Lombards", in which the trendy Honeycrisp is taking over |
apples
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At one point someone counted this many palm trees, hence the name of the city where Joshua Tree National Park is headquartered |
(Mike: What is [*] Palms?)
29
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Legend says Charlemagne caught a fatal fever aafter bathing in the hot springs aat this city in 814 |
Aachen
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This series begins with a man getting himself put in the Fox River Penitentiary so he can get his brother out |
Prison Break
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You could face serious trouble at any moment if, like a courtier of ancient Syracuse, you have this hanging over you |
the sword of Damocles
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British soldier Thomas Edward |
T.E. Lawrence
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A story by Brian Friel begins as boys on their way to gather these are "the only living things in that part of County Tyrone" |
potatoes
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This long black robe worn by priests traditionally has 33 buttons for Christ's age & 5 on each sleeve for his wounds |
a cassock
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Au jus is a way to serve meat; this is a similar-sounding region won by France from England in the early 1200s |
Anjou
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