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This country's Taipei 101 has a damping ball inside that acts as a balance, absorbing the kinetic energy gained from winds |
Taiwan
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Charles Dickens asked to be buried quietly in Kent, but he ended up in this section of Westminster Abbey |
Poets' Corner
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First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes this trip for just the 2 of you |
a honeymoon
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Mary Maxwell Gates, mother of Bill, helped convince this computer company to hire Microsoft to create a new operating system |
IBM
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After Neil & Buzz, Pete Conrad & Alan Bean were next to set foot on the Moon, as part of this mission |
Apollo 12
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As a child, Demi Lovato was on the kids' show with this giant friendly dinosaur |
Barney
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In 1880 skyscrapers got a lift when Ernst Werner von Siemens introduced the first electric this |
an elevator
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Stella Gibbons parodied the rural gloom of Thomas Hardy in her best-loved book, "Cold Comfort" this place |
Farm
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A stand-up comic's routine, or a prolonged talk by a single speaker in a play |
a monologue
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In 2020 Rupert's son James Murdoch resigned from the board of this corporation over "certain editorial content" |
(Dan: What is Fox Corporation?)
News Corporation
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Discovered in 2013 & named for a sea monster, Hippocamp is a tiny moon of this planet |
Neptune
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Tom Holland has played this teenaged superhero in 5 feature films |
Spider-Man
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The tallest building on the Korean Peninsula is the Lotte World Tower in this city |
Seoul
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A quarter century after "Lord of the Flies", this man won the Booker Prize for "Rites of Passage" |
(William) Golding
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Little Big Town sings about "makin' waves and catchin' rays up on the roof" of this type of boat |
a pontoon
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It's no "Grand Illusion": this film director was the son of Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste |
Jean Renoir
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Named for a Titan, Iapetus is a moon of this planet that's named for the Roman god of agriculture |
(Kelly: What's Uranus?)
Saturn
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Known as "The Beard", he has soared for the NBA's Houston Rockets & Brooklyn Nets |
(James) Harden
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The Shard is the tallest building in this nation |
Great Britain
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In 2019 Czechia gave this "Unbearable Lightness of Being" author his citizenship back after 40 years |
Milan Kundera
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Seen here are ciliates, a group of these single-celled organisms that feed on bacteria |
(Dan: What are parameciums?)
protozoa
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Crispus was the eldest son of this first Christian Roman emperor & led many of his military campaigns |
Constantine
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In 1971 the 9th probe in this "nautical" program took the first up-close pictures of Mars' moons Phobos & Deimos |
Mariner
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Seen here, he played the title role in "Creed" |
Michael B. Jordan
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For the Seagram Building, his only NYC design, Mies van der Rohe contrasted the steel & glass with this 5-letter public area in stone |
the plaza
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This Brazilian author of "The Alchemist" deleted a children's book he was writing with Kobe Bryant after Kobe's tragic death |
(Paulo) Coelho
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This ornate style of art & architecture originated in France in the early 1700s |
Rococo
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An Italian by birth, she was the mother of three French kings & helped rule a country divided by civil & religious strife |
(Kelly: Who is Medici?) (Anderson: We need more.)
Catherine (de') Medici
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The outermost of Jupiter's Galilean satellites, it's named for a nymph changed into the form of a bear |
(Kelly: What's Io?)
Callisto
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Jennifer Lawrence won an Oscar for this movie that deals with bipolar disorder |
Silver Linings Playbook
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