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This French national anthem is heard in the "1812 Overture" |
(Lara: What is "The Marseille"?)
"La Marseillaise"
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Harking back to the Bible, other names for it include the Sea of Lot & the Sea of Sodom |
(Jeff: What is the Red Sea?) (Juliet: What is the Sea of Galilee?)
the Dead Sea
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She attended the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf before going to Radcliffe, where she graduated cum laude in 1904 |
Helen Keller
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In Hawaii May 1 is celebrated as this floral day that also rhymes with May Day |
Lei Day
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The Nazi high command gets locked inside a burning Paris theater in this 2009 Tarantino movie |
Inglourious Basterds
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Because they live off of hosts, skin mites & lice are classified as these |
parasites
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Beethoven's Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor is better known as this, after the inscription on the autograph score |
"Für Elise"
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Nunivak & the Pribilof Islands are among the largest in this sea |
(Jeff: What is the Caspian Sea?)
the Bering Sea
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The daughter of Chinese refugees, architect Maya Lin designed this Washington, D.C. monument |
the Vietnam War Memorial
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Every year, Jerusalem has a relay race with torches to celebrate this holiday |
Hanukkah
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As an "American Werewolf" in this city, David Naughton is beckoned into a theater where he's confronted by his zombified victims |
London
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To take the words or ideas of another & pass them off as your own |
plagiarize
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"An der schönen blauen Donau" is the German name of this waltz |
"The Blue Danube"
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Named for certain sea life, it merges with the Tasman Sea, to the south |
the Coral Sea
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In an 1851 speech this formerly enslaved abolitionist & a feminist wondered, "Ain't I a woman?" |
(Jeff: Who is... Harriet Tubman?)
Sojourner Truth
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Retailer Fred Lazarus Jr. lobbied FDR & got this holiday moved to always leave about 4 weeks to shop before Christmas |
Thanksgiving
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Lon Chaney haunted the title theater in the 1925 film version of this Gaston Leroux novel |
The Phantom of the Opera
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To do this process, heat milk to 161 degrees, hold it there for 15 seconds & then rapidly cool |
(Bill: We have less than a minute left.)
pasteurize
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The soundtrack of "Apocalypse Now" includes this piece from a Wagner opera |
"Ride of the Valkyries"
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Indonesia's most populous island shares its name with this sea to the north |
the Java Sea
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This groundbreaking journalist went undercover as a patient to expose the horrible conditions in a psychiatric hospital |
Nellie Bly
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Often happening the same week as America's birthday, Canada Day is on this date |
(Jeff: It's my birthday, too.)
July 1st
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In "The Shawshank Redemption", a prison theater crowd watching "Gilda" erupts when this title actress flips her hair |
Rita Hayworth
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From a Latin word for "powder", it means to pound or grind something into a powder |
pulverize
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"On the Trail" is a movement from this "Suite", Ferde Grofe's most famous |
Grand Canyon Suite
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With a maximum depth of only about 46 feet, the Sea of this, to the east of Crimea, is the world's shallowest sea |
the Sea of Azov
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This soprano of Greek heritage had an often tempestous & public romance with Aristotle Onassis |
[ERRATUM: The correct word is "tempestuous".]
Maria Callas
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In the anniversary year 1892, Benjamin Harrison urged observance of a holiday honoring this "pioneer of progress" |
Christopher Columbus
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Elisa & Giles live above the Orpheum Cinema in this 2017 del Toro Best Picture Oscar winner |
The Shape of Water
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Of the 3 traditional birthstones for August, it's the green one |
peridot
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