AMERICAN MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD |
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20th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS |
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Dartmouth, England has a memorial to the American role in this WWII invasion for which it was a major launching point |
D-Day
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Atticus Finch in this novel was inspired by the author's father, who was also an attorney |
(Grace: Who is Harper Lee?)
To Kill a Mockingbird
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The next D.C. avenue: Independence Avenue, Constitution Avenue... |
Pennsylvania Avenue
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In 1997 Myron Scholes won the award for this field; in 1998 the hedge fund he co-founded lost around $4 billion |
economics
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In addition to commander-in-chiefing in "Deep Impact" & "Angel Has Fallen", he's also played God at least a couple of times |
Morgan Freeman
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Like mustard & wasabi, this related root is prepared & used as a condiment |
horseradish
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A memorial in this Moroccan city remembers the U.S. Western Naval Task Force, not Rick helping Ilsa & Victor escape |
Casablanca
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This Holocaust survivor & author of "Night" also wrote "Dawn", which takes place at night |
(Elie) Wiesel
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Omicron, pi, rho... |
(Grace: What is tau?) ... (Mayim: The Greek alphabet.)
sigma
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Physics winners Penzias & Wilson had to shoo pigeons from their antenna to pick up background radiation from this "Big" event |
(Julia: [Laughs] Hey.)
the Big Bang
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It was plane to see this man had some in-flight issues as president James Marshall in "Air Force One" |
Harrison Ford
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In song, "There's a blaze of light in every word, it doesn't matter which you heard, the holy or the broken" this |
hallelujah
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The naval monument in this British territory at the entrance to the Mediterranean is known as the American Steps |
Gibraltar
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Translated into French in 1936, "The Postman Always Rings Twice" influenced this man's spare prose in "The Stranger" |
(Albert) Camus
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Salt Lake City, Turin, Vancouver... |
(John: What is Nakano?) ... (Mayim: Those are Winter Olympic host cities.)
Sochi
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Author Knut Hamsun tarnished his reputation when he gave his Nobel Prize medal to this Nazi propaganda minister |
Goebbels
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Before Allstate ad fame, Dennis Haysbert was president David Palmer on this tense TV show |
24
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Grown from a bulb, it's the popular spring flower seen here |
a hyacinth
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There is an American cemetery & monument with "crosses row on row" at this alliterative field near Ypres, Belgium |
(Mayim: We have less than a minute.)
Flanders
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Lucy in this Forster novel: "Charlotte, you mustn't spoil me: of course, you must look over the Arno, too" |
(Julia: Oh, golly--what is The Age of Innocence?)
A Room with a View
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Alphabetically: xenon, ytterbium, yttrium... |
(Mayim: Those are chemical elements.) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
zinc
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In 1949 Dr. Antonio Moniz was awarded a Nobel Prize for his development of this once common but now discredited brain surgery |
(frontal) lobotomy
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Mary McDonnell's Laura Roslin had a strong anti-Cylon platform as president on this TV drama |
Battlestar Galactica
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A "commitment to the land, the people, and the future of Israel" is the mission of this organization of Jewish women |
(Mayim: I knew that one.)
Hadassah
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This nation mainly of ethnic Albanians put up a statue of Pres. Clinton for helping it declare itself independent of Serbia |
Kosovo
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Characters in this novel include Chance the gardener & the President of the United States |
Being There
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1948 had no Peace Prize winner; this man who was nominated that year was assassinated & Nobels are rarely given posthumously |
(John: Who was...)
(Mahatma) Gandhi
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Terry Crews was president Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in this 2006 Mike Judge film &/or warning |
Idiocracy
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