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Built for protection around 1,500 years ago, Kabul's "Great" this runs atop a mountain that towers over the city |
a wall
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In 1905 you didn't want to eat a pork chop while reading the paper "appeal to reason", as it serialized this stockyard novel |
The Jungle
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Don't place your hot dishes directly on the table; put them on this little stand |
a trivet
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A dance with one arm out in front of you is named for this oscillating lawn item |
(Sanjay: [Demonstrates] Right, can you do it, though?) [Laughter] (Rebecca: Uh, I'm not going to.)
the sprinkler
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John "J.D." Dorian, a rookie doctor at Sacred Heart Hospital |
Scrubs
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Still in business today, Japan's Sudo Honke brewery has been turning rice & water into this since the 12th century |
sake
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A mosque in Kabul & the Taj Mahal in Agra were both built by Shah Jahan in pure white this stone |
marble
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At a dinner party in Shakespeare, Banquo's ghost shows up to torment this title character |
Macbeth
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It means to diagnose a problem you're having with a computer or an appliance & then solve it |
troubleshoot
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To the naked eye it may look like it's not moving when in use, but here's a slow-motion look at this musical item at work |
a tuning fork
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Dr. Abigail Bartlet, who put in a D.C. residency |
The West Wing
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The Bols family began distilling Genever, also known as "Hollands" or "Dutch" this liquor, in 1664 |
gin
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The workers of the Kabul Museum risked their lives to save stone figures from destruction by this group in 2001 |
the Taliban
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The chapter titles in this Henry Fielding novel include "A Little Chapter, in Which is Contained a Little Incident" |
Tom Jones
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It's a small castle tower or something that holds a gun on a military tank |
turret
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This vacuum company also makes "Hot+Cool" oscillating air purifiers that take care of 99.97% of pollutants & allergens |
Dyson
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Plastic surgeons Sean McNamara & Christian Troy |
Nip/Tuck
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This liqueur dates back to the 16th century; in the 20th, it was bottled with brandy as B&B |
Benedictine
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In Kabul & the rest of Afghanistan, rocks painted red & white warn of danger in these fields; stay on the white side |
minefields
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In his 50s Tom Wolfe wrote his first novel, this one about the downfall of a Manhattan bond trader |
[NOTE: Courtney did not include the leading article.]
The Bonfire of the Vanities
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Mentioned in "A Wrinkle in Time", it's a 4-dimensional analogue of a cube, or what Carl Sagan called a hypercube |
a tesseract
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This 3-D imaging technique used in medicine to visualize organs makes use of the oscillations of hydrogen atoms |
an MRI (magnetic resonance image)
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Joel Fleischman, a fish out of water in Alaska |
Northern Exposure
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Year in which the photo here was taken |
(Mark: What is... 1923?) ... (Sanjay: End of Prohibition.)
1933
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A garden in Kabul contains the stone grave of Babur, 16th century founder of this Muslim dynasty of India |
the Mughal Empire
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In this A.S. Byatt novel, a scholar (Aaron Eckhart in the movie) finds letters in a book owned by a long-dead poet |
Possession
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From Latin for "to go over", it means temporary or fleeting |
transient
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In 1851 this 2-word object bearing the name of its inventor started having a ball (weighing 62 pounds) swinging in Paris' Panthéon |
(Mark: What is... uh. What's a Tesla coil?)
a Foucault pendulum
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Early 20th century physician & drug addict John Thackery |
The Knick
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Before the Rothschilds bought it, Chateau this was one of 4 top-rated wineries in France's 1855 official ranking |
(Mark: What is Mouton?)(Courtney: What is Briand?)
Lafite
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