SOME CREATURES GREAT & SMALL |
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FIRST NAMES WITH CHARACTER |
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Silk from the orb-weaver type of this animal can be packed so densely that it has been used to make violin strings |
a spider
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In a 1435 essay Leon Battista Alberti declared that an art renaissance was occurring in this city of Leonardo |
Florence
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As the name implies, even for a giant company it can be a single page showing a business' assets & liabilities |
the balance sheet
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This sister of Rumer & Tallulah Willis was named for a character in "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
Scout
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An important industrial center, this city is also home to the Welsh central government |
Cardiff
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Intelligent streetcars |
smart trams
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Heavy poaching of Persian gazelles contributed to the near extinction of the Asiatic cheetah, mainly found in this country |
Iran
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After seeing a painting by Monet, critic Louis Leroy derisively gave this movement its name |
Impressionism
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If rate of yield fails to increase in proportion to investment beyond a certain point, you get these declining 2-word profits |
(Ken: Speaking of which, Hillary, do you want to do this category again?) (Hillary: Yeah, let's go with CREATURES.) [Laughter]
diminishing returns
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The daughter of Michelle Williams & Heath Ledger is named for this Roald Dahl book |
Matilda
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Mohammed V Square is the central plaza in this city but you probably won't find any gin joints there |
(Dane: What is Mecca?)
Casablanca
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A guanaco relative's shopping complex |
llama mall
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With feathers that look like quills sticking from its head, a predatory bird of Africa had this office worker name |
a secretarybird
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Lawrence Alloway is credited with this 2-word term for work that uses comic strips, soup cans & the like as subject matter |
pop art
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It's the horticultural term for a largely unregulated private partnership group using speculative investment strategy |
(Hillary: [Sighs]) (Ken: Hillary?) (Hillary: What is a hedge farm?) [Laughs] (Hillary: [*]. What is [*]?) (Ken: That is correct. [*] is right.) [Applause] (Ken: I hadn't ruled against "hedge farm" yet, so you got it in just in time.)
a hedge fund
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In the U.S., this first name from "Gone with the Wind" is more often given to girls, but boy band & Broadway star Parker Angel has it |
Ashley
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Seen here is the coat of arms of this German city whose name derives from a 10th century stud farm |
Stuttgart
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An eager female opera star |
an avid diva
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The black species of this African mammal vulnerable to poaching is recovering from a 98% drop in its numbers |
the rhino
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Christopher Knight criticizes museums as shortsighted for funding operations by selling art--in museum-speak, this "de"-verb |
deaccessioning
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As the name suggests, when buying a home it's a deposit paid to the seller to demonstrate a buyer's good faith |
earnest money
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Dwayne Johnson named a daughter this, also the first Black Disney princess |
(Ken: Yeah, Princess and the Frog.) [Frog croaking sound]
Tiana
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In 1961 Stalingrad was renamed this, for the river on which it lies |
(Ken: Yeah, more Russian stuff for you.)
Volgograd
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A sleepy scimitar |
drowsy sword
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This duck seen here sounds like it's named for a Russian place |
Muscovy
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Clement Greenberg said the 1943 work "Mural" showed this man was the greatest painter the U.S. had produced |
Pollock
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Some traders specialize in this, the simultaneous buying & selling of the same asset at different prices in different markets |
(Greg: What is day trading?)
arbitrage
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Known for period dramas like George Eliot adaptations, actress Garai has this first name of an Eliot title character |
Romola
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Argentina's second-largest city is named for this Spanish city; both are known for their leather |
Córdoba
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A Papeete porkpie |
(Ken: Those are hard to do on the fly.)
a Tahiti hat
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