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In 1615 these 2 became parents to a son, Thomas Rolfe |
Pocahontas & John Rolfe
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Philip Glass based "The Perfect American" on Peter Stephan Jungk's book about this animation tycoon's last days |
Disney
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A "Jupiter" is a massive exoplanet believed to be made, like Jupiter, mostly of these 2 lightest elements |
hydrogen & helium
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During a layover at McCarran Airport in this city, you can do a little gambling right in the terminal |
Las Vegas
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"Can we talk?" |
(Ken: Well, now I feel old, don't I? That's [*].)
Joan Rivers
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An appliance for preparing food & a strong emotional attraction for another |
love & stove
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The take from 1930s robberies committed by this pair seen here was rarely more than $1,000 |
Bonnie & Clyde
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This Italian based "La Traviata" on a play written by Alexandre Dumas, son of the famous novelist |
Verdi
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Wider for hotter stars, the habitable zone is the area around a star within which this can exist on a planet's surface |
(Michael: What is life?)
(liquid) water
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This airport's code, ORD, goes back to the previous tenant on the site, Orchard Field |
O'Hare
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"You might be a redneck if..." |
Foxworthy
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A pungent bulb vegetable & a constellation named for a mythological hunter |
onion & Orion
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Born around 610 B.C. on Lesbos, this poet integrated elements of Aphrodite's rituals like incense-laden altars into her work |
Sappho
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Henry Purcell's "The Fairy Queen", usually dubbed the first Shakespearean opera, is based on this play |
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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One exoplanet thought to be 13 billion years old has been called this, like Noah's grandfather |
Methuselah
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The Beehive at this London-area facility, code LGW, was the first airport building with an integrated railway station |
London Gatwick
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"Well, excuuuuuse me!" |
Steve Martin
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A learned specialist in a branch of knowledge & a type of tooth at the back of the mouth |
scholar & molar
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Albert of Brandenburg, the Archbishop of Mainz, received a copy of this Oct. 31, 1517 document |
(Ken: Michael?) (Michael: What is the Gutenberg Bible?) ... (Ken: Although Gutenberg was in Mainz as well; that's a good guess.)
the 95 Theses of Martin Luther
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An Italian play provided inspiration for Puccini to write this Chinese-set opera based on a Persian tale |
Turandot
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So far about 2/3 of all exoplanets discovered have been found by the space telescope named for this German astronomer |
(Michael: Who is Copernicus?)
Kepler
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Soekarno-Hatta International Airport serves this world capital |
Jakarta
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"Git-r-done!" |
Larry the Cable Guy
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A hard-shell tortilla with fillings & a Texas city founded in 1849 on the Brazos River |
taco & Waco
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This Italian admiral called the "Liberator of Genoa" got his name on a luxury liner that sank in 1956 |
the Andrea Doria
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"Acis and Galatea" is based on a myth we know from this man's "Metamorphoses" |
Ovid
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The first exoplanets were discovered in 1992 circling PSR B1257+12, one of these stars emitting regular bursts of radio waves |
pulsars
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At Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, art lovers can enjoy a sampling of paintings from this nearby national museum |
(Rebecca: Ohh...) (Ken: Rebecca?) (Rebecca: I got nothing.)
the Rijksmuseum
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"She ready" |
Tiffany Haddish
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An earthenware beer mug & a circulatory vessel returning blood to the heart |
stein & vein
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