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GRAMMY'S ALBUM OF THE YEAR |
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5000 Forbes Avenue: this university named for 2 Andrews |
Carnegie Mellon
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It began to tilt in 1178, while still under construction; luckily (for us), war interrupted & gave time for the soil to settle |
the Leaning Tower of Pisa
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This character "had been trying to get the honey-jar off his head. The more he shook it, the more tightly it stuck" |
Winnie-the-Pooh
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Taxo-comic expert Dr. Neal Evenhuis chose Carmenelectra & shechisme as these 2 identifiers for an extinct bug |
genus & species
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The soundtrack to this film won for 1993; Record of the Year was "I Will Always Love You" |
The Bodyguard
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It's the very least you can do |
the minimum
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100 Art Rooney Avenue: this sports venue |
Heinz Field
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This dread tribunal passed its judgments in a ceremony called the auto-da-fé, or act of faith |
the Inquisition
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This Henry Fielding hero & Mrs. Waters have a sexy ox-eating scene; in the movie, it's seafood & chicken |
Tom Jones
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Rare on Earth except in signs, this gas with atomic number 10 is a top 10 element in abundance in the universe |
neon
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"The Miseducation of" her got the nod for 1998 |
(Lauryn) Hill
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A small vending stand, perhaps for newspapers |
a kiosk
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600 Grant Street: this tower--its name is also what it's made of |
(Andrew: What is steel? What is [*]?)
the U.S. Steel Tower
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In 1756 Voltaire wrote that this, which had lasted nearly a thousand years, was none of the 3 elements in its name |
the Holy Roman Empire
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Key lime pie is dumped on a philandering hubby's head in "Heartburn"; in real life, she poured wine on Carl Bernstein |
Nora Ephron
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A law covering compression of this device with great elasticity is F=-kx; k is the constant named for the device |
the spring
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The first country artist to win the award was him, for 1968 & "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" |
(Ken: It's the late, great [*].)
Glen Campbell
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This adjective for some stockings also refers to anything conducted in a smooth & continuous manner |
seamless
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1197 West Carson Street: the Duquesne Incline, one of these cable-drawn railways, from Latin for "rope" |
funicular
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In the 8th century the Abbasid one of these dynasties named for its Muslim ruler overthrew the Umayyad one |
caliphate
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Elizabeth Bishop is "waiting for coffee and the charitable crumb" in her poem "A Miracle for" this meal |
breakfast
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It's the process of atoms acquiring a positive or negative charge, as when sodium & chlorine combine to make salt |
ionization
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Duets with Norah Jones & Diana Krall among others made his "Genius Loves Company" the winner for 2004 |
(Ray) Charles
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A volley of rain, or a type of movie file sent over the Internet |
torrent
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1803 Cliff Street: the park named for this Pulitzer-winning Pittsburgh playwright & "Fences" author |
(August) Wilson
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The 1805 battle of this Austrian empire town has been called "Napoleon's masterpiece" |
Austerlitz
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Split cod is on an earlier menu for this Dinesen title character but after winning the French lottery, her feast is in order |
Babette
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Max Planck solved the "ultraviolet catastrophe" by measuring light not in continuous waves but as packets of energy called these |
quanta
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He won back-to-back for 1973 & 1974 with "Innervisions" & "Fulfillingness' First Finale" |
Stevie Wonder
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An El Greco painting is titled this, a duke or other person of high rank with his hand on his chest |
a Nobleman
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