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Of her address to a 2019 global climate summit: "If you choose to fail us, I say, we will never forgive you" |
(Greta) Thunberg
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Charlie Munger planned a building at Michigan & a future 4,500-bed one at UCSB, both much discussed for the rooms' lack of these |
windows
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Some plant roots exhibit "negative" this -ism, turning away from the source of light |
(Mehek: What is photosynth--oh, no.) (Mayim: ...Sorry, time.)
phototropism
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A tragicomedy in 2 acts: "Waiting for ____" |
Godot
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Dad wore flannel shirts & Doc Martens while listening to this music style of Nirvana & Pearl Jam |
grunge
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Condition of an animal species when it has no more living members, like the golden toad since 1989 |
extinct
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Of Rep. Shirley Chisholm's speech in favor of this proposed amendment: "There were no founding mothers--a great pity" |
(Mehek: What is the 19th Amendment?)
the Equal Rights Amendment
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It's the geographic "Q" in the 1,058-foot Q1, Australia's tallest building |
Queensland
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It means walking on 2 legs & it first set our ancestors apart from apes 6 million or so years ago |
bipedalism
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Melville's "____, the Scrivener" |
Bartleby
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Mom bought tickets over the phone (that used to be a thing) for this rocker's 1984-85 "Born in the U.S.A." tour |
Springsteen
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When "pen-" comes before this word it means next to last; without it, it's last |
ultimate
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Of her Nov. 29, 1872 trial hearing: "Did you have any doubt yourself of your right to vote?" Her reply: "Not a particle" |
Susan B. Anthony
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The Burke Museum on the campus of this state U. has a shed-style roof inspired by the Coast Salish people of the Olympic Peninsula |
Washington
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Here's Dr. Pumpkinstein with a creation that exhibits this -ism |
giantism (or gigantism)
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Partly narrated by his college roommate: "The Brief Wondrous Life of ____ ____" |
Oscar Wao
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In 1994 they watched this former Police-man win a Grammy for his vocal on "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You" |
Sting (Gordon Sumner)
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9-letter word for an attorney's closing argument to a jury to get their point across |
summation
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Of the radio broadcast of this 1937 disaster: "There's smoke and there's flames... Oh, the humanity" |
the burning of the Hindenburg
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Each side of this U.S. building extends for 921 feet; its total perimeter is 4,605 feet |
the Pentagon
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It's the word for tremors & other movement issues associated with a certain disease, even if not caused by it |
(Toussaint: What is a seizure?)
parkinsonism
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Famous first line of "Atlas Shrugged": "Who is ____ ____?" |
John Galt
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In 1998 they were among the millions who bought "The Miseducation of" this Fugees singer |
Lauryn Hill
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Often found before "of hostilities", this word has a double "S" within it |
cessation
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Of this senator's 1954 hearings investigating the U.S. Army: "Have you no sense of decency?" |
(Mehek: Oh, my God. Who is... Kennedy?)
Joseph McCarthy
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Wingspread, a sprawling home for wax tycoon Herbert F. Johnson, was Frank Lloyd Wright's last house in this style |
Prairie Style
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The alligators at Louisiana's Audubon Zoo have this -ism, from the Greek for "white", a loss of melanin akin to albinism |
leucism
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From a Percy Shelley poem: "My name is ____, king of kings" |
Ozymandias
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They heard Chuck D & this band revolutionize hip-hop with albums like 1988's "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" |
Public Enemy
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Nothing to do with a military takeover, this 3-word French phrase is a final blow |
coup de grĂ¢ce
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