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This leading city of Northern Ireland is home to Queen's University |
(Kaden: What is Dublin?)
Belfast
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His national memorial in Washington, D.C. was unveiled in 2011 |
MLK (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
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A flapping of an insect's wings, or your eyelashes |
flutter
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Ewan McGregor plays a grown-up Danny Torrance in "Doctor Sleep", the sequel to this 1980 classic |
(Mayim: That's correct, and that will tie you for first place.)
The Shining
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The title femme of this Flaubert novel is married to a country doctor named Charles |
Madame Bovary
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As this group was forming in 1945, Brazil & China asked for a global health organization; the W.H.O. would show up in 1948 |
the UN
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It's the only country that borders Venezuela & Ecuador |
(Kaden: What... is...)
Colombia
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Journalist & activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett helped found this civil rights organization in 1909 |
the NAACP
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You probably wear "safety" ones in chem lab |
goggles
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This Simon Pegg horror comedy puns on the title of a George Romero flick |
(Mayim: Correct, the pun on Dawn of the Dead.)
Shaun of the Dead
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In this novel, a flight surgeon named Doc Daneeka explains a paradoxical Army regulation about grounding fliers to Yossarian |
Catch-22
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In 2021 the W.H.O. recommended a promising vaccine for this disease that kills some 250,000 sub-Saharan children a year |
malaria
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It's the name of the capital of Alberta, Canada & also of a northern suburb of London |
Edmonton
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With justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passing, he became the second-oldest member of the Supreme Court |
(Clarence) Thomas
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This type of chocolate has a set of double consonants & double vowels |
bittersweet
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Stephen Lang played a character simply known as "The Blind Man" in this 2016 film & returned for its 2021 sequel |
Don't Breathe
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Dr. Bernard Rieux treats the first victim of the title disease in this Camus novel |
[Putting her hand to the side of her face in contemplation of the clue] (Jess: Uhh...) [Taking her hand away quickly] (Jess: [Quietly to herself] I can't touch my face. [Responding] What is malaria? [Quietly to herself] That's not right.)
The Plague
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Seen here, Korea's first W.H.O. chief, Lee Jong-wook, was this type of doctor that focuses on diseases affecting many at a time |
epidemiologist
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In 2019 Astana, capital of this "stan", was renamed Nur-Sultan after retiring leader Nursultan Nazarbayev |
Kazakhstan
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In 2021 President Biden mourned this first black Secretary of State as a "dear friend" |
Powell
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Enriching a treasury is "filling" these, with the same derivation as a place to put the dead |
coffers
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"Drag Me to Hell" is a spine-tingling entry from this director of "The Evil Dead" & "Spider-Man" |
(Sam) Raimi
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This Steinbeck work that's set in Monterey is dedicated to Ed Ricketts, on whom the character of Doc is partly based |
(Kaden: What is Of Mice and Men?) (Jess: What is Grapes of Wrath?)
Cannery Row
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The W.H.O. helps in global crises, like the decade-long one in this Mideast country that it aids with cross-border partners in Turkey |
Syria
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Meaning "west" in Arabic, this term is used for the region that includes most of Africa North of the Sahara |
(Jess: What is the Sahel?)
the Maghreb
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Published in 1773, her book of poems on various subjects religious & moral contained an endorsement from John Hancock |
(Phyllis) Wheatley
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The art of training a horse in precise movements, perhaps to prepare for a competition |
dressage
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Ari Aster followed up "Hereditary" with this "seasonal" tale of a trip to a Swedish festival that goes horribly awry |
Midsommar
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"En Folkefiende" is the original title of this Ibsen play in which Dr. Stockmann tries to alert a town to its contaminated water |
(Kaden: What is Ghosts?)
An Enemy of the People
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The logo of the W.H.O. displays the rod of this Greek god of healing who inspired a serpentine cult |
Asclepius
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