AIN'T NO CENTURY LIKE THE 17th CENTURY |
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WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIS? |
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You spend 22 years having this 42-acre Indian landmark built, & what thanks do you get? Getting deposed by your son in 1658! |
the Taj Mahal
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April 22, 1889 is the birthdate of this "City", capital of the Sooner State |
Oklahoma City
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This deity was a mischief maker & a changeling who once transformed into a salmon to escape the other gods' wrath |
Loki
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For success with this kind of novel, a good pseudonym helps; Kate Rothwell chose "Summer Devon" to show that her books were hot |
romance novels
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This signature song topped the R&B chart for 8 weeks in 1967; do we have to spell it out for you? |
"Respect"
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Dubai & Abu Dhabi are this type of political territory |
emirate
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This London theater most associated with Shakespeare was torn down in 1644, 2 years after the Puritans closed all the theaters |
the Globe
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Faulkner titled a novel after this type of little town such as Pottersville, New York |
a hamlet
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Muninn (memory) & Huginn (thought) are 2 of these crow relatives that fly around the 9 worlds & bring information back to Odin |
ravens
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It's the job of writing text for ads; on "Mad Men", Peggy Olson moved up to it from the secretarial world |
copywriting
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In 2016, part of a Detroit street was named in honor of this man, who's had Number Ones on the R&B charts since he was a kid |
Stevie Wonder
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This word is used to address the dignitary seen here |
eminence
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San Antonio got its name in 1691 when explorers camped at the site on June 13, the feast day of St. Anthony of this Italian city |
Padua
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Smaller than it sounds, this Illinois place was designated "Home of Superman" in 1972 |
(Mattea: What is Peoria? That's in Illinois.) [Mattea laughs] (Mayim: It would be [*].) (Mattea: Oh, pfft.)
Metropolis
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Forged by the dwarfs Brokk & Eitri, this hammer is Thor's chief weapon & symbol of his power |
Mjölnir
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Pitch that story to this type of magazine, such as the fittingly named High Life or Enroute |
(Mattea: What is a travel magazine?) (Mayim: More specific?) (Mattea: I--I don't--I don't know.)
an in-flight magazine
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Songwriter, producer & singer Kenneth Edmonds is better known by this nickname |
"Babyface"
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Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution says office holders cannot accept "any present," this, "office, or title" |
emolument
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In 1685 this edict that had granted freedom of worship to French Protestants was revoked |
the Edict of Nantes
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A larger geographic division + "town" = this town on Cape Cod known for its "players" |
Provincetown
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The rainbow bridge Bifrost connects 2 worlds, Asgard for the gods & this one for earthlings |
Midgard
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Screenwriters, you could do worse than to follow script guru Syd Field's checkpoint No. 4--"All drama is" this type of struggle |
(Tom: What's pain?)
conflict
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Billboard said this late, great singer "redefined R&B/soul" with "the socially themed 1971 landmark album 'What's Going On"' |
Marvin Gaye
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French gives us this word for the mouthpiece of a wind instrument |
embouchure
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This man's 1689 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" dealt with the tabula rasa, or "clean slate" of a newborn mind |
John Locke
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Virginia "burg"s include Peters-, Williams- & this one also with a man's name, site of an 1862 battle |
Fredericksburg
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This mighty ash tree supports the universe |
(Tom: What's... "Yee-air-drin"?)
Yggdrasil
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Help write a memoir & your name may follow these 3 words, as in "Third Base is My Home" by Brooks Robinson ____ ____ ____ Jack Tobin |
as told to
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In Dec. 2021 this "seasonal" singer was on 10 of the Top 25 R&B Hits, including "Bitter" with Cardi B & "Insane" |
Summer Walker
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It's the English name for the desert region known in Arabic as Rub' al-Khali |
the Empty Quarter
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