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Its suburbs include Florissant, Missouri & Granite City, Illinois |
St. Louis
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In 1949 TV's first animated cereal commercial was from this rival of Kellogg's & featured 3 bears, Dandy, Handy & Candy |
Post
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Donna Strickland shared a 2018 physics Nobel for generating short, high-intensity optical pulses with this type of device |
a laser
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ABC sang about a "Poison" one to the heart, while Avicii had a song about shooting "Broken" ones "in the dark" |
arrows
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A specialist in waterproof fires, she was known to use a time-turner so she could be in 2 classes at once |
(Ken: [*] from Harry Potter.)
(Hermione) Granger
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Monastery: _ _ _ EY |
abbey
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In 1506 Pope Julius II laid its first stone |
(Ken: In Vatican City, you are correct.)
St. Peter's Basilica
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Michael Diamond & Adam Horovitz wrote a 600-page bestselling chronicle of this trio |
the Beastie Boys
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Swimming pools have been cleaner since Herbert Dow developed a method of getting this element from brine in the 1890s |
chlorine
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Liam & Noel Gallagher of this Manchester band gave us "Supersonic" vibes in their first single in 1994 |
Oasis
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This 3-letter Caroline Kepnes novel finds young Guinevere Beck stalked by a Big Apple murderer |
You
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The full name of this institution founded in 1754 begins "Royal and Ancient Golf Club of" |
St. Andrews
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In the 1930s Frank Malina, Ed Forman & Jack Parsons began doing pioneering work on rockets at this Pasadena school |
Caltech
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James Gosling developed this 4-letter programming language at Sun Microsystems |
Java
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Tracy Chapman needed this title conveyance--"We gotta make a decision, leave tonight or live & die this way" |
"Fast Car"
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Fitting its title well, Elinor, the oldest Dashwood girl in this Austen novel, has a good head on her shoulders |
Sense and Sensibility
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A riddle, like the one seen here: _ _ _ _ _
[MIL1LION] |
rebus
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With a population of 109,000, it's 4 times the size of any other city in Newfoundland |
(Ken: Good on the Canadiana, yes.) (Mattea: But I'm avoiding that category.) (Ken: A lot of downside.)
St. John's
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The "Golden Triangle" of the Texas oil industry is the cities of Orange, Beaumont & this "Port" one |
Port Arthur
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Atom bomb builder Louis Slotin was hailed as a hero for shielding others from a fatal burst of radiation at this lab |
Los Alamos
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Not to be trusted as scientists, Coldplay claimed that "birds go flying at" this; they, in fact, do not |
(Allan: What is night?) ... (Ken: Don't trust Coldplay's bird knowledge.) [Laughter]
the speed of sound
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In the sci-fi novel "Gideon the Ninth", Gideon is a cavalier bonded to Harrowhark, one of these bone-raising conjurers |
a necromancer
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A special privilege (the American spelling made some Brit players angry): _ _ V _ _ |
favor
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Back before the jet set could jet there, this Swiss resort hosted the 1928 Winter Olympics |
St. Moritz
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A tradition in Northern European art was to show the virgin & child not with Joseph, but with this saint, the virgin's mother |
(Katie: Who is Mary?)
St. Anne
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JFK honored the FDA's Frances Kelsey for blocking the US release of this pregnancy drug that caused birth defects around the world |
thalidomide
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The 1993 Breeders song about one of these projectiles makes a "crash" & a "splash" |
(Ken: Oh, I can hear the bass line now; that's [*].)
"Cannonball"
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This enchantress from the "Odyssey" is the sympathetic heroine of a 2018 novel by Madeline Miller |
Circe
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