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The flag seen here was used by this Pacific kingdom; today it's used as the state flag |
Hawaii
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In 1960 the U.S. launched the U.S.S. Enterprise, the first of these big boats that was nuclear powered |
an aircraft carrier
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"I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" (2000) |
(Mattea: What is Moulin Rouge!?)
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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For movies, it's not just a first showing but a successful Mac-based editing program introduced by Adobe in 1991 |
premiere
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This tormented Shakespeare title character moans, "O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I" |
(Mattea: Who's [*]? No.) (Ken: Hmmm, actually yes.) (Mattea: Oh, really?) (Ken: Nobody's more tormented than [*] and I'm gonna give it to you even though you had no faith in yourself.)
the Hamlet
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It's the traditional cheese on a Reuben sandwich |
Swiss
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Here's the flag of this former nation, where cities like Karl-Marx-Stadt once existed |
East Germany
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In 1735 Dr. Claudius Amyand performed the first successful surgery of this type, removing the vermiform organ |
an appendectomy
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"Everything Is Awesome!!!" (2014) |
The Lego Movie
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"Naiveness" is in the dictionary but the more common noun is this French form |
naïveté
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This protagonist of a 1951 classic complained about phonies a lot, even the way "they said hello" |
Holden Caulfield
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Saganaki & tiropita are cheesy appetizers from this country |
Greece
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A country until 1975, the Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim used the flag seen here depicting a prayer wheel of this religion |
Buddhism
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On Oct. 13, 1983 the first call on a commercial cell phone was made to a grandson of this inventor |
(Ken: Now you have vocally regretted small wagers in the past. What will you do right now?) (Mattea: I'm gonna continue not learning from my mistakes and wager $2,000, just to be safe.) (Ken: That's what life's all about; don't learn from your mistakes.) [Laughter] ... (Ken: Even a Canadian connection for you.)
Alexander Graham Bell
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"Jai Ho" (2008) |
(Ken: Game show classic, yes.)
Slumdog Millionaire
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A donnée is literally French for this, an assumed fact |
a given
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"How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!" is the first complaint in this Bible book of complaints |
(Anna: What is Leviticus?)
Lamentations
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In 2021 Culver's & the Great Dane were voted 2 of the top places in Wisconsin for fried these |
cheese curds
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General Dương Văn Minh was the last president of this former nation, whose flag is seen here |
South Vietnam
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When Roald Amundsen made it to the Beaufort Sea in 1905, he became the first explorer to navigate this treacherous route |
the Northwest Passage
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"Lady Marmalade" (2001) |
Moulin Rouge!
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Today's kids must wonder how to tear the online editions of newspapers into strips for this craft |
papier-mâché
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This whiny girl wants a "boat exactly like Mr. Wonka's! And I want lots of Oompa-Loompas to row me about" |
Veruca Salt
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At a banquet during the Congress of Vienna, this 4-letter French cheese took the title the king of cheeses |
brie
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Formed after World War I, this country, whose flag is seen here, would be split into several countries in the 1990s |
Yugoslavia
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In 1914 Tampa had the world's first scheduled passenger airline service, with pretty short flights--to this city |
St. Petersburg
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"I Need To Wake Up" (a 2006 documentary) |
An Inconvenient Truth
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It meant a plume of feathers worn on a hat, then came to signify style or swagger |
panache
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Of the "dunces" in a 1980 book, this hero says, "I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one" |
(Ken: From A Confederacy of Dunces, that's [*].)
Ignatius J. Reilly
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This smooth, rich, slightly sweet double or triple cream cheese from Italy works very nicely in a variety of brulees |
mascarpone
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