THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY |
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CALLING FOR A MEASUREMENT |
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It went up in 1936 in Friedrichshafen, Germany & went down for good in Lakehurst, New Jersey a little over a year later |
the Hindenburg
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Edwidge Danticat's "Breath, Eyes, Memory" moves from Croix-des-Rosets in this Caribbean island country to NYC & back |
Haiti
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A 4,700-mile cycling path from Cadiz through Athens to Cyprus is called this route, from the body of water it runs along |
the Mediterranean Route
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Time to work the back 640 of these; that's equal to one square mile, so hop to it |
an acre
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Famous as Captain America, Chris Evans played this Marvel hothead in 2005's "Fantastic Four" |
the Human Torch
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You "go" this fiendish 5-letter word when you deviate from the expected |
(Lucia: Sorry.)
rogue
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Recent statue topplings by activists have included those of this explorer in St. Paul & in Richmond |
Columbus
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Korzeniowski was the original last name of this "Lord Jim" author |
Joseph Conrad
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Type of institution that has a "Row" in Garden City on Long Island, including one about firefighting & a children's one |
museums
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In the Chinese city of Harbin in October 2013, this measure was 65' due to smog |
visibility
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This superhero quartet of TV & film all have the names of Renaissance artists |
(Mayim: Heroes in a half-shell.) [Laughter]
the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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On film, Steve Martin was a "Dirty Rotten" one of these |
a scoundrel
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Herod the Great died in this city whose wall came tumbling down in the book of Joshua |
Jericho
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Shakespeare's "Henry V" takes place before & after this decisive 1415 battle in France |
Agincourt
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This almost 200-mile trail named for a famous line runs through Pennsylvania, Maryland & Delaware |
the Mason-Dixon
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It's a unit of measure for small things like atoms; it's also a small mammal |
a mole
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Large & in charge, King Shark went "nom nom" on a few folks in the 2021 reboot about this group |
the Suicide Squad
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A nasty creature of folklore, or one who makes offensive posts online |
a troll
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This country's flag was said to have fallen from heaven in 1219, a sign of support for Valdemar II in war with the Estonians |
Denmark
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"The Last Tycoon" was left unfinished at this author's death |
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In 2020 more than 2 miles of this iconic San Francisco street were permanently closed to automobile traffic |
(Wyatt: What is Mason?)
Market Street
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There are 12 ounces per pound in the Troy system & 16 ounces per pound in this system of weight abbreviated avdp |
avoirdupois
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There's no shelter from the storm for super-powered adoptees Klaus & Allison on this Netflix show |
the Umbrella Academy
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A mischievous person, or a type of mobility scooter |
a rascal
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In 1979 the S.F. Examiner awarded $10,000 to the first person who produced a piece of this, which had just fallen from the sky |
(Wyatt: What is Halley's Comet?)
Skylab
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This Japanese-born British author of "The Remains of the Day" & "Never Let Me Go" won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature |
(Kazuo) Ishiguro
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A 211-mile trail named for this naturalist winds through the Sierra Nevada from Yosemite to Mount Whitney |
(Wyatt: Uh, what is the [*] Trail?) (Mayim: Yes, for [*].)
(John) Muir
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The energy used to lift an apple about 3 feet is 1 watt-second, which equals this "gem" |
a joule
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Seen here, he sounded like he could take a punch or 12 voicing the title super Invincible |
Yeun
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This hyphenated 3-word synonym for a fiend has an apostrophe for the "V" in the first word |
a ne'er-do-well
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