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In a work by Corot this hero leads Eurydice from the Underworld |
Orpheus
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For info on this state capital, check out The Redstick Blog |
Baton Rouge
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The Catholic Holy League opposed the Huguenots during this country's 16th century wars of religion |
France
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Once guardian to niece Gloria, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded one of these in New York, now located on Gansevoort Street |
(Armand: What is museum?) (Mayim: More specific?)
an art museum
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The first line of Winston Groom's novel about this guy mentions a box of chocolates; the Tom Hanks film mentioned them too |
Forrest Gump
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In a proverb, it's "the best policy" |
honesty
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This capital was named for the man called "Old Hickory" |
Jackson
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The League of Nations said our covenant doesn't affect the validity of this doctrine--the U.S. rejected the league anyway |
the Monroe Doctrine
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Following her husband's assassination in 1968, she founded a center for nonviolent social change in Atlanta |
(Coretta Scott) King
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The title of this Michael Ondaatje novel & film actually refers to a Hungarian count, badly burned after a plane crash |
The English Patient
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The Tang one governed China from 618 to 907 |
dynasty
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Jean-Antoine Watteau's "The Perfect Accord" has also been translated as "Perfect" this musical term |
Harmony
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Just 15 years after becoming a state capital, it became the first capital of the Confederacy |
(Emma: What is Columbia?) (Armand: What is Richmond?)
Montgomery
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Philip of Macedon organized Greece's League of Corinth, which quickly decided on war against this empire to the east |
Persia (the Persian Empire)
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In 1973, the year she beat Bobby Riggs, she founded the Women's Tennis Association |
Billie Jean King
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When Hitler saw this 1940 movie based on a Steinbeck novel, he saw Americans as pushovers; Stalin relished the misery of the proletariat |
[Joe does not include "The" in his response.]
The Grapes of Wrath
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This compound word can mean eager for violence or describe a vampire at feeding time |
(Joe: What is feisty?)
bloodthirsty
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Edmund Blair Leighton's painting evokes this doomed Celtic pair who were reunited by a love potion meant for another |
Tristan & Isolde
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A former camp of de Soto, it was the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi not captured by Union forces |
Tallahassee
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Rosa Luxemburg was a member of the Spartacus League, which in 1919 became the German branch of this political party |
(Joe: What is National Socialism?)
Communist Party
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In 1921 she founded the American Birth Control League, the precursor to Planned Parenthood |
Margaret Sanger
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This Ridley Scott film based on Eric Jager's true story of medieval France saw Matt Damon tilting against Adam Driver |
(Armand: What is The Duel?)
The Last Duel
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It's the 11-letter medical term for a nose job |
rhinoplasty
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"Love Among the Ruins" by Edward Coley Burne-Jones is an example of the works of this 19th century artistic brotherhood |
the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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The headquarters for the Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests are in this capital |
Columbia
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The Lombard League was a medieval alliance of cities in the north of this present-day country |
(Emma: What is France?)
Italy
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In 1920, the year the 19th Amendment was ratified, Carrie Chapman Catt founded this, the LWV for short |
the League of Women Voters
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The title of this 2007 film adapted from a novel comes from a Yeats poem that says, "An aged man is but a paltry thing" |
(Emma: What is...)
No Country for Old Men
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Also called a vestry, it's a room in a church where clergy change into their robes & where holy objects are kept |
(Armand: Sacostry. Sa--[*].) ... (Mayim: Armand, your response was correct, but you forgot your phrasing and we do need that in Double Jeopardy!)
sacristy
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