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Roman magistrates sported the purple-bordered praetexta type of this garment |
a toga
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How meta--Dante is a character in this 3-part epic poem of his |
The Divine Comedy
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The girth goes under a horse's belly to keep this on its back |
a saddle
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Athos or Aramis (9 letters) |
a Musketeer
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After doing America in 1996, this pair of probably-not-"Jeopardy!" fans returned in 2022 to "Do the Universe" |
Beavis and Butt-Head
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The Red Cross sells the tactical brand of this, a device with a French-derived name that's used to stop bleeding |
a tourniquet
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French warriors at Agincourt wore 65 or so pounds of this |
armor
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"Song of Myself" was in the first edition of this collection of poems by Walt Whitman |
Leaves of Grass
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A feature of the bottle gives this party-size amount of liquor, 1.75 liters, its name |
a handle
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The art of making cocktails (8 letters) |
mixology
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Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy reprised their roles in this 2004 sequel to "Before Sunrise" |
Before Sunset
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After racing a rival to a cure, Dr. Albert Sabin got an oral vaccine for this approved in the U.S. in 1961 |
polio
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Here's Sun Yat-sen in the suit adopted by & named for this later leader |
Mao
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The kids' book "The Sweet and Sour Animal Book" used 26 unpublished poems of this Harlem Renaissance figure |
Langston Hughes
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In pickleball a drop shot is a soft, short shot from the back of the court; this other 4-letter "D" shot is hit from closer in |
a dink
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Able to speak many languages (12 letters) |
multilingual
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Danny Boyle took his time making "T2", the 2017 sequel to this 1996 film about Scottish junkies |
Trainspotting
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Go ahead, make my day (& save it too)! In 2014 this actor, then age 83, saved a choking man by doing the Heimlich maneuver |
Eastwood
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In 1921 he ditched Western suits for a shawl & a loincloth called a dhoti |
(Mahatma) Gandhi
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He wrote, "O my luve's like a red, red rose that's newly sprung in June" |
[Ken reads and James responds, both using an exaggerated Scottish brogue.] (Ken: As Alex used to say, yes.) [Laughter and applause]
Rabbie Burns
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That funny-shaped plate below the strings is called this guard & keeps that item from damaging the finish |
(Ken: It's a [*] guard, yes.)
pick
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It was formerly French Sudan (4 letters) |
Mali
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This 2011 "Part 2" was the 8th film in a series |
(James: What is The Hunger Games Mockingjay?) (Molly: What is Breaking Dawn?)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
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In 1943 Dr. Willem Kolff's artificial kidney pioneered this treatment of removing, purifying & returning blood |
dialysis
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Betrothed to the king of France for her dowry, Marie of this Florence family wears the elaborate lace collar named for her clan |
Medici
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It begins, "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world..." |
(Ken: [After the wager] All right, just to make it fun on the scorekeeper.) ... (James: What is... Genesis?)
Paradise Lost
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A calotte is a skullcap & also means the circles used for the north & south poles on these |
globes
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Hatter, Mad or otherwise (8 letters) |
a milliner
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Christian Bale stars in this 2012 sequel to a 2008 sequel to a 2005 movie |
The Dark Knight Rises
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There's a statue in Central Park of this heroic sled dog for helping run a diphtheria antitoxin to remote Alaskans in 1925 |
Balto
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