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Slaying a cattle thief named Cacus & rescuing Hesione from a monster were among his lesser labors |
Hercules
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While minister to France, Robt. Livingston formed a partnership with him to build a steamboat |
(Robert) Fulton
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Reagan said, "A recession is when your neighbor loses his job," this "is when you lose yours" |
a depression
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A queen of these wood eaters may live more than 50 years & lay over 30,000 eggs a day |
a termite
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The Hebrew calendar is based on both of these heavenly bodies |
the sun and the moon
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"A Tale of the Christ" is the subtitle of this Lew Wallace novel |
Ben-Hur
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Syrinx, a nymph loved by this god, was turned into a reed from which he fashioned his musical pipe |
Pan
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It was established in 1917; the gold depository wasn't built until 1936 |
(David: What is the gold standard?)
Fort Knox
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He once said on the game of baseball, "It ain't over till it's over" |
Yogi Berra
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One way to tell a moth from a butterfly is these on a butterfly end in a knob |
the antennae
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It's impossible to have a month of Sundays; the most a month can have is this many |
5
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Horror classic subtitled "The Modern Prometheus" |
Frankenstein
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After Paris gave her the Apple of Discord, she helped him win Helen |
Aphrodite
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Passed in 1890, it didn't work too well as some 50 new trusts were formed by 1897 |
the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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She's quoted as saying, "I used to be Snow White -- but I drifted" |
[Note: Alex reads the clue in his best Mae West voice.]
Mae West
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One scientific name for insects is hexapoda which means this |
six feet
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The calendar of this religion dates from 622 A.D. |
Islam
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This future British P.M. subtitled his 1844 novel "Coningsby" "A New Generation" |
Disraeli
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When Odysseus was awarded Achilles' armor, this hero went mad & killed himself |
Ajax
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He followed Theodore Roosevelt's "Gunboat Diplomacy" with "Dollar Diplomacy" |
Taft
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Broadway composer who said, "Many a bum show has been saved by the flag" |
(Alex: That's right. Flag waver.)
George M. Cohan
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This beetle's name is from the resemblance of its jaws to a deer's antlers, not going to dances alone |
a stag beetle
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The name of this month comes from either the Latin word for "youth" or a Roman goddess |
June
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Thackeray's most famous novel, it's subtitled "A Novel without a Hero" |
Vanity Fair
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This earth goddess united with her son Uranus to produce the twelve Titans |
[NOTE: Alex indicates either of two pronunciations -- "gay-uh" or "gee-uh" -- would be acceptable.]
Gaia (Gaea)
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In 1944 plans for the UN were laid down at a conference at this Washington, D.C. estate |
Dumbarton Oaks
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Emerson wrote, "nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and" this kind of "dealing" |
(Molly: What is fair dealing?)
plain dealing
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After queen ants mate, these either drop off or they pull them off |
wings
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The need to keep this observance in its season led Pope Gregory XIII to fix the calendar |
(Molly: What is Lent?) ... (Alex: Ooh, no. You're in the right time of the year, of course...) (Molly: [*].) (Alex: ...but [*], yes.) (Molly: Too bad.) (Alex: Lent depends on [*].)
Easter
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"A Tale of the Seaboard" is the subtitle of this author's South American tale "Nostromo" |
Joseph Conrad
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