MEMOIRS OF GOVERNMENT & POLITICS |
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ACTORS PLAYING PLAYWRIGHTS |
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SOMETIMES A "LITTLE" IS ENOUGH |
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Head of this agency from 1973 to 1977, Russell Train wrote "Politics, Pollution, and Pandas" |
the EPA
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A Greek hero got a cool new ride, using Athena's golden bridle to tame this equine |
Pegasus
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Franz von Soxhlet first suggested that milk for sale undergo this process named for another scientist |
(Laura: What is...) ... (Ken: For Louis Pasteur.)
pasteurization
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In "Blonde" Adrien Brody plays this man who wrote the screenplay for "The Misfits", his wife's final film |
(Ken: [*] married to Marilyn Monroe, that's correct.)
(Arthur) Miller
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The university of this Argentine city has an enrollment of more than 300,000 |
Buenos Aires
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Her grandmother is consumed by a wolf, who tries to eat her |
Little Red Riding Hood
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"Known and Unknown" is by Donald Rumsfeld, who served Gerald Ford & George W. Bush in this job |
Secretary of Defense
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"I" spy this goddess who "re-pieced" her hacked-up husband Osiris... now that's supporting your boo |
Isis
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An Ammeter, which seems like it should be called an amp meter, measures the flow of this |
(Will: What is electricity?) (Ken: More specifically?)
electric current
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In 2004's "Finding Neverland", Johnny Depp played this playwright & creator of Neverland |
(J.M.) Barrie
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A type of birdeater spider able to grow to a legspan of 12 inches across bears the name of this biblical guy |
Goliath
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How did junior know grandpa was arrested? Maybe this idiom about what kids overhear |
little pitchers have big ears
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"Man of the House" was a bestseller by Tip O'Neill, who held this post from 1977 to 1987 |
Speaker of the House
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Accidentally grazed by one of Cupid's arrows, Venus fell in love with this handsome youth |
(Will: Who is Narcissus?)
Adonis
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Water boiling & turning into steam is an example of an isobaric process, meaning this remains constant |
(Ken: As a scientist, will you wager big here?)
pressure
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Jim Broadbent & Allan Corduner play this theatrical pair in "Topsy-Turvy", at work on "The Mikado" |
(Will: Who are Rodgers and Hammerstein?)
Gilbert & Sullivan
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Dubbed "The American Dream", the world's self-proclaimed longest car is a 26-wheeled, 100-foot limousine--naturally, this type |
a stretch limousine
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Animation purists said, "The sky is falling" when this computer-animated film was released in 2005 |
Chicken Little
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A bit of a maverick herself, in "Bad Republican" this political daughter writes of not fitting in |
Meghan McCain
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Frigga got an oath from fire, water, iron, you name it, to not hurt her son, this Norse god of light, but things got hairy anyway |
Balder
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The name of this brightest star in our night sky comes from a Greek word for "glowing" |
(Laura: What is Polaris?)
Sirius
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In a 1997 film Stephen Fry played this Irish poet & dramatist, while Jude Law played Lord Alfred Douglas |
Oscar Wilde
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The Waco Surf Park has one of these a mile long; it takes 45 minutes for one round float |
a lazy river
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The star Polaris is at one end of it |
(Will: What is the Big Dipper?)
the Little Dipper
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Trent Lott's memoir of his life in politics is aptly titled doing this, which might actually be easier with pets than with senators |
Herding Cats
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Fish were thrown into a fire on August 23 during a festival honoring this Roman god of fire |
Vulcan
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Arthur McDonald won a physics Nobel for showing that these really tiny chargeless particles have mass |
neutrinos
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In "Shakespeare in Love", Rupert Everett has an uncredited role as this contemporary of Shakespeare |
Marlowe
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Bearing a name from Tlingit, this spruce species of the Pacific Northwest can be 200 feet tall & 15 feet in diameter |
a Sitka spruce
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Playing a mean quarterstaff, he was an original member of the Merry Men |
Little John
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