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For his services in fighting this fleet, British explorer Martin Frobisher was knighted in 1588 |
the Spanish Armada
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The mass of gas around a planet, this word is also used as the unit of air pressure equal to 14.7 psi at sea level |
1 atmosphere
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Seen here, he was the first to win a Pulitzer Prize for film criticism, doing so in 1975 |
Ebert
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Plinko was unveiled on this game show in 1983 |
The Price is Right
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When Don Quixote says, "He owes you nothing", he uses this as the last word |
nada
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While in the service of the Dutch East India Company, he became the first European to sight New Zealand & the Fiji islands |
(Melissa: Who's Captain Cook?) ... (Ken: It's a Dutch sailor, [*].)
Abel Tasman
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There are more than 3,000 species of this insect in 3 main genera; genus Culex carries encephalitis |
mosquitoes
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In 1947 a special Pulitzer went to this university's graduate school of journalism, for its administration of the Pulitzer prizes |
(Alec: What is Northwestern?)
Columbia
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This Roy family epic taught us "prekend", starting Thursday after lunch |
Succession
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Coup de foudre, literally "stroke of lightning", is the French equivalent of this 4-word phrase for instantaneous romance |
(Alec: What is at love first sight?)
love at first sight
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As queen of the Netherlands, she saw her country through both World Wars |
Wilhelmina
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Sulfur dioxide & nitrogen oxides react with other elements to create this harmful precipitation |
acid rain
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This historian, noted for his biographies of John Adams & Harry Truman, won 2 Pulitzers |
McCullough
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Marshall, played by him on "How I Met Your Mother", coined "Revertigo" |
(Jason) Segel
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Italian for what you say when squeezing past someone in a theater, it rhymes with "juicy" |
scusi
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(Amor Towles presents the clue.) Near the end of the book, Emmett & Billy finally set out for the Western Terminus of the highway, which is still at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in this city |
(Ken: Correct, with less than a minute to play.)
San Francisco
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After his troops captured the Alamo, this Mexican general was captured after the Battle of San Jacinto |
Santa Anna
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Of the 3 main types of rock, it's what shale is |
(Alec: What is igneous?)
sedimentary
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In 2014 Jason Szep & Andrew R.C. Marshall shared a Pulitzer for reporting on the violent persecution of this Muslim minority in Myanmar |
the Rohingya
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This substance powers spaceships on "Star Trek" |
[ERRATUM: Dilithium does not power Star Trek space travel; matter-antimatter reactions do. Dilithium only catalyzes/regulates the reaction.]
dilithium (crystals)
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An Architectural Digest headline said this term "dictated the layout of" a "light-filled residence in Beijing" |
(Ken: Melissa?) (Melissa: I don't know.) ... (Ken: ...there's still a Daily Double out there.)
feng shui
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Before he got the boot for good in 41 A.D., this emperor wanted a statue of himself placed in the Temple in Jerusalem |
(Ken: He got the boot and his name meant "little boot", that's [*].)
Caligula
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Atomic number 87, this element named for a country by Marguerite Perey is the heaviest of the alkali metals |
(Melissa: What is scandium?)
francium
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Early in his career, this playwright won 3 Obies; he also won a Pulitzer for his play "Buried Child" |
Sam Shepard
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In the '60s this comedy mishmash from Dan Rowan & Dick Martin introduced bippy, as in "You bet your sweet..." |
Laugh-In
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It comes before "Ukraini" to mean "glory to Ukraine"; it's also a common nickname |
Slava
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(Amor Towles presents the clue.) The setting for my novel's first chapter & also for Willa Cather's "O Pioneers!", where I got my epigraph, is in this state, which happens to be the midpoint of the Lincoln Highway |
Nebraska
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