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These spouses got a lot of support on their 1981 wedding day, as 750 million people across 70+ countries took in the ceremony |
Charles & Diana
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In 1749 Maria Renata, a Bavarian nun, was charged with this & burned at the stake |
witchcraft
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In Arkansas, regnat populus, this group "rule" |
the people
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She dedicated "The Princess Diarist" to George Lucas & Harrison Ford, among others |
Carrie Fisher
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The gabelle, an unpopular salt tax, was a contributing spark to this upheaval & was repealed in the midst of it, in 1790 |
the French Revolution
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Cornelius Nepos could have pitched a Samuel Jackson film, these "on a boat", writing of Hannibal heaving them onto enemy ships |
(Jacob: What is [*] on a Plane?) (Ken: Uh, yeah.) (Jacob: What is [*]?) (Ken: In this case, on a boat.)
snakes
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A 1931 family portrait influenced by Mexican folk art depicts these 2 painters & spouses (but she did the piece) |
Kahlo & Rivera
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The World Almanac lists this for you if you're famous (Rosanne Cash: Memphis; Mickey Rourke: Schenectady) |
birthplace
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Kansans go ad astra per aspera, "to" these "through difficulties" |
stars
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He speaks candidly about his addiction in "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing", with a foreword by Lisa Kudrow |
Matthew Perry
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It's the chemical formula for common table salt |
(Jacob: What is sodium chloride? [*].)
NaCl
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The Mons Meg is a massive one of these artillery pieces used by the Scots for 200 years until its barrel broke |
a cannon
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Carl & Gerty Cori shared a bed & also a Nobel Prize, for discovering this simple sugar's vital role in our metabolism |
glucose
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Like New Orleans from St. Louis, it means closer to the mouth of a river than where you are now |
downstream
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The motto of Montana is oro y plata, these 2 desirables |
gold & silver
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In "A Fine Romance", she talked about motherhood, Murphy Brown & her marriage to Louis Malle |
Candice Bergen
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Savvy cooks prefer this salt, not for religious purposes but because its coarse texture makes it easier to pinch & dispense |
kosher salt
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One tale about this Kentucky frontiersman: his rifle was named Tick-Licker as it could shoot a tick off a bear's snout |
(Jacob: Who is Crockett?)
Boone
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Nominated to become Transportation Secy. in 2017, Elaine Chao got "yes"es from 93 senators but not from this majority leader, her husband |
(Ken: Correct, Mitch voted "present"; he didn't vote against her nomination.)
McConnell
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The type of this implement called a waiter's one may have a knife to cut the little sleevey part called the capsule |
(Lisa: What is a bottle opener?)
a corkscrew
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Fatti maschii parole femine is literally "manly deeds, womanly" these but Maryland now prefers "strong deeds, gentle" these |
words
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In 2011, Dyan Cannon published a book about her relationship & her brief marriage to this screen legend |
Cary Grant
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The combination of ammonium carbonate & perfume sniffed as a stimulant to relieve fainting or headache goes by this 2-word term |
smelling salts
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During World War II U-boats improved these weapons from the G7a model, which left a trail of bubbles as it headed for its prey |
(Lisa: What's a submarine?)
a torpedo
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Though Ring Lardner called this duo the prince & princess of their generation, their lives weren't exactly "This Side of Paradise" |
(Lisa: Adam and Eve? Who are Adam and Eve?)
Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald
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A type of earthworm that emerges after dark, or a movie with Jake Gyllenhaal as the memorably vile Louis Bloom |
nightcrawler
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Massachusetts has ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem, "by" this weapon "we seek peace, but only peace under liberty" |
the sword
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Before his passing, this former teen idol penned "C'mon, Get Happy" |
(Lisa: Who is Davy Jones?) ... (Ken: Of The Partridge Family, is correct.)
David Cassidy
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This city about 150 miles west of Vienna takes its name from nearby salt mines that operated for many hundreds of years |
Salzburg
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A peasant could learn to use a crossbow quickly; this weapon, a Hundred Years' War game-changer, required training |
a long bow
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