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Stephen Dando-Collins examined "The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor" him "and His City" |
Nero
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At 2022's World Cup in Qatar, Ecuador fans chanted, "Queremos cerveza! Queremos cerveza!", or "We want" this! "We want" this! |
(Peter: Me too.) [Laughter]
beer
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Passionately pro-British, 1790s Sec. Timothy Pickering was fired after opposing efforts to end the "quasi-war" with this nation |
France
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In Hinduism it's the incarnation of a deity |
avatar
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In 1929 he published an essay on Freud & won the Nobel Prize; who da this? You da this! |
Mann
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On encountering Tower Bridge, this new coaching hire says, "I got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore" |
Ted Lasso
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"Ovid's Causes" by K. Sara Myers is a study of this poem of many mythic transformations |
(Liz: What is Metamorphosis?) ... (Ken: -ses, the plural, yes.)
Metamorphoses
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Here is Winston-Salem's Reynolds Building, finished in 1929, two years before this similar-looking landmark with 80 more floors |
the Empire State Building
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This 1950s anticommunist secretary is memorialized in the name of an airport serving Washington, D.C. |
Dulles
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It describes the crazy-sounding "bwah-ha-ha" laughter of many a movie villain |
maniacal
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Günter Grass' debut novel was 1959's "Die Blechtrommel", which translates to this instrumental title |
The Tin Drum
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Lily Collins stars as this title Chicago marketing exec & by the way, she doesn't speak a lick of French |
Emily in Paris
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Tom Holland (not the actor) covered "The Last Years of the Roman Republic" in a book named for this river Caesar crossed |
the Rubicon
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A CBS headline: "Every monk in Thai temple" got this clothing-related consequence "after testing positive for meth"; well... yeah |
defrocked
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Secretary of State for most of the Reagan years, he was a mentor to future secretary Condoleezza Rice |
(Ben: Who is Warren... [*]? Who is [*]?) (Ken: [*] is correct, yes.)
Shultz
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It's the British word for food to go or a place selling it |
takeaway
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Cornelia Funke sold millions of a trilogy beginning with this book & continuing with "Inkspell" & "Inkdeath" |
Inkheart
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On "Futurama" he's the former pizza boy who has to adjust to things once he's unfrozen after a thousand years |
Fry
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Hermann Broch wrote a novel titled "The Death of" this greatest Roman epic poet |
Virgil
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San Francisco police detective David Toschi said he interviewed 5,000 people in his search for this letter-writing killer |
(Ben: Who is [*]?) (Ken: I'd like to know as well, yes.)
the Zodiac Killer
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Secretary 1933-1944, Cordell Hull advocated respect for Central & South American nations, a policy known by this friendly nickname |
the Good Neighbor Policy
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Adjective found before a lavish "estate", even if not a king's or queen's |
palatial
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After a boat trip in 1775, this Johann-of-all-trades--so many trades!--wrote the lovely poem "On the Lake" |
Goethe
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In "Two Weeks to Live", this actress plays Kim Noakes who rejects her survivalist mother to experience the world |
(Ken: From Game of Thrones, that's [*].)
Maisie Williams
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This 4-letter abbreviation of a Roman slogan is the title of Mary Beard's bestselling history of ancient Rome |
SPQR
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Locust Grove in Louisville, where Lewis & Clark & John James Audubon stayed as guests, could be called this, the state song |
(Liz: What is "Old Kentucky Home"?)
"My Old Kentucky Home"
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Henry Kissinger helped diminish Soviet-U.S. tensions by negotiating the 1975 accords named for this northern European capital |
(Peter: What is Oslo?)
Helsinki
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A spirit of good fellowship or esprit de corps |
camaraderie
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In 1928 "The Threepenny Opera" sang out from composer Kurt Weill & this alliterative writer from Augsburg |
Bertolt Brecht
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After getting rich off of some "bubblin' crude", he is told by his kinfolk, "Californy is the place you oughta be" |
Jed Clampett
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