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FOREIGN HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES |
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After extensive renovations, Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, home to this orchestra, reopened for the 2022-23 season |
the New York Philharmonic
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Weak & pathetic this type of person from the terrestrial planet! Your feeble weapons are useless against the mind guns of Pevmet Zeta! |
earthling
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This founder of McSweeney's also gave us "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" (it was) |
Eggers
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In Scotland, on the night of Jan. 25, this poet's birth is celebrated by reading his works & eating traditional foods like haggis |
(Ken: [With a brogue] [*], as Alex would say.)
(Rabbie) Burns
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The "Divine Miss M", she won Emmys for her appearance on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson & for her "Diva Las Vegas" special |
(Mattea: Who's Mariah Carey?)
Bette Midler
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The man with a "Plan" that earned a Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 & Eminem's name at birth |
(Mattea: [Selecting the next clue] Um, [sighs] EMMYS, uh, 400.) (Ken: Gotta do it sometime.)
George Marshall Mathers
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Comedian-pianist Victor Borge was an honorary member of this country's Royal Orchestra, which goes back 575 years |
(Matt: [Selecting the next clue, and timorously seeming to decide to venture into the much-avoided EMMY category] Um, now we can do EM--uh, FAMOUS NAME OVERLAPS for 400.) (Ken: [Chuckling] [Still] not into the Emmys, huh?)
Denmark
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The slopes of this volcano, which last erupted in March 2023, merge with those of Mauna Loa on the northwest |
Kīlauea
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This neurologist wrote about some of his more interesting cases in "Awakenings" & "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" |
Sacks
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This observance in the United Kingdom on November 5 is also known as Bonfire or Fireworks Night |
Guy Fawkes
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Several times, Dennis Franz went head-to-head with Jimmy Smits for their roles on this cop show, but only Dennis won |
NYPD Blue
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The 3-named British P.M. from 1916 to 1922 & the 3-named American scientist granted a 1925 patent for cosmetics made from peanuts |
David Lloyd George Washington Carver
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Leonard Bernstein heard his first live concert at age 14, the Boston Pops under this longtime conductor |
Fiedler
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This word for brainy or elitist was big in 1949, when Life magazine gave examples: Harris Tweed, Eames chair, ballet & Calder |
(Mattea: What's bourgeois?)
highbrow
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He was not so thrilled when his novel "The Corrections" was selected for Oprah's Book Club |
Franzen
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Norfolk Island has Bounty Day, honoring when descendants from the Bounty mutiny moved to Norfolk from this island |
Pitcairn
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In 1991 Patricia Wettig won her third Emmy & Timothy Busfield his first for this drama about a group of yuppies |
(Matt: [Selecting the next clue] Uh, the last non-EMMYS one for 400, please?)
thirtysomething
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The 19th century man honored in name by Nevada's capital & the fashion expert/TV star of "Queer Eye" & "How to Look Good Naked" |
Kit Carson Kressley
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Recordings by this U.S. orchestra have won 64 Grammys, 24 of them under the leadership of Sir Georg Solti |
(Matt: Um, what's the, uh, New York Symphony?) (Sam: What's the Philadelphia Symphony?)
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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This language family includes Cherokee, Mohawk & Seneca |
(Ken: For those of you at home who would like to know, here is where the two Daily Doubles are located in this round. [Beep boop] There we have it.)
Iroquoian
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1993's "Pigs in Heaven" is a sequel to her first novel, "The Bean Trees" |
Kingsolver
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Belgians celebrate July 21 as National Day, the day in 1831 when this royal ascended to the throne |
Leopold I
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A college football player, he scored an Emmy for coaching the game as Wood Newton on "Evening Shade" |
(Ken: You're all complaining, but you've gotten all four of them!) (Sam: I would like you bring me that clue, if--if you find it convenient to do that thing.) (Ken: For you, Sam, anything.)
Burt Reynolds
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The Founding Father with a university named for him in Fairfax, Va. & the biographer of newly deceased George Washington in 1800 |
George Mason Weems
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Musicians in this capital city's Hibernian Orchestra are all volunteers under the capable baton of John Finucane |
Dublin
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This capital of Argentina's Tierra del Fuego province is one of the southernmost cities in the world |
Ushuaia
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Terrorists take hostages at a party in the South America-set novel "Bel Canto" by this woman |
Patchett
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In Sweden, on this saint's day, Dec. 13, young girls wear white dresses & serve coffee & baked goods to their families |
St. Lucia
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In 1999, this executive producer picked up Emmys for both drama & comedy series for "The Practice" & "Ally McBeal" |
David E. Kelley
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An early 20th c. female modern dance pioneer & a 19th century male master of cabinetmaking & neo-classical furniture |
Isadora Duncan Phyfe
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