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Johann Strauss Jr. wrote "Tales of" this city's woods; today, they're a UNESCO biosphere reserve |
Vienna
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The Dragon spacecraft built by this company launches from Cape Canaveral via a Falcon 9 launch vehicle |
SpaceX
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In 413 B.C. a failed Athenian campaign became a disaster when Nicias saw this astronomical event as a bad omen & put off leaving Sicily |
(Collette: What is an eclipse, or a solar eclipse?)
a lunar eclipse
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A wood block beats out the ticking of the clock toward midnight in Prokofiev's score for the ballet about this heroine |
Cinderella
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Devotion to a cause, or in another way, "To Phil & Judie: I could not have written the clue without you" |
a dedication
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For freeskating, this brand of inline skates offers the Twister 110 model |
Rollerblade
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Also known as the Sea of Trees, Aokigahara Forest is at the base of this peak on Honshu |
(Mount) Fuji
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In 1964 the Sanford Ink Company cut loose & introduced these permanent markers to the world |
Sharpie
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"The March of Folly" by historian Barbara Tuchman is subtitled "From Troy to" this Asian country where the U.S. intervened |
Vietnam
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Chopin was a master of these meditative piano pieces, a French word meaning "of the night" |
(Kristine: What are sonatas?)
nocturnes
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Mais oui & toujours, it's French for "love", mon... |
amour
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She made her feature film directorial debut with the roller derby film "Whip It" & co-starred as Smashley Simpson |
(Collette: Who is Diablo Cody?)
Drew Barrymore
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Old tree cutting practices are being used in Lower Woods Reserve in the UK to bring back its population of these after-dark songbirds |
nightingales
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Need some cash for your home or credit card balance? This company with a green leaf in its logo may bear fruit |
Lending Tree
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If he could have found time to name a successor before dying in 323 B.C., it would have saved a lot of war & trouble |
Alexander the Great
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Stephen Sondheim composed most of the score of "A Little Night Music" in 3/4 time, also known as this dance "time" |
(Collette: What is swing time?)
waltz time
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We are obsessed, perhaps even crazed, about this suffix, from the Greek for "excessive desire" |
mania
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At the X Games in 1999, he became the first pro skateboarder to land a 900--it was epic! |
Tony Hawk
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Asia's swampy Sundarbans Forest is the world's largest continuous expanse of these trees |
mangroves
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Evan Moore heard a macaroon shop turn down a delivery order & created this speedy company he dubbed an "On-Demand FedEx" |
(Mayim: Changed my life, [*].)
DoorDash
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On Oct. 25, 1854 into the Valley of Death rode this military group, led by the 7th Earl of Cardigan, who somehow rode out |
the Light Brigade
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Disney's "Fantasia" featured this Mussorgsky work about a hilltop witches' Sabbath |
a Night on Bald Mountain
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Zest is a 4-letter word starting with Z that fits the category; so is this |
zeal
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The iconic chariot race in this 1959 epic was shot on an 18-acre arena track in Rome |
Ben-Hur
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A Commonwealth cemetery in Polygon Wood holds many dead of this WWI battle in Belgium that kind of rhymes with "me, bruh" |
Ypres
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Known for Kenosha red toolboxes, this hyphenated company filed its first patent in 1923 |
Snap-On
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In 1938 this doomed policy of placating Nazi Germany got a boost when Georges Bonnet became France's foreign minister |
appeasement
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This German title of a popular Mozart piece literally translates to "A Little Night Music" |
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
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These 2 passionate words make up the title of a 1965 film about Michelangelo |
agony & ecstasy
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Though it sounds like you'll float in the air, this mode of transport allows you to merrily roll along thanks to its wheels |
Hoverboard
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