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IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? |
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Queequeg, a tattooed cannibal, is Starbuck's harpooner aboard the Pequod in this 1851 novel |
(Alex: Now remember, ladies and gentlemen, if you were watching yesterday, this lady says she wants to get everybody in America to read [*]. Coincidence? Coincidence I said!)
Moby-Dick
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His son Tony wrote the last film he directed, "The Dead"; his daughter Anjelica starred in it |
John Huston
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The colonists darkened their faces & dressed up (admittedly badly) as these |
American Indians
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In 1977 Jimmy Carter awarded this polio vaccine pioneer the Presidential Medal of Freedom |
(Anne: Who is Linus Pauling?) ... (Alex: Less than a minute.)
Jonas Salk
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The AP received his 1897 telegram saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration" |
Mark Twain
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Don't be "mad", it's where Mel Gibson took Max in the third installment |
"Beyond Thunderdome"
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This novel begins: "Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony..." |
The Maltese Falcon
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Dennis Weaver is terrorized by a truck in "Duel", a 1971 TV movie this wunderkind directed in his 20s |
Steven Spielberg
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After taking part in the Tea Party, he rode to Philadelphia in a less famous ride to report on it |
Paul Revere
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Apollo & Asclepius are 2 gods mentioned in his oath |
Hippocrates
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Character whose father says the following: "Murder, most foul, as in the best it is but this most foul, strange and unnatural" |
Hamlet
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The degree to which the prosecution must prove its case to obtain a guilty verdict |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
beyond a reasonable doubt
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The line "A dozen Hurons fell by a discharge from Chingachgook and his band" is from this novel |
The Last of the Mohicans
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The first American film Alfred Hitchcock directed was this 1940 classic, seen here:
"You thought you could be Mrs. DeWinter, live in her house, walk in her steps, take the things that were hers, but she's too strong for you, you can't fight her..." |
(Jenny: What is The Birds?)
Rebecca
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Historians believe he gave the signal for the Tea Party (not the beer party) to begin |
Samuel Adams
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This "Study in Scarlet" author began writing while waiting for patients who never came |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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"Any man's death diminishes me...and therefore never send to know" this |
"For Whom The Bell Tolls"
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Upton Sinclair novel that ends: "Chicago will be ours! Chicago will be ours!" |
The Jungle
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This actor directed himself & wife Trish Van Devere in the 1974 film "The Savage Is Loose" |
George C. Scott
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In retaliation the British passed a series of laws the Colonists dubbed these |
Intolerable Acts
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In 1852 this first U.S. woman doctor published her lectures on "The Physical Education of Girls" |
Elizabeth Blackwell
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Oscar Wilde says "The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword" |
(Anne: What is kill?) (Alex: Be more specific... no.)
"Kill the thing he loves"
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Novel in which Willa Cather wrote, "The Shimerdas were the first Bohemian family" in the area |
My Ántonia
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David Lean co-directed the WWII film "In Which We Serve" with this "Blithe Spirit" playwright |
Noel Coward
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The tea belonged to this company whose monopoly angered the colonists |
British East India Company
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In the 18th C., this Italian anatomist showed that electric current affects nerves & causes muscles to act |
Luigi Galvani
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In "Fathers And Sons" he wrote "Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you." |
Ivan Turgenev
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