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21st CENTURY HORROR NOVELS |
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Known for his brutality, he went to war with Livonia--now Latvia & Estonia--in 1558; the 25-year event ended up as a bust |
Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible)
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Christina Henry's "Looking Glass" is the last book in a chilling trilogy about a woman with this 5-letter name |
(Holly: What is Megan?)
Alice
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"But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas" |
"Jumpin' Jack Flash"
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You're a Mets fan? Let's hit a sports bar & enjoy these mini sandwiches that share a name with a pitch mastered by Justin Verlander |
a slider
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Upon completion in 1937, it was the world's tallest & longest bridge of this type that uses cables above the span |
a suspension bridge
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If you keep late hours, you are one of these birds |
a night owl
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A true great, in 1721 he dumped "czar" for "emperor of all Russia" to help with primacy over the church but the old title stuck |
Peter the Great
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In Grady Hendrix' "How to Sell" this place, it has a sealed attic & creepy puppet collection & Redfin will be no help |
a haunted house
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"I've been around for a long, long year, stole many a man's soul & faith" |
"Sympathy For The Devil"
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Ooh--poppers made with this hot green Mexican pepper! Filled with cheese & topped with crumbled tortilla chips? Yes, please |
jalapeƱos
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The bridge carries both U.S. Route 101 & California State Route 1, also called this, PCH |
the Pacific Coast Highway
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NBC strutted its stuff using this 4-word idiom as a slogan in the early 1980s |
proud as a peacock
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Alexis' mid-1600s reign saw peasants get tied to land & landlords & fall into slavery as this class |
serfs
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The Scooby gang was often accused of being these, the title of a book by Edgar Cantero about 4 teens with a telepathic pooch |
(Suzanne: What are meddling teens?) (Holly: Uh, what are those [*]?) ... (Mayim: Title of the book is just [*].)
meddling kids
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"You make a grown man cry" |
(Kiran: Who is "Angie"?)
"Start Me Up"
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I'm vegan & you ordered this app of dough-wrapped & baked cocktail sausages? Oh wow, look at the time...! |
pigs in a blanket
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The first step in construction was placing 60,000-ton concrete blocks on each end called this, like an Alaskan city |
anchorage
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Cliff diving for your 75th birthday? Better act your age; you're no... this |
a spring chicken
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This man I, who died in 1855, was dubbed the emperor who froze Russia for 30 years; this man II ensured there'd be no this man III |
Nicholas
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Megan James pays homage to this horror master & his creation Cthulhu with her graphic novel "Innsmouth" |
Lovecraft
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"You'll come running back to me" |
"Time Is On My Side"
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My abuela uses homemade tortillas for this app whose name is from Spanish for "cheese"--are you close to your gran? |
quesadillas
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Head north out of San Francisco & cross the bridge to reach the headlands of this affluent county on the other side |
Marin (County)
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This 1843 story has become a metaphor for one who is unpromising initially |
"The Ugly Duckling"
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Paul I favored showy army drilling on this type of ground, & that's where a monument to him stands at Gatchina Palace |
a parade ground
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Clive Barker's "Scarlet Gospels" revisits the Hellraiser universe where this prickly priest of hell mans the pulpit |
Pinhead
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"Am I hard enough? Am I rough enough? Am I rich enough?" |
"Beast Of Burden"
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Oh, you like to travel? I'd love to visit Myanmar but the closest I've gotten is this geographic cream cheese & crab app |
crab Rangoon
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It's the 2-word "global" name for the bridge's color, chosen to stand out from sea & sky |
international orange
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This 4-word phrase describes the fowl seen here, or idiomatically, any pompous blowhard |
the cock of the walk
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