FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE |
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LET'S MAKE A MOVIE CROSSOVER! |
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"From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean" |
Romeo and Juliet
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In 1974 a horde of terra cotta warriors were found at the resting place of the man who made himself this country's first emperor |
China
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It means to willfully ignore obvious danger signs |
bury your head in the sand
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After his victory at Waterloo, he said, "I hope to God that I have fought my last battle. It is a bad thing to always be fighting" |
(Jonathan: Who is Napoleon?)
the Duke of Wellington
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The size of a digital video is measured in these units whose name combines "picture" & "element" |
a pixel
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A natural pair! A character who fought Ivan Drago & Clubber Lang "&" a moose who took on Jason Alexander's Boris Badenov |
Rocky and Bullwinkle
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"Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, assume the port of Mars" |
(Ben: What is Troilus and Cressida?)
Henry V
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Google's recent entry into the world of A.I. has this name just like a poet of yore |
Bard
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If you're "in for a penny", you're also in for one of these British units |
a pound
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At Columbia, S.C.'s state house, bronze stars mark the spots where shells from this general's cannons once hit |
(Mary Kate: Who is Lee?)
Sherman
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This Swede initially had 0 degrees as the boiling point of water & 100 degrees for the melting point of snow on his temperature scale |
(Jonathan: Who is... Kelvin?)
Celsius
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Disney meets Kurosawa: An animated 1937 title woman "& the" title septet led by Takashi Shimura |
Snow White and the Seven Samurai
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"Take but good note & you shall see in him the triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool" |
(Mary Kate: What is Othello?)
Antony and Cleopatra
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The stock market crash of 1929 led to the creation of this regulatory body in 1934 |
(Ben: What's the FDIC?)
the SEC
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If you are impoverished, you are as poor as this rodent |
a church mouse
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In absentia he was sentenced to death in 1940, weeks after a London radio speech in which he asked the French to keep fighting |
(Mary Kate: I... don't know.)
Charles de Gaulle
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This ancient measure was based on the length from elbow to middle finger tip |
a cubit
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You stay classy, Kali! A 2004 San Diego news anchorman "&" a 1984 Indiana Jones title structure |
Ron Burgundy & the Temple of Doom
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"It did always seem so to us: but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes he values most" |
(Jonathan: What is Hamlet?)
King Lear
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Pope Francis was selected for the big job by one of these special assemblies of the College of Cardinals |
a conclave
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You can be as mad as a hatter or as mad as this, also a character in "Alice in Wonderland" |
March Hare
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Subutai, a general of this people, was devastating Europe in the 13th c. when he was called back for an election for a new great khan |
the Mongols
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A knot equals one of these, a bit over 6,000 feet, per hour |
nautical mile
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An Alan Rickman "Die Hard" villain "wants those detonators" from a title Great Dane of 2002! |
(Mary Kate: What is Hans Gruber Beethoven?)
Hans Gruber and Scooby-Doo
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"My brother Jaques he keeps at school, & report speaks goldenly of his profit" |
As You Like It
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The green comet that visited Earth in 2023 was thought to come from this cloud named for a Dutch astronomer |
the Oort
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In a 1696 play, a character says, if I get a patent "I shall be as rich as" this proverbially rolling-in-it king |
(Jonathan: Who is Midas?)
Croesus
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Though this brother of Claudius & father of Caligula campaigned near the Rhine, that's not where he got his familiar name |
Germanicus
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Parsec, an astronomical unit of length, is a portmanteau of this word & "second" |
(Mary Kate: What is particle?)
parallax
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Masks are compared when a "Friday the 13th" icon "takes on" a Robin Williams woman who enjoys a cake moisturizer |
Jason Meets Mrs. Doubtfire
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