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Besides the participants, in a Double Dutch competition, you need 2 of these |
jump ropes
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An 1899 Saturday Evening Post article bemoaned the "lost art of" this, with everyone reading instead of talking to each other |
conversation
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In 1859 Henry Bursill published a book showing how to use your hands to make these on the wall, including the bunny & goat |
shadow puppets
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Howdy, yourself, Louis Armstrong, "it's so nice to have you back where you belong" with this 1964 hit from a Broadway show |
"Hello, Dolly!"
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This city in northwestern Baja California is about 15 miles south of San Diego |
Tijuana
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Drusilla was one of the vampire antagonists on this TV series that debuted in 1997 |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Mary Mapes Dodge won lasting fame for her 1865 novel about this Dutch boy & "the Silver Skates" |
Hans Brinker
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Clean & jerk athlete |
a weightlifter
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In "Wall", the first part of Ken Follett's "Edge of Eternity", this then-country's Stasi headquarters prove menacing |
East Germany
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In 1944 he tooted his own horn to study at what is today Juilliard; by '57, he was "Miles Ahead" with a masterpiece album |
Miles Davis
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East of Vietnam & an arm of the South China Sea, this gulf was the site of an international incident in 1964 |
Tonkin
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"You're Dead" by '60s folk singer Norma Tanega is used as the theme song to this FX series |
(Andrea: What is True Blood?)
What We Do in the Shadows
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The majority of people who still speak Pennsylvania Dutch are the Mennonites & this 5-letter group |
the Amish
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Medical professional who studies & treats poisonings |
toxicologist
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In his book "Stardust", there is a hamlet named Wall & Tristran sets out on a journey through the only hole in that wall |
Neil Gaiman
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That's a piccolo trumpet hitting the high notes in this Beatles song that's "in my ears & in my eyes" |
"Penny Lane"
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The Museum of Glass & the University of Puget Sound are in this city, the seat of Pierce County |
(Ben: What's Seattle?)
Tacoma
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In the "Twilight" saga, the Cullens avoid the Sun not because it would kill them but because this happens |
twinkle (sparkle)
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Transmitted by bark beetles & caused by a fungus, it has destroyed thousands of certain trees in the United States |
Dutch elm disease
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An unlucky incident; in British law, it's a verdict of accidental death not due to crime or negligence |
(Andrea: What is... manslaughter?)
misadventure
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Alistair Moffat's nonfiction book on this structure is called "Rome's Greatest Frontier" |
(Mayim: How much are you going to wager this time?) (Andrea: Less.) ... (Andrea: Oh, dear. What is...)
Hadrian's Wall
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Alison Balsom, Lady (James Bond movie director Sam) Mendes, records lots of Handel & Purcell of this "golden age of the trumpet" |
the Baroque
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Home to the Kasbah Museum, this Moroccan port is on the Strait of Gibraltar, just 17 miles from southern Spain |
Tangier
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In "Bram Stoker's Dracula", Anthony Hopkins played this vampire-hunting professor |
Van Helsing
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Seen here is a colorful Dutch colonial style building in Oranjestad on this island |
Aruba
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This photographic effect reverses tones & introduces sunny highlights to images |
solarization
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This title Melville office drudge notices dead brick walls early on, but ends up staring at the high walls of prison |
Bartleby
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His doctors made him quit the trumpet after an aneurysm; he went on to produce songs like "We Are The World" |
Quincy Jones
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Saddam Hussein was born near this city on the west bank of the Tigris in 1937 & was pulled out of the ground in its vicinity in 2003 |
(Dan: What is Tigrit?)
Tikrit
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Benjamin Walker stepped into the presidential shoes for this 2012 metafiction monster mash-up of a movie |
(Mayim: Yes, I've seen it so many times.) [Mild laughter]
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
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