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Curthose, the nickname of Robert, a duke of Normandy & son of this conqueror, meant something like "short stockings" |
William the Conqueror
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In 2001 it officially joined Newfoundland in the name of a Canadian province |
Labrador
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This guy who warned of Big Brother watching you gave a list of suspected Communists to the British government |
George Orwell
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Federal sentencing guidelines increase for violent crimes if one of these is involved (minimum 5 years) or worse, brandished (7 years) |
a firearm
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"England's Dreaming", the title from a Sex Pistols lyric, chronicles this 1970s musical movement |
punk rock
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Gunslinger William Bonney who rapped & rolled his way to hits like "Cowboy" & "Redneck Paradise" |
(Bryan: Who is the Billy the Kid Cudi?)
Billy the Kid Rock
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This "Short" king III ruled the Franks from 751 to 768 |
Pepin
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Let's talk about this country, the home of the Letts |
Latvia
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Before he freely sang a song of himself, Whitman was soused when he wrote a novel for this movement that led to prohibition |
the temperance movement
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If you're 18+ in Kansas & want your girlfriend to become your wife, no license is needed; you can be in this kind of marriage |
common law
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Joan Didion wrote of a 1968 recording session, "There were 3 of the 4 Doors", a producer, girls, a dog, cheeseburgers, everything but him |
Jim Morrison
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Chinese-American female architect who brought Tony-winning hip-hop history to Broadway |
Maya Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Here's this king of Spain, the sixth of his name, rocking a mean pair of shorts |
(Tenysa: Who is Juan Carlos?) ... (Mayim: That is [*], the son of Juan Carlos.)
Felipe
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This longest river entirely within France flows through a valley of the same name |
the Loire
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Pope Alexander VI, a member of this family, seemed to eschew the bible with his mistresses, children & murders of rivals |
(Alicia: What is Medici?)
the Borgias
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In law it's possession of an estate for the duration of one's life; in New Jersey, it's the town Bruce Springsteen is from |
freehold
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The book "Go Ahead in the Rain" is an homage to this musical "Tribe" & its late member Phife Dawg |
A Tribe Called Quest
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This songbird came in on a "Wrecking Ball" after inventing the mechanical reaper in the 19th century |
Miley Cyrus McCormick
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It was no longer Short King Spring in May 1946 when King Victor Emmanuel III, aka "Little Saber", abdicated the throne of this country |
Italy
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This city is home to the Netherlands' oldest university |
(Tenysa: What is Leipzig?)
Leiden
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Though he gave us "The Social Contract", this Swiss-French philosopher abandoned his 5 kids in an orphanage |
(Tenysa: Who is Descartes?) (Bryan: Who is Locke?)
Rousseau
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The 1970 law that ties different crimes into a pattern that can be prosecuted ties 4 words into this acronym |
(Tenysa: What is shrug, shrug, shrug and shrug?)
RICO
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Published a year after his death in 1984, "Divided Soul" looks at this singer's spiritual & sexual sides |
Marvin Gaye
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Director Ron's actress daughter who took the Spruce Goose on a little jaunt in 1947 |
Bryce (Dallas) Howard Hughes
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The about 2-day reign of Sultan Khalid bin Barghash of this Tanzanian island included a short war against the British Empire |
Zanzibar
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It's Angola's capital & chief seaport |
Luanda
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Weary of the tyranny of Charles I, this lord protector reportedly said the king's execution was "cruel necessity" |
Oliver Cromwell
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From the same root as "eloquent", it's a defendant's speech to the judge before sentencing |
allocution
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Played by Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Almost Famous", this critic wrote a book about Blondie & "Let It Blurt" is a book about him |
Lester Bangs
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Gritty "Get Shorty" novelist who asked folks to "Live long and prosper" on film |
Elmore Leonard Nimoy
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