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A flight path takes you between mountains and leads to a short runway at India's Leh Airport in this 1,500-mile-long range |
the Himalayas
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Gordon S. Wood's 2017 dual biography of these 2 feuding Founding Fathers & presidents is titled "Friends Divided" |
Jefferson & Adams
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February 4 is the natl. day to create one of these empty spaces, defined as having lower than atmospheric pressure |
a vacuum
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The rise & fall of the stock market, in good times & bad, is represented by these 2 animals |
bear & bull
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A year before her role in "Titanic", Kate Winslet played this doomed character in a 4-hour adaptation of "Hamlet" |
Ophelia
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The French for "remember" gives us this word for a memento that helps you fondly remember your travels |
souvenir
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20 million live in this Brazilian city founded by Jesuits, but its domestic airport has only two runways? Tricky |
São Paulo
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Delve into this country's history with "Big Fellow, Long Fellow: A Joint Biography of Collins & de Valera" |
Ireland
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Of these 2 opposite everyday words, one has a limit because you can't take away more energy than is there; the other is in theory infinite |
cold & heat
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Many believe this is the most volatile month for the stock market with both the great crash of 1929 & the crash of '87 occurring then |
October
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This man directed, co-wrote, produced & starred in the nearly 3 1/2 hour movie "Reds" |
Warren Beatty
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Media matters in this field of study that gets its name from the French for "day" |
(Julie: What is journal? Jour?)
journalism
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You'll be thanking every saint you can think of after hitting the runway of this Caribbean island with ties to Holland & France |
Saint Martin
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In this book with the same title as a Shakespeare play, Adrian Goldsworthy says the 2nd person was "not really that important"--ourch! |
(Alex: What is Romeo and Juliet?)
Antony and Cleopatra
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Gustav Kirchhoff showed that this travels at light speed, so a circuit connecting a motor to a switch will start the motor fast |
(Alex: Um... I don't know.)
electric current
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A risky venture, some people try to make a living doing this, buying & selling stocks within a matter of hours |
day trading
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A 1962 review for this Best Picture winner called it a "camel-opera that tends to run down rather badly... into its third hour" |
Lawrence of Arabia
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I don't do much because I have this feeling of discontent, from the French for "boredom" |
ennui
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Head over an 8,000-foot peak, navigate wind shear & then enjoy this Austrian city home to two Winter Olympics in 12 years |
(Alex: What is Salzburg?)
Innsbruck
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Samantha Morris wrote a book about Lucrezia Borgia & this brother whom Machiavelli admired |
Cesare
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(Spiros Michalakis presents the clue.) A quantum is basically a small & defined unit of energy; this is the term for a light quantum, also called the quantum of the electromagnetic field |
(Lucas: What is... a packet.) (Ken: No, I'm afraid it's [*]; your winning streak in PHYSICS continues, but you've got one clue left to salvage it.)
a photon
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This company headquartered in Omaha has the most expensive stock in the world at about $500,000 a share in April 2023 |
Berkshire Hathaway
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It's raining frogs (hallelujah!) in this 1999 film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson |
Magnolia
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Meaning a binding, this word can refer to a military contact or an intimate, perhaps dangerous, meeting |
liaison
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Radar? Nope. You land manually in daylight only at Paro, not far from the capital of Thimphu in this Asian kingdom |
Bhutan
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In the early 1900s the "plum pudding" model for the internal structure of these was replaced by the planetary model |
(Ken: There it is, yes... physicists everywhere were about to throw a shoe at the television, but you saved us, Lucas) [Laughter]
the atom
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Japan's equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average is called the this 225 |
(Julie: What is Nisei?)
Nikkei
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At some point in the 13 hours of Jacques Rivette's "Out 1", actors rehearse "Seven Against Thebes" by this ancient playwright |
Aeschylus
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This 11-letter word for a lover of the arts comes from the French for "know" |
(Alex: What is... savant?)
connoisseur
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