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While a slave to Queen Omphale, this hero dressed like a woman & spun wool; what a "labor" |
Hercules
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James F. Byrnes, named to the court by this Pres. in 1941, resigned in 1942 to take a wartime post |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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In the early 20th century, Edward VIII introduced these shoes; Elvis wore "blue" ones |
suede shoes
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German by birth, she took her seat on the throne of Russia in 1762 |
Catherine the Great
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Red blood cells are made in this substance that fills the medullary cavity of the bones |
the marrow
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"Tek Vengeance" is the fourth in a series of sci-fi novels by this "Star Trek" star |
William Shatner
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This chief Norse god is the son of Bor, an early god, & Bestla, a giantess |
(Rebecca: [Without signalling] What is [*]?) ... (Alex: It was kind of Rebecca to give you the correct response since she wasn't the first one to ring in, but you knew it, Jack.)
Odin
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In August 1993 she was confirmed as the second woman justice on the Supreme Court |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Before it was introduced around 1940, this man-made fiber had been called No-Run & Nuron |
Nylon
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In 1513 this explorer crossed the Isthmus of Panama; he couldn't wait for the canal |
Balboa
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Known to the Romans, this smooth-skinned variety of peach has been called the nut of Persia |
the nectarine
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The novel "Fatherland" depicts what might have happened if this dictator had won WWII |
Hitler
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Hermes gave Odysseus a magic herb called moly that protected him from this sorceress |
Circe
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Antonin Scalia was appointed to the court when this man was promoted to Chief Justice |
William Rehnquist
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This designer calls her customers "Liz Ladies" |
(Phil: Who is Clairborn?)
Liz Claiborne
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After WWII West Berlin was divided into 3 zones: American, British & this |
French
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In 1941 this Caltech scientist published "Seismicity of the Earth" |
(Alex: When we think of anything relating to seismic occurrences, we think of [*], the famous [*] scale.)
Richter
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"It Came from the Far Side" is a collection of his far-out cartoons |
Gary Larson
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This Roman goddess' Greek equivalent, Hestia, rejected Poseidon & Apollo & remained a maiden |
Vesta
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Tom C. Clark resigned from the court in 1967 when his son Ramsey was appointed to this office |
Attorney General
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In the singular it's a riding boot, but in the plural, they're riding pants |
jodhpurs
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He was just 18 when he became emperor of Austria in 1848 |
Francis Joseph
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These lines on a weather map connect points having the same temperature |
(Jack: What are isobars?)
isotherms
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Time magazine presumed that this "Presumed Innocent" author spawned the 1990s craze for legal thrillers |
Scott Turow
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Not everyone was a fan of this legendary lyre player; he was torn to pieces by a band of Thracian women |
Orpheus
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This first Jewish justice graduated first in his Harvard Law School class in 1877 |
Louis Brandeis
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Plain, satin & twill are the 3 basic types of these |
(Rebecca: What are fabrics?)
weaves
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In 1878 Serbia, Montenegro & Romania were granted independence from this empire |
the Ottoman Empire
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It's thought that these glassy objects were formed by the impacts of meteorites |
tektites
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"The Devil's Candy" takes readers behind the scenes of this 1990 film based on Tom Wolfe's novel |
Bonfire of the Vanities
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