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A book about Poe "& the forging of American science" points out that in his one year at this school, Edgar was great at math |
West Point
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In 1940, this odd couple comedy duo left Hal Roach Studios & soon signed with 20th Century Fox |
Laurel & Hardy
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Some really awesome quilts can be made in this manner, also an adjective for any sort of haphazard or hodgepodge way |
patchwork
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The Congo rises, in part, in the highlands of Zambia before traveling 2,900 miles in a giant arc to this ocean |
the Atlantic
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Hi, my name is (what?) My name is (who?) My name is this Detroit rapper who has his own hip-hop channel |
Eminem (Slim Shady)
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The Oxford English Dictionary has this synonym for a tie going back to a 1796 horse race |
a dead heat
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Laura Dassow Walls tried to capture this many-sided man in a book published 200 years after his 1817 birth in Concord |
Thoreau
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10 years after Newman & Redford, Tom Berenger & William Katt played this duo in their early days |
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
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Louis XIV loved these from Les Gobelins; here's one of him visiting the factory in Paris |
tapestries
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A harrowing voyage up the Congo River around 1890 by Joseph Conrad was the basis for this 1902 tale |
Heart of Darkness
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He won an NCAA hoops title at Michigan State in 1979, then presto! He was the first overall NBA pick & it was Showtime |
Magic Johnson
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It's slang for the offspring of a celeb who becomes a celeb too |
(Ken: I think you're the first one ever to say that on Jeopardy!)
a nepo baby
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Taken from the title of one of her poems, "Mad Girl's Love Song" is a biography about this 20th-century woman & her "Life Before Ted" |
(Ken: Yes, Life Before Ted Hughes.)
Sylvia Plath
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This actor plies Zac Efron with showbiz dreams, shots of booze & dancing in "The Greatest Showman" |
Hugh Jackman
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This ritzy word that means "put on" in French is a layered sewing technique |
appliqué
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The Boyoma Falls, below which the Congo River becomes more navigable, were once named for this explorer who sought Dr. Livingstone |
Stanley
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Born in Flint, this prolific documentarian wrote the book "Dude, Where's My Country?" |
Michael Moore
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One of these is to keep a bar of scented soap in with your dirty laundry when you travel to help clothes smell clean |
a life hack
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Jenn Shapland's "My Autobiography of" this "Heart is a Lonely Hunter" writer looks at her sexuality |
Carson McCullers
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The bombing of the city of Darwin is featured in this 2008 Baz Luhrmann epic |
Australia
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In myth, this woman bought time by unweaving a burial shroud meant for her husband's father, Laertes |
(Lawrence: Who is Ophelia?) ... (Ken: That's Odysseus' long-suffering wife, [*].)
Penelope
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The river's basin supports the second largest rainforest on Earth, home to the Dryas monkey & this so-called pygmy chimpanzee |
(Katrina: What's a marmoset?)
the bonobo
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Long before becoming New York's governor, & not beating Truman, this Owosso-born man graduated from the University of Michigan in 1923 |
Dewey
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The Nobel Banquet is held in Stockholm in this room that can hold 1,300 guests |
(Ken: Tough category--that's [*].)
the Blue Hall
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"Super-Infinite" is a bio of this man of Shakespeare's time known for sexy poems & later, strongly moral sermons |
(Ken: The guy could do it all--who is [*]?)
John Donne
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In this 1952 film assassins gun down the title Mexican revolutionary but miss his horse |
(Lawrence: Who is Pancho Villa?)
Viva Zapata!
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This word from heraldry is also the name of a simple stitch consisting of repeating V shapes |
chevron
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These 2 capital cities, of the R.O.C & the D.R.O.C., lie across from each other on opposite banks of the Congo River |
(Lawrence: [Sighs] Should have done it. What is [*]?) [ERRATUM: R.O.C. was displayed without the third period.]
Kinshasa & Brazzaville
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Tragically, this Grand Rapids man lost his life in an Apollo 1 training exercise along with Gus Grissom & Ed White |
Roger Chaffee
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This situation means one negative consequence leads to another; Jim Collins popularized the term in his book "Good to Great" |
(Ken: Well, nepo baby saved you from getting swept there; that's [*].)
a doom loop
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