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ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE |
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It consists of 27 books, from Matthew through Revelation |
the New Testament
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Don't pester your Pagan friends on May 1st; it's Beltane, a Pagan spring festival celebrating this quality of creating life |
fertility
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An astronomical unit, or AU, is the average distance between these 2 bodies, or about 93 million miles |
Earth & Sun
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Darby Camp was Reese Witherspoon's daughter on "Big Little Lies" & had this dog of problematic size in a 2021 movie |
Clifford the Big Red Dog
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This city of "Hamlet" is on the northeast tip of a Danish island just a few miles across the water from Sweden |
Elsinore
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At a Marseilles prison in 1977, Hamida Djandoubi became the last person executed using this |
the guillotine
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Edward Yang's 1985 "Taipei Story" was part of a movement in Taiwanese cinema with the same name as this '50s trend |
the new wave
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Just before a big U.S. holiday, our northern neighbors celebrate Canada Day on this date |
July 1st
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An asterism is a recognizable star pattern that isn't a full constellation, like this familiar one within Cygnus |
the Northern Cross
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Donnie Dunagan spent 25 years in the Marine Corps, telling no one he'd been the voice of this fawn |
Bambi
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In Act I of this ordinal play, a ship captain informs Viola, "This is Illyria", which is in the Balkans |
Twelfth Night
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Designed for parades, the 1939 Packard Super 8 Phaeton was the last car that this Argentine heroine rode in in public |
Eva Perón
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This deliberately ambiguous language was invented by George Orwell for "1984" |
Newspeak
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In 1772 the British sent HMS Gaspee to patrol this bay; Rhode Islanders burned it & now celebrate by burning it again |
(Ken: You beat the Rhode Islander to that, yes.) [Sharon shakes head]
Narragansett Bay
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When 2 celestial bodies appear close together, they're "in" this, also a part of speech |
conjunction
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On this FX series, Keidrich Sellati was Henry, the only Jennings who didn't know the truth about his family |
(Michael: Great show.)
The Americans
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"Pericles" is partly set in a palace in this ancient Phoenician seaport, now a World Heritage Site in Lebanon |
Tyre
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The "Angel of Rome", Alessandro Moreschi, who died in 1922, was the last of these singers, many "sold" by poor parents |
castrati
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This more dance-oriented band was formed by original members of Joy Division |
New Order
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Constitution Day is also Citizenship Day & DHS celebrates with this ceremony of gaining citizenship for several thousand |
naturalization
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"Edgeworth" sometimes precedes another name in the name of this belt of distant objects |
the Kuiper Belt
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In this movie child actor Jonathan Lipnicki told Tom Cruise the human head weighs 8 pounds |
(Sharon: Uh, what is... oh, gosh... um... [Sighs] "Show me the money", uh) (Ken: Out of time.) (Sharon: [*]!) ... (Ken: Sharon, you had me at [*], but unfortunately, you said it too late.)
Jerry Maguire
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"The Winter's Tale" alternates between Sicily & this Czech region that gave us a word for an unorthodox, often arty person |
Bohemia
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Dying in 1914, Martha was the last of these alliterative birds; a monument to them said, "It died due to avarice of man" |
the passenger pigeon
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It sounds like the latest fad, but it means using the Gregorian calendar for reckoning dates |
New Style
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Those who follow this religion celebrate Hola Mohalla with pretend fights 1 day after the Hindu festival of Holi |
Sikhism
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This word for when the Moon is between half & full can be pronounced with either a hard or soft "G" sound |
gibbous
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Roman Griffin Davis had a breakout role in this film as a German boy whose imaginary friend is Hitler, played by Taika Waititi |
Jojo Rabbit
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This wood in eastern Scotland is about 12 miles from the peak of Dunsinane, to which it "comes" in "Macbeth" |
Birnam Wood
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Rome put Carthage on the mat for the final time with the third of these wars in a campaign that lasted from 149 to 146 B.C. |
the Punic Wars
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