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Daytona Beach, Florida: this ocean |
the Atlantic
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Although it sounds like it has to do with a Southern peanut, it really pertains to the job held by Newsom & DeSantis |
(Nik: What is governor?)
gubernatorial
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The all-too-simple premise of the game show in this 2012 film--kids murder each other |
The Hunger Games
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These creatures of the genus Apis have a strict caste system with male drones, female workers & a queen on top |
(Anji: What are bees?) (Buzzy: More specific?) (Anji: What are bumblebees?)
honeybees
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George Eliot's poem "God Needs Antonio" praises this master maker of musical instruments |
(Nik: What are violins?)
Stradivarius
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It's not just carnivores--the harts of the red type of this roar to drive rival males away |
deer
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Easton, Maryland |
the Chesapeake Bay
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Though it sounds like a laughing beer, it's really a hubbub, maybe in a pub, bub |
brouhaha
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The all-too-simple premise of the game show hosted by Richard Dawson in this 1987 film--criminals are murdered |
The Running Man
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Taking their name from words meaning "oak" & "wizard", they were the priestly upper caste of the ancient Celts |
the Druids
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Lady Mary Chudleigh's "To the Ladies" warns fiancees that this "and servant are the same / But only differ in the name" |
wives
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The Kalolo-Lozi people call the roar & mist that the Zambezi River makes as it forms this "the smoke that thunders" |
Victoria Falls
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Montreal, Quebec |
the St. Lawrence River
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Meaning to throw out of a window, this term gained fame after a 1618 incident in Prague where 2 officials were so thrown |
(Nik: What is defenestrate?) [Buzzy does not rule.] (Nik: Or [*]?)
defenestration
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Dev Patel wins big on a game show in this 2008 film |
Slumdog Millionaire
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A term for a member of the New England cultural elite, it's also the name of the highest Hindu caste |
the Brahmins
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She loved her iambs, as in "Because I could not stop for Death" |
Dickinson
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Written in 1792, this French song asks, "Do you hear in the countryside the roar of those savage soldiers?" |
(Nik: What is "La Marseille"?) (Anji: What is "La Marseille-ee"?) ... (Buzzy: Yes. That is the way to pronounce it. I think we're all going to take French class after that clue.)
"La Marseillaise"
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Pierre, South Dakota |
the Missouri
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Meaning a silly or flighty person, this word with 2 sets of double "B"s was mentioned in "King Lear" as a demon's name |
flibbertigibbet
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In "Quiz Show" this Brit had all the answers on "Twenty One" as Charles Van Doren; do you have the question? |
(Nik: Who is Ralph Fienne?)
Ralph Fiennes
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The naked type of this hyphenated rodent lives in a colony that uses a caste system with one breeding female |
a mole-rat
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The 44 sonnets in an 1850 volume by her are largely in iambic pentameter |
(Julie: Who...) [The time expiry signal sounds.] (Julie: Who is Shelley?)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Akira Ifukube used a leather glove coated in pine-tar resin & a double bass to create this character's roar in 1954 |
Godzilla
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Shelburne, Vermont |
Lake Champlain
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Sigmund knows that this is from the German for "damage" & "joy" & I'm getting a certain amount of it right now |
schadenfreude
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In "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind", a woman has the choice of Brad Pitt, Matt Damon or Bachelor No. 3 on this classic show |
(Nik: What is Love Connection?)
The Dating Game
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The mid-19th century "Caste War" of this peninsula pitted native Mayans against Ladinos of European descent |
the Yucatán Peninsula
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Her 1883 "1492" celebrates "A virgin world where doors of sunset part, / Saying, 'Ho, all who weary, enter here!'" |
Emma Lazarus
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Alphabetically first in Old Testament books comes this prophet who says, "The Lord will roar from Zion" |
Amos
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