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Serialized from 1845 to 1847, the seminal & alliterative horror tale "Varney the" this runs to more than 200 chapters |
Vampire
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In 1818 Charles Bulfinch began as U.S. architect of this building; during his tenure he designed its rotunda |
the Capitol building
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Aretha Franklin's version of this Otis Redding tune topped Rolling Stone's 2021 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time |
"Respect"
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The town of Arad in this desert is a common stopover for visitors to the Dead Sea |
the Negev
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Composed of 2 or more atoms, it's the smallest particle of a substance that retains its chemical & physical properties |
(Brian: Bring it!)
a molecule
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The amount of energy supplied by people's physical effort; until 1977, Canada had a minister of it & immigration |
manpower
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Ralph Ellison's posthumous second novel was culled from more than 1,500 pages of writing & titled after this now-federal holiday |
Juneteenth
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Brutalism, popularized by Le Corbusier, refers to buildings made primarily of this material, like Boston's City Hall |
concrete
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In 2023 Dolly Parton unveiled a cover of this anthemic Queen hit that should resonate with you, my friends |
(Stephen: Uh... what's "Bohemian Rhapsody"?)
"We Are The Champions"
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Let's get down to business--this 3-country pact went into effect on Jan. 1, 1994 but was replaced in 2020 |
NAFTA
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Fe2O3 represents this 4-letter compound, something to avoid on your Rolls-Royce |
rust
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This term for a woman in charge is the title of a book by entrepreneur Sophia Amoruso |
a girlboss
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This 1996 David Foster Wallace novel isn't quite as long as its title suggests but does run 1,000+ pages |
Infinite Jest
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This architect designed the Louvre's glass pyramid; the public was initially not in love with it |
I.M. Pei
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At a 2018 event honoring Fleetwood Mac, Miley Cyrus brought the house down with this Mac classic about "snow-covered hills" |
"Landslide"
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The "TL" sound was an important feature in this language of the Toltecs & Aztecs |
Nahuatl
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This silvery-white element, atomic number 31, takes its name from an old name for France |
gallium
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Change the second syllable in the alter ego of Princess Adora to get this word for a powerful female |
(Brian: What is... She-Ra?)
a shero
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"Yes I said yes I will yes" are the last of this 1922 story's many, many words |
(Brian: What is... Les Misérables?) (Ken: No, I'm sorry, [*].) (Brian: [Slams his hand on the podium] Oh!) (Ken: James Joyce, that's why it's a run-on sentence.)
Ulysses
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Frank Lloyd Wright worked for 5 years with the Chicago firm of Dankmar Adler & this "father of skyscrapers", leaving in 1893 |
Sullivan
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The Beatles recorded this dance classic at the end of their first album session; good idea, as it blew out John's voice |
"Twist And Shout"
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Because its pelt was impervious to arrows, Hercules had to strangle this beast as the first of his labors |
the Nemean lion
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The Arrhenius equation shows the rate of collisions of particles increasing with this measure for the solution they're in |
(Stephen: What is pH?) (Brian: What is saturation?) (Josh: What is density?)
temperature
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This word combines slang for a man & a type of cosmetic |
(Stephen: What's manscara?)
guyliner
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A Nobel Prize winner, in 1962 she published "The Golden Notebook", which runs to nearly 700 masterful pages |
Doris Lessing
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An immigrant from Austria & from the "N"OWLEDGE category, he helped define midcentury California with modernist buildings |
Richard Neutra
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That's Urge Overkill's version of this song in "Pulp Fiction", not Neil Diamond's original |
"Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon"
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Henry Fonda played this admiral in the 1976 film "Midway" |
Nimitz
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The heroine of TV's "Lessons in Chemistry" has ideas about this concept that inorganic compounds could have led to life |
(Stephen: What is... spontaneous generation?)
abiogenesis
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Gynoid is another word for this type of automaton that Austin Powers confronts |
a fembot
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