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Her interest in Mexican folk art can be seen in a 1931 portrait of herself with her new husband, a fellow artist |
Frida Kahlo
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In the 1850s a familiar quotation of his may have been "I have a notebook full of famous things people said. Wanna see?" |
Bartlett
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At age 8, Sergei Prokofiev was taken to "Faust" & "Prince Igor"; he decided to write one of these too & in months composed "The Giant" |
an opera
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RO&AD Architects built a Dutch bridge that parts the waters rather than going over them, so it's named for this biblical man |
Moses
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The thrill & amazement of a 1921 balloon race over Indianapolis inspired the name of this not just white bread brand |
Wonder
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On China's basketball team at the 2000 Olympics |
Yao Ming
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Rather than the Magi, Guido Reni depicted "The Adoration of" these rustic fellows |
the Shepherds
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This type of heart surgery involves taking a blood vessel from elsewhere & creating a new pathway around a blockage |
bypass
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In his teens Erik Demaine pioneered computational origami; at 20 he became this Boston-area school's youngest ever prof |
MIT
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Named for their designer, Bailey Bridges moved Allied troops, trucks & tanks; an 1,800-foot one was built over this German river in 1945 |
the Rhine
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A special one of these baked at Passover 2022 for the president of Israel was 20' long by 3 1/2' wide by not very thick |
matzah
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In the Ramones |
(Ken: Yeah, he's like 6'6" or something.)
Joey
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This painter who was totally for the birds gave us the oil-on-canvas "Washington Sea Eagle" around 1839 |
(Ben: Uh, who is... oh my God...)
John James Audubon
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Eden, New York has a museum devoted to this mouth-blown musical toy |
a kazoo
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By age 15, Flynn McGarry had created a culinary classic, changing one letter in a dish named for a duke to make this vegetarian creation |
the beet Wellington
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Samuel Lancaster built the scenic Benson Bridge across Multnomah Creek in this state but Simon Benson paid for it |
(Ken: Multnomah Falls near Portland in [*].)
Oregon
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When his wife baked these, often served with gravy, Calvin Coolidge would drop one & stomp a foot to show its heaviness |
a biscuit
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On the 2001 World Series champion Arizona Diamondbacks |
"the Big Unit" Randy Johnson
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Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! Seurat's "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" helped pioneer this -ism using small, detached strokes |
Pointillism
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Originally a stick or spindle used in spinning, it also came to mean women's work or the female side of a family |
(Jared: What is settee?)
distaff
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Losing his brother Giulio 1915, he buried his grief in math & physics & soon wowed the admissions panel at college in Pisa |
(Ken: You didn't seem sure, Ben.) (Ben: I was not sure.)
Fermi
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You might guess that Gustave Eiffel of tower fame built the Maria Pia Bridge over the Douro River in this Portuguese city famous for wine |
Oporto
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What a card! Duff Goldman rose to fame on this Food Network show whose title mentions his specialty |
the Ace of Cakes
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In the heartwarming sismance among the main actors on "Ted Lasso" |
Hannah Waddingham
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As it's by this painter, you might call an 1876 view of the Mediterranean at l'Estaque a "C" scape |
Paul Cezanne
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This line on the hull of a ship that indicates the depth to which it can be loaded is named for a 19th century British merchant |
the Plimsoll
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This French prodigy wrote his masterpiece "The Drunken Boat" at 16 & was called an "infant Shakespeare" |
(Ben: Who is Baudelaire?)
Rimbaud
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Peter Wyss designed a sky bridge not to go anywhere but to attract tourists to Langkawi Island off the peninsular part of this country |
(Jared: Uh, what is Thailand?)
Malaysia
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In Chestnut Hill, Tennessee, you can tour, eat & shop at the visitor center of this alliterative baked bean brand |
Bush's (Best)
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In boygenius, her name didn't lend itself to a category title |
Lucy Dacus
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