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In this novella John Steinbeck wrote that "Curley was flopping like a fish on a line" |
Of Mice and Men
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Bono's band (2 squares) |
U2
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It's often noted that you don't need a valid state one to compete in a NASCAR race; officer, here's my Rusty Wallace novelty one |
a driver's license
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April 24, 1800: Early on, only the president & vice president had borrowing privileges |
the Library of Congress
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Maiden name of Elizabeth, who got her author son James Cooper to add it as a middle name so it would be preserved |
Fenimore
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I was there in 2007 when this original lead singer for Van Halen reunited with the band for a concert tour |
(Anna Marie: Who is Sam Kinison?) (Has: Who is Vedder?) (Amar: Who is (Eddie Van Halen?) (Ken: No, I'm sorry, I would love to see Eddie Vedder or Sam Kinison sing lead for Van Halen; unfortunately, this was [*].)
David Lee Roth
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Shakespeare started a sonnet with a simile, "Like as" these "make towards the pebbled shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end" |
waves
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Employer-provided wage & tax statement (2 squares) |
the W-2
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Based on a 1936 decision, the first 3 of its 9 digits dealt with geographical coding |
your Social Security number
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Jan. 3, 2009, with the mining of the Genesis block |
(Has: Uh... what is... uh, Minecraft?) (Amar: What is [**]?) [Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before Double Jeopardy!]
Bitcoin (Blockchain)
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He said he used his mother's maiden name because double S names work for artists--Matisse, Poussin, Rousseau |
Picasso
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I'll never forget this trio's 1986 Raising Hell tour that saw the Beastie Boys & LL Cool J open |
Run-DMC
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"Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears" is a chapter of this book in which Mr. Toad gets some bad news |
[Amar did not include the leading article in his response.]
The Wind in the Willows
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No. 7 on Time's "Top 10 End-of-the-World Prophecies" (3 squares) |
Y2K
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In 2023 Alan Alda auctioned off these identifiers he wore around his neck on "M*A*S*H" |
dog tags
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This force: Nov. 10, 1775, a month after the Navy it rides with |
(Has: Uh, who are the... SEALs?)
the Marines (Marine Corps)
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Maiden name of the political mom seen here |
(Amar: What is... Nixon?) (Ken: No, I'm sorry, her married name was [*]; she gave it to her son as a middle name.)
Milhous
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I rang in 2000 with this Vermont band as they lit the morning sky, incorporating "Sunrise" from "Also Sprach Zarathustra" in a jam |
(Has: Who are the Grateful Dead?) ... (Ken: Their successors, [*].)
Phish
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He jolted critics with a "Prufrock" simile: "The evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table" |
T.S. Eliot
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Online type of "authentication" (7 squares) |
(Has: Uh... what is... uh... 2 point?) (Anna Marie: What is a captcha?)
2-factor
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In 1933 a blindfolded kidnap victim deliberately left these all over the cabin where he was held by Machine Gun Kelly |
fingerprints
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Sept. 13, 1957: The first group meeting of this organization for those with a problem at the track or the tables |
Gamblers Anonymous
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Born in the USSR, he was just a little woodpusher when he adopted a Russified version of his mother's maiden name, Gasparyan |
Gary Kasparov
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I survived the legendary deluge at Glastonbury in 1997 & heard an epic version of "Creep" by these Brit rockers |
Radiohead
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In his "Farewell, My Lovely", a man about 6'5" in a yellow tie is "as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food" |
(Raymond) Chandler
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Enclosed Earth-like research facility in Arizona (10 squares) |
Biosphere 2
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In 1935 a criminologist & an ophthalmologist used the pattern of blood vessels in this eye part as an identifier |
the retina
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July 26, 1848: This university with alumni like Bud Selig & Frank Lloyd Wright |
the University of Wisconsin
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This Atlanta Historically Black College for women bears the maiden name of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s mother |
Spelman
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I didn't sleep after I saw the "Rust Never Sleeps" tour by this man and Crazy Horse in 1978 |
Neil Young
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