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On May 19, 1536 this second wife of Henry VIII very suddenly became his ex-wife |
Anne Boleyn
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In 1928 Donald Duncan had the idea to market this toy & saw its popularity explode |
(Ken: Yeah, you beat Natalie to the toy clue.)
the yo-yo
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Ellis Island immigrants Abe Beame & William O'Dwyer rose to this office, like Fiorello La Guardia, who was an interpreter there |
(Drew: Um, um... inspector?) (Maryl: What is mayor?) (Ken: Can you be more specific?)
mayor of New York City
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It's heeeeeere... it, being this type of ghost that causes physical disturbances |
a poltergeist
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By definition, it's a substance that can't be chemically decomposed into a simpler one |
an element
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King Oliver mentored this jazz great nicknamed Satchmo, bringing him up to Chicago |
Armstrong
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This captain for whom a large Canadian city is named mapped the coast of California & Puget Sound |
Vancouver
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Toulouse-Lautrec immortalized Jane Avril doing a high kick of this dance |
the can-can
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It's been debunked that this often happened at Ellis Island--inspectors just verified info from ship manifests |
(Maryl: What is quarantining?) ... (Ken: Names were not actually changed at Ellis Island, for the most part.)
names changed
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U2 could tell you it's a German word for "attention", baby! |
(Ken: Jawohl.)
achtung
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There are dynamic, thermodynamic & chemical types of this state of balance |
equilibrium
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Kansas City jazz in the '30s featured arrangements with these repeated syncopated phrases, a word possibly from "refrain" |
riff
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The Pax Romana, or Roman peace, which lasted for more than 200 years, began with his reign in 27 B.C. |
Augustus
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The French author Colette created this title girl whose story was turned into an Oscar-winning film in 1958 |
Gigi
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In 2008 the museum's library was named for this ski-nosed comedian who came through Ellis Island as a 4-year-old |
(Ken: This is Bob "the Ellis Island's library is named for me" Hope.)
Bob Hope
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A German "car path"; I feel like this word will come to you super-fast |
Autobahn
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When an electron absorbs a photon & moves to a higher energy state, it's said to be in this agitated condition |
excited
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"Ornithology" by this saxophonist is sort of a jazzy remix of the standard "How High The Moon" |
Parker
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Empress Wu Zhao, the only woman to rule China in her own right, added a little zest to this dynasty beginning in 690 |
the Tang Dynasty
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Dorado can also be called dolphinfish, or this Hawaiian name |
mahi-mahi
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More detainments occurred due to trachoma, a contagious condition of this organ, than any other ailment |
(Maryl: What are... the lungs?)
the eye
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Meaning synthetic, artificial or fake, this German word could've been in an "ENDS WITH 'Z'" category |
ersatz
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Acids & bases are among these current-conducting fluids |
electrolytes
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Live in Berlin, Ella Fitzgerald scatted her way through this standard from "The Threepenny Opera" |
"Mack The Knife"
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Builder of Egypt's first pyramid & later worshipped as a god of medicine; his name lives on in the "Mummy" movies |
Imhotep
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The repeating name of this island in French Polynesia comes from words meaning "first born" |
Bora Bora
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Emma Goldman, who wrote a book titled this political -ism, didn't enter the U.S. at Ellis Island but was deported via it in 1919 |
anarchism
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This word for broken-down & completely useless ends with a double T in German; we just use one |
kaput
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Partly from Greek for "heat", it's a cold-blooded animal |
an ectotherm
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Dizzy Gillespie played in the band of this alliterative scat singer who wasn't hip to Diz's bebopping |
(Maryl: Who is Ellington?)
Cab Calloway
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