A WORD IN A SHAKESPEARE PLAY TITLE |
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INITIALS FROM GREEK GOD TO ROMAN GOD |
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As a holiday it celebrates the halfway point of a harvest season |
(Eric: What is... Twelfth Night?) ... (Ken: What is [*], as in [*] Night's Dream?)
Midsummer
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Famous people named Al born in NYC in 1954 who at one point lost more than 100 pounds include Al Roker & this minister & activist |
Al Sharpton
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In 2019 officials at this New Mexico lab announced a $13 billion plan to ramp up production of plutonium cores |
Los Alamos
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Richard Price wrote gritty novels like "Ladies' Man" before writing for this Baltimore-set HBO show |
The Wire
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If you want to get a book off the Barents Shelf, you'll have to jump into this ocean |
the Arctic Ocean
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E to C: As mommy, Aphrodite was out & Venus was in for these 2 li'l guys |
Eros & Cupid
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The short-tailed variety of this insectivore uses toxic saliva to immobilize prey |
(Ken: Yes, "Taming of".)
a shrew
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In 1970 Annie Leibovitz got her 1st photo assignment from this magazine & boomer Bible: Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane |
Rolling Stone
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David Benioff wrote "City of Thieves" then co-created this fantasy show that ran from 2011 to 2019 |
(Ken: You beat Eric, that's correct.)
Game of Thrones
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Way down on the ocean floor, the process of subduction creates these, like the Java & Aleutian ones |
trenches
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H to M: When the gods absolutely, positively needed something delivered overnight (or sooner!), they were the dudes to call |
Hermes & Mercury
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Sir, please come back to the restaurant--instead of the customer copy, you kept the slip marked this "copy" |
(Ken: [*], as in "of Venice"...)
merchant
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Astronaut Kathryn Sullivan spent lots of time in orbit & was fittingly born on the day of the Bobby Thomson home run known as this |
the "Shot Heard 'Round the World"
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Back in 1989, this 3-letter drug was the only one approved for use against AIDS & it cost a shocking $8,000 per year |
AZT
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This TV show began as a script written by Michael Crichton about 24 hours in a hospital |
ER
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Also known as the Ganga Trough, the Swatch of No Ground is a haven for whales in this alliterative bay |
the Bay of Bengal
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D to B: With these 2, come for fruitfulness & vegetation, but stay for the wine & ecstasy |
Dionysus & Bacchus
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Pitching for the Yankees, Tommy John once committed 3 of these on one play |
(Ken: It was a real Comedy of [*] for Tommy John.)
errors
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As well as "Sin City", he's famous for creating "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns", but was a Superboy fan as a boomer kid |
(Frank) Miller
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Completed in 2003, this effort of mapping 3 billion base pairs of DNA in Homo sapiens cost about $2.7 billion |
the Human Genome Project
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This "Speed-the-plow" playwright & "House of Games" screenwriter also wrote the TV movie "Phil Spector" |
David Mamet
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The North Atlantic Gyre has 4 parts: the North Atlantic Current, the Canary Current, the North Equatorial Current & this warm flow |
(Eric: What is the jet current?)
the Gulf Stream
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H to J: These chief goddesses had their jealous moments in both civilizations |
Hera & Juno
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Woman: "I'm Beatrice Reiner. I stop at the hotel"; Groucho: "I'm Ronald Kornblow. I stop at" this |
nothing
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Oversized steel versions of inflatable pool toys are one consumer culture-influenced series by this artist |
Jeff Koons
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Its launch date--December 25, 2021; its cost at time of launch--$10 billion |
the James Webb (Space) Telescope
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Crime writer Walter Mosley lent his pen to this FX series about South Central drug dealer Franklin Saint |
(Neal: What is... Snowball?) [Neal appears to realize his mistake.] ... (Ken: Neal, I think you know what you did; one letter off; "What is [*]?")
Snowfall
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Named for an English explorer, this passage connects the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans south of South America |
(Laura: What is the Drake Pass?) [Ken does not rule.] (Laura: [*].)
the Drake Passage
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A to M: A word to the wise--they were equal opportunity as war goddesses |
(Neal: Ooh... uh... what is Ares & Mars?)
Athena to Minerva
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