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In 1805 he visited Rome & possibly made a vow on Monte Sacro to free the Spanish colonies of America |
Bolívar
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This site began as a 12th century fortress on the Rive Droite; in 1546 Francis I began construction on the palace we now know |
(Ken: Now it's a museum; in fact it's [*].)
the Louvre
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This part of a snail gets bigger as the snail gets older, with new coils, or whorls, being added over time |
its shell
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The Swedish word for this type of space reserved for bro leisure means "male kindergarten" |
a man cave
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"Bleach" is the debut studio album from this grunge band |
Nirvana
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A Hindi word for "to press" likely led to this word for the product we use on our hair before applying conditioner |
shampoo
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Also known as Cent Jours, this period ended in big trouble for Napoleon |
the Hundred Days
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A former mattress warehouse is now a Museum of Contemporary Art in this Pennsylvania city |
(Ken: Jimmy McGuire will be so disappointed--what is [*]?)
Pittsburgh
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A jellyfish stings via nematocysts, barbed tubes that deploy venom upon contact with this part of the jelly-body |
the tentacles
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If your life were a Jane Austen novel, you'd remove yourself to this room whose full name starts with "with" |
(Ken: The drawing room was once [*].)
the withdrawing room
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In the 1945 novel "Sparkling Cyanide" by this author, an heiress is poisoned in the West End & Colonel Race is on the case |
Agatha Christie
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From Thai, it's a 3-letter Buddhist temple, like the Phra Kaew |
(Ken: What is [*]? [Spells it.])
a wat
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John Zephaniah Holwell said, "I will not attempt to describe" his night in this tiny dungeon in India; then he did, in a 1758 book |
the Black Hole of Calcutta
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Much of the "squid ink" used in cooking is actually ink from these fellow cephalopods, slower than squids & with W-shaped pupils |
(Rocco: Uh, what are octopuses?)
cuttlefish
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Realtor euphemisms for "small room with a toilet" include "half bath" & this type of room, also where one zhuzhed one's wig |
a powder room
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The cover of the 181st issue of "Batman" exclaims, "Trouble Between the Dynamic Duo!" & "Beware of" this character! |
Poison Ivy
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From Cantonese, it's served around brunch time; the "OED" notes early uses in English around the turn of the 20th century |
dim sum
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In the early 1900s the Herero & Nama genocide occurred in German South West Africa, now this country |
Namibia
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As its name suggests it was once an administrative office for the Medicis; now it houses Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" |
(Ken: ... now a museum in Florence.)
the Uffizi Gallery
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Some stuff you can't make up--certain types of this salad veggie of the ocean can shoot innards out their butts to entangle predators |
sea cucumbers
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This French word for a woman's bedroom literally means "a place to sulk in"; we're guessing some man chose the name |
boudoir
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This actor, Imhotep in 1932's "The Mummy", played the bad dude Jonathan Brewster in the play "Arsenic & Old Lace" |
Boris Karloff
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From Japanese, it's an enigma or riddle familiar to Zen monks & their acolytes |
a koan
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Term for fancy-uniformed cavalry troops; in 1610 "winged" Polish ones scored a victory at the Battle of Klushino |
the Hussars
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The Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House is now home to the New York City branch of the NMAI, National Museum of this |
(Rocco: Of the [*]?) (Ken: No.) (Rocco: National Museum--What is the National Museum of [*]?) (Ken: Sorry, no, I ruled against you already.) ... (Ken: Form of a question, Rocco.)
the American Indian
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All you need is love... unless you're this kind of critter in phylum Porifera, in which case you need ocean currents to bring you food |
the sponges
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Of the rooms where Professor Plum sometimes committed board game murders, it's the one sometimes known as a greenhouse |
(Klay: What is... I--I got nothing.)
the Conservatory
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Releasing a euphoric stimulant similar to nicotine, this nut that's chewed in Asia has a name from Malayalam |
the betel nut
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