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Lanford Wilson won a Pulitzer for "Talley's Folly" in 1980 & this Wilson won for "The Piano Lesson" in 1990 |
August Wilson
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Not England's Elizabeth I, but Russia's Elizabeth I was the daughter of this "Great" czar |
(James: Who is Catherine the Great?) ... (Alex: She could have been a czar!)
Peter the Great
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Caused in part by sulfur dioxide emissions, it has "killed" 500 bodies of water in the Adirondacks |
acid rain
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Now Ho Chi Minh City, it was this as the capital of South Vietnam |
Saigon
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The evidence is clear, he played Quincy |
Jack Klugman
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Things are this if they are like Sir Thomas More's perfect island |
(Alan: What is Utopia?) ... (Alex: We're going for the adjective, not the book.)
utopian
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He noted, "The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty" in his preface to "Major Barbara" |
George Bernard Shaw
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He wasn't England's Henry VIII, but Henry VIII of Bavaria who was also this empire's Henry IV |
(Gina: What is Austria-Hungary?)
the Holy Roman Empire
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After 1961, when its namesake fell out of favor, this city was known as Volgograd |
Stalingrad
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Everything was shipshape & passionate when he played Capt. Merrill Stubing |
Gavin MacLeod
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Resembling the totalitarian future described in "1984" |
orwellian
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His play "Glengarry Glen Ross" had its world premiere at the National Theatre in London in 1983 |
David Mamet
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Not to be confused with the Roman emperor, Constantine II was the last king of this nation in 1973 |
(Alan: What is Romania?) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Greece
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The "Coast" was clear for this old name for Ghana before its independence in 1957 |
the Gold Coast
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He's gone comically where no alien has gone before as Dick Solomon |
John Lithgow
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"Like the impractical idealist in a Cervantes satire" reduces to this adjective |
quixotic
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He wrote "Tea Party" & "The Birthday Party" -- what a party animal! |
Harold Pinter
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Unlike England's "Merry Monarch" Charles II, this country's Charles II was "El Hechizado", The Bewitched |
Spain
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At a warm one you get regular rain; at a cold one, thunderstorms |
a front
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Also used of some "bargains", this adjective means "similar to Goethe's soul seller" |
(Alan: What is false?)
faustian
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He collaborated on his hit comedy "Beggar On Horseback" with Marc Connelly, not Moss Hart |
(Alex: Good work in the category!)
George S. Kaufman
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Unlike feelings toward France's Louis XVI, Louis I of this country was known as "Lajos The Great" |
Hungary
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Orographic precipitation is caused by moist air rising over one or more of these, oros in Greek |
mountains
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Out with the old! For 300 years before 1925, Oslo was known as this |
(Alex: We have a minute to go, Alan.)
Christiania
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Gomer could tell you this actor played Goober Pyle |
George Lindsey
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In a word, "like Pantagruel's father" |
gargantuan
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