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Leo Szilard's term for the fission process where 1 neutron breaks an atom in 2, which splits more atoms... |
a chain reaction
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1969: "Kid, there's something I ought to tell you. I never shot anybody before" |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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Of 10, 15 or 20, Lady Jane Grey's age when she became Queen of England |
15
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The 6th floor of this landmark opened in 1932 is designated "Rockette Operations" |
Radio City Music Hall
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Milkman is the son of Ruth & Macon Dead in her novel "Song of Solomon" |
Toni Morrison
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Humans have 23 pairs of these threadlike structures |
chromosomes
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A wheel's resistance to stopping its turning motion is called "rotational" this |
(David: What is friction?)
inertia
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1991: "Hi, Curly. Killed anyone today?" |
(David: What is...) ... (Alex: [*], yes, with Billy Crystal.)
City Slickers
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Lady Jane and her husband Lord Dudley were beheaded for treason at this complex on February 12, 1554 |
the Tower of London
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Primarily designed by Edmund Wooley & Andrew Hamilton, it has also been called the State House of Pennsylvania |
(Mia: What is Tammany Hall?)
Independence Hall
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In 2004 Oprah picked this author's "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" for her book club |
Carson McCullers
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In 2001 Sharon Stone's husband suffered a crushed toe when attacked by this huge lizard at a zoo |
a komodo dragon
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If you whip up a fresh batch of thorium-232 today, in 14 billion years this portion of its atoms will have decayed |
(Alex: Yes, the [*]-life. 14 billion years.)
half
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1952: "The public doesn't give a damn about integrity. A town that won't defend itself deserves no help" |
High Noon
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After Lady Jane's short reign, this Tudor queen, her cousin, took power & had her arrested |
Mary
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In the early 1870s, "Honest" Jack Kelly became the new "Boss" of this organization |
(Kerry: Thanks, Mia!) (Alex: One clue too early, Mia, sorry.)
Tammany Hall
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Her 1997 bestseller "violin" might keep you up nights; not the playing of it, the reading of it |
Anne Rice
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Tedium, or wearisome lack of variety |
monotony
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This effect, the emission of electrons from a heated metal in a vacuum, is named for an American inventor |
the Edison effect
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1992: "I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned" |
(Kerry: What is The Unforgiven?) ... (Alex: The Unforgiven was the Burt Lancaster film many years ago.)
Unforgiven
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Leading to her historic nickname, it was the length in days of Lady Jane's reign |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
9
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In 1742 a local merchant gave this "Cradle of Liberty" to the City of Boston |
Faneuil Hall
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"Slouching Towards Bethlehem" is a 1968 collection of essays by her |
Joan Didion
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He wrote "World's Fair" & "Billy Bathgate" |
E.L. Doctorow
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He figured out moving bodies on or above the Earth tend to drift sideways, so the "effect" bears his name |
(Mia: Who is Doppler?)
(Gaspard-Gustave de) Coriolis
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James Roosevelt Bayley, a Roman Catholic bishop, founded this private New Jersey university in 1856 |
Seton Hall
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Born in Fort Worth, Texas, she wrote "Strangers on a Train" & "The Talented Mr. Ripley" |
Patricia Highsmith
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To ascribe human form or attributes to an animal or an inanimate object |
anthropomorphism
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