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    (Deborah: What is turquoise?) (Mark: What is, uh, emerald?)
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    | In 1959's "Some Like It Hot", this then 30-year-old historic event begins the movie & sends our heroes into drag | 
    (Erik: What is the Great Depression?)
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    | This "Bar at the Folies-Bergere" artist painted several portraits of Impressionist Berthe Morisot, his sister-in-law | 
    (Deborah: Who is Toulouse-Lautrec?)
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    | This Joyce novel is about a trip to a bath, funeral, library, maternity hospital & brothel | 
    Ulysses
 
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    | Kernite, a major source of borax, is named for Kern County in this California desert where it is mined | 
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    | Peggy was the real name of this 1950s non-human co-star of Ronald Reagan | 
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    | His 1911 painting "I and the Village" uses the simple shapes of Russian folk art | 
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    | They're the Rose Bowl champs, having beaten Penn State 38-24 | 
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    | It ends, "His... throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack" | 
    The Call of the Wild
 
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    | To find this type of dictionary on your computer, double click the Alex icon | 
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    | In response to criticism of her roles, this 1939 Oscar winner said, "I'd rather play a maid than be one" | 
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    Fra Filippo Lippi
 
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    | By Obama's choice, he remained Secretary of Defense | 
    (Robert) Gates
 
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    | "The Last Chronicle of Barset" ends this Victorian author's Barsetshire series | 
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    | Carrara, Italy is famous for its quarries of this rock | 
    marble
 
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    | When the star wasn't available, his brother Joe Estevez was brought in to do voiceovers on this 1979 film | 
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    | When he first came to Hoboken from Holland, this abstract Expressionist, who died at 93, painted houses | 
    (Erik: Who is Jackson Pollock?)
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    | The only 2 Dow stocks to rise in 2008 were McDonald's, which posted a 6% gain, & this retail giant, up 18% | 
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    | Yvonne tries to save her husband Geoffrey on the Day of the Dead in this Malcolm Lowry novel | 
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    | I said I'd found this type of cast gold bar, spurring others to look as well | 
    ingot (in spurring others)
 
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    | Obsidian is described as having this type of luster, from the Latin for "glassy" | 
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    | This 2004 biblical tale had the biggest U.S. gross of any film in a foreign language | 
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    | Capturing the frothy essence of the Rococo style, "The Swing" by this painter is seen here | 
    (Deborah: Who is Watteau?)
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    | They're the 2 states that seated only one senator each for the opening of the 111th Congress in 2009 | 
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    | "In the Belly of the Beast" is a prison memoir by Jack Henry Abbott, a protege of this writer who died in November 2007 | 
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    | To the fear of a cholera epidemic Robert Koch helped put a stop, discovering this type of tiny pathogen | 
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