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    | In Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Maid of Pskov", this notorious 16th c. czar destroys the city of Novgorod | Ivan (the Terrible) 
 
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    | O'Casey & Yeats were both born in this capital | Dublin 
 
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    | Brat Pack detention in a 1985 film leads to a meal with 3 slices of toast, turkey, bacon & mayo | The Breakfast Club Sandwich 
 
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    | Mathew Brady learned about daugerreotypes from this coded inventor | Samuel Morse 
 
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    | Pulled behind a truck | towed (toad) 
 
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    | In "Maria Stuarda", this queen signs Mary Stuart's death warrant after being called a bastard | Queen Elizabeth I 
 
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    | This German city is on the Rhine River about 20 miles north of Cologne | (Miriam: What is Dresden?) 
 Dusseldorf
 
 
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    | Charlton Heston goes crazy when he finds out a revolutionary new foodstuff is "haricots verts" in French | (Alex: Haricots verts are green beans.) 
 Soylent Green Beans
 
 
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    | The government ordered 1,000 pistols from him during the Mexican War | Samuel Colt 
 
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    | Bread begins as this | dough (doe) 
 
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    | On Feb. 26, 1776 a fire destroyed Milan's Royal Ducal Theatre; this replaced it | (Todd: What is... sorry, I don't have it.) (Alex: The famous opera house of [*].)
 
 La Scala di Milano
 
 
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    | It occupies 18,600 square miles in the West Indies & shares its island home with another nation | (Alex: Yes, shares the island with Haiti.) 
 the Dominican Republic
 
 
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    | War is afoot in this Marx Brothers classic about the daily changing of broth at a restaurant | Duck Soup du Jour 
 
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    | He went to a J.C. Penney management training program; later he opened his own five-&-dime store in Arkansas | (Sam) Walton 
 
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    | Too sick, can't speak | hoarse (horse) 
 
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    | This Gian Carlo Menotti TV opera features a crippled boy, his mother & 3 kings: Kaspar, Melchior & Balthazar | Amahl and the Night Visitors 
 
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    | This Scottish river flows into the North Sea at Aberdeen | (Miriam: What is the Dundee?) ...
 (Alex: It's not the Dundee--just [*]... the river is [*].)
 
 the Dee
 
 
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    | Stephen King's tale of Nebraska young 'uns who go homicidal when a frankfurter is battered & put on a stick | Children of the Corn Dog 
 
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    | His diary gives a picture of Restoration London from Jan. 1, 1660 to May 31, 1669 | (Miriam: Who is Boswell?) 
 (Samuel) Pepys
 
 
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    | Trendy hair gel | (Alex: Don't you use it?  [*].) 
 mousse (moose)
 
 
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    | This Johann Strauss opera has appeared in several English versions, including "Night Birds" & "Rosalinda" | (Alex: But you know it much better as [*].) 
 Die Fledermaus
 
 
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    | Once part of the French Protectorate of Somaliland, this nation gained its independence in 1977 | Djibouti 
 
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    | "Larger" than life animated tale from Roald Dahl served as a dessert that sounds like it should be for shoe menders | James and the Giant Peach Cobbler 
 
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    | In the 1610s this explorer was made a commandant of New France | (Samuel de) Champlain 
 
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    | Blood pumper | heart (hart) 
 
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