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  | HE WHO LIVES BY THE SWORD... |  
   
 
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    | Liquid ammonia has a high boiling point because it's held together by the strong bond named for hydrogen, atomic number this | 
    one
 
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    | Seth Rogen voiced a mantis & Dustin Hoffman a small red panda in this 2008 movie | 
    Kung Fu Panda
 
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    At the top: Prince Andrew is the one of York | 
    duke
 
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    | Jules Verne title trip that's undergone a letter drop & been shortened by 90% | 
    (Vijay: What is 2,000 Leagues Under the Sea?) (Becki: [Shakes head]) (Alex: Ohhh, you're not going to get it either.)
  Around the World in Eight Days
 
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    | Legend says Attila the Hun wielded the sword of this Roman war god | 
    Mars
 
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    | Ordinarily, this hyphenated type of murder involves the lack of premeditation | 
    (Becki: What is suicide-murder?) ... (Alex: We need an "S"; "What is [*]?")
  second-degree murder
 
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    | Voiced by John Cleese, King Harold of "Shrek" fame was originally one of these small creatures | 
    a frog
 
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    No. 2: Boxing fan John Sholto Douglas was one of Queensberry | 
    a marquess
 
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    | Dickens parable about the beer in Paris & London | 
    An Ale of Two Cities
 
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    | This 8th & 9th c. ruler's supposed sword, Joyeuse, is kept in the Louvre | 
    Charlemagne
 
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    | Of the 1,500 species of these arachnids with curved tails & venomous stingers, only 50 are dangerous to humans | 
    scorpions
 
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    | Nitrogen molecules are linked by 2 bonds called this, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter | 
    pi
 
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    | Chemicals turn Lily Tomlin into this title "Woman" in a 1981 Joel Schumacher film | 
    (Becki: Who was the spider-woman?)
  The Incredible Shrinking Woman
 
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    No. 3:  His wife is a countess (don't say count) | 
    (Shelby: [*]--what is [*]?)
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    | Epic trilogy about Sauron, supreme master of oil derricks | 
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    | In an old poem, Unferth gives this title hero the sword called Hrunting | 
    (Alex: And we have less than a minute to finish the round.)
  Beowulf
 
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    | From the Latin for "choke" & "throat" comes this word meaning "to impede the respiration of" | 
    (Becki: What is strangle?)
  suffocate
 
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    | The return of 2 kidnapped fairies played by Emi & Yumi Ito caused this winged creature to stop destroying Tokyo | 
    Mothra
 
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    | No. 4:  It has a silent consonant | 
    viscount
 
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    | This Flaubert heroine just can't stop making eggs | 
    Madame Ovary
 
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    | William Wallace likely used one of these large swords that shares a name with a type of land mine | 
    a claymore
 
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    | This poisonous substance that has a number in its name comes from a type of nightshade | 
    strychnine
 
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    | Some compounds with nice smells, like benzene, have bonds called this, a term used to describe perfume | 
    aromatic
 
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    | This 1987 film finds Dennis Quaid as a shrunken test pilot mistakenly injected into Martin Short's body | 
    (Shelby: What is Fantastic Voyage?)
  Innerspace
 
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    No. 5:  The first of the 5 alphabetically | 
    (Alex: And you have amassed a considerable amount of money, $13,000.  You said, uh, a True Daily Double earlier.) (Shelby: Ohhh, not gonna do that this time, Alex.  Uh, let me bet $2,000.) ... (Shelby: [Exhales] What is... earl?) (Alex: Nope; the letter "B"--"What is [*]?")
  baron
 
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    | This ghostly Henry James story refers to a vase designed to hold threaded fasteners | 
    The Urn of the Screw
 
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    | I'll come clean & tell you this early English king's sword Curtana had no point & was dubbed the Sword of Mercy | 
    Edward the Confessor
 
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    | It's another Japanese word for hara-kiri | 
    (Shelby: Um... what is sayonara?) (Alex: No.) [Shelby and Becki laugh.] (Alex: But it's a way of saying sayonara!) ... (Alex: [*], yes.  If you commit [*], you're saying sayonara!)
  seppuku
 
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