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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
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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
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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)
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 earl
 
 
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    | Epic trilogy about Sauron, supreme master of oil derricks | Lord of the Rigs 
 
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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
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 (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!)
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 (Alex: [*], yes.  If you commit [*], you're saying sayonara!)
 
 seppuku
 
 
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