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    | A court said 1998's Dickey-Wicker Amendment clearly bans federal funding for research on these embryonic cells | stem cells 
 
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    | "I'm stayin' up all night hopin', hittin' my head against the wall", this "Animal" gal raps on "Your Love Is My Drug" | Ke$ha 
 
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    | Melpomene is the muse of tragedy & her sister Thalia, of this | comedy 
 
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    | Smith College students can sip this at the Haymarket Cafe, knowing it's what "cafe" means | coffee 
 
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    | This telegraph inventor was a charter trustee of Vassar College | Morse 
 
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    | The administration had trouble getting a moratorium on deepwater this past Judge Feldman | (Hans: What is Deepwater Horizon?) 
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    | On Jay Sean's hit "Down", this "diminutive" guy steps in to rap, "Honestly, I'm down like the economy" | Lil Wayne 
 
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    | Urania, the muse of this science, is sometimes shown wearing a cloak embroidered with stars | astronomy 
 
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    | Bring your sonnets to the Rye Bar in Athens, Georgia on Mondays-- it's this "night" for unscheduled performers | (Erin: What is amateur night?) (Hans: Oh!--what is Shakespeare?)
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    | During a trip to Europe in 1804, this South American liberator vowed to fight for independence from Spain | BolĂvar 
 
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    | In July a judge blocked major provisions of this Southwestern state's SB 1070 | Arizona 
 
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    | On "Miss Me", this Degrassi alum raps, "I'll be at my table stackin' dollars to the perfect height" | Drake 
 
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    | Clio is the muse of this & is often depicted with a scroll, perhaps to record the deeds of men through the ages | history 
 
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    | The Cougar Cottage is convenient to this Pacific Northwest campus in Pullman | Washington State 
 
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    | At the Diet of Worms in 1521, he said, "I cannot and will not retract anything" | Martin Luther 
 
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    | To swing like a pendulum (9) | oscillate 
 
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    | A court nixed these on Utah public roads to honor fallen state troopers--they imply a state religious bias | crosses 
 
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    | This rapper born Calvin Broadus teamed with The-Dream on "Gangsta Luv" | Snoop Dogg 
 
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    | This patron of epic poetry is usually pictured with a writing tablet, not a steam-powered circus instrument | Calliope 
 
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    | Governor Charlie Crist has been known to stop in at Big Daddy's, famed as a hangout for this school | (Lea: What is [*]?) (Alex: Hey, amazing!  Way to go!)
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    | This woman who led the birth control movement in the early 1900s was a founder of what became Planned Parenthood | (Margaret) Sanger 
 
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    | In August a Montana federal judge ruled that these predators may not be hunted | wolves 
 
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    | On "Love The Way You Lie", Eminem raps, "Now you get to watch her leave out the window/Guess that's why they call it" this | (Alex: That's why they call it [*], [*].) [Audience groans.]
 (Alex: Oh yeah, Lea...)
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 (Lea: It was funny!)
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    | The name of this muse is from the Greek for "delighting in dance" | Terpsichore 
 
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    | Long night of, uh, studying at this College Park school? How about a feta omelette at Plato's Diner | the University of Maryland 
 
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    | For a time, this French author & philosopher lived at the court of Prussian king Frederick the Great | Voltaire 
 
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    | Barrier, as to justice (11)
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