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    | The Battle of Hydaspes in 326 B.C. opened the way for this conqueror to enter India | Alexander the Great 
 
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    | This onetime member of "The View" was once an assistant D.A. in Brooklyn | Star Jones 
 
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    | Roderigo & Iago enter at the start of this tragedy | Othello 
 
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    | It's "the game that ties you up in knots" | Twister 
 
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    | In 1968 Bayer introduced vitamins named for this fictional family | the Flintstones 
 
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    | The range of your investments, or a thin case to hold drawings | a portfolio 
 
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    | She played Alyson Hannigan's sister in "American Wedding" before becoming a '60s wife on TV | January Jones 
 
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    | The first direction in this play: "Enter Kent, Gloucester, and Edmund"
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    | Anthony Pratt, a solicitor's clerk, invented this classic whodunit board game | Clue 
 
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    | Linus Pauling's 1970 book was on "Vitamin C and" this ailment; by 1979 he'd moved up to "Cancer and Vitamin C" | the common cold 
 
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    | Lewis & Clark had to resort to this, carrying boats overland | portage 
 
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    | Crecy in 1346 is believed to be the first European battle where this substance was used; business was booming | gunpowder 
 
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    | Seen here, she's been part of the awkward humor of "The Office" & "Parks & Recreation" | Rashida Jones 
 
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    | To start this play, Theseus says, "Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace" | A Midsummer Night's Dream 
 
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    | The name of this word search game with lettered cubes means "bewilder" | Boggle 
 
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    | 1921 saw the creation of this organization for which a Manhattan bus terminal is named | the Port Authority 
 
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    | U.S. success got the 1944 battle of this national-named sea the nickname "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" | the Philippine Sea 
 
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    | Like Dylan Thomas, she is from Swansea & named her production company Milkwood after one of Thomas' plays | Catherine Zeta-Jones 
 
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    | Philo's first speech in this play includes the line "The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool" | (Alex: Tom?) (Tom: What is Julius Caesar?)
 (Alex: No, you're in the right period, but it was [*].)
 
 Antony and Cleopatra
 
 
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    | This game is sort of an upright version of Tic-Tac-Toe, using checkers dropped into a grid | Connect Four 
 
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    | This vitamin is commonly given to newborns to prevent bleeding problems | vitamin K 
 
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    | From the Latin for "gate", it's a columned entranceway | a portico 
 
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    | After the Battle of Fort Stevens, Jubal Early said, "We didn't take Washington, but we scared" this man "like hell" | (Abe) Lincoln 
 
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    | This Broadway actress seen here lent her acting chops to "24" | Cherry Jones 
 
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    | Antonio, the title character of this play, gets its first line: "In sooth I know not why I am so sad"
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    | The "popomatic" keeps you from having to find lost dice playing this Milton Bradley race & chase game | Trouble 
 
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    | Your liver converts beta-carotene into this vitamin | vitamin A 
 
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    | This large iron grating covered the entrance to many medieval castles | the portcullis 
 
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