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| "Hellhound on His Trail" tells of "The Stalking of" this civil rights leader & "the International Hunt for His Assassin" |
Martin Luther King
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| A Delmonico's menu from 1899 offers 4 varieties of this: ruddy, red-head, canvas-back & mallard |
duck
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| In 2011 the U.S. envoy to Mexico quit over remarks in the diplomatic messages known by this old-fashioned name |
embassy cables
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| Nyingma & Kagyu are the major Bhutanese sects of this religion practiced by about 75% of the population |
Buddhism
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| "West Side Story" |
Romeo and Juliet
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| Hagiolatry is the worship of these, maybe of Peter, Paul & Agatha |
saints
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| Piper Kerman chronicles her year in prison in this color "is the New Black" |
Orange
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| A Christmas 1926 British army menu lists the food in small black type & this 4-letter beverage in much larger red type |
beer
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| Last name of the USA's current U.N. ambassador; it was also the last name of a Bush Secretary of State |
(Alex: Susan [*].)
Rice
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| Unified in 1907, Bhutan didn't ratify one of these until 2008 |
a constitution
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| "Throne of Blood" |
(Alex: Margie?) (Margie: What is King Lear?) (Alex: No. It was Akira Kurosawa's film based on [*].)
Macbeth
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| It's a device used in threshing grain as well as a verb meaning to wave your arms wildly & uselessly |
(Alex: Margie?) (Margie: [No response])
a flail
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| Daniel Yergin won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Prize", about "The Epic Quest" for this commodity |
oil
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| The August 23, 1941 menu from this Hollywood eatery named for a colored hat offered a 95-cent tenderloin steak |
the Brown Derby
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| Admiral Raymond Spruance won the 1944 battle of the sea named for this island country to which he was later ambassador |
the Philippines
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| Bhutan's big event of 2011 came when the king took this--just one, unlike his father, who had 4 |
a wife
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| "Forbidden Planet" |
The Tempest
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| Oddly, this term for a native-born Israeli comes from a Hebrew word for "prickly pear" |
sabra
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| She covered the aftermath of her husband's death in "The Year of Magical Thinking" & of her daughter's in "Blue Nights" |
Joan Didion
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| In 1906 this San Francisco hotel fed the birds--to the customers, that is; chicken & squab were on the menu |
the St. Francis Hotel
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| Duff Cooper mediated between Churchill & de Gaulle as Britain's representative to the free French in this N. African city |
Algiers
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| The ngultrum, which is subdivided into chetrums, is the national this |
currency
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| Something campaniform is shaped like this noise-making object |
a bell
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| Richard Dawkins hit the bestseller list with the pro-atheism book called "The God" this |
Delusion
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| In 1945 this ex-heavyweight champ's NYC restaurant offered a $1.75 roast prime sirloin dinner |
(Dennis: Who is Joe Louis?) ... (Alex: We're talking about [*] in New York City, not Joe Louis in Detroit.)
Jack Dempsey
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| Bhutan is divided into 3 major regions, the Duars Plain & the Great & Lesser these |
Himalayas
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| In medicine, it's the 4-letter term for the craving or ingestion of such non-food items as dirt, chalk or paint chips |
pica
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