MASON, DIXON, & THEIR LINE |
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THEY CO-STARRED WITH LEO DiCAPRIO |
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On Nov. 15, 1763 Mason & Dixon arrived in this Pennsylvania city & shortly headed west |
(Alex: Pick an obvious one, [*].)
Philadelphia
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Geologically active, Venus has more of these, like Sif Mons, than any other planet in the Solar System |
volcanoes
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That dreamy Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a dream of a movie |
Inception
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These orchestral works by Anton Bruckner, like the 90-minute No. 8, are classics of postromanticism |
symphonies
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Each July Gilroy, California celebrates this pungent herb with a festival of food & fun |
garlic
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This type of "joke" or "gag" recurs in a play for cumulative comic effect |
running
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M & D used an instrument called a zenith sector for determining degrees of this north of the equator |
[Alex reads "M & D" as "Mason & Dixon".]
latitude
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Venus' atmosphere is 96% this compound that makes up just .037% of Earth's; no wonder its globe has warmed |
carbon dioxide
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Jack Nicholson as a Boston gangster |
The Departed
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In the late 300s Prudentius went postclassical with poems combining this religion with traditional Latin forms |
Christianity
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Not Texas but Ridgway, Penn. is home each February to a wood-carving competition using these power tools |
a chainsaw
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Any sudden help, or food miraculously supplied to the Israelites in Exodus |
manna
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Jeremiah Dixon was a surveyor & Charles Mason was employed by the Royal Society in Greenwich in this capacity |
(Alex: He was [*].)
an astronomer
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Cate Blanchett as Ketharine Hepburn, darling |
The Aviator
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In the 1960s Robert Venturi pioneered the eclectic style of architecture called post-this |
postmodernism
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This liquor flows for 6 days at a September festival celebrating it in Bardstown, Kentucky |
(Drew: What is whiskey?) (Alex: Be more specific.) (Drew: What is [*]?) (Alex: [*] whiskey, yes.)
Bourbon
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Any plant having a life cycle of more than 2 years |
(Kathleen: What's a biennial?) (Drew: What is an annual?)
a perennial
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As a border between free & slave states, "Mason-Dixon line" was first used in debates over this 1820 compromise |
the Missouri Compromise
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Tennyson's "Crossing The Bar" begins, "Sunset and" this item in the sky that's really Venus |
(Drew: What is the Morning Star?) ... (Alex: [*] for Tennyson, yes.)
the Evening Star
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Daniel Day-Lewis in a period piece |
Gangs Of New York
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Not yet 30, Picasso was in the groundbreaking 1910 London art show "Manet and" this group |
(Drew: Who are the impressionists?) (Alex: No.) (Drew: Who are [*]?) (Alex: Rob?) (Rob: [*]. Who are [*]?) (Alex: Yes, I ruled on your first statement, Drew, you said "impressionists," and I believe I said "No," and then you corrected yourself.)
the postimpressionists
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"How many CC you got?" might be heard at the 75-year-old Sturgis, South Dakota rally for these transports |
motorcycles
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This recent addition to English means a male whose job is child care |
a manny
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At 5-mile intervals, stones featured the Coat of Arms of the Penn family on one side, this Maryland family on the other |
the Calverts
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The size of South America, a highland surface area on Venus is named for this Greek goddess |
(Alex: You picked the right one--way to go!)
Aphrodite
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Djimon Hounsou, in Africa |
Blood Diamond
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On this American's death in 2009, the London Times called him "the greatest postwar novelist in English" |
John Updike
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Each year the International Balloon Fiesta held in this southwest city features a mass ascension |
(Alex: [*] and it's a spectacular sight.)
Albuquerque
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To separate grain from chaff using wind |
(Drew: What is to furrow?) (Alex: No, what is [*]? It's gotta have double-"N"--not double-"R".)
winnow
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