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    | Until the 2000s, cities like Herat & Kandahar in this country were not often seen in Western news | 
    Afghanistan
 
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    | IANAL, but if I were one I'd be part of this class, the opposite of amateur | 
    [Alex reads "IANAL" as "I am not a lawyer".]
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    | Jason Sudeikis' uncle is George Wendt, best known as bar patron Norm on this beloved sitcom | 
    Cheers
 
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    | These chants are named for a man who was pope from 590 to 604 | 
    Gregorian chants
 
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    | This kid lit bear said, "When you go after honey with a balloon, the great thing is not to let the bees know you're coming" | 
    Winnie the Pooh
 
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    | Spend money on a service & bark noisily | 
    pay/yap
 
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    | Islam Karimov is president of Uzbekistan, & Uzbekis are predominantly of this branch of Islam | 
    Sunni
 
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    | Dad makes big $? Yr family is in this class w/name of a pie layer | 
    [Alex reads "$" as "bucks" and "yr" as "your".]
  the upper crust
 
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    | One of Nicolas Cage's cousins is this woman who directed "Lost in Translation" & "Marie Antoinette" | 
    Sofia Coppola
 
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    | Byzantine chant is mainly practiced by this one of the 3 main branches of Christianity | 
    Eastern Orthodox
 
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    | He once said, "Float like a butterfly & sting like a bee, George can't hit what his hands can't see" | 
    Muhammad Ali
 
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    | Angry & a horse's mom | 
    (Anne: What is--irate and--mare and--)
  mad/dam
 
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    | In August 1991 Tajikistan's pres. Mahkamov quit after he was linked to the failed coup against this man in Russia | 
    Gorbachev
 
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    | This head servant OTD? BOL finding a new one | 
    [Alex reads "OTD" as "out the door" and "BOL" as "best of luck".]
  the butler
 
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    | This "Blurred Lines" singer is the son of "Growing Pains" star Alan | 
    Robin Thicke
 
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    | Priests chant the name of the god Ptah in the last scene of this opera | 
    Aida
 
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    | Sue Monk Kidd said in this book that women make the best beekeepers because they can "love creatures that sting" | 
    The Secret Life of Bees
 
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    | Distinguished female opera singer & enthusiastic | 
    diva & avid
 
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    | Ashgabat, the capital city of this Stan, lies near its southern border with Iran | 
    Turkmenistan
 
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    | NK, this bureau sez 46m Americans now in poverty | 
    [Alex reads "NK" as "no kidding".]
  the Census
 
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    | "World War Z" author Max Brooks is the son of Mel Brooks & this late actress | 
    Anne Bancroft
 
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    | The Mozarabic chant was sung by Christians living under Islamic rule on this peninsula around 711 A.D. | 
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    | In "Henry V" Shakespeare mentions "the lazy yawning" this bee that dies after mating | 
    (Alex: Talkin' about the poor [*].)
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    | Beastly home & Mideast currency | 
    (Alex: Patrick?) (Patrick: Um...) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
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    | Kazakhstan is on the Caspian Sea & this so-called "sea" that has shrunk from 26,000 square miles to a tenth of that | 
    (Alex: That's right, with less than a minute to go.)
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    | Per treasury sec, L/T prosperity "depends on an expanding, vibrant" this class | 
    [Alex reads "sec" as "secretary" and "L/T" as "long term".]
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    | Music legend Quincy Jones is the father of this co-star of "Parks and Recreation" | 
    Rashida Jones
 
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    | The "Dark Side of the Chant" album features this Carl Orff work with a Latin title, used in menacing movie scenes | 
    (Alex: That's it, better known as Carmina Burana.)
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    | He wrote, "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree... and live alone in the bee-loud glade" | 
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