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| REAL NAMES ON THE MARQUEE |
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| On Aug. 28, 1859 this natural resource was struck 69 feet below Titusville, Pennsylvania |
oil
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| In the past mirror cases & dagger handles were often carved from this tusk material |
ivory
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| Around 1900 DNA was extracted from calf thymus & this nucleic acid was extracted from yeast cells |
RNA (ribonucleic acid)
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| This Belgian capital was occupied by Germany during WWI & WWII |
Brussels
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| Of the 3 Darlings Peter Pan takes to Never Land, she's the oldest |
Wendy
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| Thomas Mapother IV & Demi Guynes in "A Few Good Men" |
Tom Cruise & Demi Moore
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| Samuel J. Tilden helped gather the evidence that ousted this "Boss" |
Boss Tweed
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| Germans called this "new art" style Jugendstil, after the art magazine Jugend, which means "youth" |
art nouveau
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| Polaris, the North Star, shines at the end of this constellation's handle |
(Wilson: What is the Big Dipper?) (Richard: What is Ursa Major?)
the Little Dipper
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| This city's St. Mark's Church became a cathedral in 1807; until then it had been the Doges' Chapel |
Venice
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| At the end of this Alice Walker novel, Celie is reunited with her children & her sister Nettie |
The Color Purple
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| Allen Stewart Konigsberg & Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow in "Husbands and Wives" |
Woody Allen & Mia Farrow
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| At about 9:30 P.M. on Oct. 8, 1871, it was noticed by a lookout on top of the Chicago courthouse |
(The Great Chicago) fire
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| Mechlin is a Flemish type of this delicate openwork fabric |
lace
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| Around 1590 he formulated the law of falling bodies, s=1/2gt squared |
(Wilson: Who was Newton?)
Galileo
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| This Swedish capital is located where Lake Malar empties into the Baltic |
Stockholm
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| After Catherine Earnshaw marries Edgar Linton, he marries Edgar's sister Isabella |
Heathcliff (from Wuthering Heights)
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| Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPiere & Nicolas Coppola in "Moonstruck" |
Cher & Nicolas Cage
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| From May 1933 until April 1947, Hoover Dam was known by this name |
(Richard: What was Grand Coulee Dam?)
Boulder Dam
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| As its name implies, it's the dominant background color of the porcelain known as famille jaune |
yellow
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| In 1851 Hermann von Helmholtz invented this instrument used to view the eye's interior |
ophthalmoscope
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| Lisbon became a center of the spice trade partly as a result of his discovery of a sea route to India |
(Albina: Who was Magellan?) ... (Alex: Less than a minute to go--Richard, make a selection.)
Vasco da Gama
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| Amber St. Clare is the title character of this 1944 novel by Kathleen Winsor |
Forever Amber
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| Norma Jean Mortenson & Yewell Tompkins in "The Seven Year Itch" |
(Richard: Who are Marilyn Monroe and...)
Marilyn Monroe & Tom Ewell
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| He returned to the Senate after losing the nomination to run with Lincoln a second time |
Hannibal Hamlin
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| Known for his strikingly simple designs, Georg Jensen was a famous silversmith from this country |
(Richard: What is Sweden?)
Denmark
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| The name of this shoulder muscle comes from the Greek letter it resembles |
(Richard: [No response])
deltoid
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| The European Parliament meets in Luxembourg & in this Alsatian city famous for its foie gras |
Strasbourg
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| Oleg Kostoglotov & Pavel Rusanov are among the patients in this poignant novel by Solzhenitsyn |
The Cancer Ward
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| Ermes Borgnino & Charles Buchinski in "The Dirty Dozen" |
Ernest Borgnine & Charles Bronson
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