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    | This "Iliad" poet often refers to "The Wine-Dark Sea" | 
    Homer
 
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    1997: "Titanic" sank his competition | 
    (Alex: And with that, you're out of the hole.)
  James Cameron
 
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    | An NSA career in electrical engineering may include designing these, aka aerials | 
    (Penny: What are drones?)
  antennas
 
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    | Not now, but possibly in a while | 
    later
 
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    | In 1830 Daniel O'Connell became the first Catholic Irishman in modern times to serve in this British government body | 
    the Parliament
 
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    | One of this country's big attractions, the "Emerald Buddha" was in a Chiang Mai temple before it went to the capital | 
    Thailand
 
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    | Adventures in this 1870 novel include traveling under the polar ice cap & the discovery of Atlantis | 
    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
 
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    1990: "Dances with Wolves" had him dancing with trophy | 
    Kevin Costner
 
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    | You can make invisible ink by mixing 2 oz. of water with 1 oz. of this original Arm & Hammer kitchen product | 
    baking soda
 
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    | What a deer has where a bull has a horn | 
    an antler
 
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    | A printer by trade, Arthur Griffith negotiated a 1921 treaty with the British & founded this Irish-named political party | 
    Sinn Féin
 
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    | Green Lake Park is one reason "The Emerald City" is a nickname for this West Coast city | 
    Seattle
 
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    | This fictional captain created by C.S. Forester was inspired by Horatio Nelson & Thomas Cochrane | 
    (Horatio) Hornblower
 
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    2003: Here's the thing--"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" got him the bling | 
    Peter Jackson
 
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    | Facial recognition technology had a great testing ground as casinos used it to spot these alliterative gamblers | 
    card counters
 
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    | Adjective meaning forever lasting & changeless | 
    eternal
 
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    | At Clontarf in 1014, King Brian Boru led the Irish to victory against these invaders but died at the battle | 
    the Vikings
 
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    | The emerald is an appropriate birthstone for this author who created an emerald city of literature | 
    Frank Baum
 
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    | In this Jack London novel, Wolf Larsen is the captain of the Ghost, once a private yacht | 
    The Sea-Wolf
 
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    1992: "Unforgiven" won him a statue with no apologies | 
    Clint Eastwood
 
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    | A quick explosion found before "of speed"; before "transmission", it's a message encoded by playing it at high speed | 
    "burst"
 
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    | A branch of the Defense Department | 
    the Army
 
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    | Perhaps an opportunistic co-opting of a pagan goddess, she is the second-most prominent Irish saint | 
    (Saint) Brigid
 
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    | Since the arrival of the conquistadors, this South American country has been the mecca for emeralds | 
    Colombia
 
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    | Patrick O'Brian's first novel about Captain Aubrey & surgeon Stephen Maturin, it's set in the Napoleonic Wars | 
    Master and Commander
 
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    2012: "Life of Pi" was his second win, not his 3.14th | 
    (Alex: Well done.) [Applause for Kristin's run of the category] (Alex: You're at $5,800 and in the lead after just one category.) (Kristen: All right.  Hopefully let's keep it going.  Let's try IRISH HISTORY for $400.)
  Ang Lee
 
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    | A hub of cyberspying on U.S. institutions is the Shanghai base of P.L.A. Unit 61398, P.L.A. short for this | 
    People's Liberation Army
 
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    | A song or poem expressing deep grief | 
    a lament
 
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    | A 1990s economic upsurge that turned out to be basically a bubble got Ireland the nickname "Celtic" this beast | 
    Tiger
 
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    | The firm formed when he married Estelle Arpels created a 150-carat engraved emerald for the Shah's wife | 
    Van Cleef
 
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