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  | ALFRED NOBEL, THIS IS YOUR LIFE |  
   
 
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    | Seen here is an engraving of this god & his eponymous pipe | 
    Pan
 
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    | When it precedes "case of" or "incident of" in titles, this word means provokingly strange, not inquisitive | 
    curious
 
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    | Alfred's will lays out his prizes, specifying that one is for holding these congresses & reducing standing armies | 
    Peace Prize (or peace congresses)
 
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    | The covenant creating this league in 1919 mentions the goal "to promote international cooperation" | 
    the League of Nations
 
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    | The film "What's New Pussycat?", about a guy women chase, had a title song by this guy women chased | 
    Tom Jones
 
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    | This Man in Black of country music wrote "The Man in White" about St. Paul & Jesus | 
    Johnny Cash
 
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    | Monster of the Oedipus myth used to describe an inscrutable person | 
    (Emily: What is enigma?)
  the Sphinx
 
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    | In 1863 Nobel patented this innovative "cap", a detonator for triggering explosives | 
    a blasting cap
 
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    | The NCL, or "National" these people's "League", works for economic justice for shoppers | 
    consumers
 
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    | Phoebe on "Friends" was known to warble about this feline | 
    Smelly Cat
 
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    | "The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ" by Anne Emmerich inspired a 2004 movie from this director | 
    Mel Gibson
 
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    | A subterranean chamber adds "IC" at the end to be this word meaning ambiguous | 
    cryptic
 
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    | A turning point was when this type of newspaper article was published in error & Alfred was shocked by how he'd be remembered | 
    an obituary
 
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    | Hiawatha is traditionally credited as one of the founders of this league of 5, then 6 nations | 
    the Iroquois
 
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    | The feline in this Harry Chapin song was accompanied by "Little Boy Blue and the Man in the Moon" | 
    "The Cat's In The Cradle"
 
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    | "The Gospel According to" this "Myra Breckinridge" author moves the crucifixion to the television age | 
    Gore Vidal
 
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    | The blowpipe & dart seen here are from Sarawak on the Malaysian part of this island | 
    [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
  Borneo
 
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    | Enciphering machine built by Germany--can you break its code? | 
    enigma
 
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    | Early in his career, a factory Alfred had built to produce this liquid explosive blew up, killing his brother Emil | 
    nitroglycerin
 
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    | In the 19th century the Land League on this island sought to gain more rights from their British landlords | 
    (Joey: What is Australia?)
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    | This quartet sang "Our house is a very very very fine house, with two cats in the yard, life used to be so hard" | 
    Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
 
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    | The Greek Orthodox church tried & failed to excommunicate Nikos Kazantzakis for writing this 1955 novel | 
    The Last Temptation of Christ
 
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    | These are your standard PVC pipes--PVC short for this | 
    polyvinyl chloride
 
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    | O say can you "C" this puzzling word that may involve puns? Oh, it's a... | 
    a conundrum
 
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    | An ailing Alfred died in this Italian city then known for "San"atoria & now for a music festival | 
    Sanremo
 
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    | "Defenders of soil, air, woods, waters & wildlife" is the compleat motto of the league named for this 17th c. Brit | 
    (Dimitri: Who is Angler?)
  Izaak Walton
 
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    | Members of The Cure wore kitty costumes in the video for this poppy tune, the band's first U.K. Top 10 hit | 
    "Love Cats"
 
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    | This title item of Jesus' clothing is won by a Roman soldier in a dice game in a Lloyd Douglas novel | 
    the robe
 
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