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"The Moneypenny Diaries" series was authorized by this writer's estate |
(Ian) Fleming
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Derived from an Old French word for "trust", it's a person engaged to be married |
fiancé
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dccomics.com lists Wonder Woman's occupation as this "princess " |
Amazon
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In the 1860s he did experiments on how vowel sounds are produced; he stopped phoning it in on Aug. 2, 1922 |
(Alexander Graham) Bell
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A traditional wedding toast says, "a toast to love and laughter, and" this 3-word phrase that ends fairy tales |
happily ever after
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MLK: "the hottest places in (noun) are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality" |
hell
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Robin Maxwell's 2012 novel about this heroine is subtitled "The Woman Who Loved Tarzan" |
Jane
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In French it means "memory"; in English it's a keepsake to remember you by |
(Megan: What is memento?)
souvenir
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An X-Men foe shares this name with a big bad guy from "The Lord of the Rings" |
Sauron
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His life's work amounted to more than peanuts when he died in Tuskegee January 5, 1943 |
(George Washington) Carver
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From the Greek for "one who marries once", this adjective applies to some people & to jackals & sandhill cranes |
monogamous
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Lloyd Bentsen to Dan Quayle: "Senator, you're no Jack (proper noun)" |
(John: Who is Kemp?)
Kennedy
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Douglas Adams' estate hired Eoin Colfer to write "And Another Thing...". part 6 of 3 in this silly saga |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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From an Old French word that meant a wine taster, to us it's a connoisseur of fine food & drink |
(John: What's a sommelier?) (Megan: What is an epicurean?)
gourmet
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It was the maiden name of Spider-Man's longtime love & eventual wife Mary Jane |
Watson
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Made a huge leap in the vaccination field (which he helped pioneer) in 1879; had milked life for all it was worth by 1895 |
Pasteur
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This 4-letter word has fallen out of use in vows; Elizabeth used it to marry Philip, but Diana didn't to marry Charles |
(Alex: You're tempted, aren't you? You're tempted to say, "Let's make it a true Daily Double." I can see it in your eyes.)
obey
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Joe Hill: "Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you (verb)" |
die
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As Disney doesn't have all the rights to Winnie-the-Pooh, he was back in "Return to" this "Wood" |
Hundred Acre
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Now also meaning a nightclub or bar, this type of cafe lends its name to a salad made with salt pork & eggs |
bistro
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Voiced by James Spader in an "Avengers" film, here, this |
Ultron
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Wrote the book on plant classification--"Species Plantarum"--in 1753; pushing up daisies in 1778 |
(John: 5--) (Alex: I know you're tempted to make it a True Daily Double.) (John: $5,000.) (Alex: $5,000 again. All right.)
Linnaeus
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In 1858 pioneering epidemiologist William Farr found married people live longer than those he called this, like priests are |
celibates
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Eugene Debs: "While there is a soul in prison, I am not (adjective)" |
free
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A visitor appears at Baker Street in "The House of Silk", the first authorized sequel from this man's estate |
Arthur Conan Doyle
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For many of us, "Jeopardy!" is this, our "reason for being" |
raison d'être
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Imbued with light energy, a son of Captain Marvel goes by this name, a word for a quantum of light |
photon
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His first law of planetary motion details elliptical orbits around the Sun; the world stopped revolving around him in 1630 |
(John: Who is Copernicus?)
Kepler
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Archie Panjabi, TV's Feisty Kalinda, had this type of marriage & says of it that her mother knows her better than anybody else |
an arranged marriage
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George Orwell: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a (noun) stamping on a human face--forever" |
boot
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