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    | In the epilogue to "Moby-Dick", this rescued narrator quotes from the book of Job: "and I only am escaped alone to tell thee" | Ishmael 
 
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    | A knee-jerk reaction is also known as the patellar this | reflex 
 
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    | The 1998 Rome Statute established the ICC, which prosecutes international wrongdoers in this Dutch city | The Hague 
 
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    | The lepidopteran family Tineidae includes the clothes type of this insect | (Alex: Less than a minute now.) 
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    | Before directing movies like "SE7EN", David Fincher directed this singer's videos for "Vogue" & "Express Yourself" | Madonna 
 
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    | One masterpiece of furniture maker Chippendale is the 8' long dundas this, a word Thomas spelled with a "ph"; get your feet off it | a sofa 
 
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    | Daisy Buchanan's cousin, he narrates "The Great Gatsby" | Nick Carraway 
 
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    | One of these occurred on September 23 in 2019 | an equinox 
 
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    | The ICC issued an arrest warrant for this man in June 2011, but Libyan rebels closed the case in October | (Muammar) Qaddafi 
 
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    | In the Bible 3 of the 10 plagues of Egypt were caused by insects: these swarmers were in at No. 8 | locusts 
 
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    | Known for his political dramas, this filmmaker has also interviewed Vladimir Putin for television | Oliver Stone 
 
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    | One of Chippendale's most famous creations is a bookcase named for this string instrument carved on the front | a violin 
 
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    | Though he takes his own life in "The Sound and the Fury", Quentin Compson is back to narrate this author's "Absalom, Absalom!" | Faulkner 
 
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    | The OED defines it as "to make rhythmical sounds with the voice & mouth in imitation of the rhythms of hip-hop music" | beatbox 
 
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    | The first ex-head of state held by the ICC, Laurent Gbagbo of this "coast"al country won a surprising acquittal in 2019 | the Ivory Coast 
 
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    | There may be as many as 8 million species of insects & all have bodies divided into 3 major sections: head, abdomen & this | thorax 
 
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    | He was born in Pondicherry, India & named Manoj, which he shortened to M. | M. Night Shyamalan 
 
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    | Because Chippendale didn't use this identifier, also a bourbon brand, his furniture can only be authenticated by original bills | maker's mark 
 
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    | In "The Book Thief", the narrator isn't a who per se but this, knocking at the door | Death 
 
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    | 7-letter word for the Swedish specialty of raw salmon cured with salt, sugar & dill | (Abby: What is lox?) 
 gravlax
 
 
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    | Ousted as this country's president in April 2019, Omar al-Bashir is charged with crimes in Darfur | Sudan 
 
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    | This bee named for its habit of tunneling into wood looks like a big, less hairy bumblebee | a carpenter bee 
 
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    | This alliterative director got Oscar nominations for two 2000 films, getting the green light with "Traffic" | Steven Soderbergh 
 
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    | Some of the finest examples of Chippendale furniture are at this London museum named for a queen & her consort | [The end-of-the-round signal sounds.] 
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    | Montresor, the narrator of this Poe story, lures Fortunato to his doom with the promise of a fine Spanish sherry | "The Cask of Amontillado" 
 
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    | Each of the interior angles is less than 180 degrees in this type of polygon | convex 
 
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    | This global police agency has issued a red notice for capture of ex-Libyan Internal Security Chief Al-Tuhamy Mohamed Khaled | Interpol 
 
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    | Insects breathe through these holes in their exoskeletons, with a name from the Latin for "breathe" | spiracles 
 
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    | Known for classic westerns like "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon", he also gave us "Mister Roberts" & "The Quiet Man" | (Abby: Who is Robert Redford?) (Laurel: Who is John Huston?)
 
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