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    | 3 astronauts are marooned in the future in the Nebula Award-winning 1976 novella this city, this city, "Do You Read?" | 
    Houston
 
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    | At a 657 battle during the First Fitna, or Civil War, fighting stopped after soldiers put pages of this on their lances | 
    the Quran
 
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    | Fog & mist are considered types of this, though they don't come out of a can | 
    an aerosol
 
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    | In 2013 David Chang won for his noodle restaurant Momofuku, named for the inventor of this instant noodle dish | 
    (Sanjay: [*], what is [**]? College.) [Laughter]
  Ramen noodles (ramen)
 
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    | In photosynthesis, green plants use sunlight & carbon dioxide to produce this simple sugar as an energy source | 
    glucose
 
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    | Just imagine the crossover episode of "Elementary" & "Friends", as both took place primarily on this island | 
    Manhattan
 
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    | This Englishwoman's novella "The Lifted Veil" had a prophetic title, as it was soon revealed that George was a pseudonym | 
    George Eliot
 
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    | A dispute over the rightful successor to Muhammad splintered Islam into these 2 main rival branches | 
    Sunni & Shia
 
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    | Tree sloths are tinged green not with envy but with a type of this that grows in their fur | 
    algae
 
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    | In addition to winning in 1997 for the French Laundry, Thomas Keller created the look of the title dish of this 2007 Pixar film | 
    Ratatouille
 
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    | This "ancient life" geologic era ended about 250 million years ago as most species on Earth died out | 
    Paleozoic
 
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    | The Arrow, Swan & Pearl stations were all created by the Dharma Initiative for the island on this show | 
    Lost
 
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    | Thomas Mann wrote a 1903 novella about an unheroic guy ironically titled this name of Isolde's lover | 
    Tristan
 
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    | A caliphate established in Baghdad in the 8th century endured until the 1258 sack of the city by these Asian invaders | 
    the Mongols
 
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    | Before some of them fuse together, your spine consists of 33 of these bones | 
    vertebrae
 
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    | Born in Spain, he was the 2011 James Beard Chef of the Year & the 2018 James Beard Humanitarian of the Year | 
    (José) Andrés
 
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    | Discovered in 1956, this subatomic particle with no charge & very little mass is part of a family of particles called leptons | 
    (Austin: What is a neutron?)
  neutrinos
 
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    | This show was rebooted in 1998 with Malcolm McDowell as Mr. Roarke; Michael Pena played the role in the 2020 film | 
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    | Melville House Press offers classic novellas in book form, & of course included the tale of this title sailor by Melville himself | 
    Billy Budd
 
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    | After winning the 1187 Battle of Hattin, this sultan personally beheaded a crusader who had broken a Muslim-Christian truce | 
    Saladin
 
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    | Originating in Valencia, Spain, it's the tasty dish seen here | 
    paella
 
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    | Alice Waters, the first woman to win the award, won for Chez Panisse in this California college town | 
    (Sanjay: She pioneered locally sourced and organic vegetables.)
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    | Used to make nuclear fuel, impure uranium oxide is known by this "colorful" name | 
    yellowcake
 
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    | A 1981 made-for-TV movie saw this basketball team pitted against robots, with the fate of "Gilligan's Island" on the line | 
    the Harlem Globetrotters
 
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    | In English, "Cronica de Una Muerte Anunciada" by Gabriel García Márquez is titled "Chronicle of" this | 
    a Death Foretold
 
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    | The Arabic word for this Mystic form of Islam is Tasawwuf, "to dress in wool", as early adherents are thought to have done | 
    Sufism
 
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    | They're those tiny little bumps on the surface of your tongue | 
    papillae
 
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    | 2010 was good for this man, he won a James Beard award for Craft, his restaurant, & an Emmy, for "Top Chef" on Bravo | 
    (Tom) Colicchio
 
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    | This physicist's effect is the change in a wave's frequency based on this relative motion between observer & source | 
    the Doppler effect
 
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    | Sissy Spacek & Sam Shepard ran an inn in the Florida Keys on this "sanguine" Netflix show | 
    Bloodline
 
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