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    | Built for protection around 1,500 years ago, Kabul's "Great" this runs atop a mountain that towers over the city | a wall 
 
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    | In 1905 you didn't want to eat a pork chop while reading the paper "appeal to reason", as it serialized this stockyard novel | The Jungle 
 
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    | Don't place your hot dishes directly on the table; put them on this little stand | a trivet 
 
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    | A dance with one arm out in front of you is named for this oscillating lawn item | (Sanjay: [Demonstrates] Right, can you do it, though?) [Laughter]
 (Rebecca: Uh, I'm not going to.)
 
 the sprinkler
 
 
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    | John "J.D." Dorian, a rookie doctor at Sacred Heart Hospital | Scrubs 
 
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    | Still in business today, Japan's Sudo Honke brewery has been turning rice & water into this since the 12th century | sake 
 
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    | A mosque in Kabul & the Taj Mahal in Agra were both built by Shah Jahan in pure white this stone | marble 
 
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    | At a dinner party in Shakespeare, Banquo's ghost shows up to torment this title character | Macbeth 
 
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    | It means to diagnose a problem you're having with a computer or an appliance & then solve it | troubleshoot 
 
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    | To the naked eye it may look like it's not moving when in use, but here's a slow-motion look at this musical item at work | a tuning fork 
 
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    | Dr. Abigail Bartlet, who put in a D.C. residency | The West Wing 
 
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    | The Bols family began distilling Genever, also known as "Hollands" or "Dutch" this liquor, in 1664 | gin 
 
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    | The workers of the Kabul Museum risked their lives to save stone figures from destruction by this group in 2001 | the Taliban 
 
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    | The chapter titles in this Henry Fielding novel include "A Little Chapter, in Which is Contained a Little Incident" | Tom Jones 
 
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    | It's a small castle tower or something that holds a gun on a military tank | turret 
 
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    | This vacuum company also makes "Hot+Cool" oscillating air purifiers that take care of 99.97% of pollutants & allergens | Dyson 
 
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    | Plastic surgeons Sean McNamara & Christian Troy | Nip/Tuck 
 
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    | This liqueur dates back to the 16th century; in the 20th, it was bottled with brandy as B&B | Benedictine 
 
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    | In Kabul & the rest of Afghanistan, rocks painted red & white warn of danger in these fields; stay on the white side | minefields 
 
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    | In his 50s Tom Wolfe wrote his first novel, this one about the downfall of a Manhattan bond trader | [NOTE: Courtney did not include the leading article.] 
 The Bonfire of the Vanities
 
 
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    | Mentioned in "A Wrinkle in Time", it's a 4-dimensional analogue of a cube, or what Carl Sagan called a hypercube | a tesseract 
 
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    | This 3-D imaging technique used in medicine to visualize organs makes use of the oscillations of hydrogen atoms | an MRI (magnetic resonance image) 
 
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    | Joel Fleischman, a fish out of water in Alaska | Northern Exposure 
 
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    | Year in which the photo here was taken | (Mark: What is... 1923?) ...
 (Sanjay: End of Prohibition.)
 
 1933
 
 
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    | A garden in Kabul contains the stone grave of Babur, 16th century founder of this Muslim dynasty of India | the Mughal Empire 
 
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    | In this A.S. Byatt novel, a scholar (Aaron Eckhart in the movie) finds letters in a book owned by a long-dead poet | Possession 
 
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    | From Latin for "to go over", it means temporary or fleeting | transient 
 
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    | In 1851 this 2-word object bearing the name of its inventor started having a ball (weighing 62 pounds) swinging in Paris' Panthéon | (Mark: What is... uh. What's a Tesla coil?) 
 a Foucault pendulum
 
 
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    | Early 20th century physician & drug addict John Thackery | The Knick 
 
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    | Before the Rothschilds bought it, Chateau this was one of 4 top-rated wineries in France's 1855 official ranking | (Mark: What is Mouton?)(Courtney: What is Briand?) 
 Lafite
 
 
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