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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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    (Sanjay: [Demonstrates] Right, can you do it, though?) [Laughter] (Rebecca: Uh, I'm not going to.)
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    | John "J.D." Dorian, a rookie doctor at Sacred Heart Hospital | 
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    | At a dinner party in Shakespeare, Banquo's ghost shows up to torment this title character | 
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    | Dr. Abigail Bartlet, who put in a D.C. residency | 
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    turret
 
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    | Plastic surgeons Sean McNamara & Christian Troy | 
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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.]
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    | Year in which the photo here was taken | 
    (Mark: What is... 1923?) ... (Sanjay: End of Prohibition.)
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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 | 
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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?)
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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?)
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