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    | At the Battle of Gaugamela, the Greeks let these wheeled Persian vehicles pass between the ranks, then wiped them out | 
    chariots
 
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    | Whitman: "Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread, walk the deck my ____ lies, fallen cold and dead" | 
    my Captain
 
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    | This verb means to travel completely around the globe | 
    circumnavigate
 
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    | Starring Dustin Hoffman, it definitely, definitely was named 1988's Best Picture | 
    Rain Man
 
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    | Thrusting rather than throwing it, the Macedonians got extra reach with the sarissa, this type of weapon that could be 22' long | 
    a spear (javelins accepted)
 
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    | Eliot: "April is the ____ ____ breeding lilacs out of the dead land" | 
    the cruelest month
 
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    | From words meaning "heart" & "vessel", this adjective means relating to the heart & blood vessels | 
    cardiovascular
 
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    Acadia,  Zion | 
    national parks
 
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    | You can't have forgotten this 2017 best song from "Coco" | 
    "Remember Me"
 
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    | The ancient sambuca was not a liqueur but a ladder latched from a ship to a wall to enter a city in this kind of warfare | 
    siege
 
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    | Silverstein: "There is a place where ____ ____ ____  and before the street begins, and there the grass grows soft and white" | 
    the sidewalk ends
 
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    | By definition this type of speech is given without preparation | 
    extemporaneous
 
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    Argon, xenon | 
    (Gundeep: What are elements?) (Ken: No, I'm sorry, alphabetically, there are elements before argon and after xenon.)
  the noble gases
 
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    | In 1705 he wrote, "I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758" | 
    Halley
 
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    | For his role in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri", he was 2017's Best Supporting Actor | 
    Sam Rockwell
 
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    | Stymied by a small force, the invading Persians won this battle only after a Greek traitor showed them a way around the pass | 
    Thermopylae
 
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    | Kipling: "Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and--which is more--you'll be a ____, ____ ____!" | 
    (Miranda: [Sighs] What is man one day?) (Ken: Close--"You'll be a [*]. At the end of Kipling's If. Less than a minute now, Miranda.)
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    | Martin Luther & John Calvin both believed in this religious doctrine that life & salvation are already decided by God ahead of time | 
    predestination
 
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    "Das Rheingold", "Siegfried" | 
    the operas in Wagner's Ring Cycle
 
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    | No longer a "Hidden Figure", in 2015, this mathematician & NASA pioneer received the Medal of Freedom | 
    Katherine Johnson
 
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    | In her only nomination, she was named 1940's Best Actress for "Kitty Foyle", & she didn't even dance with Fred | 
    Ginger Rogers
 
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    | These two formations--one Greek & one Roman, met a few times; the masked Greeks won the early battles, & the more flexible Romans the latter | 
    (Miranda: What is a phalanx?) ... (Ken: We needed them both--The Greek was the [*]; the Romans had the [**].)
  the phalanx & the legion
 
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    | Byron: "She walks in ____, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies" | 
    beauty
 
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    | I found a thousand bucks in this word that often follows "self" to mean the act of making oneself seem important | 
    (Maureen: What is grandizement? Self-grandizement?) (Miranda: What is... aggrandize?)
  aggrandizement
 
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    | Anointing of the sick, reconciliation | 
    the (Seven) Sacraments
 
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    | Sir Isaac Newton had a famous dispute with this German philosopher & mathematician over who invented calculus first | 
    [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
  Gottfried Leibniz
 
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    | For "West Side Story" Robert Wise shared Best Director with this man, seen working on the film | 
    Jerome Robbins
 
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