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| Word meaning to forbid or veto, it's from the German "nichts", meaning nothing |
(Jim: What is nihilism?) (Barbara: What is negate?)
nix
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| A small bunch of bananas is called a hand; an individual banana is called this |
(Alex: Yes, good deduction.)
a finger
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| First name shared by playwrights Rabe & Mamet |
David
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| More than half the world's population lives on this continent |
Asia
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| George Washington's inauguration was re-enacted on April 30,1989 at this city's Federal Hall |
New York City
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| Carthaginian general who took a fatal dose of poison circa 183 B.C. |
Hannibal
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| This word for a shopping center came from the narrow alleys where a game was played with a ball & mallet |
a mall
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| When used in weights & measures, the prefix mega- means this number |
a 1,000,000
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| Novelist who dedicated his play "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" to its director, Charles Laughton |
(Herman) Wouk
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| Greenland is about 50 times as large as this country of which it is a province |
Denmark
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| In 1912 this candidate of the Bull Moose Party lost to Wilson |
Teddy Roosevelt
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| The cause of this teenage ruler's sudden death circa 1339 B.C. is still unknown |
King Tut
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| Amateur radio operators could tell you this word is derived from the word "amateur" |
ham
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| The word for this distance is from the Latin for "a thousand paces" |
(Alex: [Prior to the wager] Less than a minute to go.)
a mile
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| His collaborators included Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber & Moss Hart |
(Barbara: Who is Lorenz?)
Kaufman
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| Belonging to Chile, this cape is the southernmost extremity of South America |
Cape Horn
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| Boston's archbishop & future cardinal Richard Cushing conducted their marriage ceremony |
the Kennedys
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| Dancer whose children were drowned in 1913 in a car which rolled into the Seine; she died 14 yrs. later |
(Joan: Who is Pavlova?)
Isadora Duncan
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| This word for a utopia came from the paradise in James Hilton's "Lost Horizon" |
Shangri-La
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| It was originally intended to be exactly equal to the mass of water in a liter |
a kilogram
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| Act II of "A Day in Hollywood/ A Night in the Ukraine" was loosely based on this Russian's "The Bear" |
(Alex: Not fast enough, Barbara.)
Anton Chekhov
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| In 1947 when the British left, the Punjab was divided between these 2 countries |
India & Pakistan
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| The only president born in Iowa, he was the first president born west of the Mississippi |
Hoover
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| In Arthurian legend, King Arthur slays this treacherous relative in battle |
Mordred (his son)
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| The Sanskrit word "chitra", meaning brightly colored, is the root of this word for cheap or tawdry |
chintzy
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| It's the smallest unit of weight in the avoirdupois system; 7,000 equal 1 pound |
(Jim: What is a dram?) (Barbara: Uh, what is an ounce?) (Alex: No.) (Joan: I'm not gonna try.)
a grain
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| He was handsome, wealthy, a good dancer, a lyre player, a wrestler... & he wrote "Antigone" too |
Sophocles
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| 1 of 2 Central American lands that share the Mosquito Coast, an area named for Indians not insects |
(1 of) Nicaragua (or Honduras)
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| This future president decisively defeated the Creek Indians at Horseshoe Bend in 1814 |
(Andrew) Jackson
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| One of Raleigh's native bearers was eaten by a crocodile during his search for this legendary kingdom of gold |
El Dorado
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