| MEMOIRS OF GOVERNMENT & POLITICS |  
   
 
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  | SOMETIMES A "LITTLE" IS ENOUGH |  
   
 
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    | Head of this agency from 1973 to 1977, Russell Train wrote "Politics, Pollution, and Pandas" | 
    the EPA
 
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    | A Greek hero got a cool new ride, using Athena's golden bridle to tame this equine | 
    Pegasus
 
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    | Franz von Soxhlet first suggested that milk for sale undergo this process named for another scientist | 
    (Laura: What is...) ... (Ken: For Louis Pasteur.)
  pasteurization
 
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    | In "Blonde" Adrien Brody plays this man who wrote the screenplay for "The Misfits", his wife's final film | 
    (Ken: [*] married to Marilyn Monroe, that's correct.)
  (Arthur) Miller
 
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    | The university of this Argentine city has an enrollment of more than 300,000 | 
    Buenos Aires
 
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    | Her grandmother is consumed by a wolf, who tries to eat her | 
    Little Red Riding Hood
 
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    | "Known and Unknown" is by Donald Rumsfeld, who served Gerald Ford & George W. Bush in this job | 
    Secretary of Defense
 
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    | "I" spy this goddess who "re-pieced" her hacked-up husband Osiris... now that's supporting your boo | 
    Isis
 
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    | An Ammeter, which seems like it should be called an amp meter, measures the flow of this | 
    (Will: What is electricity?) (Ken: More specifically?)
  electric current
 
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    | In 2004's "Finding Neverland", Johnny Depp played this playwright & creator of Neverland | 
    (J.M.) Barrie
 
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    | A type of birdeater spider able to grow to a legspan of 12 inches across bears the name of this biblical guy | 
    Goliath
 
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    | How did junior know grandpa was arrested? Maybe this idiom about what kids overhear | 
    little pitchers have big ears
 
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    | "Man of the House" was a bestseller by Tip O'Neill, who held this post from 1977 to 1987 | 
    Speaker of the House
 
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    | Accidentally grazed by one of Cupid's arrows, Venus fell in love with this handsome youth | 
    (Will: Who is Narcissus?)
  Adonis
 
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    | Water boiling & turning into steam is an example of an isobaric process, meaning this remains constant | 
    (Ken: As a scientist, will you wager big here?)
  pressure
 
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    | Jim Broadbent & Allan Corduner play this theatrical pair in "Topsy-Turvy", at work on "The Mikado" | 
    (Will: Who are Rodgers and Hammerstein?)
  Gilbert & Sullivan
 
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    | Dubbed "The American Dream", the world's self-proclaimed longest car is a 26-wheeled, 100-foot limousine--naturally, this type | 
    a stretch limousine
 
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    | Animation purists said, "The sky is falling" when this computer-animated film was released in 2005 | 
    Chicken Little
 
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    | A bit of a maverick herself, in "Bad Republican" this political daughter writes of not fitting in | 
    Meghan McCain
 
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    | Frigga got an oath from fire, water, iron, you name it, to not hurt her son, this Norse god of light, but things got hairy anyway | 
    Balder
 
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    | The name of this brightest star in our night sky comes from a Greek word for "glowing" | 
    (Laura: What is Polaris?)
  Sirius
 
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    | In a 1997 film Stephen Fry played this Irish poet & dramatist, while Jude Law played Lord Alfred Douglas | 
    Oscar Wilde
 
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    | The Waco Surf Park has one of these a mile long; it takes 45 minutes for one round float | 
    a lazy river
 
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    | The star Polaris is at one end of it | 
    (Will: What is the Big Dipper?)
  the Little Dipper
 
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    | Trent Lott's memoir of his life in politics is aptly titled doing this, which might actually be easier with pets than with senators | 
    Herding Cats
 
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    | Fish were thrown into a fire on August 23 during a festival honoring this Roman god of fire | 
    Vulcan
 
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    | Arthur McDonald won a physics Nobel for showing that these really tiny chargeless particles have mass | 
    neutrinos
 
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    | In "Shakespeare in Love", Rupert Everett has an uncredited role as this contemporary of Shakespeare | 
    Marlowe
 
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    | Bearing a name from Tlingit, this spruce species of the Pacific Northwest can be 200 feet tall & 15 feet in diameter | 
    a Sitka spruce
 
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    | Playing a mean quarterstaff, he was an original member of the Merry Men | 
    Little John
 
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