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    | One of these astronomical events brought an end to King Alyattes' war with the Medes | an eclipse 
 
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    | In 1972, the same year her "Delta Dawn" charted, she had a cameo role in the film "Jeremiah Johnson" | Tanya Tucker 
 
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    | George Kelly's wife Kathryn bought him this weapon that became his nickname | a machine gun 
 
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    | The highest sand dunes in the world are in this, the world's largest desert | the Sahara Desert 
 
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    | When the captain calls for "all" these body parts "on deck", he means everybody up top | hands 
 
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    | Leibniz was a noted philosopher of optimism; Schopenhauer, of this opposite view | pessimism 
 
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    | This father of history reports that the ancient Etruscans were originally Lydians | Herodotus 
 
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    | Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein was known as the mastermind of this fixed 1919 sporting event | the World Series (the "Black Sox" scandal) 
 
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    | Samaria isn't a gorge of the jungle, it's on this Greek isle that was home to the Minoans | Crete 
 
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    | It's not flotsam, admiral; it's goods deliberately thrown overboard to lighten the ship | jetsam 
 
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    | Logician Willard Van Orman Quine is from Akron in this state--we wanted an excuse to say Willard Van Orman Quine | Ohio 
 
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    | This Lydian king was tortured in Hades with food & water kept out of his reach | (Alex: Yes!  I was about to say that the word "tantalize" comes from this experience.  Well done, David!) 
 Tantalus
 
 
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    | Before she became a star, this daughter of Mel Tillis sang commercial jingles for Equal | Pam Tillis 
 
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    | Best-known nickname of accused Milwaukee murderer Lawrencia  Bembenek | (Alex: Val, you knew that--you should have rung in!) (Val: I didn't know it 'til you said it!)
 
 "Bambi"
 
 
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    | First measured in 1852 & called Peak XV, it's 1.65 miles taller than the tallest mountain in North America | Mount Everest 
 
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    | Methinks it's a high sail on a ship, or a tall building on land | a skyscraper 
 
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    | This author of "Beyond Good  and Evil" is often wrongly represented as sympathetic to Nazi ideas | Friedrich Nietzsche 
 
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    | This Lydian girl got into a web of trouble when she challenged Athena to a weaving contest | Arachne 
 
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    | (Hey, everybody, I'm Naomi Judd.)  My 1993 autobiography was titled this, after a 1991 Judds Grammy Award-winning hit | (John Allen: What is Mama He's Crazy?) ...
 (Alex: One more clue for $400...)
 [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
 (Alex: ...and darn, John Allen, it was a gutsy move, you had to do it to try and catch David.)
 
 Love Can Build a Bridge
 
 
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    | Albert DeSalvo, known as this, died in a Walpole, Mass. state prison where he was ironically, making women's chokers | The "Boston Strangler" 
 
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    | The ancient fortress of Masada sits on a rock on the shore of this "lake" | (John Allen: What is the Sea of Galilee?) ...
 (Alex: We have less than a minute to go.)
 
 the Dead Sea
 
 
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    | The sun's over this, lads, which means it's time for a drink | the yardarm 
 
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    | This ancient Greek's "Metaphysics" begins, "All men by nature desire to know" | Aristotle 
 
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    | This last king of Lydia never had to sing "If I Were A Rich Man", 'cause boy was he ever | Croesus 
 
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    | Billboard Magazine's top female country artist of all time, she's had No. 1 hits in the '70s, '80s & '90s | Dolly Parton 
 
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    | This Chicago mobster linked to CIA plots against Castro was affectionately known as "Momo" | Sam Giancana 
 
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    | Hundreds of thousands of tourists boat up to the national monument seen here in this state | Utah (the Rainbow Bridge) 
 
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    | Mateys, if we sever our anchor line & leave quickly, we've done this | cut & run 
 
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    | Kant said the work of this 18th c. Scottish skeptic awoke him from his dogmatic slumbers | (Alex: Another David--you do well on those!) 
 David Hume
 
 
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