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    | A 2023 movie led to lively debate, e.g. historians: She died when Napoleon was on Elba, not on his way back; Ridley Scott: Shut up | 
    Josephine
 
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    | Delivery of a message of critical importance is central to the plot of this 2019 Sam Mendes war film | 
    1917
 
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    | In the 2000s astronomer Mike Brown lectured on "How I Killed" this former planet "& Why It Had It Coming" | 
    Pluto
 
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    Burmese
 
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    | Premiering in Russia in 1890 & also known as "La belle au bois dormant", this ballet features Princess Aurora | 
    (Ray: And let's bring it.)
  Sleeping Beauty
 
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    | One who has a compulsive impulse to steal items they don't really need | 
    a kleptomaniac
 
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    | The Vichy regime put these in public schools; the 2004 law banning head-scarves on students also banned large these on chains | 
    crosses
 
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    | Loosely based on a classic legal film, this Nikita Mikhalkov drama pits a racist juror against a pensive foreman | 
    (Ike: [Sighs] What is... Twelve Angry Men?)
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    | The TED talk on how these bioluminescent insects communicate focuses on how they sync their flashes of light | 
    fireflies
 
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    | Quinine & quinoa are words derived from this South American language | 
    Quechua
 
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    | In 1967 this man joined the Kirov as a soloist but 8 years later, decided to stop Russian around & defected in Canada | 
    Baryshnikov
 
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    | In the 5th century this eastern city, today home to the European Union's parliament, was Strateburgum, "Crossroads" | 
    Strasbourg
 
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    | Fellini felt he'd directed 7.5 films before making this 1963 gem | 
    8 1/2
 
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    | The 1937 Nobel chemistry lecture on "The Structure of" these explains the progress in understanding starches | 
    Carbohydrates
 
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    | Hindi & this language  named for a region are the 2 most spoken first languages in India | 
    Bengali
 
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    | It's the 1-letter title of Anthony Davis' bio-opera that made its Metropolitan Opera debut in 2023 | 
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    | If you're using metaphors & similes to make a point, you're speaking this way | 
    (Ike: What is metaphorically?)
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    | France's first socialist president, he served two terms from 1981 to 1995 | 
    Mitterrand
 
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    | After his character gets cancer in this 2011 film, Joseph Gordon-Levitt gets by with a little help from his friends | 
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    | This Brit who wrote about the full circulation of the blood in the human body was a Lumleian lecturer from 1615 to 1656 | 
    Harvey
 
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    | This country that shares an island with Indonesia has about 850 separate languages | 
    Papua New Guinea
 
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    | In Philip Glass' opera "Akhnaten", the title king & this queen spend quality music time with their 6 kids | 
    Nefertiti
 
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    | Frances Willard, founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, was one | 
    (Ike: What is a teetotaler?)
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    | In 1598 this edict named for the city where it was signed gave religious freedom to the French Protestants called Huguenots | 
    Nantes
 
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    | Mike Myers played legendary Big Apple nightclub owner Steve Rubell in this drama about a club Steve ran | 
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    | A Harvard Smithsonian lecture called "Cosmic Train Wrecks" talks about our impending collision with this galaxy | 
    Andromeda
 
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    | Also called Euskara, it's a remnant of the languages spoken in Western Europe before the region was Romanized | 
    Basque
 
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    | A word for a slender woman sometimes followed by "like", or an air-dwelling being that Scotland is full of, per a classic ballet | 
    a sylph
 
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    | From the Latin for "beauty", it's an adjective meaning having great beauty | 
    pulchritudinous
 
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