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    | In 2019 Greta Gerwig directed an adaptation of this Louisa May Alcott novel | Little Women 
 
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    | Just 5 islands but worth a visit, the Tremiti Archipelago is off Italy's "Heel", in this sea | (Adam: What is the Mediterranean?) (Ken: Can you be more specific?)
 
 the Adriatic
 
 
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    | Though he was born in Africa, the plays of Terence were long considered to be models of this language & were used to teach it | Latin 
 
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    | A Greek myth gives us this anatomical term for a vulnerable point | (Ken: In the nick of time, yes.) 
 Achilles' heel
 
 
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    | A rental contract &
 an artist's canvas supporter
 | lease & easel 
 
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    | This great Sioux leader often wore tinted-glass goggles, as in the 1881 portrait seen here | Sitting Bull 
 
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    | Quincy Jones produced a 2023 movie musical & a 1985 film both based on this novel | (Adam: What is The Wizard of Oz?) 
 The Color Purple
 
 
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    | This archipelago about 60 miles off the coast of Morocco is Spain's  southernmost autonomous community | (Adam: What... is... Gibraltar?) 
 the Canary Islands
 
 
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    | In Euripides' play about this beauty, only her phantom runs off to Troy; the real her waits faithfully for her husband's return | Helen 
 
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    | The eponymous man's 1889 formulation of this dictum: "One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off" | (Ryan: Who is Chekhov?) 
 Chekhov's gun
 
 
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    | A male duck &
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    | To show Columbus wasn't first across the Atlantic, in 1893, a Viking ship replica sailed from Norway to a big party in this city | (Ken: What is [*]? The Columbian Expo there.) 
 Chicago
 
 
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    | Writer Stephenie Meyer pictured Henry Cavill & Emily Browning in these 2 "Twilight" roles | Edward & Bella 
 
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    | The Lucayan Archipelago consists of the Turks & Caicos Islands & this British Commonwealth nation to the northwest | the Bahamas 
 
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    | In Sophocles' "Trachinian Women", this semi-divine hero sends his mistress to live with his wife, & bad stuff happens | Hercules 
 
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    | A structure of ropes & wooden steps for ascending a ship's rigging, or  something that appears in Genesis 28:12 | (Adam: I don't like the category, but I kinda have to do it, so I'll go all in.) ...
 (Adam: Uh... what is... a mast?)
 
 Jacob's ladder
 
 
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    | A Spanish cattle farm &
 what holds a ship in place
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    | The Place Vendôme was the site of many street barricades set up during the 1871 revolt known as the Paris this | Commune 
 
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    | Loosely based on a Martin Amis novel, this film set just outside of Auschwitz won the Best Intl. Feature Oscar in 2024 | The Zone of Interest 
 
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    | The world's largest number of giant tortoises is found on Aldabra Atoll in this nation N.E. of Madagascar | (the) Seychelle(s) 
 
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    | This word for a tragedian or other actor comes from the name of the man said to be Greek tragedy's first actor | (Ken: From Thespis, right.) 
 thespian
 
 
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    | Named for a Frenchman, it's the argument that you should gamble on the belief in God, as the potential upside is so big | Pascal's wager 
 
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    | One from Earth &
 word to describe a wandering knight
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    | In the 1880s, daring New Yorkers rode of these early cycles named for the resemblance of the wheels to two old British coins | a penny-farthing 
 
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    | This Mexican auteur, who won an Oscar for "Gravity", directed "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" | Alfonso Cuarón 
 
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    | The world's largest archipelago, it contains thousands of islands including those of the Philippines & Indonesia | the Malay Archipelago 
 
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    | In a play by Aeschylus, Eteocles defends this city against the forces of Polyneices & 6 other chieftains | (Ken: Those are the seven against [*].) 
 Thebes
 
 
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    | A British actor named Simon Prebble gave the motion law-demonstrating science toy seen here this name | Newton's cradle 
 
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    | Above an intended pitch musically &
 the instruments that might attempt it
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 sharp & harps
 
 
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