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    | On June 24, 1948 the Soviet Union cut off Western rail, road & water access to sections of this city | Berlin 
 
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    | In 1958, referring to a vodka martini, this author wrote the immortal words "shaken and not stirred" | Fleming 
 
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    | An elderly doge is forced to abdicate & dies disgraced in "I due Foscari", set in this city | Venice 
 
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    | Nicéphore Niépce & Louis Daguerre are both considered fathers of this field | photography 
 
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    | Minor studios like Republic specialized in the low-budget productions familiarly graded as these | (Ken: [*] is right; that last push kept Enzo from putting this thing away, and Final Jeopardy! matters.) 
 B-movies
 
 
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    | It's inferior & maybe toxic liquor; it sounds like what it might do to your innards | rotgut 
 
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    | In a Chekhov short story, this title drink is "2 bottles of... the real thing, with the label of Veuve Clicquot", for New Year's Eve | Champagne 
 
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    | Thea Musgrave's opera about this liberator is set, of course, in South America | Bolívar 
 
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    | This American inventor is "The Father of the Steel Plow" | (John) Deere 
 
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    | A Broadway show is usually considered successful if it hits $1 million in GWBOR, gross weekly these receipts | box office 
 
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    | Bob Hope & Nelson Mandela were honorary members of this basketball team | (Ken: I don't think they saw much playing time.) [Laughter]
 
 the Harlem Globetrotters
 
 
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    | In 70 B.C. he staked his claim as Rome's leading orator when he argued a possibly corrupt Sicilian governor right into exile | Cicero 
 
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    | This pale dry sherry   gets title billing in a Poe tale | (Zoe: Let's hope I don't regret this; $6,000.) (Ken: Okay, almost everything at stake; $12,200 if you're right in POTENT QUOTABLES...)
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 (Zoe: What is... Amontidello?)
 (Ken: So close; that's the right story, but it's "The Cask of [*]".)
 (Zoe: [*].)
 (Ken: Very close, but you're gonna have to start again from $200.)
 (Zoe: All right, I'm gonna remember that one.)
 [Ken chuckles.]
 
 Amontillado
 
 
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    | Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier" takes place in 18th century Vienna during the reign of this empress | Maria Theresa 
 
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    | This "Father of Method Acting" taught some of the best of the best, including Al Pacino, James Dean & Marilyn Monroe | Strasberg 
 
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    | Your server will bring tap beer & more to your seat at this Texas-based theater chain acquired by Sony Pictures in 2024 | Alamo Drafthouse 
 
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    | Its maritime museum holds a collection of more than 850,000 objects from Dutch history | Rotterdam 
 
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    | In 1521 an imperial assembly called the Diet met in this German city, & centuries of jokes at the name ensued | (Ken: Diet of [*], yes.) 
 Worms
 
 
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    | This detective is instructed in "The Long Goodbye" that a real gimlet is "half gin & half Rose's lime juice & nothing else" | Philip Marlowe 
 
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    | "King Priam", an opera by Sir Michael Tippett, is set in this city of antiquity | Troy 
 
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    | This Swedish naturalist is classified as the "Father of Taxonomy" | Linnaeus 
 
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    | In 1929 Paramount tried to merge with this sibling-owned studio, but the Justice Department said no | (Josh: What is MGM?) 
 Warner Bros.
 
 
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    | Used in Spain for executions until 1978, it's an iron collar slowly tightened to the point of strangulation | a garrote 
 
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    | A U.S. destroyer clashed with North Vietnamese torpedo boats in this gulf on August 2, 1964 | the Gulf of Tonkin 
 
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    | "The Sun Also Rises" describes it as "greenish imitation absinthe. When you add water, it turns milky. It tastes like licorice"; yum! | (Ken: That's Hemingway on [*].) 
 Pernod
 
 
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    | In a Puccini opera set in Peking, this cruel princess agrees to marry the man who can answer 3 riddles | Turandot 
 
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    | This 17th century Englishman who enjoyed fishing & writing about it is known as the "Father of Angling" | (Ken: The Compleat Angler by [*].) 
 Izaak Walton
 
 
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    | RKO Radio Pictures went down the tubes, following its 1948 purchase by this increasingly reclusive magnate | Howard Hughes 
 
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    | Richard Lewis made comedy out of this one of the Big 5 personality traits characterized by anxiety, sadness & irritability | [Zoe offered both responses.] 
 neurotic (or neuroticism)
 
 
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