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James Joyce wore the round style of these called "Windsor", like his slightly older contemporary Mahatma Gandhi |
(Ken:Those are [*], he wore Gandhi [*].)
glasses
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This Pete Wentz band came back from a 3-year hiatus with the 2013 hit "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light 'Em Up)" |
Fall Out Boy
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In the 1800s the Tasmanian blue gum species of this tree was brought from Down Under to California & used as a windbreak |
eucalyptus
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If your bank account has 10 figures, you're in the 3-comma club as this |
a billionaire
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Adalemode of Limoges was duchess of this area centered on Bordeaux that Eleanor would later be in charge of |
Aquitaine
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Ciselier is known for left-handed these, with reversed finger grips & reversed blade connection |
scissors
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A 1927 newspaper said Edna St. Vincent Millay has been called the greatest poetess since Sappho & noted this coif color |
(Ken: She was [*].)
a redhead
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The Bellamy Brothers topped the country charts with the T-shirt ready title "If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You" do this |
(Andrew: What is "Would You [*]"?)
"Hold It Against Me"
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About 30 minutes from Columbia, Congaree National Park in this state is an intact example of old growth forest in the South |
South Carolina
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A tonometer & a retinoscope are tools that this kind of professional might use |
optometrist
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Both a ham & a cheese come from & are named for this Italian place once combined in a duchy with Piacenza |
Parma
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On April 1, 1998 Burger King had an ad for its new "left-handed" one of these burgers, with condiments rotated 180 degrees |
the Whopper
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"I fit easily into airplane seats" says this five-foot five humorist who does lots of traveling as a popular performer of his own work |
Sedaris
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This alt-rock classic by R.E.M. gets even longer with the subtitle "(And I Feel Fine)" |
(Mike: What is "It's The End Of The World... And We Know It"?)
"It's The End Of The World As We Know It"
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The title of a Michelle Pfeiffer movie, this toxic plant belonging to the genus Nerium is native to the Mediterranean region |
(Mike: What is poison ivy?) ... (Ken: Michelle Pfeiffer wasn't in that, but she was in [*].)
white oleander
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Abandonment, paired with "of duty" in American military law |
dereliction
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At just 6 years old in 1337, Edward the Black Prince became the first duke of this duchy in southwestern England |
Cornwall
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The USPA, the association for players of this sport, insists for safety that lefties carry mallets in their right hands |
polo
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On his 2014 centenary, this Welsh poet's grand-daughter wrote she sees him in her own rebellious curly hair |
Dylan Thomas
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A couple-wrecking, ennui-plagued Ariana Grande made this title command/declaration in a 2019 smash |
(Courtney: What is "Thank U, Next"?) ... (Andrew: Never listened to it.) [Laughter]
"Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored"
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It's thought that this tree also called a maidenhair tree was first cultivated in China 1,000 years ago |
a ginkgo
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This adjective meaning discouraged or dispirited alludes to a gamecock with a drooping head |
crestfallen
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The founding of this duchy in a region of northern France goes back to a 10th century Viking named Rollo |
Normandy
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A tip to alleviate RSIs, short for these injuries: use a right-handed mouse at work during the day & a left-handed mouse at home |
a repetitive stress injury
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This elfin Southern novelist whose books include "The Little Friend" says she's "the same size as Lolita" (5 feet even) |
Donna Tartt
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"Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand" samples this bluesman's line "I've been downhearted, baby" |
B.B. King
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With stumps 10 feet across, these trees were "the redwoods of the East" until a fungus nearly eradicated them in the 1900s |
(Ken: Andrew?) (Andrew: What is the Dutch Elm?)
(American) chestnuts
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A term for Nicaraguan rebels led Stephen Fried to coin this word for a couture designer or a supermodel superfan |
a fashionista
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The Baltic duchy of Estonia was sold to this order of German knights by the king of Denmark in 1346 for 19,000 marks |
the Teutonic Order (the Teutonic Knights)
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Her novel, "The Left Hand of Darkness", is set in fictional Gethen, a land whose populace is gender-neutral, most of the time |
Le Guin
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