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    | In 1906 Socialist Keir Hardie became this current party's first leader in Parliament | the Labor Party 
 
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    | Neil Simon's brother Danny roomed with a friend after a divorce, inspiring a Broadway hit & this sitcom | The Odd Couple 
 
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    | Prologue: "In Troy there lies the scene"
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 Troilus and Cressida
 
 
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    | Since losing its light bulb patents, it has brought to life atomic reactors used to power submarines | General Electric 
 
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    | Taller athletes can be at risk of fatal cardiomyopathy, an enlargement of this | the heart 
 
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    | The true one of these unfortunate birds had the scientific name Raphus cucullatus | a dodo 
 
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    | "Everything for everybody everywhere" was a modest motto of this London department store | Harrod's 
 
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    | This series was inspired by the life & legal career of actress Amy Brenneman's mother | Judging Amy 
 
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    | Duke Orsino: "If music be the food of love, play on"
 | Twelfth Night 
 
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    | Sumner Redstone heads up this company whose properties include MTV, VH1, Nick & Paramount | Viacom 
 
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    | The inquest finds the cause of death to be hypoxic encephalopathy, a lack of oxygen to this organ | [Alex trips over the pronunciation of "encephalopathy" in reading the clue.] ...
 (Alex: [After Jaime gives the correct response] Yes, that's what I just had!)
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 the brain
 
 
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    | It's Hawaiian for snacks or appetizers often served on a platter | pupu 
 
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    | This "royal" London hub from which the Hogwarts Express departs was the scene of tragedy on July 7, 2005 | King's Cross 
 
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    | Allison DuBois, the heroine of this series, is based on a real-life psychic named... Allison DuBois | Medium 
 
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    | Antonio: "In sooth I know not why I am so sad.  It wearies me, you say it wearies you"
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    | Jeno Paulucci founded this company in 1947 to sell cans of chicken chow mein | (Don: What is Gino's Pizza?) (Jaime: What is La Choy?)
 
 the Chun-King Company
 
 
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    | Coroner's verdict: the accident led to exsanguination, death by a complete loss of this | blood 
 
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    | This disease of the peripheral nerves is caused by a deficiency of vitamin B1 | beriberi 
 
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    | In 1759 Francis Gastrell, enraged by a stream of visitors to his house in this town, destroyed the house | (Alex: And that was in [*].  People coming by to, uh, visit Shakespeare's old place.) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
 
 Stratford-on-Avon
 
 
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    | Leonato: "I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night to Messina"
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 Much Ado About Nothing
 
 
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    | In 1908 Camillo Olivetti opened a plant in Italy to manufacture these | typewriters 
 
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    | Looking like a bubble on a hose, this aortic dilatation caused by a weakening of the vessel wall led to the death | an aneurysm 
 
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    | Chichi & this other term from the French both refer to elaborate, showy decoration | (Jaime: What is fufu?) (Alex: Say it again.)
 (Jaime: What is fufu?)
 (Alex: No.)
 
 froufrou
 
 
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    | Creator Marc Cherry has said that Bree Van de Kamp on this series is based in part on his mom | Desperate Housewives 
 
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    | Valentine: "Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus; home-keeping youth have ever homely wits"
 | (Alex: I'd bet you if had given you the opening line to Richard III, you'd have gotten it.  These, of course, were lesser-known.) 
 Two Gentlemen of Verona
 
 
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    | In 1937 this French leather-goods maker produced its first silk scarf | Hermes 
 
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    | An acute disease of the lungs marked by difficult breathing & fever, lobar this, did the guy in | pneumonia 
 
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    | A classic 1900 book says he "was not gray; he was a little black dog with long, silky hair" | (Michael: I don't have it.  I don't have it.) (Alex: From The Wizard of Oz...)
 (Michael: Oh, of course!)
 
 Toto
 
 
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