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THE CHILDREN'S AUTHOR WHO WROTE... |
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PROUST'S REMEMBRANCE OF SMELLS PAST |
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Defeating a combined Russian & Austrian army, this general had one of his greatest victories at 1805's Battle of Austerlitz |
Napoleon
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"Piglet said (it) was a... good trap... he wouldn't see the very deep pit until he was half-way down, when it would be too late" |
(Ken: That is correct, ominous words from Piglet, there.)
Milne
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A paper that lists a voter's choices elects to change one letter & dances in as a classic theatrical art form |
ballot & ballet
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The Wakefield 241st Street subway station, the northernmost station in the New York City Subway System, is in this borough |
the Bronx
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In a "30 Rock" episode, this Tina Fey character learns from her high school reunion that she was actually a mean girl |
(Katie: Ooh, it's like a dream.)
Liz Lemon
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If only, like Hasbro, I might trademark the smell of this modeling compound: hints of cherry, vanilla, salt & youth itself |
Play-Doh
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Christianity reached this vast island with Leif Eriksson in the 11th century & a bishop's seat was established there in 1124 |
Greenland
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"The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!' she said, without even looking around" |
Lewis Carroll
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Mom or dad changes a letter & gets an exclusive right granted for an invention |
parent & patent
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Bank & Brixton are stops on London's Metro, better known as the Tube or by this subterranean name |
the Underground
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Zealously lifting my nostrils to the window, I noted what science calls petrichor--the pleasant, earthy smell caused by this |
(Andrew: What is grass?)
rain
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In August 1601 Olivier van Noort returned to Rotterdam after a 3-year voyage that made him the first Dutchman to do this |
circumnavigate the globe
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In one translation, "The most ghastly sight of all was a little mermaid whom they had caught and strangled" |
(Ken: Yeah, a feel-good work from [*].) [Laughter]
(Hans Christian) Andersen
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Uh oh... you're in a synonym of peril because after a letter change, someone is threatening you with a stabbing weapon |
(Andrew: What is... [Sighs] brandish?)
danger & dagger
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In Chicago the Blue Line takes you to O'Hare, while the Orange Line takes you to the station for this other airport |
Midway
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"Sorry, we're closed" was the last line of this show in an episode entitled "One for the Road" |
Cheers
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Memory awoke as I detected the xylene fumes: a permanent marker, perhaps of this brand launched in 1964 |
Sharpie
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In 1917 Britain turned down an offer to save the family of 7 with this last name, who were later killed |
Romanov
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'"Augustus Gloop! Augustus Gloop! The great big greedy nincompoop!... so unutterably vile, so greedy, foul, and infantile"' |
Roald Dahl
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To conclude by reasoning switches a letter & now means to bury |
(Katie: What is figure and...) ... (Katie: Had to try.)
infer & inter
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The artwork on the walls of this Paris Metro station named for a demolished edifice includes key moments of the French Revolution |
Bastille
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Ed O'Neill was a longtime TV dad on "Married... with Children" & then again on this sitcom that ran from 2009 to 2020 |
Modern Family
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Its smell called to mind the essential oils of drum circles past: that most Bohemian of flora, Pogostemon cablin, aka this |
patchouli
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In 1508 Diego Columbus, Christopher's son, was named governor of these (no compass direction given) |
(Aaron: What are the West Indies?)
the Indies
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"Soon Fudge would be a famous television star and I would be plain old Peter Hatcher--fourth grade nothing" |
(Judy) Blume
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The "value" of a car once you buy it from the dealer changes into this verb meaning to amuse, as with a story |
resale & regale
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A Metro stop that serves George Washington University has this 2-word name that includes a murky adjective |
Foggy Bottom
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And there's this actress who played the sitcom roles of Maude Findlay & Dorothy Zbornak |
Bea Arthur
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Its foul stink affronts my senses; never shall I deign to revisit this soft cheese or the Belgian province whence it came |
Limburger
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