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    | About 2/3 of the water in the Nile comes from this river, not the White Nile | the Blue Nile 
 
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    | 1964: "Supercalifragilis-
 ticexpialidocious"
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    | "A Station in the Delta", "Gardens of Stone" & "In Country" tell tales of this war | Vietnam 
 
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    | Sir Thomas Browne communed with this by calling it "the art of God" | nature 
 
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    | The Great Nebula in this constellation lies in the middle of a hunter's sword | Orion 
 
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    | Partly from a word for an endurance test, it's a broadcast that's an appeal for charitable donations | a telethon 
 
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    | At the 2 cities named Kansas City, this "stately" river meets the Kansas River | Missouri 
 
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    | 1968: "Open the pod bay doors, HAL"
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    | Jeff Shaara's "Gone for Soldiers" chronicles the 1846-48 U.S. war with this country | Mexico 
 
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    | Animator Chuck Jones quotes Mark Twain on this: "a long... sorry-looking skeleton with a gray wolf-skin" | (Ted; What is Wile E. Coyote?) (Alex: No.)
 (Ted: Oh, I went too much.)
 (Alex: Chuck Jones created Wile E. [*], but the reference Mark Twain made was to a [*], but I don't think Wile E. [*].)
 (Ted: Yeah, okay.)
 (Alex: Not, uh, that long ago.)
 
 coyote
 
 
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    | In 1934 a star in the constellation named for this legendary strongman was seen going nova | Hercules 
 
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    | This San Francisco hill is named for the semaphore installed at its crest in 1850 | Telegraph Hill 
 
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    | The Atlantic Ocean began to form during this period of the Mesozoic Era when dinosaurs roamed | the Jurassic Period (the Jurassic Era accepted) 
 
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    | 1938 (full title!): "Welcome to Sherwood, my lady!"
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    | Tolstoy's "War and Peace" is an epic of the wars named for this man | Napoleon 
 
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    | As stated by Samuel Johnson & quoted by Bob Dylan, this is the last refuge of a scoundrel | (Rachel: What is the truth?) (Ted: What is politics?)
 
 patriotism
 
 
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    | Doggone!  This star has a diameter 1.7 times that of the sun & gives off 23 times as much light | Sirius 
 
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    | Things that are at a distance appear closer when you use this type of camera lens | telephoto 
 
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    | 1956: "They're here already!  You're next!  You're next!"
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 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
 
 
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    | This Shelby Foote novel about a Tennessee battle could also have been called "Pittsburg Landing" | (Alex; You probably know it better as [*].) 
 Shiloh
 
 
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    | H.L. Mencken called this bay "an immense protein factory" | Chesapeake Bay 
 
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    | This zodiac constellation is dominated by 2 stars; however, one is actually a complex system of at least 6 stars | (Rachel: Well, I didn't come here to come in second, Alex.  I'm gonna bet it all.) (Alex: All right, good for you.  Here is the clue, listen carefully.)
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 (Rachel: What is Taurus?)
 (Alex: No.  I tried to stress "2 stars" because of [*].)
 
 Gemini
 
 
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    | I have to work at a studio, so I can't be this type of worker linked electronically to his office from his home | a telecommuter 
 
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    | The Red Sea, you see, is considered an arm of this sea | the Arabian Sea 
 
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    | 1939: "My friends just call me Ringo--nickname I had as a kid"
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 Stagecoach
 
 
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    | Jack DuArte's "The Resistance" tells of French efforts to keep Louvre artwork from this No. 2 Nazi & Luftwaffe chief | Göring 
 
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    | Historian Daniel Boorstin defined this word as "a person who is well-known for his well-knownness" | a celebrity 
 
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    | Alpheratz, the brightest star in this constellation named for Perseus' wife, completes the Square of Pegasus | (Rachel: Who is Hippolyta?) 
 Andromeda
 
 
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