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The Chicago River flows out of this Great Lake
Lake Michigan
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In surface area this one of the 5 Great Lakes is the largest body of fresh water in the world
Lake Superior
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The town of Yellowknife is located on the shore of this Great Canadian lake
Great Slave Lake
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This lake in Oregon is the second-deepest lake in North America
Crater Lake
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Percy Shelley wrote of this Italian lake, it exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty
Lake Como
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This Oscar winner for Ordinary People leads a team of thieves & hackers on TNT's Leverage
(Timothy) Hutton
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In the 1980s he & his daughter Holly hosted Ripley's Believe It or Not, though we don't remember any one-armed push-ups
Jack Palance
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This Oscar-winning daughter of an Oscar-winning director plays producer Eileen Rand on Smash
Anjelica Huston
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In 2012 this 2-time Oscar winner won a Golden Globe for her role on American Horror Story
Jessica Lange
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On a clear day, I can see this landmark unveiled in 1923; it's lost 4 letters since then
the Hollywood Sign
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In summer I listen to this great broadcaster, now in his 63rd year calling Dodger games
Vin Scully
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Weekends I go to Musso & Frank's iconic restaurant; GQ called their version of this gin-based cocktail America's best
a martini
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When I say I live in the Valley, I mean this one that's home to such communities as Studio City & Encino
San Fernando Valley
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Sometimes I get my kicks driving to Glendora to visit the acclaimed Donut Man on this route
Route 66
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In Milton's Paradise Lost, Gabriel sends 2 of these beings to watch over Paradise, & Satan flees
angels
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When Moby Dick is harpooned, this man becomes fouled in the line & is taken under the sea to his death
Ahab
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Chapter 1 of this Tolstoy novel tells us, Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house
Anna Karenina
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The oldest of the 3 Musketeers, he was once married to the evil Milady de Winter
Athos
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Theodore Dreiser based this novel on the case of Chester Gillette, who murdered Grace Brown on Big Moose Lake
An American Tragedy
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Lapsus linguae, a sudden, unfortunate utterance, translates to this 4-word phrase
slip of the tongue
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Said at funerals, requiescat in pace translates to this
rest in peace
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Agnus dei is this 4-legged animal of God
a lamb
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In utero means within the womb; this other phrase describes something that happens in glass
in vitro
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i.e. is short for this, meaning that is
id est
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What's this?
four of a kind
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What's this?
a flush
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What's this?
a full house
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& I'm here... to remind you... her Jagged Little Pill was No. 1 in 1995 & again in '96
Alanis Morissette
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The soundtrack from this movie felt the love tonight (& for 10 weeks)
The Lion King
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This Seattle band was Unplugged in New York; cuts included Lake Of Fire
Nirvana
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Not afraid to re-dip in previous success, he topped the chart with Bat out of Hell II: Back Into Hell
Meat Loaf
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This band's Monster album included Crush With Eyeliner
R.E.M.
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The 3 Battles of Ypres
World War I
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The Inchon Landing
the Korean War
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The Battle of Lookout Mountain
the Civil War
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The 1356 Battle of Poitiers
the Hundred Years' War
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The Battle of Tarawa
World War II
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George Hepplewhite was known for designing the backs of these in such shapes as hearts & shields
chairs
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In the early 20th century, Gerrit Rietveld led this country's De Stijl movement, which emphasized abstract furniture
the Netherlands
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This London furniture maker popularized his style in his book Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director
Thomas Chippendale
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Most of the early work by this N.Y. cabinetmaker whose name sounds like a musical instrument was in mahogany
Duncan Phyfe
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Both Alvar Aalto & Charles Eames designed furniture using this layered wood product
laminate
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Margaret Hamilton spoke the immortal movie line I'll get you, my pretty, and these 4 words
your little dog, too!
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English dramatist John Webster noted, they that sleep with dogs shall rise with these
fleas
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This Shakespeare play includes the line Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war
Julius Caesar
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In 1994, as he left the governorship of New York, he said, dog eat dog produces... just one dog, and that's a lonely way to live
(Mario) Cuomo
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An editor of The New York Sun said, but if this happens, that is news
man bites dog
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(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows three geometric figures on the monitor.) A trapezium, a rhombus, & even a kite are examples of this type of planed figure, from the Latin for 4-sided
a quadrilateral
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Now would be a good time to remember that it's 1/60 of a degree
a minute
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Don't be dense; tell us this word for an angle of more than 90 but fewer than 180 degrees
obtuse
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The letter m indicates this steepness of a line
a slope
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An assertion that can be proven true, often using axioms & postulates
a theorem
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A substance used to clean injured skin & to prevent infection
antiseptic
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It's Italian for Joseph, Mr. Verdi
Giuseppe
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A chamber used as a grave
sepulcher
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The part of a cross-shaped church that intersects the main aisle at right angles
transept
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As its name suggests, this early version of the Old Testament was translated by 70 writers
the Septuagint
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Of the world's 5 largest islands by area, the 2 with territory of more than 1 country are Borneo & this one
New Guinea
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For $90,000, the X6 M sport utility from this German automaker better be one freakin' amazing driving machine
BMW
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The 2011 911 Speedster convertible from this company cost $204,000! Someone call 911!
Porsche
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It's a very right & proper $300,000 for a 2012 Ghost from this British carmaker
Rolls-Royce
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James Bond would enjoy a One-77 from this 2-named company; it's yours for $1.9 million, but only 77 were made
Aston Martin
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Mary had a little 2009 Reventon from this Italian company—Mary likes going 0-62 in 3.4 secs. & had $1.6 million to blow
Lamborghini
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This term for the termination of a proceeding without a verdict sounds like the end of a school class
dismissal
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Glenn Close knows they're monies awarded to a litigant for loss or injury
damages
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Punishable by fine or imprisonment of one year or less, they're 5 times more common than felonies in many states
misdemeanors
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This other A word is an accomplice or abettor in a crime but is not there when it is committed
accessory
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In order to get a more objective trial, ask for a change of this to seek to have a case heard in a new jurisdiction
venue
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Cristina Kirchner of this country ably succeeded her husband
Argentina
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Jalal Talabani has been this troubled nation's president since 2005
Iraq
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Next on the menu, this country's prime minister—Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Turkey
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This Venezuelan calls himself leader of the Bolivarian revolution
Chavez
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His term as Mexican president ends in 2012
Felipe Calderón
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Most stars are made of the same stuff when they form, about 74% hydrogen & 25% this gas
helium
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The beehive cluster, a group of stars visible to the naked eye, is on the shell of this crabby constellation
Cancer
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This word for what we know to be a very old star is Latin for new—silly ancient astronomers!
nova
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Most stars are red these, with less than 50% the mass of the Sun
dwarfs
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We are serious that Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky, with a -1.46 measure of apparent this
magnitude
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It's the ES in ESP, or do you need to read my mind?
extrasensory
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After films like Alien & Independence Day, these beings might demand a better image in the media
extraterrestrials
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A YouTube clip from the 1940s shows a newsboy saying this 6-word line before Millionaire Playboy in Trouble Again!
Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
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This adjective means not pertinent to the issue at hand
extraneous
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It's calculating a value beyond the range of that which is known
extrapolation
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This show that began in 1970 has featured on-air talent like Jon Gruden & Keith Jackson
Monday Night Football
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As of October 1975 it had run longer than the Korean War, & still had 8 years left
M*A*S*H
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This TV show traces its origins to 1992, when 2 Univ. of Colorado students made the animated short Jesus vs. Frosty
South Park
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Set in post-Civil War Kansas, it ran from 1955 to 1975
Gunsmoke
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Meanwhile, Back in the Nixon Suite was one segment when it debuted in 1968 on a Tuesday; it now airs on another night
60 Minutes
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Theodore H. White wrote a series of books about The Making of this elected official
the President
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Joan Didion analyzed the turbulent 1960s in a nonfiction work called this, like a Beatles LP
The White Album
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The book Mirror Mirror transports this classic tale of young woman & septet to the time of the Borgias
Snow White (and the Seven Dwarfs)
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It was the wild, the savage, frozen-hearted northland wild, he wrote in White Fang
Jack London
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This character actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket
the White Rabbit
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Argus-eyed, meaning extremely observant, refers to a 100-eyed giant whose eyes were transferred to this bird's tail
the peacock
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This exclamation used by Scarlett O'Hara refers to a musical instrument
fiddle-dee-dee
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From pillar to post, meaning to and fro, has its origins in this court sport
tennis
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This 4-word phrase meaning natural selection was coined by philosopher Herbert Spencer, not Darwin
survival of the fittest
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This walking stick or club takes its name from a town in Ireland
shillelagh
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Rather than let his gunpowder-filled ship be captured, Captain Jan van Speijk did this to it, he & his crew still aboard
blew it up
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The village of Spaarndam has a statue of the boy who heroically stuck his finger in this
the dam (or the dike)