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Well I'll be a monkey's uncle, in 1859 he shocked the world with his "Origin of Species" |
Charles Darwin
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You may eat this candied tuber at Thanksgiving |
(Janet: What are sweet potatoes?)
yam (may)
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The man-eating Grendel, Grendel's mom & a fire-breathing dragon are slain in this epic from the 8th century |
Beowulf
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The big Gobi event of 1955 was the completion of one of these spanning the desert |
(Darren: What is a highway?)
a railroad
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Jay-Z joins her on "Heartbreaker" |
Mariah Carey
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Number of stripes on the flag of France plus the number of stripes on the flag of Italy |
6 (3 + 3)
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He's the emperor portrayed here in 1804, clad in his elaborate coronation dress: |
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Nervously walk back & forth across the cape |
pace (cape)
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The second line of this Dylan Thomas poem says, "Old age should burn and rave at close of day" |
"Do not go gentle into that good night"
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In July 1993 an egg containing the embryo of one of these was found at Ukhaa Tolgod in the Gobi |
dinosaur
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Formerly known as Prince, he's now calling himself by this 2-word name |
The Artist
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"Dollars" paid for Manhattan plus the number of eggs in 2 dozen |
(Darren: What is 24?)
48 (24 + 24)
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This king of the Huns is said to have been a small man with a big head & a flat nose; not too attractive! |
Attila
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When he gets a wild blue idea, Rodney goes off there |
yonder (Rodney)
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His 1915 novel "The Rainbow" was declared obscene; so was his 1928 novel |
D.H. Lawrence
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These climatic events are common in the Gobi; a severe one may be called the "black wind" |
sandstorms
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She's the doll seen here: |
[Dressed in outfit worn for "...Baby One More Time"]
Britney Spears
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Number of continents whose names begin with "E" plus the number of degrees in a right angle |
(Alex: Only continent is Europe.)
91 (1 + 90)
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This author of "The Prince" was briefly imprisoned for allegedly conspiring against the Medicis |
Machiavelli
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To gaze at the obverse side |
observe (obverse)
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"The Lamb", one of his "Songs of Innocence", asks, "Little lamb, who made thee?" |
(Janet: Who is T.S. Eliot?)
William Blake
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"Gobi" means "waterless place" in the Altaic languages collectively called this national language |
Mongolian
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This ex-Spice Girl was once a model on the Turkish version of "Let's Make a Deal" |
Geri Halliwell
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Number of U.S. states with a Pacific coast plus the number of U.S. presidents named Robert |
(Alex: Just the states, there are no presidents named Robert.)
5 (5 + 0)
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For helping the Lincoln conspirators, she was the first woman hanged by the U.S. government |
(Darren: Who is Cassatt?) ... (Alex: Mary Cassatt was an artist; [*] was the conspirator.)
Mary Surratt
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Mama Mia! An Italian might dream about this person |
madre (dream)
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This 1651 whale of a treatise on government by Thomas Hobbes is a defense of secular monarchy |
Leviathan
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Gobi explorer Nikolai Przhevalski discovered a wild camel & the world's last surviving wild species of this |
(Darren: What is a Tasmanian devil?)
horse
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Her career became even more fruitful after "Tidal" went triple platinum |
Fiona Apple
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The number of tons in a kiloton plus the atomic number of hydrogen |
1001 (1000 + 1)
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