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Each of his "Four Seasons" is accompanied by a poem that he wrote |
Vivaldi
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Feb. 9, 2005, 6 1/2 weeks before Easter |
Ash Wednesday
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"Heaven truly knows that thou are as false as hell", said Othello of this character; he later took it back |
(Mike: Who is Iago?)
Desdemona
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Ascomycetes, the largest class in this kingdom, includes edible types like truffles |
Fungi
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It's the suspension of a defendant's sentence, granting him provisional freedom on the promise of good behavior |
probation
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Film in which Richard Clemenza explains to James Caan the "Sicilian message" of a bulletproof vest & a fish |
(Alex: That's right. "Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes".) [ERRATUM: The character's name is actually Pete Clemenza, played by Richard S. Castellano.]
The Godfather
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At 25 he wrote his symphony in B minor consisting of 2 completed movements, an unfinished third & no fourth |
Schubert
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Pinchas Zukerman & Dudley Moore both married this cinematic sex kitten |
Tuesday Weld
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"All that is within him does condemn itself for being there", said Menteith of the title character in this tragedy |
Macbeth
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C4 plants, which photosynthesize molecules having 1 more of these atoms than C3 plants, do better if it's hot & dry |
carbon
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This drug was the first selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor approved in the U.S. |
Prozac
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After being raised at the North Pole, Will Ferrell finds out that his real dad is James Caan in this holiday film |
Elf
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His most famous work, "Finlandia", was first performed in 1899 |
Sibelius
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This restaurant chain began in 1965 with a NYC site at First & 63rd |
T.G.I. Friday's
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In this comedy Jaques says to Orlando in the Forest of Arden, "Let's meet as little as we can" |
As You Like It
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Familial name for the 2 new cells resulting from cell division |
daughter cells
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It's the long flexible snout of some mammals like the tapir |
the proboscis
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This quirky 1992 comedy featured Caan as gangster Tommy Korman, who lost the girl to one of the Flying Elvises |
Honeymoon in Vegas
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In 1988, more than 40 years after his death, his remains were moved from New York to Budapest for a state funeral |
(Béla) Bartók
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Oct. 24, 1929 on Wall Street |
(Chris: What is Friday--Black Friday?)
Black Thursday
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Play in which Thersites tells Ajax, "The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!" |
(Dennis: What's Timon of Athens?)
Troilus and Cressida
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Term for determining the order of nucleotides in a DNA molecule |
sequencing
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In anatomy, it's a muscle that draws a part forward; in math, it's a device for measuring angles |
a protractor
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In a classic 1970 TV movie, Caan portrayed this real-life cancer-stricken athlete |
(Mike: What is Brian's Song?) ... (Alex: Yes, we were going for the athlete, not the title of the show.)
Brian Piccolo
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Featured in "Somewhere in Time", his beautiful "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" is heard here |
Rachmaninoff
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It's estimated 100 million people attended his early 20th century religious revivals |
Billy Sunday
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The shepherd says "His garments are rich but he wears them not handsomely" of Autolychus in this romance |
The Winter's Tale
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Excess or deficiency of this pituitary hormone leads to gigantism or dwarfism |
(Chris: Uh, I'm sorry.)
HGH (human growth hormone)
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This colorless flammable gas is the third member of the paraffin series, following methane & ethane |
propane
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Caan welcomes future son-in-law Hugh Grant to "The Family" in this 1999 mob comedy |
(Mike: What is Johnny Blue Eyes?)
Mickey Blue Eyes
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