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MY BIG FAT GREEK LIT CATEGORY |
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Pond scum is composed of green & brown forms of these simple organisms |
algae
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The title character of this musical shows up at 17 Cherry Tree Lane, London & works her magic |
Mary Poppins
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It was a border of the Roman Empire, & outposts like Singidunum (now Belgrade) were built along it |
the Danube
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A star explosion, or a PBS series |
nova
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This Ancient Greek wrote, "Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, so you would state home to your own land at once?" |
Homer
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This beetle gets its 4-letter name from its huge jaws that resemble the antlers of a male deer |
a stag beetle
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In this Lerner & Loewe show, Colonel Pickering, author of "Spoken Sanskrit", makes a dare to a colleague |
My Fair Lady
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The name of this Michigan waterway that meets up with the Kalamazoo River refers to a fight that involved 4 guys |
Battle Creek
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Savasana, the dead body pose, is but one posture in this activity |
yoga
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His "Apology" is seen as a reliable representation of the trial of Socrates |
Plato
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The chickaree is also called the pine type of this rodent; it hides pine cones the way others hide nuts |
squirrel
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The MGM Studio Chorus backs up Judy Garland on this movie musical's "The Trolley Song" |
Meet Me in St. Louis
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The back of the neck |
(Alex: Yes, with a minute to go.)
nape
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Known for her 600s B.C. lyric poetry, she was married & had a daughter named Cleis |
Sappho
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A native of Ogden, Brent Scowcroft was this adviser to presidents Gerald Ford & George H.W. Bush |
National Security Advisor
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The moonflower, whose blossoms open in the evening, is a fragrant variety of this a.m. flower |
the morning glory
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The original London soundtrack of this musical features Jonathan Pryce & Lea Salonga |
(Jon: What is Madame Butterfly?)
Miss Saigon
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Until the Erie Canal opened, this 981-mile tributary of the Mississippi was the main route west for goods & people |
the Ohio River
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As an adjective, it means stylish; as a noun, it's a prestigious award |
(Jon: Oh, dear. Um... laud? What is laud?)
tony
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Shakespeare used Sir Thomas North's translation of this Greek's "Lives" for some material in his plays |
Plutarch
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This Beaver-born tinkerer is sometimes considered the inventor of television |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Philo T. Farnsworth
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There are 3 species of this bird with "wing" it its name: Bohemian, Japanese & cedar |
waxwing
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For this 2002 musical, Twyla Tharp used 28 Billy Joel songs |
Movin' Out
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Many Civil War battles had 1 name from a river & 1 from a settlement, as in Stones River/Murfreesboro in this state |
Tennessee
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This "beast" of a word originated in the 1930s from the Tibetan language of the Sherpas |
yeti
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To refute a claim that he was senile, this playwright read in court from his own play "Oedipus at Colonus" |
(Tim: Who is Aeschylus?)
Sophocles
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