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STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL |
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We're not neutral about "Un ballo in maschera", about the assassination of a king of this Scandinavian country |
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This Russian president helped put down the 1991 coup that briefly imprisoned Mikhail Gorbachev |
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"Ocular" term for something unpleasant to see |
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The Sterns of New Jersey won a 1980s custody battle with the surrogate mother of Melissa, better known as "Baby" this |
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The idea for this 1954 Elia Kazan film came from a series of newspaper articles about corruption on the docks |
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Thunder Bay in Ontario, an arm of this Great Lake |
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Smitten by Mathilde Wesendonck, Wagner composed this lovey-dovey 1865 opera |
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In 1989 the Soviets left this country where they'd suffered 15,000 dead during a 10-year quagmire |
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This pea family crop is like steak to horses |
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The 1984 U.S. law mandating treatment of seriously ill newborns is known by this generic name |
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William Holden's acceptance speech upon winning the Oscar for playing a P.O.W. in this film was a terse "Thank you" |
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Mount Katahdin in this New England state |
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In an 1893 opera, Lescaut seems to have no first name, but this sister of his does |
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The name of this Soviet foreign minister during WWII became synonymous with a bottle bomb |
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This palindromic male given name comes from a Germanic word meaning "rich" |
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They're called whitecoats, & people got mad at Canada in the '80s for hunting them |
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Steve McQueen's first starring role was in this film about a gelatinous mass from outer space |
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The Museum of Porcelain on Grande Rue in this city just outside Paris, famous for making the stuff |
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One of the many composers to write a "Faust" opera, he was buddies with Bizet |
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This official Soviet news agency was the main news source for all newspapers & radio & TV stations |
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This term for ignorant folks sounds like but is the opposite of illuminati |
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She survived for 21 days in 1984 with a transplanted baboon heart |
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This actress was a frequent presence in the films of John Ford |
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The banks of this African river that flows between Zimbabwe & Zambia on its way to the Indian Ocean |
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Like its heroine, "The Italian Girl in Algiers" did some traveling as this composer's first opera staged in France & Germany |
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The USSR mounted a 1958 exhibit not of Norman Rockwell but of this left-wing artist with Rockwell as his first name |
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From the Italian, it's heartburn or anxiety |
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In 1981 Elizabeth Carr became the USA's first of these babies, with less fanfare than the one across the pond |
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Leopoldine Konstantin tells Claude Rains, "We are protected by the enormity of your stupidity" in this Hitchcock film |
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This country to gaze up at the cuneiform Behistun Inscription 300 feet up a sheer limestone cliff |
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