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INITIALS TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO NUMBERS II |
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1904: Picasso's "Woman Ironing" exemplifies this colorful "period" of his career |
blue period
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W particles transmit this force that, despite its name, is stronger than gravity |
weak nuclear force
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Sudoku-ed? Jigsaw-ed? Either way, catch 2 Zs in this word meaning confused |
puzzled
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On a Sept. 22, 1949 episode of this series, a character wonders, "Who's the masked man?" |
The Lone Ranger
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For the U.K.'s current prime minister |
600 (DC, David Cameron)
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In 1916 he made Russian bigwigs nervous, so they poisoned him. & shot him. twice. then drowned him |
Rasputin
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1601: Caravaggio anticipates the Baroque era in "the conversion of" this man |
(Julia: Who is Matthew?)
Saul (or St. Paul)
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In a song title, it follows "Bewitched, Bothered and..." |
Bewildered
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In 1948 this freckle-faced, plaid-shirted puppet had "plastic" surgery to improve his looks |
Howdy Doody
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For the "Bowling for Columbine" documentary filmmaker |
2,000 (MM, Michael Moore)
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This mobster developed Vegas gambling (yay!); skimmed funds in building the Flamingo (oops); killed in '47 (eesh) |
Bugsy Siegel
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1658: He plays with light in "The Milkmaid" |
(Johannes) Vermeer
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In a 1905 paper Einstein was the first to theorize about these, also called light quanta |
photons
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"Confuse" is synonymous with this "con-" word, that also means to associate by mistake |
conflate (or confound)
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Boxing was big on the small screen, like on the "Cavalcade of Sports" Friday night fights from this NYC venue |
Madison Square Garden
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For the professional name of the supermodel married to David Bowie |
1 (I, Iman)
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In 1535 Henry VIII said, please sir, I want some of this man who refused to help annul my marriage--"some" being his head |
Thomas More
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1577: Shortly after his arrival in Spain, this foreign-born man paints his "Assumption of the Virgin" |
El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos)
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Named for a physicist, it's the "god particle" that endows subatomic particles with mass |
Higgs boson
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To jumble; when you achieve success despite a lack of skill, you do this "through" |
muddle
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TV's first telethon was 1949's "Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund" hosted by this man, "Mr. Television" |
(Milton) Berle
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For the judge best known for the 1994 O.J. Simpson case |
51 (LI, Lance Ito)
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The first words of an article called "John Brown's Day of Reckoning" are this place in the Blue Ridge Mountains |
Harper's Ferry
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1771: Benjamin West shakes things up by depicting contemporary history in "The Death of General" him |
Wolfe
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From the Greek for "swift", these theoretical particles are said to exist only at speeds faster than light |
tachyons
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This 10-letter word meaning confused is from the Latin for "not more" |
nonplussed
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On Aug. 10, 1948 he brought his radio hit "Candid Microphone" to television |
(Allen) Funt
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For the American who in 1964 founded Muslim Mosque, Inc. |
1,010 (MX, Malcolm X)
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This emperor got the boot at the 41 A.D. Palatine games; Cassius Chaerea killed him, but many wanted to |
Caligula
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