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In their efforts to convert local tribes, the Franciscans built 21 of these in California |
(Lilly: What is missionary?)
missions
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An estimated 50 million people watched his final "Tonight Show" appearance on May 22, 1992 |
Johnny Carson
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The comet-shaped magnetosphere that surrounds the Earth is shaped by the stream of plasma known as this |
solar wind
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A type of transport flies in a letter to become this huge heavenly body |
(Alex: From plane.)
planet
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Places on the map named for her include a land in Antarctica & a state in Australia |
Victoria
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As a 1904 play, "Peter Pan" |
Barrie
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13th c. Italians in Mongol lands included Marco Polo & John of Monte Corvino, first archbishop of this capital |
Beijing
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One meme about this actor who was "Walker, Texas Ranger": "Death once had a near-" him "experience" |
Chuck Norris
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This property of seawater is usually 3.5% but in parts of the Baltic Sea, it can be under 1%, due to melting ice |
salinity
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Russian cash adds a letter to become this, demolition remains |
(Alex: From ruble. Less than a minute.)
rubble
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These two islands get their names from their sizes relative to each other |
(Lilly: What are Mallorca and Majorca?)
Majorca and Minorca
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The 1927 novel "Steppenwolf" |
(Hermann) Hesse
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Hey, Bobby--from the habits they once wore, a Franciscan order of Britain & Ireland is known as this color friars |
(Andrew: What is brown?) (Lilly: What is blue?)
grey
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This sitcom aired the office politics & interpersonal relationships at Station WNYX |
NewsRadio
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Millennia ago Eratosthenes calculated this at 252,000 stadia, thought to equal about 25,000 miles |
(Lilly: What is the radius of the Earth?)
the circumference of the Earth
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A metric measure of liquid pours in a letter to do this, to linger aimlessly |
(Alex: From liter.)
loiter
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Under the name Batavia, this world capital was once the capital of the Dutch East Indies |
Jakarta
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The diary entry "That big, dark, hunky boy...came over and was looking hard in my eyes and it was Ted Hughes" |
Sylvia Plath
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St. Anthony of Padua eventually got back his book of Psalms, making him the patron saint of these |
(Austin: What are books?)
lost things
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The romance of Dr. Joel Fleischman & local pilot Maggie O'Connell was sometimes hot but often chilly on this show |
Northern Exposure
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Lamina is the thinnest layer of strata in this type of rock such as shale |
sedimentary
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Insert a letter into a 4-letter synonym for "prevalent" to get this firearm |
rifle (from rife)
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Perhaps from an explorer named Fernandes, this Canadian Atlantic region means "farm worker" in Spanish |
Labrador
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"Downton Abbey", every episode |
Julian Fellowes
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Like Dominicans, Franciscans are this type of order known for poverty |
the mendicant order
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Originally from Northern Ireland, this actress played Monica on "Touched by an Angel" |
Roma Downey
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The inner of these 2 radiation belts is centered less than 6,000 miles above the Earth; the outer may extend to 36,000 miles |
the Van Allen belts
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Add a letter to a device that warms a room & you get this, noted for its small pinkish-purple flowers |
(Alex: From heater.)
heather
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This African capital is said to take its name from the mammal seen here |
(Alex: Andrew?) (Andrew: What is Pretoria?) (Alex: No. You're looking at an impala. And the capital is [*]. It means "hill of the impala".)
Kampala
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The German poem "Archaic Torso of Apollo", which ends, "You must change your life" |
(Rainer Maria) Rilke
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