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When forces of this empire invaded Britain in 43 A.D., one of the areas they conquered was Hampshire |
the Roman Empire
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It's the 1946 Western that shares its name with the song heard here |
(Kevin: What is Clementine?) (Alex: No.) (Kevin: Oh My Darling Clementine?) (Alex: No. David or Michelle? The movie was called [*]. Not Oh My Darling like the song.)
My Darling Clementine
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He coined the name Jessica for the character of Shylock's daughter |
Shakespeare
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The 1st important American variety of this shortcake fruit was the hovey, grown in 1834 in Massachusetts |
strawberry
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This nearly transparent 3-syllable envelope of gases surrounding the Earth is about 78% nitrogen |
the atmosphere
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It's obligatory on doing this to say that you can't fire the players |
(Kevin: What is losing--or firing--?)
firing the coach
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The county of Hampshire is famed as the home of Jane Austen & this author of "Nicholas Nickleby" |
Charles Dickens
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Number of horses doing the work in the song heard here |
(Alex: [*], yes. "Jingle Bells".)
1
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His trilogy, "Mourning Becomes Electra" is based on Aeschylus' "Oresteia" |
Eugene O'Neill
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This bog fruit is sometimes called a bounceberry because ripe ones bounce |
a cranberry
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This appendage of a neuron transmits impulses away from the cell body |
an axon
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As his country is on the metric system, Aussie Jason Stoltenberg called tennis "a game of" these |
centimeters
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Completed around 1544 to protect Hampshire's coast, Hurst Castle was built by this English king |
(Alex: Guess an English king and in this case guess [*] and you would be right.)
Henry VIII
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The deer & antelope are playing, but these creatures are roaming |
(Michelle: [Mouths the lyrics trying to come to the response until time runs out, then laughs])
buffalo
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This "Saint Joan" playwright used the pseudonym Corno Di Bassetto when he wrote music criticism |
Shaw
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Used in pancakes & muffins, this "colorful" berry is sometimes confused with the harder-seeded huckleberry |
blueberry
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This marine snail has a genus name, it's H-A-L-I-O-T-I-S |
(Kevin: What is a bingo snail?) (Alex: Bingo snail! No, what is [*]? Remember, you're getting an "A" IN SCIENCE. Has to begin with the letter A. Forgot that, didn't you, unfortunately?) (Kevin: Wouldn't have mattered.)
abalone
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The phrase about your back being here has been used in sports & by Earl Haig in a more serious situation in WWI |
against the wall
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One of Britain's largest, this Hampshire port city was the home port of the Titanic |
Southampton
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3-word title of the song heard here |
(Michelle: What is "Another One Bites The Dust"?) ... (Alex: Yes, INXS.)
"Need You Tonight"
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People turn into rhinoceroses in an allegorical play by this absurd dramatist |
Eugene Ionesco
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This berry of the genus Ribes is the one traditionally used to make fool, a British dessert |
the gooseberry
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It's the fancy way of saying the white of an egg |
albumen
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With all those mental mistakes, we did this, like flagellants |
(David: What is got whipped?)
beat ourselves
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Winchester, the county seat of Hampshire, was the capital of this Western Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England |
(Kevin: What is Essex?) (Alex: Nooo, gosh, you were so close. It's the Western Anglo-Saxon. Hence, it's not Essex--it's on the west, it's [*].)
Wessex
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They're the first two landmarks sung about in this song |
Broadway & Herald Square
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Some botanists believe that this berry developed by a California judge in 1881 is a blackberry-raspberry hybrid |
(David: Uh... what is the Burbankberry?) (Michelle: What's a marionberry?)
the loganberry
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Told, "There is no 'I' in 'team", Michael Jordan supposedly responded that there is one in this 3-letter word |
[ERRATUM: The clue as printed had a missing closing single quote after "team".]
win
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