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    | In the late 1790s Friedrich Hornemann became the first modern European to cross this desert | 
    (Alex: A minute to go.)
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    | "Rasputin and the Empress" was the only joint film appearance of siblings Lionel, Ethel & John of this family | 
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    | I know, it's a poem about the inventor of the telephone & his family | 
    (Dave: What is Bell?)
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    | 8 generations of male collies have played this legendary film & TV female | 
    Lassie
 
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    | In most cases, if a year can be divided by this number, it'll be a leap year | 
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    | In this Neil Simon play, Oscar tells Murray that the green sandwiches are "either very new cheese or very old meat" | 
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    | Stanley wanted him to return to England, but he decided to keep searching for the Nile's source | 
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    | "Lust for Life", starring Kirk Douglas, was based on Irving Stone's book about this Dutch artist | 
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    | Sure, it's a tale about a peach stone & a clock | 
    "The Pit and the Pendulum"
 
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    | This fictional dog is based on one named Spike that was Charles Schulz' childhood pet | 
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    | Nothing in the sky has a cycle of this duration; it came from the Jews observing a day of rest | 
    (Dave: What is 7?) ... (Alex: There are 7 days in [*], but we were going for [*].)
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    | Novelist Richard Condon said that cheese is "the adult form of" this beverage | 
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    | On Christmas Day, 1497 this Portuguese navigator sighted & named Natal in South Africa | 
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    | Nightclub comic played by Dustin Hoffman in a 1974 biopic | 
    Lenny Bruce
 
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    | In this story an earthquake takes down a Broadway theater... right? | 
    "The Fall of the House of Usher"
 
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    | Rescued from an animal shelter, this shaggy hero has starred in 4 movies including "Oh, Heavenly Dog!" | 
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    | (Hi, I'm Vanessa Marcil)  It's the length of my stay on "General Hospital", or a senator's term | 
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    | John Hanning Speke accompanied him twice on explorations into Africa's interior, reaching Lake Tanganyika | 
    (Dave: Who was Heyerdahl?) (Nathan: Who was Rhodes?)
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    | James Mason portrayed this German in both "The Desert Fox" & "The Desert Rats" | 
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    | In this story, it's the woman's magazine Poe "found in a bottle" | 
    "MS. Found in a Bottle"
 
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    | This German Shepherd star of films like "Where the North Begins" could scale walls | 
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    | A 1945 Sartre novel set in 1938, or a nickname for the 18th century | 
    (Dave: What is L'Nose?)
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    | The first European to round Africa's southern tip, he found Cape Agulhas, Africa's southernmost point | 
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    | Among the film portrayals of Beethoven are Ewald Balser's in 1949's "Eroica" & Gary Oldman's in this 1994 film | 
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    | It's a valentine that contains the story of a Swiss archer | 
    (Alex: Maybe Poe was not such a good idea after all!)
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    | A 1961 Disney classic was based on the true story of this Skye Terrier's 14-year vigil at his master's grave | 
    Greyfriars Bobby
 
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    | Called "time's arrow", it's a measure of disorder in a system | 
    Entropy
 
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