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    | In 1874, after more than 20 years, he finally completed his entire "Ring" cycle with "The Twilight of the Gods" | Wagner 
 
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    | 1991: Susan Sarandon &
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    | In 1992 Alexander Wolszczan discovered the first ones of these outside our solar system | planets 
 
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    | A 1955 issue featured "A Walk With" this 81-year-old poet | Robert Frost 
 
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    | Louis, a mute trumpeter swan in E.B. White's "The Trumpet of the Swan", was named for this musician | Armstrong 
 
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    | A state of stiffness in tissue; it can precede "mortis" | rigor 
 
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    | Robert Schumann's high hopes for "Genoveva", his only one of these works, were dashed by a Leipzig audience | an opera 
 
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    | 1994: Jim Carrey &
 Jeff Daniels
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    | From the Greek for "twig", it's a plant or animal made from a portion of another without sex | (Jeff: That was dumb.  What's graft?) 
 a clone
 
 
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    | Yankee profiled "New England's greatest invention"--this one created in a restaurant on a Mass. toll road | (Jamie: What's a drive-thru window?) (Michael: What's clam chowder?)
 
 the Toll House cookie
 
 
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    | This craftman's wife made clothes & knitted stockings for 2 elves, but they left his shop & never came back | the shoemaker 
 
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    | Each paragraph of an essay should include this type of "sentence" that states the main thought | (Jeff: What's thesis?) 
 topic
 
 
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    | When his brother Kaspar died in 1815, he became co-guardian of Kaspar's 9-year-old son Karl | Beethoven 
 
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    | 1947: Cary Grant &
 Shirley Temple
 | The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer 
 
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    | The "M" in MASER stands for this; the rest of the acronym is the same as in "LASER" | microwave 
 
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    | A frequent Yankee advertiser is this business based in Freeport, Maine since 1912 | (Jeff: What is J. Crew?) 
 L.L. Bean
 
 
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    | Appropriately, this Andersen heroine had "eyes as blue as the deepest sea" | the Little Mermaid 
 
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    | To reduce 137,618 to 68,809 | halve 
 
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    | We're fortunate to have the "Fingal's Cave" overture by this composer whose first name means "fortunate" | Felix Mendelssohn 
 
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    | 1974: James Caan &
 Alan Arkin
 | Freebie and the Bean 
 
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    | In 1932 this inventor figured out a better way than using Iceland spar to polarize light | Edwin Land 
 
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    | A cautionary 1994 story listed 115 people who had perished on this, New England's highest mountain | Washington 
 
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    | Hansel had a sister named Gretel; so did this boy in an 1865 novel | (Jeff: Bet it all.) (Alex: I figured you must.  Here is the clue for you in KIDDY LIT...)
 
 Hans Brinker
 
 
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    | In 1940 he wrote "Japanische Festmusik" as a gesture of friendship between Germany & Japan | (Alex: You have a long way to go.) (Jeff: Can I bet $22,000?)
 (Alex: No.)
 (Jeff: $2,200 then?)
 (Alex: Sure. Here is the clue for you...)
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 (Alex: Jeff?)
 (Jeff: Who is... Hofstadter?)
 
 Richard Strauss
 
 
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    | 1951: Gregory Peck &
 Susan Hayward
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    | In 1921 it was found that this hormone controlled your carbohydrate metabolism | insulin 
 
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    | The May 2004 issue visited the lobstermen of Stonington on this Maine bay | Penobscot Bay 
 
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    | Beatrix Potter wrote a "tale about a tail--a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel, and his name was" this | Nutkin 
 
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    | It's the watery last word of "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" | drown 
 
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