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This 1982 Stallone film introduced Rambo, a Vietnam vet & former Green Beret |
First Blood
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Until the 20th century, Great Britain led the world in the production of this fuel |
coal
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Proverbially, "Straighten up" & do this |
fly right
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In March 2003 his assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, was denied parole for the 12th time |
Robert F. Kennedy
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On a clear day, you can see Calais, France from this chalky English landmark |
(the White Cliffs of) Dover
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Arthur Rimbaud was just 15 when his first poem appeared in a review published in this world capital |
Paris
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In "Rocky III" Sly regains "The Eye of the Tiger" training for a rematch with Clubber Lang, played by this man |
(Alex: (doing a Mr. T imitation) Pity the fool that didn't know that!)
Mr. T
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If a sculptor has lost his marble, he's lost this one of the 3 main types of rock |
metamorphic
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A boxer up to 112 pounds |
flyweight
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Nathuram Godse's assassination of this man in 1948 set off riots in Bombay & other cities |
Mahatma Gandhi
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A cave beneath a cliff in Cornwall, England is said to house the final resting place of this sorcerer |
Merlin the Magician
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Arthur wrote an anti-clerical, semi-pornographic poem about his sister's "First" one of these church ceremonies |
Communion
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Stallone was married to this Danish beauty when she starred in "Cobra" with him |
Brigitte Nielsen
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The greatest difference in hardness between 2 Mohs scale neighbors is between corundum (9) & this (10) |
diamond
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High-aiming standard heard here |
"Fly Me to the Moon"
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At a wedding in 336 B.C., a young nobleman named Pausanias killed this father of Alexander the Great |
Philip (II of Macedon)
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New Jersey's Palisades Park on this river features 500-foot cliffs that rise from the water's edge |
the Hudson River
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Rimbaud's sonnet to this alphabet quintet begins, "A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue" |
vowels
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Dolly Parton teaches cabbie Stallone to be a country singer in this "gem" from 1984 |
Rhinestone
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Argentite, made up partly of this metal, is found in veins of it |
silver
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In this activity, the hooks can be decorated with feathers to make them look like insects |
fly fishing
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Hoping for new ties with Egypt, in 2003 Iran renamed a street that had honored Khaled Islambouli, this president's killer |
Anwar Sadat
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This Mexican resort city is noted for performers who dive from the Quebrada Cliffs |
Acapulco
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Done with poetry at age 20, Arthur moved to Africa & sold guns to Menelik, future emperor of this country |
Ethiopia
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In a 1989 action comedy, Stallone was Tango & he was Cash |
Kurt Russell
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The Romans wove this mineral into cremation cloth; later it was used in brake linings |
(Don: What is tungsten?) (Alex: You would think they would want something that would burn, no?)
asbestos
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The first page in a hardbound book |
flyleaf
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The one local doctor who might have saved this Kingfish's life was the man who supposedly shot him, Carl Weiss |
Huey Long
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There are 4 colossal statues of this "Great" pharaoh carved out of a sandstone cliff at Abu Simbel, Egypt |
Ramses II
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Paul Gauguin had a razor-wielding confrontation with Van Gogh; this poet named Paul shot Rimbaud in the arm |
(Alex: Hey, you know something? You keep ringing in on the $2,000 clues and coming up with correct responses, and as a result, you have $7,000!)
Paul Verlaine
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