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The 108th mayor of New York City, he is a graduate of Johns Hopkins & Harvard Business School |
(Michael) Bloomberg
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Weakened by scarlet fever, Beth March was sentenced to death by this author |
(Alex: [*]--Little Women--correct.)
(Louisa May) Alcott
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On March 6, 1986 Vega 1 became the first spacecraft to rendezvous with this comet |
Halley's Comet
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One of the world's most recognizable characters, Bugs Bunny is a mascot of this movie studio |
Warner Brothers
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A nonfiction film about a factual event or person |
a documentary
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He "saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" |
Allen Ginsberg
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This writer didn't flat out say, "Roderick Usher's own house fell on him", but the implication is clear |
(Alex: [*]--The Fall of the House of Usher--yes.)
(Edgar Allan) Poe
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In 1989 Magellan became the first probe launched from a Shuttle when Atlantis sent it on its way to this, Earth's twin |
Venus
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He voiced Bugs in almost 200 cartoons over a 50-year period |
Mel Blanc
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A system of beliefs accepted as authoritative by a group's members |
a doctrine
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One of the most popular paintings at the National Gallery of Art is this surrealist's "The Sacrament of the Last Supper" |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
DalĂ
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We're quite sure that this German physicist won a 1932 Nobel Prize |
(Alex: [*]--no doubt there!)
Heisenberg
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Air Force gunner Snowden catches some flak & dies in Yossarian's arms, courtesy of this author |
(Kristan: Who is Uris?) ... (Alex: [*]--yes--Catch-22.)
(Joseph) Heller
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The most distant manmade object, this probe launched in 1977 may travel to interstellar space in 2020 |
Voyager
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This gun-toting nebbish tries to match wits with Bugs in classics like "Wabbit Trouble" & "What's Opera, Doc?" |
(Sarah: Who is Yosemite Sam?) ... (Alex: Yes, the guy who has trouble with "R"s.)
Elmer Fudd
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8-letter word for a waterfront location where ships are built & repaired |
(Sarah: What is drydock? ... (Alex: What is [*]? "Drydock" doesn't have quite enough letters.)
a dockyard
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In a fresco at the Sistine Chapel, Pietro Perugino depicted "The Giving of the Keys" to him |
Peter
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An Air Force base in California is named for this general, the second Air Force Chief of Staff |
(Alex: With less than a minute to go.)
(Hoyt) Vandenberg
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This novelist had Bull Meecham, aka "The Great Santini", go out in a plane crash |
(Pat) Conroy
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In 2005 the Huygens Probe landed on this largest moon of Saturn, revealing a world that rains liquid methane |
(Jim: What is Io?)
Titan
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Bugs Bunny officially debuted in the 1940 cartoon "A Wild" this |
Hare
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A summary of legal cases scheduled to be heard |
a docket
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His works of the 1950s like "Monogram" used found objects & bits of pop culture |
Robert Rauschenberg
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He titled his book "Le Morte d'Arthur" for a reason; Art takes a sword to the "brain pan" |
(Sir Thomas) Malory
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In 1976, within 3 months, 2 U.S. spacecraft by this name soft-landed on the surface of Mars |
Viking
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To help him defeat the Monstars, Bugs recruited basketball legend Michael Jordan in this 1996 film |
Space Jam
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This disparaging word for an out-of-the-way place comes from the Tagalog for "mountain" |
boondocks
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