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    | Paris calls this character a "banished haughty Montague" | Romeo 
 
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    | (Hi, I'm Kyra Sedgwick.)  I'm always listening to this band's classics like "Crash", but true fans know you've got to see DMB live to really get the experience | Dave Matthews Band 
 
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    | November 19: Saint Rainier's Day
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 Monaco
 
 
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    | Y: One single member of the "Bronx Bombers"
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    | Drop a letter from "fraction" to get this fraction of a group within a larger group | faction 
 
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    | The sandhill type of this tall wading bird breeds from Alaska to Hudson Bay | crane 
 
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    | This lover of Bassanio disguises herself as a lawyer & saves Antonio | Portia 
 
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    | (I'm Andy Richter.)  Usually my iPod has songs by this '60s British soul singer of "I Only Want To Be With You" & "Son Of A Preacher Man" | Dusty Springfield 
 
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    | March 17: A certain saint's day
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    | U: A general wears one & so does a private
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    | It's a group of bowling teams that compete against each other, or a former association of nations | a league 
 
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    | Nahum Tate's 1681 adaptation of this play omitted the Fool & added a love affair between Edgar & Cordelia | King Lear 
 
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    | (Hi, I'm Rebecca Lobo.)  I love just about everything by this Northern Irish rocker, including "Gloria" & "Moondance" | Van Morrison 
 
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    | April 30: Queen's Day, celebrating the 1909 birth of Juliana & the 1980 accession of her daughter Beatrix
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 the Netherlands
 
 
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    | K: It's equal to 1,000 grams
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    | Shirley MacLaine was one of the few female members of this fabled group that also included Dean Martin & Frank Sinatra | the Rat Pack 
 
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    | Originally, this unit of measure was the amount of radioactivity given off by one gram of radium | a curie 
 
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    | Act I of this tragedy is set in Venice; Act II, in Cyprus | Othello 
 
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    | (Hi, I'm Christopher Meloni.)  I'm on the sonic cutting edge listening to songs from this band's albums like "In Rainbows" or "OK Computer" | Radiohead 
 
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    | November 3: Separation Day, commemorating its 1903 split with Colombia
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    | H: A place to stay when on vacation
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    | At school, kids inevitably form these exclusive groups of friends, from the French for "noise" | (Alex: Yes, and we have less than a minute now.) 
 clique
 
 
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    | This type of particle accelerator utilizes a spiraling path | a cyclotron 
 
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    | Some believe this comedy was written to be performed during Epiphany festivities, hence its name | Twelfth Night 
 
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    | (I'm Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.)  You'll find this sax man who took "Giant Steps" to modernize jazz with his innovative "Sheets of Sound" playing style | John Coltrane 
 
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    | September 16: Celebrating the Grito de Dolores
 | Mexico 
 
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    | L: A New World capital city
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    | A synonym for group, it's often applied to "beauties" & is a collective noun for several swans | (Matt: What is a gaggle?) 
 a bevy
 
 
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    | The name of this class of mollusks comes from Greek words meaning "head foot" | (Jennifer: What is cetacean?) ...
 (Alex: Cetaceans are whales.)
 
 cephalopod
 
 
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