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LITERARY TABLOID HEADLINES |
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This insurance company is on your side--& you're in its arena, if you go to Columbus Blue Jackets home games |
Nationwide
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1597: "Families vow to end feud after Verona teens' double suicide" |
Romeo and Juliet
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The first cornerstone of this D.C. building located on 18 acres was laid in October 1792 |
the White House
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On the periodic table, tellurium precedes this element, symbol I, but its atomic mass is greater |
iodine
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A list of a team's players, such as baseball's "25-man" one |
roster
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Iguana Crypt is a real "man" cave--it's listed by the Speleological Society of this Canadian province |
Manitoba
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The Wizards practice their court magic at this phone company's "Center"; can you hear me now? Good |
Verizon
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1954: "Marooned & unsupervised schoolboys divide up & wage war" |
Lord of the Flies
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There's a "Chapel in the Woods" for weddings at this Memphis landmark, just down the blvd. from the Heartbreak Hotel |
(Sheri: What is Nashville?)
Graceland
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In 1856 William Perkin created the first synthetic one of these ink-like colorants; it was mauve |
dye
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A tribe of Asiatic nomads, perhaps a "Golden" one |
a horde
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The name of this city on the Rhine precedes "Steamroller" in the name of an electronic music group |
Mannheim
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This company is based in Memphis, so giving the Grizzlies a forum for hoops is something it can deliver |
(Sheri: What is UPS?)
FedEx
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1850: "Minister & married woman exposed after conceiving illegitimate daughter" |
The Scarlet Letter
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Fair Lane, the 56-room Dearborn, Michigan home built for this man, cost around $2 million, & that's in 1915 bucks! |
Henry Ford
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In osmosis, a liquid passes through a barrier usually called a semipermeable one of these |
a membrane
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A pair of rhymed poetic lines |
a couplet
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The northeastern portion of Inner Mongolia is sometimes included in this historical region of China |
Manchuria
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If you drive its CR-V to see the Anaheim Ducks play in the "Center" bearing its name, this company will be doubly happy |
Honda
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1847: "Attic head case sets fire to house when hubby falls for new governess" |
(Sheri: [Under breath] Okay, this is either Rebecca, or it is... [normal voice] What is [*]?)
Jane Eyre
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Built between 1936 & 1939, this Frank Lloyd Wright house is a national historic landmark |
(David: What is Fallingwaters?)
Fallingwater
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In a standard lead-acid battery, lead plates & an electrolyte of this diluted acid create electrical energy |
sulfuric acid
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A rod around which sewing thread or an LP record revolves |
(Alex: That's the word, with a minute to go.)
spindle
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David Lloyd George was born in this British city known for its textile production |
Manchester
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The Chicago Blackhawks take wing at the arena named for this airline |
United
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1846: "Man walls up enemy in twisted revenge" |
"The Cask of Amontillado"
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Honolulu's Shangri La, built by this alliterative tobacco heiress, houses her collection of Islamic art |
Doris Duke
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Used as a purification process, it's the evaporation of a liquid & then the condensation of the vapor |
distillation
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It's the act of throwing someone out a window |
defenestration
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During WWII, an internment camp for Japanese Americans was at this California locale |
Manzanar
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