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    | VY Canis Majoris will eventually go not just "super" but "hyper" this-- that's gonna be one big bang! | hypernova 
 
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    | On Sept. 12, 2001 Norman Mineta, secretary of this govt. department, announced the deployment of sky marshals | Transportation 
 
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    | In 1972 Don Henley dealt with a "Witchy Woman" singing lead for this group | the Eagles 
 
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    | A Donne sonnet says this, "Be not proud" for "one short sleep past, we wake eternally, and" this "shall be no more" | death 
 
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    | This word for a person making negative statements sounds like it refers to a horse | a naysayer 
 
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    | It produces more than 1,500 feature films in a good year | India 
 
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    | Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, one of these, will be swinging by Jupiter in 2037 | a comet 
 
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    | Someone in his or her seventies | a septuagenarian 
 
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    | "Beth", I hear you calling, but I hear Peter Criss singing that Top 10 hit for this group | Kiss 
 
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    | On this day, 1613, while traveling to Wales, Donne wrote a poem imagining the crucified Christ on the cross | Good Friday 
 
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    | Grover Cleveland holds the record for these in a single session of Congress with 212 | a veto 
 
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    | Home to Europe's largest glacier by volume | Iceland 
 
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    | In a few billion years, the sun will expand to 1.2 AU, these "units"-- that's not good news for Earth | astronomical units 
 
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    | Adjective for a speech given with no preparation or forethought | (Ben: What is improvised?) (Alex: No.)
 (Ben: What is improvisational?)
 (Alex: No.)
 (Doug: What is improvisational?)
 
 extemporaneous
 
 
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    | In 1975 Phil Collins decided to front (& back) this band after singer Peter Gabriel left | Genesis 
 
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    | In 1610 Donne criticized his former Catholic faith in "Pseudo-Martyr", which was dedicated to this king | (Doug: Who is Henry VIII?) 
 James I
 
 
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    | For decades J. Edgar Hoover denied the existence of this 5-letter organization | the Mafia 
 
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    | You can find the Negev Desert here | Israel 
 
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    | We "fear" that in 10 million years, this largest of Mars' moons will crash into the planet | Phobos 
 
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    | The name of these breeches was inspired by Washington Irving's 1809 work "A History of New York" | knickerbockers 
 
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    | Meg White stepped out from behind the kit to croon "In The Cold, Cold Night" for this duo | the White Stripes 
 
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    | The first biography of Donne was by this "Compleat Angler" author & appeared as a preface to Donne's "LXXX Sermons" | Izaak Walton 
 
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    | Agricultural product boycotts led by this man included one in the 1980s he called "Wrath of Grapes" | Cesar Chavez 
 
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    | Country with the most Shia Muslims | Iran 
 
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    | The Milky Way will one day collide with this neighboring galaxy, M31-- someone call Perseus | Andromeda 
 
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    | Mais oui, it was the philosophy of the man who turned down the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature | existentialism 
 
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    | A Prince protege, she led "The Glamorous Life" to a Top 10 position in 1984, but without love, it ain't much | Sheila E. 
 
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    | The "No man is an island" passage continues, "Never send to know" this, later a book title | for whom the bell tolls 
 
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    | Sir Richard Owen, who had been Mr. Biology in Britain, wrote a bitter, negative review of this seminal 1859 book | On the Origin of Species 
 
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    | Home to the Wicklow & Blue Stack Mountains | Ireland 
 
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