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| OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE RHYME TIME |
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| Pop quiz--this American artist quadrupled Mona here |
Andy Warhol
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| Martin Luther King & Robert Kennedy are assassinated |
1968
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| "All" of these 2 groups "couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again" |
the king's horses and king's men
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| Hundreds of thousands in Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion celebrate Intl. Workers' Day on this date |
May 1st
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| Shuffling around the carpet for a while can get you a juicy amount of this type of electricity, 20,000 volts worth |
static electricity
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| Gold wedding bands with the name of the very first winner |
Wings rings
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| Also known as the male Mona Lisa, Leonardo's "Salvator Mundi", meaning "savior of" this, sold for $450 million in 2017 |
the world
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| Christopher Columbus embarks on his third voyage to the New World |
1498
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| In Shakespeare, Richard III's last line is "A horse! A horse!" These 5 words! |
[Alex added "then" to his reading of the clue.]
my kingdom for a horse
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| This country's national holiday, July 21, celebrates the ascension of its first king, Leopold I |
Belgium
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| To show the safety of this current, Nikola Tesla lit lamps by letting electricity flow through his body |
AC (or alternating current)
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| A governmental prohibition of Affleck's 2012 effort |
an Argo embargo
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| Thinner than a human hair, the "Mini Lisa" was created at Ga. Tech using an AFM, atomic force this optical device |
a microscope
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| The state of Israel is proclaimed |
(Jack: [*]? ...What is [*]?)
1948
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| An 1831 novel said, one of these, "which had never been thought of... rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph" |
a dark horse
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| February (summer Down Under) is the month for this Australian state's Royal Hobart Regatta |
Tasmania
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| The machine known by this 3-letter abbreviation has the job of tracking electricity in your heart |
EKG
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| A burly title underdog prizefighter |
(Matt: What is... cocky Rocky?)
stocky Rocky
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| This French artist went Dada on Mona in the 1919 piece seen here |
(Matt: Um... goodness. Can't remember.)
(Marcel) Duchamp
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| The battleship Maine blows up in Havana Harbor |
1898
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| St. Jerome's "Noli equi dentes inspicere donati" means this in English |
don't look a gift horse in the mouth
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| William Tubman Day, November 29, celebrates the birthday of this African nation's longest-serving president |
Liberia
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| Your electric bill is usually measured by how many of these hyphenated units you consume |
kilowatt-hours
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| A shindig for Ernest Borgnine & the rest of the cast |
a Marty party
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| Cyrus Griffin is elected the last president of the Continental Congress |
(Rob: What is 17...) (Alex: Say it.) (Rob: Uh, '78?) (Alex: No, you were off by 10 years--[*].) (Rob: [*].)
1788
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| A Yeats poem says, "Cast a cold eye on life, on death." These 3 words |
horseman, pass by
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| In southern Asia this "Festival of Lights" is celebrated by Jains, Sikhs & Hindus alike |
Diwali
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| Electric fields have values expressed in N/C, newtons per this other unit named for a physicist |
coulomb
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| Brian Bradley tinkered & kept the ship going for James Cameron, so he's the... |
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)
Titanic mechanic
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