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    | Moscow, how was your 51 years? Terrible, with this man as the city's Grand Prince from 1533 to 1584 | (Tom: Who is Ivan?) (Alex: Be more specific. Well, we'll give it to you. [*].)
 
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    | It's also the postal abbreviation for a New England state | me 
 
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    | In 2001 he stung like a bee as "Ali" | Will Smith 
 
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    | This great structure in Touba, Senegal, has room for more than 7,000 worshippers | (Alex: Less than a minute now.) 
 a mosque
 
 
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    | Best not have one of these on stage; if it breaks, it's 7 years bad luck & it also interferes with the lights | a mirror 
 
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    | The Matilda Effect, the marginalizing of women in sci., was named for Matilda Gage, one of these fighters for the vote | a suffragette 
 
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    | 53 years as grand duke of Tuscany made Cosimo III the longest-reigning member of this family | the Medicis 
 
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    | It's first alphabetically of a news reporter's 5 Ws | what 
 
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    | Hilary Swank donned the gloves in this film & won an Oscar for her performance | Million Dollar Baby 
 
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    | This capital's mummy-rich antiquities museum dates back to 1902 | Cairo 
 
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    | Hopefully it won't really happen, but instead of wishing an actor good luck, tell him to do this | break a leg 
 
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    | This woman's record was not glowing enough to get her into the French Academy of Sciences--husband Pierre got in | Marie Curie 
 
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    | In the 11th century al-Mustansir ruled Egypt for 58 years as the 8th Fatimid one of these political Muslim leaders | a caliph 
 
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    | To know this detergent introduced in 1959 is to know "everything" about laundry | All 
 
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    | In this film Russell Crowe as James J. Braddock defeats Max Baer in a big upset & lives happily ever after | Cinderella Man 
 
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    | One of the highest on the continent, the Maletsunyane Falls tumble 630 feet in this nation surrounded by South Africa | (Carolyn: What is Lethoso? Lethutu? Lethoso?) 
 Lesotho
 
 
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    | Never say the name of this play in a theater or there may really be "double, double toil and trouble" | Macbeth 
 
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    | Nettie Stevens worked on sex determination & suffered sex discrimination discovering the XY these | chromosomes 
 
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    | During his 68-year reign that ended in 1916, he was king of Hungary, Croatia & Bohemia & emperor of Austria | Franz Joseph 
 
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    | From Latin for "separate", it means more than 2 | (Alexandra: What is few?) (Tom: What is other?)
 
 several
 
 
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    | He put up a good fight as Billy "The Great" hope in 2015's "Southpaw" | Jake Gyllenhaal 
 
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    | Site of a former slave trading post, an isle in the Gambia River today bears this "Roots" character's name | Kunta Kinte 
 
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    | Never carry one of these feathers on stage--the evil eye may curse the show | (Carolyn: What is... a raven's feather?) 
 a peacock feather
 
 
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    | Lise Meitner coined this phrase for the splitting of atomic nuclei, but only her partner Otto Hahn got the Nobel | fission 
 
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    | Sobhuza II of this kingdom of southern Africa ruled for 82 years transitioning to independence from the U.K. in 1968 | Swaziland 
 
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    | Giant mutant ants were this 1954 movie title pronoun! | them 
 
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    | This successor organization to the Organization of African Unity has its headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | [The end-of-round signal sounds.] 
 the African Union
 
 
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    | For safety reasons & to ward off resentful spirits, don't turn off the light called this | the ghost light 
 
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    | Rosalind Franklin was the British woman who took the X-ray photos that allowed two dudes to find the structure of this | DNA 
 
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