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    | The first attempt to break up this communications company was in 1949; it finally happened in the '80s | AT&T 
 
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    | As this Chekhov play ends, trees on the Ranevskaya estate are being cut down to build a housing development | (Kirsten: What is The Cherry Trees?) 
 The Cherry Orchard
 
 
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    | Not being much of a friend in 1981, Rick Springfield wished that he had this guy's "girl" | Jessie 
 
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    | In the South, the American Civil War is sometimes called the War of Northern this 10-letter word | aggression 
 
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    | Astrophysicists debate how fast the universe is doing this; it's somewhere around 70 kilometers per second per megaparsec | expanding 
 
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    | To think an opponent is not as good as he actually is; it can lead to overconfidence | underestimate 
 
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    | In 1989 these 2 actors decided to rekindle their relationship; actress Dakota Johnson resulted | (Alex: Less than a minute now.) 
 Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith
 
 
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    | He had some revolutionary ideas in his 1902 tract, "What Is To Be Done?" | Lenin 
 
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    | It completes Billy Ocean's 1988 title request &/or demand, "Get Outta My Dreams..." | "Get Into My Car" 
 
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    | The Beaver Wars in Canada were also known as the French & this Native American league wars | the Iroquois wars 
 
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    | Sheldon Glashow gave this adorable name, C-quark for short, to a particle discovered in 1974 | charm 
 
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    | At the University of Washington, Spanish 101 is elementary, 201 is this & 301 is advanced | intermediate 
 
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    | In 2000 this company was ordered to split Windows & Internet Explorer into 2 companies but appealed successfully | Microsoft 
 
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    | His imprisonment & subsequent exile to Siberia led to the writing of "The House of the Dead" | Dostoevsky 
 
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    | He's seen here in 1982 around the time of his first No. 1 hit | (Sam: Who is Jon Bon Jovi?) 
 John Cougar Mellencamp
 
 
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    | This country's 17th century civil wars are also known as "The Great Rebellion" | England 
 
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    | This country was partitioned in 1772, with Austria getting Auschwitz; it was back together in 1918 | Poland 
 
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    | Just 10 days before he became a dead soul, this author burned sequels he had written for his "Dead Souls" | [The end-of-round signal sounds.] 
 Nikolai Gogol
 
 
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    | Lipps, Inc. sang, "Well, I talk about it, talk about it, talk about it, talk about it... won't you take me to" this title place | Funkytown 
 
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    | The Ramadan War of 1973 is also called this, after a holiday of a different religion | the Yom Kippur War 
 
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    | Per a Richard Feynman lecture, a collision where bodies stick together is an example of conservation of this | (Kirsten: What is energy?) (Sam: What is mass?)
 
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    | It's a synonym for adulterous, as in an affair | extramarital 
 
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    | After other failed attempts, a 1911 federal lawsuit finally split this oil trust into more than 30 companies | Standard Oil 
 
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    | In '82 there was no denying it: "Oh", this guy, "You're so fine, you're so fine, you blow my mind, hey" this guy! "Hey," this guy! | Mickey 
 
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    | The Great Narragansett War is another name for this king's war | King Philip 
 
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    | Magnetism is "action at" this; Einstein added "spooky" to dismiss the weird phenomenon quantum entanglement | distance 
 
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    | A wondrous change, specifically Jesus' appearance in glory observed each August 6 | transfiguration 
 
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