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    | Natasha Rostov & Pierre Bezukhov are characters in this Tolstoy masterpiece | 
    War and Peace
 
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    infinite
 
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    | NFL quarterback Jon Kitna traded Xs & Os for the Xs & Ys of this branch of math with a name from Arabic | 
    algebra
 
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    | Travel from Colombia to Jamaica across this sea | 
    the Caribbean Sea
 
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    McKinley
 
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    | Early in a Pasternak novel, this title man stands "in the corridor of the gynecological section of the hospital" | 
    Doctor Zhivago
 
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    | This adjective meaning warmly appreciative is in the name of Bob Weir's band | 
    grateful
 
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    | New York statesman DeWitt Clinton promoted the idea of this waterway & was the commissioner who oversaw its construction | 
    the Erie Canal
 
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    | In 2012 Ken Dryden began teaching a course at McGill in these national "Studies" | 
    (Jong Ho: What is hockey?)
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    | Odessa & Sochi are ports on this sea that looks dark in winter due to heavy fogs | 
    the Black Sea
 
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    | Once known as the bad boy of tennis, today he's a respected commentator, both here and abroad | 
    (John) McEnroe
 
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    | This 19th century poet, playwright and unsuccessful duelist is considered a founder of modern Russian literature | 
    Alexander Pushkin
 
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    | Desolate & raw, or a title description of a novel "House" with Ada Clarek | 
    bleak
 
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    | The only clue to this colony's disappearance was the word "Croatoan" on a post; hasn't helped much | 
    Roanoke
 
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    | The first woman to win three gold track medals in a single Olympics, 1960, she taught second graders in Tennessee | 
    Wilma Rudolph
 
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    | The Germans call this bordering sea Ostsee; the Swedes', Ostersjon | 
    (Allison: What is the North Sea?)
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    | In February 2020 the Duchess of Cambridge paid tribute to this designer on the 10th anniversary of his death, wearing one of his outfits | 
    Alexander McQueen
 
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    | Woody Allen's film "Love and Death" parodies Russian novels & its title echoes "Crime and Punishment" & this 1862 Turgenev title | 
    Fathers and Sons
 
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    | If you're this "fallacy" of attributing emotions to objects, you're this, & there's no "em-" at the start of the word | 
    pathetic
 
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    | This 2-word concept was used to justify the acquisitions of Oregon territory, California & Mexican land in the southwest | 
    Manifest Destiny
 
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    | This former Knick & onetime presidential candidate taught at Maryland & Stanford | 
    Bill Bradley
 
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    | In 1822 a Russian navy captain named this sea off his nation's east coast for a Danish explorer | 
    the Bering Sea
 
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    Anne McCaffrey
 
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    | This 1970 Literature Nobel Prize winner spent time in the gulag & was deported from the Soviet Union in 1974 | 
    Solzhenitsyn
 
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    | Though it sounds like 5 things you really require, it actually describes the perfect embodiment of something | 
    quintessential
 
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    | This education reformer took John Quincy Adams' seat in the House of Representatives, where he vigorously opposed slavery | 
    Horace Mann
 
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    | Mike Doleac went to the Final Four with this state U., won an NBA title & came home to teach physics at Park City High | 
    Utah
 
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    | On the other side of Greece from the Aegean, this sea is the Mediterranean's deepest, maxing at more than 16,000 feet | 
    the Ionian
 
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    | After his 1960s gig as Secretary of Defense, he became president of the World Bank | 
    Robert McNamara
 
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