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    | Natasha Rostov & Pierre Bezukhov are characters in this Tolstoy masterpiece | War and Peace 
 
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    | There are a limited number of I's--3--in this word meaning endless... or unlimited...or... | 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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    | On Sept. 6, 1901 he was shot at the Pan-American exposition in Buffalo & died 8 days later | 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?) 
 Canadian
 
 
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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?) 
 the Baltic
 
 
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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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    | She's best remembered by sci-fi readers for her "Pern" novels, many written with son Todd | 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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