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20th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS |
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1 Kings 4:32 says he wrote 1,005 songs |
(Alice: Who is David?)
Solomon
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When this Broadway musical made its London debut in 1964, Laurence Harvey starred as King Arthur |
Camelot
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Wu, Hsiang & Min are forms of this language |
Chinese
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As its name implies, cardiac muscle tissue is found only in this organ |
the heart
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In 1943 General Pietro Badoglio was appointed to succeed this man as premier of Italy |
Mussolini
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The central character of the first section of this Arthur C. Clarke book is moon-watcher, a man-ape |
2001
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In Exodus 21, 2 of the 4 body parts that follow "Thou shalt give life for life..." |
(Meridith: Uh, what are an eye and, uh,... leg? Limb?)
(2 of) an eye, a tooth, a hand & a foot
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This future "Phantom of the Opera" played the title role in the 1974 musical "Billy", adapted from "Billy Liar" |
(Michael) Crawford
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Theocritus, originator of pastoral poetry, wrote in the Doric dialect of this language |
Greek
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A tissue is a group of like cells with a specific job; this liquid of white & red cells is an example |
blood
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After Plato's death, he left the Academy & soon became a tutor to Alexander the Great |
(Meridith: Who is Socrates?)
Aristotle
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In this 1985 Bret Easton Ellis novel, Trent reveals to Clay that his tan is artificial |
(Marv: What is Black Like Me?)
Less Than Zero
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The Dead Sea Scrolls contain parts of every book of the Old Testament except the one named for her |
Esther
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This language evolved mainly from the Zuid-Holland dialect of Dutch settlers in South Africa |
Afrikaans
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Your septum is made of this tissue also known as gristle |
cartilage
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A lover of the arts, this Prussian king played the flute & patronized many writers, including Voltaire |
(Meridith: Who is Peter the Great?)
Frederick the Great
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Sissy Hankshaw, protagonist of his "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues", has humongous thumbs |
(Alice: Who is McMurtry?)
(Tom) Robbins
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Samuel was the last of these leaders & the first of the classical prophets |
the Judges
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This language of northeastern Spain is also spoken in the French department of Pyrenees-Orientales |
(Alice: What is Basque?)
Catalan
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This rigid supporting tissue that may be compact or spongy gets its hardness from calcium |
bone
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John Laurens, aide-de-camp to Geo. Washington, negotiated the terms of this man's surrender in 1781 |
Cornwallis
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In a 1989 bestselling novel, Suyuan Woo is the founder of this title women's group |
(Alex: [Prior to the wager] We have about a minute left in the round, Meridith.)
The Joy Luck Club
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He & 300 men launched a night attack on the Midianites with trumpets & suddenly revealed lamps |
(Marv: Who is Joshua?)
Gideon
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Today, dialects of this language of the Incas are spoken in Ecuador & Peru |
Quechua
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The walls of the human digestive tract are made up of lymphatic tissue & this kind of muscle, not striped |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
smooth
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This mistress of Lord Nelson died penniless in France in 1815 |
Emma Hamilton (the Lady Hamilton)
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Medievalist Casaubon narrates "Foucault's Pendulum" by this author of "The Name of the Rose" |
(Umberto) Eco
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