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    | In December 1917 just one representative in Congress said no to war with this dual monarchy | 
    Austria-Hungary
 
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    | Anna, Vronsky may be something now, but he is easily distracted--you bet on the wrong horse | 
    Anna Karenina
 
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    | It follows "dead" in a race with no clear winner | 
    heat
 
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    | This real-life doctor turned comedic actor is one of the panelists on "The Masked Singer" | 
    Ken Jeong
 
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    | It is rumored that in 1508 Raphael & Bramante pushed for this man to paint a Vatican ceiling, hoping he would fail | 
    Michelangelo
 
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    | Since 1964, 2.5 million non-smokers have died from exposure to secondhand smoke, says the website of this govt. doctor | 
    the Surgeon General
 
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    | As the dot-com bubble swelled, this tech-heavy stock index rose from 1,000 to 5,000 between 1995 & 2000 | 
    the Nasdaq
 
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    | Emma, your marriage to a country doctor won't fulfill you, but neither will your affairs with Leon & Rodolphe | 
    Madame Bovary
 
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    | Like a passionate affair, a zone of the Earth between the tropics is called this "T" word | 
    (Greg: What is temperate?)
  torrid
 
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    | For 7 seasons she played Dr. Joan Watson on "Elementary" | 
    Lucy Liu
 
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    | I'm not sure which is the bigger disaster, the storm in the painting by this Dutch master or that it was stolen in 1990 | 
    Rembrandt
 
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    | The smoke monster on this 2000s ABC drama was really the Man in Black | 
    Lost
 
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    | A 1920s song asked, "How ya gonna keep em down on" this place? Many didn't, as in that decade, the U.S. became majority city folk | 
    the farm
 
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    | Dagny, you will fall in love with John Galt even though you are a stand-in for Ayn Rand's vision of capitalism | 
    Atlas Shrugged
 
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    | In the book of Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar tosses 3 men into this alliterative "furnace" | 
    fiery
 
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    | Of Indian descent, Kal Penn had roles on "Designated Survivor" & "House" & was one half of this movie duo opposite John Cho | 
    Harold & Kumar
 
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    | It was Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven who signed "R. Mutt" to a urinal in this French Dadaist's provocative 1917 artwork | 
    Marcel Duchamp
 
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    | This website founded in 1997 provides authentic documents from court files & government records | 
    thesmokinggun.com
 
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    | Thanks to the 23rd Amendment, on November 3rd, 1964, residents of this city cast their first votes for president | 
    Washington, D.C.
 
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    | Miss Kenton, even all the Nazis at Darlington Hall couldn't bring you & Stevens the butler together | 
    The Remains of the Day
 
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    | This word for an updraft of warm air is from the Greek for "heat" | 
    thermal
 
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    | This Japanese-American actor has more than 10 million followers on Facebook | 
    (George) Takei
 
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    | To honor this artist's 125th birthday, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, commissioned statues like the one here | 
    (Greg: Uh, Grandma Moses. Who is Grandma Moses?) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
  Grant Wood
 
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    | Haze was visible on the East Coast after the 1912 eruption of the volcanic Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in this now state | 
    Alaska
 
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    | Eugene Hasenfus survived a shoot-down by the Sandinistas, leading to the exposure of this 1980s scandal | 
    Iran-Contra
 
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    | Lily, I think you should wait one more day for Lawrence Selden--at least tell him the debts are paid | 
    The House of Mirth
 
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    | It can mean both crazy & pleasantly warm, like a mild tropical climate | 
    (Alex: With less than a minute to go, Kate.)
  balmy
 
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    | This star of her own stand-up specials starred opposite Randall Park in the romcom "Always Be My Maybe" | 
    (Nalin: Who is Margaret Cho?)
  Ali Wong
 
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