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    | Whoops! John Proctor becomes a victim of the witch hunt in this Arthur Miller drama | 
    The Crucible
 
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    The Count
 
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    rhetorical
 
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    | Some NCAA basketball teams begin their journey with "Midnight" this; reminds me of March... | 
    Madness
 
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    | There were no rooms for Frederick the Great's wife in his Sanssouci Palace; her more modest home was in another part of this capital | 
    (Erin: What is Paris?) (Quan: What is Vienna?)
  Berlin
 
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    | The stage manager is a pivotal role in this play by Thornton Wilder | 
    Our Town
 
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    (Erin: What is a sty?)
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    | The first season of this series said the title location "lies between the pit of man's fears & the summit of his knowledge" | 
    The Twilight Zone
 
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    craven
 
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    | Also called Freedom's Eve, Watch Night is a celebration of this edict issued on January 1, 1863 | 
    [Quan selected the first clue.]
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    Barbarossa
 
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    | The French film "Les Traducteurs" was inspired by the real-life efforts to translate this novelist's "Inferno" into many languages | 
    (Erin: Who is Dante?)
  Dan Brown
 
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    | One night taken this city on the French Riviera, known for a movie festival & an international pyrotechnic festival | 
    Cannes
 
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    | While holding this British title as heir apparent for 20-plus years, the 18th century's "Poor Fred" lived in Cliveden House | 
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    | In this Albee play, Martha's husband George is an associate professor of history | 
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    | "Chernobyl" & this comic book movie won Iceland's Hildur Gudnadottir an Emmy, a Grammy & an Oscar within the same awards season | 
    (Erin: What is Thor: Ragnarok?)
  Joker
 
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    | A symphony sounds lovely; this word with the same suffix is a discordant bunch of sounds | 
    (Savannah: We've got less than a minute left.)
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    | Shakespeare knew that the Eve of the Epiphany also goes by this ordinal name | 
    Twelfth Night
 
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    | Frederick the Wise, ruler of Saxony, protected this controversial reformer at Wartburg Castle in 1521 | 
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    | In this David Mamet play, a junk shop owner has sold a rare nickel for less than it's worth & plans to steal it back | 
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    | This type of spider creates a deep burrow with a hinged entrance from which it jumps out & snatches prey | 
    (Quan: What is a tarantula?) (Katie: What is a wolf spider?)
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    | Tony Todd was paid $1,000 each time he was stung by a bee playing the title villain in this 1992 horror movie | 
    (Savannah: He earned $23,000, by the way; that's a lot of bee stings.)
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    | Laylat al-Qadr, "Night of Power", commemorates when this angel revealed the Koran to Muhammad | 
    Gabriel
 
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    | A Dutch Prince Frederick once owned Muskauer Park on the Neisse River, shared by Germany & this country | 
    (Quan: What is Austria?)
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