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  | A FARCE TO BE RECKONED WITH |  |
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    | Jack Worthing finds out that he's really Ernest John Moncrieff in "The Importance of Being Earnest" by this playwright | Oscar Wilde 
 
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    | Survey says: it's the Pritchetts vs. the Dunphys on a Steve Harvey game show | Modern Family Feud 
 
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    | Considered by some an incarnation of Allah, Wallace Fard, founder of the Nation of this, disappeared in 1934 | Islam 
 
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    | In 1972 Standard Oil of New Jersey got a double X rating & became this corporation | Exxon 
 
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    | Today with about 15 million people, this city on the Hooghly River was capital of British India from 1772 to 1911 | Calcutta (Kolkata) 
 
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    | To give a name at a baptism | to christen 
 
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    | In the play "Boeing-Boeing", a playboy juggles 3 fiancees, all with this job | stewardess 
 
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    | Fred MacMurray & his trio of kids join an outlaw motorcycle gang | (Brittany: What is Sanford and Sons of Anarchy?) ...
 (Ken: I would watch either show; those sound fantastic.)
 [Laughter]
 
 My Three Sons of Anarchy
 
 
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    | After dying in this fortress, the man in the iron mask was laid to rest under the name "Marchioly" | the Bastille 
 
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    | The name of this "always prepared" battery company was once 2 words | (Ken: Less than a minute to go.) 
 Eveready
 
 
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    | Gyanendra was the last king of this nation that abolished the monarchy & became a republic in 2008 | Nepal 
 
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    | In grammar, they can be participial or prepositional | (Patrick: What is an adjective?) (Brittany: What is a verb?)
 
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    | An antique jug, a reverend, a notebook & aged Aunt Dahlia all lead to madcap trouble in "The Code of the Woosters" by this writer | P.G. Wodehouse 
 
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    | Women's prison dramedy in which Rowan Atkinson plays a period royal | Orange Is the New Blackadder 
 
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    | After treating Czar Nicholas & Alexandra's son, this holy man warned that their son's fate was linked to him | Rasputin 
 
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    | In 2020 the U.S. added more energy capacity from this type of power than any other, with plans for more offshore | (Brittany: What is oil?) 
 wind
 
 
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    | Born in Karachi, she served twice as prime minster of her country, from 1988 to 1990 & 1993 to 1996 | [ERRATUM: The clue misspelled "minister" as "minster".] 
 (Benazir) Bhutto
 
 
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    | It's seen here being done to wires; it's also done to genes | splicing 
 
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    | Ken Ludwig's play about an assistant taking the place of a drunken opera star is called "Lend me" this, punning on British money slang | a Tenor 
 
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    | William & Virginia give bedroom advice to Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte & Miranda | Masters of Sex and the City 
 
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    | After publishing his 1555 book of prophecies, he did horoscopes for Catherine de Medici's children | Nostradamus 
 
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    | This Texas company agreed to pay $1.1 billion to settle claims from the Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010 | (Patrick: What is BP?) 
 Halliburton
 
 
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    | Tashichho Dzong, a remodeled monastery, houses the royal government of this remote Himalayan kingdom | Bhutan 
 
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    | This process disinfects a swimming pool | chlorinization 
 
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    | This farce by Michael Frayn is a look at what goes on behind the scenes as well as onstage | (Ken: You just ran that category.) 
 Noises Off
 
 
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    | Spooky HBO show with references to H.P.'s works, with Katharine McPhee along as the singing nanny | Lovecraft Country Comfort 
 
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    | This newspaperman & author of "The Devil's Dictionary" met a mysterious fate after going to Mexico in 1913 | Ambrose Bierce 
 
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    | This company that bought Texaco in 2001 had a bit of a rough year in 2020, if you consider losing $5.5 billion rough | Chevron 
 
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    | Dating from B.C. times, this faith with similarities to Hinduism & Buddhism emphasizes ahimsa, nonviolence to all creatures | Jainism 
 
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    | This word is used to mean any tool that helps draw a nice, neat line | a straight edge 
 
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