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    | To tempt Eve in this 17th century epic poem, Satan takes the form of a serpent (he sneaks into its mouth as it sleeps) | 
    Paradise Lost
 
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    | This organization founded in 1881 was inspired by one based in Switzerland | 
    the American Red Cross
 
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    abbreviate
 
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    | In the 1970s Nik-O-Lok, pioneer of pay toilets, began making folks pay for air at these facilities | 
    (Vince: What are tires--[*] tire?)
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    | "Dammit Janet" & "Over At The Frankenstein Place" are songs from this 1975 movie; can you sense my antici...pation? | 
    (Vince: What is Rocky Horror? [*]?)
  The Rocky Horror Picture Show
 
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    | In 1547 this teen became the first crowned czar of Russia; later on, he had filicide to his name | 
    Ivan the Terrible
 
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    | On his third voyage, this hero of "The Arabian Nights" lands on an island home to a man-eating snake as big as a palm tree | 
    Sinbad
 
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    | The third Thursday in November is the Great American Smokeout, hosted by this organization for more than 40 years | 
    the American Cancer Society
 
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    | Geometric name for an open square found on many a campus | 
    quadrangle
 
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    | Meteorologist Cindy Day says that like an honest talk, thunderstorms do this when dry westerly winds are behind them | 
    they clear the air
 
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    | 2 things about this 1971 guy--he's "the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about" & "no one understands him but his woman" | 
    (Ken: She's talking about [*].)
  Shaft
 
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    | The life of child emperor Puyi & his time in this "City" in Beijing is the subject of the film "The Last Emperor" | 
    the Forbidden City
 
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    | In the 4,000-year-old epic of him, this hero finds a plant that grants immortality, but a snake snatches it away & eats it | 
    Gilgamesh
 
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    | This organization, the AOS for short, is literally for the birds | 
    (Elliott: Uh, what is the Avian Organizati--sorry, I don't know.) (Ilhana: What's the American Ornthological Society?) (Ken: I'm sorry, no.) (Ilhana: Ornithology Society?) (Vince: What is the American Ornithology Society?) ... (Ken: We needed all six of those syllables.)
  the American Ornithological Society
 
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    | The artwork seen here is titled this, a weird-looking baby substituted by fairies for a newborn | 
    a Changeling
 
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    | The main gas from an erupting volcano is this 2-word one that also forms clouds, but there's also less benign sulfur dioxide | 
    (Vince: What is carbon dioxide?)
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    | Reaching for a gun to take on Mongo, Sheriff Bart gets warned in this film: "No, no... if you shoot him, you'll just make him mad" | 
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    | An 1889 New York Times article called Alphonso XIII "the happiest living monarch"; he would go on to rule this country until 1931 | 
    (Ilhana: What is Portugal?)
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    | In Kipling's "The Jungle Book", this old python is a friend & savior to Mowgli | 
    Kaa
 
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    | Chartered by Congress in 1919, it's the largest veterans' organization in the U.S., with nearly 2 million members | 
    (Elliott: Uh, what is the... Uh, V.A.?  Veterans Association?)
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    | This 10-letter word for a means for producing copies comes from the Greek for "dry" & "written" | 
    (Ilhana: What is facsimile?) ... (Ken: What is [*]? Like Xerox.)
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    | 140 bucks worth of propane will keep you aloft in this specific type of craft for about 2 hours | 
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    | This 1976 drama ends with the typed out words "Gerald Ford to become 38th president at noon today" | 
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    | In 1543 she was crowned queen at 9 months old at a ceremony officiated by the Archbishop of St. Andrews | 
    (Elliott: Who is... Queen Elizabeth I?) (Ilhana: Who is Mary? Queen Mary?) (Ken: Can you be more specific?)
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    | The Green Witch turns into a snake to attack Prince Rilian in this Narnia book whose title refers to what Rilian sits in | 
    The Silver Chair
 
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    | In 1972 Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a founder of this organization's Women's Rights Project; full name, please | 
    the American Civil Liberties Union
 
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    | "O", it means excessively compliant or servile | 
    obsequious
 
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    | The first noble gas discovered on Earth, it makes up almost 1% of standard dry air | 
    argon
 
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    | In a space oddity, this singer was "The Man Who Fell to Earth" to save his own dying planet | 
    Bowie
 
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    | Crowned at 13, King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem was known as this "King", since he had Hansen's disease | 
    the Leper King
 
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