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  | MEYER SCHUSSER, IRASCIBLE REFUGEE COMPOSER OF GOLDEN AGE HOLLYWOOD |  
   
 
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    | Trajan's Bridge, which spans the Danube, is found in this country named for the people Trajan ruled | 
    (Isaac: What is... Germany?) ... (Ken: That's right, for the Romans.)
  Romania
 
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    | He's seen here with his musician fiancée of almost six years as of late 2024 | 
    Bloom
 
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    | Grain, cheese & dust are types of these tiny (really, really tiny!) arthropods | 
    (Ken: [*]s is correct, taking you to an even $30,000. Neilesh, you made the biggest Daily Double wager of the season in that round, breaking your own record, and you have a big lead heading into Final Jeopardy!)
  mite
 
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    | Until 1935 this body didn't have its own building; it met in the Old Senate Chamber, & members ate lunch in the Robing Room | 
    the Supreme Court
 
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    | Relating to a time between ancient & modern--Weird Al warned he'd "get" this "on your heinie" in "Amish Paradise" | 
    medieval
 
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    | MGM sent a man they call an arranger--I could do as well with any bricklayer from this city of Schubert, Strauss & Schusser | 
    Vienna
 
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    | This longest suspension bridge in the U.S. connects scenic Staten Island to Brooklyn | 
    Verrazzano-Narrows
 
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    | This "Avatar" actress recently added back the tilde to her last name, missing since a kindergarten teacher refused to use it | 
    Saldaña
 
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    | SCN is short for this crop's "cyst nematode", a roundworm that may be kept in check by rotating the crop with corn | 
    (Adriana: What is soy?) (Ken: Uh...) (Adriana: [*]?) (Ken: Yeah, that's right--[*].)
  (the) soybean
 
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    | The oldest committee in the House, it's been charting revenue policy since 1789 | 
    (Ken: What do you want to do here, Isaac?) (Isaac: It doesn't really matter what I do, Ken, but I'll go all-in.) [Ken laughs.] ... (Isaac: What is the... Commerce Committee?) ... (Ken: You're still a beautiful person, but you have $0, Isaac.)
  Ways and Means
 
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    | An avian term for a person who thirsts for a scrap, it was used of congressmen elected before the Scrap of 1812 | 
    a war hawk
 
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    | So, young man, you studied with that Schoenberg fellow at this university in Westwood? Better to learn in a honky tonk on Central Ave. | 
    UCLA
 
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    | The Dongjak Bridge was built to span the Han River in this capital city | 
    Seoul
 
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    | The role of Aaron Burr won him a Tony & a Grammy | 
    Leslie Odom Jr.
 
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    | Many rotifers have regal tufts of cilia that draw water into their mouths; the structure goes by this name, like a layer of the Sun | 
    corona
 
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    | The mission statement of this Cabinet department begins, "With honor and integrity, we will safeguard the American people" | 
    (Isaac: What is Defense?)
  Homeland Security
 
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    | This 9-letter adjective for someone itching to fight comes from Latin for "of war" | 
    bellicose
 
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    | Ach! I belch better than you play this single-reed woodwind that evolved from the chalumeau; out with you! | 
    a clarinet
 
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    | You could cross the Pons Neronianus over this river; its remnants have emerged during a drought 2,000 years later | 
    (Ken: It is, in Rome.)
  Tiber
 
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    | In a line from the always impression-able Al Pacino, these 5 words follow "Just when I thought I was out" | 
    They pull me back in
 
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    | Some mini cnidarians that can regenerate parts of their bodies have this mythic name, like a creature fought by Hercules | 
    hydra
 
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    | Created in 1939, the Executive Office of the President is overseen by this person, a position created in 1946 | 
    the (White House) chief of staff
 
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    | Throwing hands & then eating together? That's not friendly fire but the alliterative friendly this slang word for a fight | 
    (Ken: That's called [*], or so Urban Dictionary tells me.)
  (the friendly) fade
 
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    | I am scoring a historical drama set at the French court of Louis XV of this royal house; we will not have a "catchy swing number" | 
    Bourbon
 
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    | Now a World Heritage Site, the perhaps unimaginatively named Ironbridge spans this river, Britain's longest | 
    [ERRATUM: The site is called the "Iron Bridge", not "Ironbridge".] (Neilesh: What is the Mersey?) (Adriana: What is the Tyne?) ... (Ken: [*] is the longest.)
  the Severn River
 
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    | This New Zealand-born actress has won raves as Shauna, one of the grown-up crash survivors in "Yellowjackets" | 
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    | AKA a water bear or moss piglet, this poster child of charismatic microfauna has survived exposure to the vacuum of space | 
    tardigrade
 
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    | Until 1967 & the 25th Amendment, VP succession to the presidency was based on precedent named for this man, the first to do it | 
    Tyler
 
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    | A snack & a body part are in this idiom about someone always ready to take offense | 
    a chip on their shoulder
 
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    | On the screen, the children frolic; in the studio, the violins play this way, plucking their strings! That is the magic of Schusser | 
    pizzicato
 
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