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    | Playwright Langston Hughes formed the Suitcase Theater in Harlem & the New Negro Theater in this Calif. city | 
    L.A. (Los Angeles)
 
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    | The A&E "Biography" show on the man seen here includes his stint as mayor of this city | 
    Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
 
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    | In 1987 Seattle gave a sea otter to its oldest sister city, Kobe in this country | 
    Japan
 
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    | Ride over a nail & you might need Schwinn's Airdriver, one of these | 
    a tire pump
 
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    | This printer & lithographer joined forces with James Ives in the 1850s | 
    Currier
 
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    | Pit as a piddle | 
    fit as a fiddle
 
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    | With its strong political message, Amiri Baraka's play "Dutchman" won one of these off-Broadway awards in 1964 | 
    an OBIE
 
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    | He plays Inman, who struggles to get home to Cold Mountain | 
    Jude Law
 
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    | With Seattle's coffee & this from sister city Perugia, Italy, they can make mocha | 
    (Ethan: What is milk?)
  chocolate
 
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    | If you're lucky & this is gushing in your back yard, call for one of Lufkin Industries' pumping units | 
    oil
 
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    | Some consider the painting seen here to be the first in this modern style | 
    Cubism
 
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    | Call as a cree | 
    tall as a tree
 
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    | This play about a family moving to the suburbs was the first Broadway play written & directed by African Americans | 
    A Raisin in the Sun
 
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    | The first syllable of his last name rhymes with "mood", not "mud" | 
    (Ken: [Working out the pronunciation as he responds] Who is [*], apparently?)
  Billy Crudup
 
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    | Seattle can flaunt the fact, or maybe flute the fact, it's a sister to this Irish city | 
    Galway
 
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    | Light bulb makers use a special pump to create this inside the bulb | 
    a vacuum
 
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    | Degas portrayed this American woman & fellow Impressionist in several of his works | 
    Mary Cassatt
 
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    | Lad as a larch hare | 
    mad as a March hare
 
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    | James Baldwin loosely based his play "Blues for Mister Charlie" on the '55 murder of Emmitt Till in this southern state | 
    Mississippi
 
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    | This romantic actor appeared in "Marriage Italian Style", "Divorce Italian Style" & "Ghosts Italian Style" | 
    Marcello Mastroianni
 
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    | This Norwegian sister city should be a favorite of Murphy Brown | 
    (Ethan: What is Avery?) ... (Alex: [*], Norway, yes, as in Candice [*].)
  Bergen
 
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    | To lift water, try this basic type of pump, a cylinder with a piston inside | 
    a suction [or reciprocating] pump
 
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    | This 19th century British landscape artist painted "Cloud Studies" & "The Haywain" | 
    John Constable
 
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    | Rod as a boot | 
    red as a beet
 
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    | This playwright of "Fences" & "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" founded Pittsburgh's Black Horizon Theatre Company | 
    August Wilson
 
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    Seen here near the end of his career, his last name is a synonym for "strength"
  "I want only the strong, who can row 1500 miles to Africa and walk ashore alive!" | 
    Tyrone Power
 
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    | A port city, Seattle is a sister to this port city of Kenya | 
    Mombasa
 
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    | It's a pit or well where water collects; the pump named for it gets the water out | 
    a sump
 
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    | This Italian term meaning the balance of light & shade is often used of Rembrandt's paintings | 
    chiaroscuro
 
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    | Gold as grass | 
    [No applause for Ken's run of the category] (Alex: Yes, you did well with those similes.  Go again.) (Ken: Thanks.)
  bold as brass
 
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