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    | The earliest of these pictorial symbols used as writing by the Egyptians date back to around 3000 B.C. | 
    (Michele: What is cuneiform?) [Originally ruled incorrect] ... (Alex: [After the first break] Michele, we're going to accept your response of cuneiform for [*].)
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    | Susan Sullivan & Mitchell Ryan once played doctors on "Julie Farr, M.D."; now they're Greg's parents on this sitcom | 
    Dharma & Greg
 
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    Richard Armour wrote, "Robbers seize it, rich increase it, gamblers lose it... I could use it" | 
    money
 
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    | One may be Coral or Caspian | 
    sea
 
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    | In 1999 this singer who once tore up the Pope's picture was ordained the first female priest in the Latin Tridentine Church | 
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    | Dip your veggies in this buttermilk dressing, a Hidden Valley specialty | 
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    | The Maccabees' greatest soldier, he was the man originally given the name "Maccabee" | 
    Judah
 
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    | Cordell is the first name of this crimefighter played by Chuck Norris | 
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    | In "The Aeneid" Virgil wrote, "I fear the Greeks even when they come with" these | 
    gifts
 
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    | An actor's signal or Minnesota Fats' stick | 
    cue
 
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    | Emily Watson earned an Oscar nomination for playing cellist Jacqueline du Pre in this 1998 film | 
    Hilary & Jackie
 
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    | What's a fruit tray without wedges of cantaloupe & honeydew, varieties of this fruit | 
    (Alex: Minute to go.)
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    | In 68 A.D. Vindex' motives were transparent when he led a revolt in this Roman province that covers France | 
    Gaul
 
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    | Delta Burke played Dixie Carter's ex-mother-in-law on "Filthy Rich" before playing her sister on this sitcom | 
    Designing Women
 
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    | Nanki-Poo & Ko-Ko appear in this W.S. Gilbert libretto | 
    (Michele: What is Madame Butterfly?) (Spencer: What is M. Butterfly?)
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    | It precedes "whiz" & "your hair smells terrific" | 
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    | She sang on Broadway in "Damn Yankees" & "Bells Are Ringing" before playing TV's screechy-voiced Edith Bunker | 
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    | A slice of provolone could be mistaken for this cheese that shares its name with a California bay | 
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    | Pytheas of Marseille was famous as this, also the nickname of Prince Henry of Portugal | 
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    | John Ritter appeared as the minister who married Ted & Georgette on this classic sitcom | 
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    | "While man is still a child God keeps him innocent", he wrote in "Les Miserables" | 
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    | The violin virtuoso known by the single name Midori was born in this country in 1971 | 
    Japan
 
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    | Look for rye bread on the tray near this cured beef cold-cut with a name from the Yiddish | 
    pastrami
 
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    | This Greek biographer's own "life" included being granted a priesthood at Delphi for life | 
    (Dylan: I do not know.) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
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    | John Greenleaf Whittier wrote of one of these boys "with cheek of tan" | 
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    | Wok up & see the snow one | 
    pea
 
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    | Patti Page played Sister Rachel in this Burt Lancaster film based on a Sinclair Lewis novel | 
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