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| In 1697 Judge Samuel Sewall publicly apologized for his role in the witchcraft trials held in this city |
Salem
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| The Latin name of this precious metal is argentum |
silver
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| Anything by this singer because she thanked her cat Kitty Purry in the credits of her 2008 debut album "One of the Boys" |
Katy Perry
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| Much of what is known about Babylonian society comes from this 18th century B.C. king's code |
Hammurabi
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| A goddess or a regular person who inspires a poet or artist |
a muse
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| A mega-bestseller: "After all, tomorrow is another day" |
Gone with the Wind
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| He surprised many with his 2012 majority opinion upholding Obamacare |
Chief Justice John Roberts
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| Clergyman William Gregor gets credit for the discovery, but it was chemist Martin Klaproth who named it for mythic giants |
titanium
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| Woah, woah, woah, the cat can sing along to this, Tom Jones' second top 10 hit |
"What's New Pussycat?"
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| Zeno got a parchment cut, went on without wincing & founded an Athens school promoting this philosophy |
stoicism
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| Line segment AC |
the hypotenuse
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| A children's classic: "I'm so glad to be at home again!" |
The Wizard of Oz
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| Judge John J. Sirica got the '70s case relating to no ordinary break-in, the one at this Washington, D.C. complex |
Watergate
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| The name of this alkaline earth metal comes partly for "lime" (as in limestone) |
(Michelle: What is quartz?)
calcium
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| The cat is a fan of rockabilly, so play anything by this Brian Setzer trio, particularly its "Strut" |
The Stray Cats
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| Eleazar, from this family of Hanukkah heroes, perished when he stabbed a war elephant from underneath |
the Maccabees
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| It's someone who lives alone, withdrawn from the world, like Howard Hughes in his later years |
a recluse
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| A 1960 classic: "He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning" |
To Kill a Mockingbird
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| The presiding judge in the O.J. Simpson trial, he no longer has a nameplate on his courtroom door; thieves kept stealing it |
(Lance) Ito
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| This element, the lightest of the metals, has a density that's about half that of water |
(Buddy: What is aluminum?)
lithium
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| Before bed, the cat dreams big & puts on this Tokens classic also called "Wimoweh" |
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
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| 4-letter word for a crafty scheme or trick |
a ruse
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| From Sinclair Lewis: "Dear Lord, thy work is but begun! We shall yet make these United States a moral nation!" |
Elmer Gantry
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| In the Old West, he dispensed justice (& "ice cold beer") from the Jersey Lilly Saloon in Langtry, Texas |
Roy Bean
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| Galvanizing is the process of coating one metal with a layer of this other metal, atomic number 30 |
(Buddy: What is tin?)
zinc
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| Kitty can't help but rock out when she hears Florence + the Machine belt out the hit called these "Are Over" |
[Applause for Michelle's run of the category]
"Dog Days"
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| This city whose name is Greek for "City of Persia" was the capital & ceremonial center of the Achaemenid empire |
Persepolis
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| It's French for a female singer |
a chanteuse
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| A Virginia Woolf novel: "What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said, for there she was" |
Mrs. Dalloway
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