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| The Achaemenid empire lasted for about 200 years until it was defeated in the battle of Arbela by this Macedonian |
Alexander the Great
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| The president snarls, "Get off my plane!" & Gary Oldman does |
Air Force One
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| This Tolkien trilogy was written as one large book, but the publisher decided to break it into 3 parts |
Lord of the Rings
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| My team & I have been up for 36 hours finishing the new Internet Explorer browser for this co.; sleep is a fond memory |
Microsoft
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| This member of the violin family is slightly larger than the violin & tuned a fifth lower |
viola
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| Pineal or pituitary |
gland
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| Around 3000 B.C. the Harappan civilization around this river in what's now Pakistan began cultivating cotton |
the Indus
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| It's Feb. 2, 1992 & it's Feb. 2, 1992 & it's Feb. 2, 1992 &... |
Groundhog Day
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| This novel completed Len Deighton's trilogy about spy Bernard Samson that included "Spy Hook" & "Spy Line" |
Spy Sinker
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| I'd go home from this company, but I've eaten 10 of our 100 Grand bars & 5 boxes of our Goobers...OMG, I'm totally wired! |
(David: What's Mars?)
Nestlé
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| To make it lighter, the flamenco type of this is often made of cypress wood, not rosewood like its classical cousin |
guitar
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| Send letters back & forth |
correspond
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| In the 5th century B.C., Herodotus wrote that these people of northeastern Italy were from Lydia in Asia Minor |
the Etruscans
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| Scarlett Johansson beats up on Jeremy Renner |
The Avengers
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| He won a National Book Award for "All the Pretty Horses", the first book of his "Border Trilogy" |
Cormac McCarthy
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| After 26 hours at this sporting goods co., I'm now pals with a replica we made of the volleyball in a Tom Hanks film |
Wilson
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| This instrument first appeared on a Beatles recording when George played it on "Norwegian Wood" |
sitar
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| According to the U.S. Surgeon General, even occasional exposure to this type of smoke is harmful |
second-hand
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| (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) At its peak in the 14th century, this West African empire that bears the name of a present-day country covered almost half a million square miles |
(Jared: What is the Malian Empire?) ... (Alex: Yes, we'll give you that. You created a new word for it, for [*], but you've got $18,200 as a result.)
Mali
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| That dude kills Sharon Stone & says, "Considuh dat a divorce", & gets his tush to Mars |
Total Recall
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| By the end of this playwright's Eugene trilogy, his alter ego Eugene Jerome is "Broadway Bound" |
Neil Simon
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| I'm not leaving my office at this company until I finish putting together a set of our Klubbo nesting tables |
IKEA
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| The balalaika of Russia has a body of this shape |
triangle
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| Emerson wrote, "the only way to have" one of these "is to be one" |
a friend
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| The Tiahuanaco empire based around this lake now in Bolivia & Peru flourished between 500 & 900 A.D. |
Lake Titicaca
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| Mel Gibson gets tortured...I'll have to be a bit more specific, Mel gets tortured a lot onscreen...by Gary Busey's Mr. Joshua |
Lethal Weapon
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| This novel preceded "Inkspell" & "Inkdeath" in a trilogy by Cornelia Funke |
Inkheart
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| It's 2 A.M. & I'm going over the specs for a Sedona from this car company; lucky I'm not behind the wheel of one |
Kia
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| The trichordo type of this pear-shaped Greek instrument has 3 pairs of strings, each pair tuned to the same note |
bouzouki
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| Pictured here is a borzoi, formerly known as the Russian this |
(David: What is [**]?) [Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before Daily Double at clue 29]
a wolfhound (or greyhound)
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