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| Weel Lunk, "Place of the Skull", for a white man's noggin stuck on a pole, may have given Wheeling in this state its name |
West Virginia
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| "Julia" starred Diahann Carroll as a nurse & single mother, widowed when her husband died in this conflict |
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)
the Vietnam War
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| Can you pass the acid test? It dates back to the use of nitric acid to test the content of this precious metal |
gold
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| "The ____ Cometh" by Eugene O'Neill |
Iceman
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| J.S. Bach's work, like the concerto heard here, exemplifies this classical style that flourished from 1600 to 1750 |
baroque
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| This section of Disneyland was originally designed to imagine the far future of 1986 |
(Nick: What is EPCOT?)
Tomorrowland
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| "Mine No. 5" in Butcher's Hollow (or "Butcher's Holler", as Loretta Lynn said it) produced this material |
coal
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| Your answer, should you choose to say it, will be this series about a team of secret government agents led by Jim Phelps |
Mission: Impossible
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| On the water you might find yourself between the devil, a seam in a ship, & this |
(Nick: What are the details?)
the deep blue sea
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| "The Feminine ____" by Betty Friedan |
Mystique
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| Count Keyserling may have commissioned this work, 30 takes on one theme, named for the count's harpsichordist |
(Nick: What is "The Well-Tempered Klavier"?)
the "Goldberg Variations"
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| "The Future of God" was penned by this Indian-born spiritualist |
Deepak Chopra
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| As early as the 1920s, American Jews were summering in this alliterative area of the Catskills |
(Alex: Nick?) (Nick: I don't know.)
the Borscht Belt
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| Produced as a sister show to "Petticoat Junction", this comedy centered on a city couple who move to a farm |
Green Acres
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| Something badly maintained is "going to" this 3-letter word, referring to a vessel for stew where leftovers go |
pot
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| "Going ____" by Sarah Palin |
Rogue
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| Bach was tasked with writing new works for each festival; cantata 63 is for Christmas & 65 is for this, 12 days later |
Epiphany
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| "Future Noir" is a book about the making of this groundbreaking 1982 Ridley Scott film |
Blade Runner
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| Baxter Peak on Mount Katahdin is the highest point in this New England state |
Maine
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| Hit spinoffs from "The Andy Griffith Show" included "Mayberry RFD" & "Gomer Pyle", with this actor as the title U.S. Marine |
Jim Nabors
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| The Iroquois sealed deals by putting tomahawks in the ground under a white pine, possibly the origin of this phrase |
bury the hatchet
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| "The New ____" by Emma Lazarus |
Colossus
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| The name of this Bach piece refers to a tuning system of the keyboard, not to its good mood |
"The Well-Tempered Klavier"
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| Some misfires from this 1970 book by Alvin Toffler: paper clothes & the world's urban population doubling by 1981 |
Future Shock
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| The observation point seen here has great views of Clingmans Dome in these mountains on the Tennessee-North Carolina border |
(Nick: What are the Blue Mountains?)
the Great Smoky Mountains
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| John Cabot's explorer son, or the actor who as Mr. French helped look after Buffy & Jody on "Family Affair" |
Sebastian Cabot
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| The activity of wrestling with steer led to this phrase about taking charge |
take the bull by the horns
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| "Look Homeward, ____" by Thomas Wolfe |
Angel
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| J.S. got his first formal keyboard lessons from his brother Johann Christoph, a pupil of this "Canon in D Major" composer |
Pachelbel
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| This "Cloud Atlas" author gave a new novel to Norway's Future Library but you can't read it until 2114 |
David Mitchell
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