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| This city was Russia's capital from 1712 until just after the 1917 Revolution |
St. Petersburg
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| 2022 gave us the last episode of this weepy NBC drama that featured characters like Randall, Kate & Kevin |
This Is Us
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| Arkansas Gov. James Miller was once famous for his quote, "I will try, sir!" during this early 19th century war |
the War of 1812
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| In 1992 I died in Little Rock, Arkansas after founding the largest retail sales chain in the United States |
(Mark: Who is Walton?) (Ken: Can you be more specific?)
Sam Walton
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| She dedicated "Frankenstein" to her father William Godwin |
Shelley
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| It can refer to a sequence of RNA, or a written record of what was said orally |
a transcript
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| Basically all of Russia east of the Ural Mountains, this region's name may come from a Tatar word meaning "sleeping land" |
Siberia
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| Aka Leopold Stotch, this "South Park" lad has a feminine alter-ego named Marjorine |
Butters
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| In 1941 its governor, Joseph Poindexter, protested the transfer of some of the Pacific Fleet to the Atlantic |
(Eamonn: What are the Philippines?) (Ken: He was right; it was [*] in 1941.)
Hawaii
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| As mayor of Flavortown, I've brought my frosted tips to diners & drive-ins & even some dives |
Guy Fieri
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| Called "zippy, zesty, and zotty", this debut novel cooked up by Bonnie Garmus became a streaming series starring Brie Larson |
Lessons in Chemistry
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| I'm afraid you're this again, young person, absent from school without permission |
truant
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| Because of a dispute over the Kuril Islands in the western Pacific, Russia & this nation have never signed a treaty ending WWII |
Japan
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| On the Apple TV+ show "Dark Matter" she plays Daniela Dessen, who exists in more than one timeline |
Jennifer Connelly
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| Before his brief time as U.S. president, he served 12 years as governor of the Indiana Territory |
William Henry Harrison
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| My 1905 "Clair De Lune" shares its name with a poem by Paul Verlaine |
Debussy
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| You can breathe easier knowing that Terry McMillan wrote a sequel to this novel called "Getting to Happy" |
(Mark: What is... Breakfast?) (Ken: No, you ran out of time.)
Waiting to Exhale
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| 7-letter word for a decorative crest of hair on the crown of the head |
(Mark: What is... truss?)
a topknot
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| This 750-mile-long Russian territory between the Sea of Okhotsk & the Bering Sea is home to 29 active volcanoes |
Kamchatka
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| First name Gregory, this pill-popping title doctor woke up in a burning building in the 2012 series finale |
House
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| Frank Franz served as an Indian agent of the Osage Agency before becoming this territory's last governor in 1906 |
Oklahoma
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| I lasted 11 days as White House communications director in July 2017 |
(Mark: Who is... Tuccio?)
Scaramucci
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| Joan Didion established her reputation as an essayist with her 1968 collection "Slouching Towards" this place |
Bethlehem
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| This metal stand of 3 legs is used to hold cooking vessels over a fire |
a trivet
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| It has a short name at just 2 letters, but it flows 2,268 miles across Russia as the 7th-longest river in the world |
[Ken misread "longest" as "largest".]
the Ob
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| On "The Boys", Jessie Usher plays this speedy superhero with a name familiar from a Duke Ellington number |
A-Train
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| Florida Gov. William Pope Duval tried to be fair to these people; the wars named for them were before & after his 1822-1834 tenure |
the Seminoles
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| They call me the prince of humanism & the greatest scholar of the Northern Renaissance, but you can call me Desi |
Desiderius Erasmus
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| In a letter to pen pal across the sea Harriet Beecher Stowe, she discussed her own novel "Daniel Deronda" |
(George) Eliot
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| Seize the day--heavy projectiles could be hurled from one of these in the Middle Ages |
a trebuchet
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