| HISTORIC SONGS OF THE BRITS |
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| Handel composed many coronation anthems, including "Zadok The Priest" in 1727 for the second British king of this name |
George (II)
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| With bowling, boxing & more, in 2006 this home console from Nintendo pioneered the use of motion sensors |
a Wii
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| Prithviraj Chauhan, who ruled in Rajasthan in the 12th century, is sometimes called the last emperor of this religion |
Hinduism
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| "Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room" at his first appearance in this novel |
Pride and Prejudice
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| Episodes of this physicist-heavy show included "The Septum Deviation" & "The Skank Reflex Analysis" |
The Big Bang Theory
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| Punxsutawney Phil, for one |
a groundhog
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| Once thought to have been penned by Henry VIII, this "colorful" tune is now believed to come from Elizabethan times |
"Greensleeves"
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| You must have attached a PDF to an email once in your life, right? Then you know the "D" stands for this, right? |
(Ken: Portable [*] Format, yes.)
Document
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| With more than 100 million adherents, the Moscow Patriarchate is also called this "National" church |
the Russian Orthodox
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| Mrs. Hudson, "a long-suffering woman", is his landlady in "The Adventure of the Dying Detective" |
Sherlock Holmes
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| This film character says that as a kid, he wished he could mix physics with New Mexico, for then his life would be perfect |
Oppenheimer
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| The opposite of sedate, this hyphenated adjective means wildly enthusiastic or unrestrained |
hog-wild
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| A jaunty tune in the less jaunty times of WWI was titled "Belgium Put The Kibosh On" this German leader |
the Kaiser
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| In 1991 a University of Helsinki computer science student completed his first version of this open source computer operating system |
Linux
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| Way up in the Orkney Islands, Britain's northernmost cathedral is named for this saint, whose name is Latin for "big" or "great" |
Saint Magnus
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| In the opening line of a novel, this Woolf woman "said she would buy the flowers herself" |
(Joe: Who is Orlando?)
Mrs. Dalloway
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| As Sheriff Hopper on "Stranger Things" he finds science can't explain everything like it did when he worked in physics on TV's "Manhattan" |
David Harbour
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| Big party planned? Get one of these, a large barrel or cask of wine equal to 63 gallons |
(Joe: What is a hogsbaugh?)
a hogshead
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| In 1905 Sir Henry Wood arranged a "Fantasia on British Sea Songs" to celebrate the centennial of this battle |
(Joe: What is Gibraltar?)
Trafalgar
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| Cryptocurrency transactions are recorded using this database technology that sounds like a defensive strategy |
blockchain
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| Confucianism is more a philosophy--so this, with Beijing temples 1,300 years old, is China's only recognized home-grown religion |
(Laura: What is Buddhism?) (Ken: Sorry, no, Buddhism's not native to China, but [*] is.)
Taoism
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| The talents of this Patricia Highsmith character include the ability to kill with oars & ashtrays |
the talented Mr. Ripley
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| Jane Foster likens the Asgardian Bifrost to an Einstein-Rosen Bridge, but Thor says it's more like this kind of bridge |
a Rainbow Bridge
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| From the Greek for "straight writing", it's the study of the principles of correct spelling in a language |
orthography
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| The "azure main" (that's the ocean) is in this patriotic song traditionally played at the Last Night of the Proms at Royal Albert Hall |
"Rule, Britannia!"
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| It's the acronym for the "prove you're not a robot" tests encountered when accessing some websites |
CAPTCHA
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| This people whose religion has Islamic & gnostic elements live in Lebanon & Syria but also make up about 2% of Israel's people |
the Druze
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| Mrs. Organ Morgan runs a grocery shop in a seaside village in Wales in his play "Under Milk Wood" |
Dylan Thomas
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| On "Deep Space Nine" the prophets hung out in the Bajoran this that connected the Alpha & Gamma Quadrants |
a Wormhole
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| Aye, laddie, it's what the Scottish call New Year's Eve |
(Ken: They call it [*] for reasons of their own.)
Hogmanay
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