Jeopardy #8434

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Timothy Winegard's 2019 book about this insect is subtitled "A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator"

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In her book about this punctuation mark, Cecelia Watson wrote, "Big ideas are distilled down to a few winking drops of ink"

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"Over the Top" is a memoir by JVN, short for this grooming expert on Netflix's "Queer Eye"

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"The Monk of Mokha" tells of a man hoping to revive this country's art of coffee making

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This author's first major book was 1742's "A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist"

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Down in Florida, Canaveral is one of these, from Old French for "head"

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The triangular shape of a spread-out deposit at the mouth of a stream gives it the name alluvial this

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Waves force water & air to spout through a rock fissure with this 8-letter name; here's one in Hawaii

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This word for a type of landform comes from Old Norse for "inlet"

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Climbers, beware of these French-named fissures that score the surface of glaciers

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In arithmetic this operation yields a product

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It's a comment made that puts things mildly compared to what actually transpired

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In the 1950s, the RF-101 was the first supersonic aircraft built for this observation purpose

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Rich tech people buying up Oakland homes causes this issue, a focus of the 2018 movie "Blindspotting"

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In states with no-fault divorce, one partner just has to state a reason things can't work out, such as these "differences"

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1993, starring a young Johnny Depp: "What's Eating Gilbert ____"

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1937, starring Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers: "Shall We ____"

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1977, starring Richard Pryor: "Which Way is ____?"

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2000, set in the 1930s: "O ____ ,____ ____ ____?"

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1993, about the woman seen here; the 7-word title

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Sadly, this fast spotted cat hasn't prospered--it's endangered

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The puma is also known as the catamount & this other "c"at

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Cats with this coat pattern caused by a genetic anomaly are almost always female

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Naturally, the breed known as this Rex was discovered on a farm in Cornwall, England

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Neofelis nebulosa is the scientific name of this leopard with a strikingly marked coat

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(Hi, I'm David Wade.) In 1982, "Boston Magazine" named the Bull & Finch Pub in Beacon Hill the best neighborhood bar; it inspired this sitcom where everybody knew your name & in 1993, the cast gathered there, to celebrate the final episode

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(Hi, I'm Kate Merrill.) In 1998, childhood friends Matt Damon & Ben Affleck won an Oscar for the screenplay of this film set at MIT & around Harvard where Damon originally began writing the script

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(Hi, I'm Liam Martin.) On January 17, 1950, a group of armed masked men pulled off the crime of the century, stealing more than $2.7 million from this company's armored car depot in Boston; only a small amount of the money was ever recovered

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(Hi, I'm Lisa Hughes.) Local hero Pete Frates, the man who inspired the Ice Bucket Challenge, helped raise awareness & millions of dollars to fight this disease that claimed Lou Gehrig's life & sadly his own at 34

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(Hi, I'm Steve Burton.) John McCain is among the public officials who've been honored at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library with an award for leadership, named for this Pulitzer Prize-winning book by JFK

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Bring on the summer blockbusters! On July 1, 1984 the MPAA introduced this new alphanumeric movie rating

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This song officially became a national anthem July 1, 1980

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Sony introduced this portable item July 1, 1979

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July 1, 1879 saw Charles Taze Russell publish the first edition of this Jehovah's witness magazine

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TP53 is a gene that suppresses this, a mass of abnormal tissue growth; a mutated TP53 is linked with 50% of all cancers

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This "re" adjective for a molecule of genetic material means it's been spliced together using DNA from different sources

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Later suspected in doping, the gene therapy repoxygen was developed to treat this disease by increasing the red blood cell count

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An abnormal gene on chromosome 4 is the cause of this chorea or disease of the nervous system, described in 1872

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It's the "T" in the representation G-C-A-T of the 4 nucleic acid building blocks of DNA

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"The Turn of the Screw" has an "unreliable" one of these

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Adjective for a legal judgment made without basis in law

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Framboise is the French name for this fruit

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A transparent container for keeping reptiles indoors

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The blood-brain this is made of tight capillary walls & reduces the danger of mercury poisoning

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Polly Smith, Lisa Lindahl & Hinda Miller patented the first one of these garments "suitable for women runners"

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In the early 1900s Melitta Bentz used a piece of blotting paper to create this & then a company to make them

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Tinder co-founder Whitney Wolfe Herd has created a lot of buzz since launching this dating app where women make the first move

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Helping to develop medicines for gout, leukemia & malaria, Gertrude Elion was a pioneer in this 12-letter -ology

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Many early rock-and-rollers were influenced by the innovative gospel great known as Sister her

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Gene Simmons says it takes him 2 hours to get into his makeup for this band; he said Paul Stanley takes 45 minutes but has less to do

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Despite what he sang in "Glass Onion", he was the walrus playing piano in the "Magical Mystery Tour" film

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Why did this hitmaking duo that broke up in 2021 wear helmets? "Robots are exciting to people"

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This Broadway musical title character began haunting the Majestic on Jan. 26, 1988 & stuck around for a while

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Known for "Ghosts N Stuff", this Canadian DJ got some help with his distinctive "rodent" look from the Jim Henson Company

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John Dryden & his brother-in-law revised this tragedy so everybody (well, not Tybalt) lives happily ever after

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The movie "All is True", about Shakespeare in retirement, begins with the fire that destroyed this theatre in 1613

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The rousing "Band of Brothers" speech in this play takes place before the Battle of Agincourt

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In a bit of payback for all the female roles taken by men, in 1899, this French actress played Hamlet

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"Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me", declares this character before taking her own life

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In "Notes on the State of Virginia", Thomas Jefferson said the most beautiful river on Earth is this one no longer in Virginia