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Proust's Remembrance of Smells Past
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Defeating a combined Russian & Austrian army, this general had one of his greatest victories at 1805's Battle of Austerlitz

Napoleon

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"Piglet said (it) was a... good trap... he wouldn't see the very deep pit until he was half-way down, when it would be too late"

Milne

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A paper that lists a voter's choices elects to change one letter & dances in as a classic theatrical art form

Ballot/Ballet

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The Wakefield 241st Street subway station, the northernmost station in the New York City Subway System, is in this boroug

The Bronx

100

In a "30 Rock" episode, this Tina Fey character learns from her high school reunion that she was actually a mean girl

Liz Lemon

100

If only, like Hasbro, I might trademark the smell of this modeling compound: hints of cherry, vanilla, salt & youth itself

Play-doh

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Christianity reached this vast island with Leif Eriksson in the 11th century & a bishop's seat was established there in 1124

Greenland

200

"The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!' she said, without even looking around"

Lewis Carroll

200

Mom or dad changes a letter & gets an exclusive right granted for an invention

Parent/Patent

200

Bank & Brixton are stops on London's Metro, better known as the Tube or by this subterranean name

The Underground

200

Yvette Nicole Brown played Shirley Bennett, a Greendale College student that's nice, alongside Donald Glover & Alison Brie on this NBC show

Community

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Zealously lifting my nostrils to the window, I noted what science calls petrichor--the pleasant, earthy smell caused by this

Rain

300

In August 1601 Olivier van Noort returned to Rotterdam after a 3-year voyage that made him the first Dutchman to do this

Circumnavigate the Globe

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In one translation, "The most ghastly sight of all was a little mermaid whom they had caught and strangled"

Hans Christian Andersen

300

Uh oh... you're in a synonym of peril because after a letter change, someone is threatening you with a stabbing weapon

Danger/Dagger

300

In Chicago the Blue Line takes you to O'Hare, while the Orange Line takes you to the station for this other airport

Midway

300

"Sorry, we're closed" was the last line of this show in an episode entitled "One for the Road"

Cheers

300

Memory awoke as I detected the xylene fumes: a permanent marker, perhaps of this brand launched in 1964

Sharpie

400

In 1917 Britain turned down an offer to save the family of 7 with this last name, who were later killed

Romanov

400

'"Augustus Gloop! Augustus Gloop! The great big greedy nincompoop!... so unutterably vile, so greedy, foul, and infantile

Roald Dahl

400

To conclude by reasoning switches a letter & now means to bury

Infer/inter

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The artwork on the walls of this Paris Metro station named for a demolished edifice includes key moments of the French Revolution

The Bastille
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Ed O'Neill was a longtime TV dad on "Married... with Children" & then again on this sitcom that ran from 2009 to 2020

Modern Family

400

Its smell called to mind the essential oils of drum circles past: that most Bohemian of flora, Pogostemon cablin, aka this

patchouli

500

In 1508 Diego Columbus, Christopher's son, was named governor of these (no compass direction given)

The Indies

500

"Soon Fudge would be a famous television star and I would be plain old Peter Hatcher--fourth grade nothing"

Judy Blume

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The "value" of a used car changes into this verb meaning to amuse, as with a story

Resale/Regale

500

A Metro stop that serves George Washington University has this 2-word name that includes a murky adjective

Foggy Bottom
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And there's this actress who played the sitcom roles of Maude Findlay & Dorothy Zbornak


Bea Arthur

500

Its foul stink affronts my senses; never shall I deign to revisit this soft cheese or the Belgian province whence it came


Limburger

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