THE PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS ARE THE THING
A LITTLE ASTRONOMY
THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM
WATER MUSIC
FIRST OFF, HOW DARE YOU
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Just after his death in 2005, the Virginia Theatre on New York's 52nd Street was renamed for this man who wrote "Fences"
August Wilson
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CAused by Jupiter's gravity, the Kirkwood gaps are nearly empty areas in the solar system's belt of these
The asteroid belt
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Canaveral National Seashore protects 24 miles of undeveloped coastline in this state
Florida
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Ike & Tina Turner were "rollin' on the river" with this song
Proud Mary
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Urban Dictionary calls this bit of precipitation "a very sensitive person"; I'm aghast you think that of me
a snowflake
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He played the extremely long game with "Mourning Becomes Electra", a trilogy of plays with a total of 13 acts
Eugene O'Neill
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LIke Earth, Saturn gets this kind of spectacular polar light show, a Latin word for "dawn"
an aurora
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As seen here, parts of trees that have become fossilized are features of this national park in Arizona.
The Petrified forest
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Carly Simon wrote "Let The River Run" for this film starring Melanie Griffith & Harrison Ford
Working Girl
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Why was I given this type of hyphenated dismissal that sounds like one is removing dandruff from clothing?
a brush-off
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After taking Rosencrantz & his pal to unexpected places in the '60s, this playwright visited "The Coast of Utopia" in 2002
Tom Stoppard
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This type of astronomy sprang into being thanks to a 1930s investigation into interference with telephone calls
radio astronomy
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A national memorial near Shanksville, Penn. commemorates the passengers & crew of this flight who perished on 9/11
United 93
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This composer's "Water Music" from 1717 is heard here
[Orchestra plays Water Music: Suite No. 2 in D major]
Handel
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Are you "casting" these 10-letter slanderous remarks in my direction? I thought we were friends!
aspersions
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The "son" never actually existed in this Albee play before dad commits a virtual "filicide"
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Out at the edge of the solar system, the heliopause is where this stream of plasma from the sun meets interstellar space
the solar wind
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An Alabama historic site invites you to journey back to the 1940s & learn about this group of Black military aviators
the Tuskegee Airmen (or Red Tails)
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Linda Ronstadt sang of "going back someday" to this colorful body of
"Blue Bayou"
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I'm hurt & now slighted by your actions; you've done this idiomatically, which involves a mathematical function
added insult to injury
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We need your initial reaction to this 1988 David Henry Hwang play about a singer in the Beijing Opera with many secrets
M. Butterfly
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Nothing from inside, not even light, can escape past this, the 2-word term for the boundary around a black hole
an event horizon
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A national monument in California's San Joaquin Valley honors this founder of a union
Cesar Chavez
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This watery Henry Mancini composition was a huge hit for Andy Williams
Moon RIver
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You've dubbed me a milksop; I'm peeved, as I prefer this other word that's etymologically similar & a tad longer
a milquetoast