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HIGHER CELEBRITY EDUCATION
GERMAN COMPOSERS
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OYSTERS
LET'S THAI ONE ON
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'It all adds up; he paired with Paul Simon for a while & also got a masters in math from Columbia'
Art Garfunkel
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'The opening 4-note theme of his fifth symphony has been likened to fate knocking at the door'
Beethoven
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'Tom Stoppard:
"Rosencrantz & Guildenstern _____ _____"'
are Dead
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'(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Grand Central Terminal Oyster Bar in New York.) Only high-quality oysters are served in this simple way, also in the popular name of a Botticelli painting'
on the half shell
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'Thonburi was once Thailand's second-largest city but now makes up part of this city's metropolitan area'
Bangkok
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'John Astin studied math at Johns Hopkins before becoming a creepy & kooky patriarch on this '60s sitcom'
The Addams Family
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'In 1718 he worked for the Duke of Chandos, directing music at the Duke's palace near London'
Handel
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'Not Beckett but Clifford Odets:
"Waiting for _____"'
Lefty
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'(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Grand Central Terminal Oyster Bar in New York.) Originally made with snails, this dish from Antoine's of New Orleans got its name because it looked so rich'
Oysters Rockefeller
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'According to a 1921 Thai law, all albino ones of this mammal, an emblem of the monarchy, belong to the king'
white elephant
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'"Radial velocities in the zodiacal dust cloud" won an astrophysics Ph.D. for Brian May (not Mr. Mercury) of this band'
Queen
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'He developed the idea of the Flying Dutchman while sailing from Riga to London'
(Richard) Wagner
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'William Inge:
"The Dark at the Top of the _____"'
Stairs
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'(Sarah of the Clue Crew has a dish at the Grand Central Terminal Oyster Bar in New York.) Modern refrigeration has eliminated the old warning about only eating oysters in these months, but some still say that's when they taste best'
months with R\'s in them
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'Thailand was never ruled by a Western power & its name means "land of" this, also a Francis Scott Key phrase'
the land of the free
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'Here's "The News": The "Power of Love" singer was an engineering major at Cornell'
Huey Lewis
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'His 1739 volume of chorale arrangements, the third part of "Clavier-Ubung", is aka "German Organ Mass"'
Johann Sebastian Bach
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'David Mamet:
"American _____"'
Buffalo
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'(Sarah of the Clue Crew downs a shot at the Grand Central Terminal Oyster Bar in New York.) The oyster shooter, reputedly invented by a West Coast miner who wanted his oyster fast and raw, is made with this cocktail mix'
Bloody Mary mix
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'Southern Thailand extends down this long peninsula & consists mainly of mountains & jungles'
the Malay Peninsula
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'In 2008 he hitched a ride on "The Pineapple Express" as Saul Silver & brushed up on his English lit as a UCLA grad'
James Franco
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'In 1940 he was commissioned to write a composition honoring Japan's 2,600th anniversary'
Richard Strauss
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'Eugene O'Neill:
"Ah, _____!"'
Wilderness
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'(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a mollusk at the Grand Central Terminal Oyster Bar in New York.) Oysters from this colorful location on Long Island's Great South Bay were so popular, the name is used for several East Coast oysters'
Blue Point
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'Each Thai village has one of these temples, a 3-letter term from Sanskrit for "enclosure"'
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