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times?
    7. What phenomenon is named for the French words for “already seen”?
    8. What happens ninety-two times in a row at the beginning of Tom Stoppard’s play
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
?
    9. What word did Benoit Mandelbrot coin in 1975 for infinitely complex shapes, each tiny part of which contains the whole?
    10. What movie does Turner television traditionally broadcast twelve times in a row every December 24?

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    2002 T HE N ICOLE K IDMAN GHOST STORY
The Others
cleans up at Spain’s Goya Awards, since it was directed by a Spaniard, Alejandro Amenábar. It’s the only movie ever to win the Best Film Goya despite not having a single word of Spanish in it.
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    SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
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    1. In the title of a George Bernard Shaw play, what’s
John Bull’s Other Island
?
    2. To counter slipping sales, what was marketed, beginning in 1987, as “the other white meat”?
    3. What photographer exposed New York’s squalid slum life in 1890’s
How the Other Half Lives
?
    4. What’s the punny name of “the Other Reindeer” voiced by Drew Barrymore in a Christmas TV special?
    5. What backup band was replaced with “the Other Band” for the 1992
Human Touch/Lucky Town
tour?

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FEBRUARY 3
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    1870 A MERICANS OF ALL RACES now have the right to vote, as long as they have a penis. Iowa votes to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, giving the amendment the required three-fourths majority.
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    3 / 4 TIME
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    1. In what lunar phase is the moon when it’s three-quarters full?

    2. In the “Great Upheaval,” three quarters of what people were forcibly removed from Nova Scotia?
    3. Three fourths of Western Australia’s population lives in what city?
    4. Three quarters of the cadmium mined annually is used, with nickel, to make what household items?
    5. Who is credited with writing three quarters of the Federalist Papers?

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    1902 S HEP F RIEDMAN, in the
Morning Telegraph,
coins the nickname “the Great White Way” for New York’s Broadway. But Shep wasn’t referring to the lights—a snowstorm that day had turned the street into, quite literally, a slippery “white way.”
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    THOROUGH, BUT FAIR
    In what city would you find the most famous street named…
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    Easy
    1. Rodeo Drive
    2. Bourbon Street
    3. The Champs-Élysées
    4. Haight Street
    5. Peachtree Street

    Harder
    1. Beale Street
    2. Nevsky Prospekt
    3. Carnaby Street
    4. Biscayne Boulevard
    5. Lake Shore Drive

    Yeah, Good Luck
    1. La Rambla
    2. Nathan Road
    3. Yonge Street
    4. Paseo de la Reforma
    5. Reeperbahn

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    1956 T HE VERY FIRST MEMBERS are elected into the National Sporting Goods Hall of Fame. It’s now official: there’s a Hall of Fame for
everything.
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    THEY’VE GOT A LOT OF BALLS
    Name these proud National Sporting Goods Hall of Fame members.
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    1. Who went into the Hall for founding the motor company whose slogan was “Throw the oars away”?
    2. What Converse salesman is the only person in both the Basketball Hall of Fame and the Sporting Goods Hall of Fame?
    3. Pitching for the White Stockings in 1877, what sporting goods store owner became the first baseball star to use a glove?
    4. In the nineteenth century, what Swiss-born carriagemaker switched over to making bowling balls and billiard tables?
    5. In 1964, who founded Blue Ribbon Sports, which later went on to become Nike?

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FEBRUARY 4
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    1938 T HORNTON W ILDER’S PLAY
Our Town,
set in fictional Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, opens in New York.
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    HOUR TOWNS
    What TV shows have been set in these fictional burgs?
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    Easy
    1. Sunnydale, CA
    2. Bedrock
    3. Cabot Cove, ME
    4. Cicely, AK
    5. Orbit City

    Harder
    1. Dillon, TX
    2. Quahog, RI
    3. Capeside, ME
    4. Norwich, VT
    5. Mockingbird Heights

    Yeah, Good Luck
    1. Stuckeyville, OH
    2. Rome, WI
    3. Melonville
    4. Raytown
    5. Collinsport, ME

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    1968 N EAL C ASSADY —the model for Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac’s
On the Road
—dies after passing out while