A silent movie title includes the last name of this 18th c. statesman & favorite of Catherine the Great
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Answer: Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin
In Penny Lane, where this “Hellraiser” grew up, the barber shaves another customer–then flays him alive!
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Answer: Clive Barker
This Puccini opera turns on the solution to 3 riddles posed by the heroine
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Answer: Turandot
It’s on the Suriname River
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Answer: Paramaribo
A motto of hers was “in politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman”
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Answer: (Margaret) Thatcher
Nightingales & robins belong to this family of melodious songbirds
Answer: thrushes
Her hotsy-totsy diaries trace back to one she began as an 11-year-old aboard ship in 1914
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Answer: Ana??s Nin
A naughty 18th c. novel originally titled “Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure” inspired the 2006 musical named for her
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Answer: Fanny Hill
Guyanese capital named for a Hanoverian monarch
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Answer: Georgetown
Oscar Wilde called this 4-letter word “the curse of the drinking classes”
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Answer: work
In his teens he worked in an assistant D.A.’s office; later his Perry Mason character made fools of D.A.s
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Answer: (Erle Stanley) Gardner
He created the musical riddles called the “Enigma Variations”
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Answer: (Edward) Elgar
We’d like to “enlighten” you about the musical “Sidd”; it’s based on this novel
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Answer: Siddhartha
It’s home to the Holmenkollen ski jump
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Answer: Oslo
Poet Gregory Corso went on the beat path after meeting this poet in a Greenwich Village bar in 1950
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