Summer Hiatus Challenge 2015 - TOC Day 5

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Summer Hiatus Challenge 2015 - TOC Day 5

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We'll wrap this thing up tomorrow. Good luck to all.
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Video games

2: In a 2015 video posted by Eurogamer, Shigeru Miyamoto explained the design of World 1-1 in this 1985 video game.

4: Frustrated at acclaim for this company's Facebook game FarmVille, Ian Bogost made the satirical game Cow Clicker.

6: In 2014, excavation confirmed the legend that cartridges of this 1982 Atari game based on a Spielberg film were buried in a New Mexico landfill.

8: In October 2014, Newsweek reported that negative tweets using this hashtag were primarily directed at female video game critics rather than journalists.

10: In 2014, Amazon bought this video game livestreaming website for $970 million.

Drama

3: This Russian dramatist said, "If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off."

6: At the end of Ibsen's "A Doll's House", she leaves her children and her husband Torvald.

9: This Italian Nobel Laureate is considered a forerunner of the Theater of the Absurd for such plays as Six Characters in Search of an Author

12: Many of August Wilson's plays, including Fences and Radio Golf, are set in this city of his birth.

15: Emma Thompson plays Dr. Vivian Bearing, an English professor dying of cancer, in a film adaptation of this Pulitzer Prize winning Margaret Edson play.
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Answers will go here.
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Video games

2: Donkey Kong?

4: Zynga

6: E.T.

8: #CLAM

10: Twitch (Thank you, LL!)

Drama

3: Chekhov

6: Nora? (strangely worded clue)

9: Pirandello

12: Pittsburgh

15: CLAM
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2: Super Mario Bros.
4: Zynga (HI SCHLIEMANN'S WIFE)
6: ET
8: #GamerGate
10: twitch.tv

3: Chekov
6: Nora Helmer
9: Pirandello
12: Pittsburgh
15: Wit
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2: Super Mario Bros
4: clamville
6: ET
8: #gamergate
10: clam

3: Chekhov
6: Nora Helmer
9: Pirandello
12: Pittsburgh
15: Wit
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2: Super Mario Brothers
4:Zynga
6: ET ?!
8: #gamergate, which, actually, is about ethics in gaming journalism :-)
10: Twitch.tv

3: Chekhov
6: Nora
9:
12: Pittsburgh
15: Wit
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Spoiler
2: Super Mario Brothers
4: Zynga
6: E.T. the Extraterrestrial
8: CLAM
10: Twitch

3: Chekhov
6: Nora
9: Pirandello
12: Pittsburgh
15: Wit
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Spoiler
2: Super Mario Brothers
4: Zynga
6: ET
8: #gamergate
10: Twitch.tv

3: Chekov
6: Nora
9: Clam
12: Pittsburgh
15: Wit
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2: Super Mario Brothers
4: Zynga
6: ET
8: World of CLAMcraft
10: CLAMeroids

3: Chekhov
6: Nora
9: Pirandello
12: Pittsburgh
15: Wit
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Video Games
2. Super Mario Brothers
4. Zynga
6. ET: The Extraterrestrial
8. #Gamergate
10.

Drama
3. Chekov (don't think he said anything about phasers on a starship or other wessel)
6. Nora Helmer
9. Pirandello
12. Pittsburgh
15. Wit
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2: Super Mario Bros.
4: Zynga
6: E.T. the Extra Terrestrial
8: CLAM
10: Twitch

3: Chekhov
6: Nora Helmer
9: Pirandello
12: Pittsburgh
15: CLAM
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2 - Super Mario Brothers
4 -
6 - ET
8 -
10 -

3 - Chekhov
6 - Nora
9 - Pirandello
12 - Pittsburgh
15 - Wit
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O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
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02. SUPER MARIO BROTHERS
04. ZYNGA
06. E.T.
08. GAMERGATE
10. TWITCH

03. CHEKHOV
06. NORA HELMER
09. PIRANDELLO
12. PITTSBURGH
15. WIT
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Spoiler
2: Super Mario Bros.
4: Zynga
6: ET
8: #gamergate
10: twitch.tv

3: Anton Chekhov
6: Nora Helmer
9: Luigi Pirandello
12: Pittsburgh
15: Wit
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Video games

2: Super Mario Brothers
4: Zynga
6: E.T.
8: gamergate
10: clam

Drama

3: Chekhov
6: Nora Helmer
9: Pirandello
12: Pittsburgh
15: Wit
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2: Super Mario Bros
4: Zynga
6: ET
8: #gamergate
10: steam.clam

3: Chekov
6: CLAMsandra
9: Dario Fo (this was a lucky one!)
12: Pittsburgh
15: the Remains of the CLAM
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Video games

2: Super Mario Brothers

4: Zynga

6: ET: The Extraterrestrial

8: Hashtag CLAM

10: Twitch.tv

Drama

3: Chekhov

6: Nora

9: Pirandello

12: Pittsburgh

15: Wit
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2 super mario brothers
4 ------------
6 et
8------------
10 twitch.tv

3 chekov
6 nora
9 pierandello
12 pittsburgh
15 wit
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