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Name the original work that inspired one of the following adaptations
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• Clueless
• 10 Things I Hate About You
• My Fair Lady
• Spamalot
• A Thousand Acres
• Easy A
• Blade Runner
• Still Star-Crossed
• Apocalypse Now
• Cruel Intentions
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Name any shade of the color blue
3. SOMETHING OLD
Name one of these "OLD" things
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• Spike Lee directed the 2013 remake of this Korean thriller with the tagline “Ask not why you were imprisoned. Ask why you were set free.”
• This geological feature is Yellowstone National Park’s premier attraction
• 1957 Walt Disney film about a boy and a stray dog in post-Civil War Texas, based on a book by Fred Gipson
• Discount clothing chain launched in 1993 as Gap Warehouse and rebranded in 1994
• T.S. Eliot collection of whimsical poems about felines
• Public university established in 1930 as the Norfolk Division of the College of William & Mary
• Term for a forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance
• Mrs. Jarley is the proprietor of a travelling waxworks show in this sentimental Dickens novel
• Snoozers and nail biters will tell you that these behaviors “die hard”
• Children’s book seen here
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Name a place (city, state, county, province, country or territory) whose name starts with “New” (either the word or the letters). Be specific, e.g., South Orange, NJ or West Yorkshire, England
5. SOMETHING FISHY
Name one of these things that sounds like a type of fish
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• A high resting place, perhaps for a cat
• An anomaly or one-off
• Mr. de la Renta
• TV’s Mr. Donovan
• To struggle or thrash about
• Observer of constellations
• There's one born every minute
• To nag or pester
• Stranger Things fan favorite confirmed to be 100% dead by the Duffer Brothers
• In folklore, a demon or spirit that robs graves and feeds on corpses
• Italian Mannerist painter whose work is seen here
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Name the actor who played Hamlet, Gertrude or Ophelia in any of these well-known film adaptations of Hamlet: 1948, 1990, 1996 or 2000, OR name the film actor who played Hamlet in a recent stage production at The Public Theater directed by Sam Gold
7. SOMETHING NICE
Name one of the 20 world capital cities geographically closest to Nice, France (source: Google maps). Looking for capitals of countries or independent states - Palermo, Sicily doesn't count
8. SOMETHING UNUSUAL
Name an artist or writer associated with the Dada or Surrealist movements of the early 20th century
9. SOMETHING WICKED
Name one of these bad hombres / bad chicas
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• This Disney dame is just wild for black and white spotted puppies!
• Ruth Gordon played this nosy neighbor who goes gaga over Rosemary’s Baby
• “It’s all for you,” says the nanny of this devilish birthday boy before hanging herself, much to the dismay of the assembled guests
• In the most recent season of HBO’s Game of Thrones, Olenna Tyrell admits to Jaime Lannister that it was she who poisoned this twisted boy-king, who once made life hell for Sansa Stark
• Trust me. You don’t want to meet the business end of this guy’s baseball bat, Lucille in AMC’s The Walking Dead
• In The Little Mermaid, she’s the nasty sea witch who tricks Ariel into making a devil’s bargain
• Angelina Jolie will reprise her role as this title Disney villainess in an upcoming sequel
• Bond guy Daniel Craig played this Shakespearean schemer opposite David Oyelowo in a limited run at the Public Theatre that closed in January
• Libel, slander, attempted overthrow of a government, attempted first-degree murder and extortion are just a few of the crimes of this character from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, who has the most famous aria in the opera
• Coraline defeats this monstrous entity in a dark fantasy novella by Neil Gaiman
• Dennis Hopper plays this sadistic maniac and substance abuser in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet
Name a historical figure associated with any of the following revolutions: The American Revolution (1775-1783), The French Revolution (1789-1799), The Russian Revolution (1905-1907), The Irish War of Independence (1919-1921)