2012 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 6, Day 4

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2012 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 6, Day 4

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First today's game.

Then the Freudian RQ.

Good luck to all.
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PARALLEL LIVES

2: This Macedonian king and conqueror is paired with Julius Caesar, who conquered Gaul.

4: Dion of Syracuse is compared with this Roman senator and assassin who committed suicide at the Battle of Philippi.

6: Fabius Maximus, one of the Roman commanders during the Second Punic War, is paired with this “first citizen of Athens” who led Athens during the Peloponnesian War.

8: Demosthenes, who improved his diction by talking with pebbles in his mouth, is paired with this Roman orator and enemy of Marc Antony.

10: Alcibiades, who defected first to Sparta then to Persia, is paired with this fifth century BC Roman general at the center of a Shakespearean tragedy.

TED TALKS

3: This theoretical physicist, after whom the hypothetical radiation emitted by black holes is named, spoke with the aid of a computer at TED 2008.

6: Burt Rutan, who won this alphabetic award for spaceship design, gave a 2006 TED talk on “the future of space.”

9: This historian and author of “Team of Rivals” spoke in 2008 about events in the lives of Lyndon Johnson and Abraham Lincoln.

12: This Pritzker Prize winning architect who designed Seattle's Experience Music Project asked “Then What?” in 2002.

15: In 2009, this inventor of the Segway demonstrated a brain-operated prosthetic arm he developed for the U. S. military.
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Re: 2012 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 6, Day 4

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Spoiler
2: Alexander the Great
4: Brutus
6:
8: Seneca
10: Titus Andronicus

3: Hawking
6: X Prize
9: Doris Kearns Goodwin
12: I. M. Pei
15:
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Spoiler
2: Alexander
4: Brutus
6: CLAM
8: Cicero
10: CLAM

3: Hawking
6: the X Prize
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Spoiler
2: Alexander The Great
4: Brutus
6:
8: Cicero?
10:

3: Stephen Hawking
6:
9: Doris Kearns Goodwin
12: Gehry?
15:
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Spoiler
2: alexander the great
4: brutus
6: pericles
8: cicero
10: coriolanus

3: stephen hawking
6: x prize
9: doris kearns goodwin
12:
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PARALLEL LIVES

2: Alexander the Great
4: Brutus?
6: Pericles?
8: Cicero?
10: Titus Andronicus?

TED TALKS

3: Hawking
6: X prize
9: Doris Goodwin
12: Frank Gehry?
15: CLAM
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Re: 2012 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 6, Day 4

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2 alexander
4 brutus
6 pericles
8 seneca
10 titus andronicus
3 hawking
6 x-prize
9 doris kearns goodwin
12 gehry
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Spoiler
2: alexander the great
4:
6:
8:
10: coriolanus

3: hawking
6: x prize
9:
12:
15:
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Spoiler
2: Alexander the Great
4: Brutus
6: Pericles
8: Cicero
10: clam

3: Hawking
6: clam
9: Doris Kearns Goodwin
12: I.M. Pei?
15: clam
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Spoiler
2: Alexander
4: Brutus
6:
8:
10:

3: Hawking
6: X-prize
9:
12:
15: Kamen
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PARALLEL LIVES

2. Alexander the Great
4. Brutus
6. Pericles?
8. ?
10. Titus Andronicus

TED TALKS

3. Stephen Hawking
6. X Prize
9. Doris Kearns Goodwin
12. Frank Gehry
15. ?
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Spoiler
2: Alexander the Great
4: Brutus
6: Pericles
8: Cicero
10: Coriolanus?

3: Hawking
6: X prize
9: Doris Kearns Goodwin
12: Frank Gehry
15: CLAM
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Spoiler
2: Alexander the Great
4: Brutus
6: Pericles
8: Cicero
10: Coriolanus

3: Stephen Hawking
6: X Prize
9: ---
12: Gehry?
15: ---
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Youch!
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2: Alexander
4: Cassius
6: CLAM (Solon? Theseus?)
8: Cicero
10: Coriolanus (sp?)

3: Hawking
6: CLAM
9: CLAM
12: CLAM (Gehry?)
15: CLAM
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PARALLEL LIVES
2: Alexander the Great
4: Brutus
6: Pericles
8: Cicero
10:

TED TALKS
3: Hawking
6: X Prize
9:
12: Gehry
15:
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Spoiler
2: Alexander the Great
4: Brutus?
6: Pericles?
8: Cicero
10: Coriolanus

3: Hawking
6: the X award?
9: Doris Kearns Goodwin
12: Frank Gehry?
15: CLAM
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Spoiler
2:Alexander the Great
4:Brutus
6:
8:Cicero
10:Coriolanus

3:Hawking
6:X Prize
9:Doris Kearns Goodwin
12:Gehry
15:Kamen
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Re: 2012 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 6, Day 4

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Spoiler
02 ALEXANDER THE GREAT
04 BRUTUS
06 PERICLES
08 CICERO
10 CORIOLANUS

03 STEPHEN HAWKING
06 X PRIZE
09 DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN
12 FRANK GEHRY
15 CLAM
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