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What is a Melodrama
With an innocent bride & a scheming villain 1860's The Colleen Bawn was this popular type of play with drama right in the word
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Who is Billie Eilish
Making her AMA debut in 2019 she performed All The Good Girls Go To Hell & also won the award for New Artist of the Year
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What is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Poor grammar was one reason the Concord Mass. library banned this Twain novel 1 month after it was published in 1885
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What is God of War
Kratos kills Ares & gets this title also the name of the video game series
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What is a Dissent Collar
Always in style Justice Ginsburg was famous for wearing dissent these; a famous one came from Banana Republic
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What is a Priest
Guy ends his family line by picking this non-reproducing profession in Guy Domville a painful flop for playwright Henry James
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Who are Maroon 5
In 2011 & 2012 this Adam Levine band was honored as the Favorite Pop/Rock Group
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Who is Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary provoked so much outrage it was banned & this author faced immorality charges
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What is D&D
Available on PS4 Neverwinter is a fantasy RPG that takes place within the lore of this tabletop game
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Who is The Notorius RBG
Ginsburg rather enjoyed this hip-hop nickname she got from a Tumblr blog
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What is Consumption (accept Tuberculosis)
Marie Duplessis who died of this disease at age 23 in 1847 inspired Alexandre Dumas fils to write La Dame aux Camelias
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Who are The Jonas Brothers
Nominated for 2 awards in 2019 they made their first AMA appearance in more than 10 years with a special performance of Only Human
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What are The Satanic Verses
Ayatollah Khomeini laid down a fatwa on Salman Rushdie for this novel
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What is Splinter Cell
The spirit of Tom Clancy hovers over the games about this title group & grizzled agent Sam Fisher
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What is The ACLU
As director of the Women's Rights Project for this Union Ruth argued cases on gender equality before the Supreme Court
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Who is Ibsen
This Scandinavian's last play When We Dead Awaken ends with an avalanche burying the 2 main characters
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Who are TLC
In 2013 joined by Lil Mama 2 of the 3 original members of this group reunited to sing their '90s megahit Waterfalls
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Violent sexuality in this man's life & works before & during the French Revolution led to him being jailed for many years
Who is The Marquis De Sade
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What is Tetris
In 2016 Minecraft became the second-bestselling video game of all time--No. 1 is this other blocky game
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What is Columbia
Ruth began law school at Harvard but transferred to this NYC school where she became the first female tenured professor
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Who is Oscar Wilde
His 1893 A Woman of No Importance has lines like Never trust a woman who tells one her real age; she would tell one anything
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Who are Portugal. The Man
Everyone was definitely feeling it when this band performed Feel It Still
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Who is Nadine Gorimer
For openly dealing with apartheid some of this woman's novels were banned in her native South Africa
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What is Frogger
The Dog Policeman is the theme that lets you know it's time for this game--don't croak!
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Who is Antonin Scalia
Ginsburg said of this fellow New Yorker & justice on the opposite side of the judicial spectrum "We were best buddies"
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