JPAs - General3 Flashcards

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Carnivorous Marsupial

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the Tasmanian devil

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Carnivorous Plant

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Venus Flytrap

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Carol Burnett appeared as Jamie Buchman’s mother on this 1990s TV show

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Mad About You (and won an Emmy)

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Carole Lombard’s husband

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Clark Gable (m. 1939-1942 - her death; died in plane crash returning from WWII bond trip)

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Caroline Meeber novel

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Sister Carrie (title character of the Theodore Dreiser novel).

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Carolyn Keene character

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Nancy Drew

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Carrie Chapman Catt organization

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the League of Women Voters (she founded it in 1920)

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Carrie Fisher’s mother

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Debbie Reynolds

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“Carry Me Home” spiritual transport

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Sweet Chariot

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“Cartagena Manifesto” author

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Simon Bolivar

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Carthaginian General

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Hannibal

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Carving Knife cut off their tails

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the Three Blind Mice

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Casa Guidi residents

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browning (their house in Florence where she spent the last 14 years of her life)

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French-named Casino Card Game where winner’s hand is that closest to 9

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Baccarat

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His empire stretched from Caspian Sea to eastern China

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Genghis Khan (peaked in early 13th century)

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Cassius Clay

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Muhammad Ali

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“Cat Ballou” actor

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Lee Marvin

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Cat Stevens hits

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“Peace Train,” “Moonshadow”

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Cat’s Cradle author

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Kurt Vonnegut

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Catalonian City

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Barcelona

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Catharine Beecher’s sister

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (Catharine promoted higher education for women)

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Catherine Howard’s husband

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Henry VIII (his 5th)

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Catherine The Great’s lover/advisor

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Grigori Potemkin (Potemkin is also the name of an artificially clean village - he supposedly fixed up rund-down towns to fool her before her grand tour)

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Catherine Zeta-Jones Oscar-nominated musical role

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Chicago

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Cathy Rigby Broadway role
Peter Pan (also Cat in the Hat in "Seussical the Musical")
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Cattle Trail
the Chisholm trail (ran from Texas to Kansas)
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A causeway connects this Persian Gulf nation with the Saudi Arabian mainland
Bahrain
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Volunteer Cavalry Unit
the Rough Riders
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Cayman Trench location
the Caribbean Sea
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CBS Anchorman
Walter Cronkite (His successor was Dan Rather)
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CBS News
60 Minutes
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CBS Soap
The Young and the Restless
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Cecil B De Mille's neice
Agnes De Mille (she was a dancer and ballet choreographer)
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Cecil B DeMille's Oscar-winning film
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
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Cedar Tree is on this country's flag
Lebanon (famous for its cedars)
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Cedric The Saxon is title character of this novel
Ivanhoe (by Sir Walter Scott)
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Celebrated Seafood Stew
Bouillabaisse (hails from Provence)
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Basis of plant cell walls
Cellulose
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Holiday on what was once the last day of the Celtic Year
Halloween (evolved from Celtic festival to celebrate the dead)
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Centennial Exposition World Fair held here
Philadelphia (1876)
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Centennial Olympic Park location
Atlanta
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Central Italian Region
Tuscany
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White Ceramic Material
porcelain
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Cervantes Novel
Don Quixote
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Realist from Chadds Ford, PA
Andrew Wyeth
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Chain of Islands
archipelago
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It's the term for the minimum amount of fissile material needed to achieve a self-sustaining chain reaction
critical mass
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Chamber Music Society
Lincoln Center (Alice Tully Hall)
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Champ De Mars
Eiffel Tower
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Channel Islands
Jersey & Guernsey
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Chaparral Cock
a roadrunner
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Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
liquidation
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Charge Of The Light Brigade war
the Crimean War (1854's Battle of Balaklava)
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Charles Blondin tight-rope walked across this landmark many times
Niagara Falls
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Charles Dawes was VP for this President
Calvin Coolidge (also won Nobel Prize for creating plan for Germany to pay its war reparations)
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Charles Frazier debut novel
Cold Mountain (a take on Homer's "Odyssey" set during the Civil War)
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Charles Guiteau victim
James Garfield (his assassin)
58
Charles Hires creation
root beer (1870s; had originally called it "root tea")
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Charles IX's mother
Catherine de' Medici (Italian was mother of 3 French kings: Francis II, Charles IX & Henry III)
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Charles Ingalls is a character in this novel/TV show
Little House on the Prairie
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Charles Lindbergh plane
The Spirit of St. Louis
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Charles Martel's son
Pepin the Short (who was father to Charlemagne)
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Charles Ryder is the narrator of this novel
Brideshead Revisited
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Charles Taylor was a dictator in this country
Liberia
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She helped Charles VII (the Dauphin Charles) to the throne
Joan of Arc
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Charles Wilkes led an expedition here
Antarctica (America became first to fly a flag there - 1840)
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Charlie And The Chocolate Factory author
Roald Dahl
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Charlie Hustle
Pete Rose
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Charlie Sheen TV Show
Two and a Half Men, Anger Management
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She replaced Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels
Cheryl Ladd
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Charlotte Bronte novel
Jane Eyre
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Charlotte's Web author
E.B. White
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Charlton Heston played this character in "The Agony and the Ecstasy"
Michelangelo
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Chaucer Work
The Canterbury Tales
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Cheese Steak city
Philadelphia
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Chelsea Clinton college
Stanford
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Chemical Elements that make up water
hydrogen and oxygen
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Chemical Name for table salt
Sodium chloride
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Term for a substance that causes or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected
Catalyst
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This 19th century chemist saved France's beer, wine & silk industries
Louis Pasteur
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cocktail of gin, cherry brandy & lemon juice
a Singapore Sling
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Geore Washington Cherry Tree writer
Parson Weems
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Algonquin for "where goods are brought in," this river flows into Chesapeake Bay
the Potomac
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Chestnut Hill college
Boston College
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Chevy Sports Car
a corvette
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Chewing Gum Company
Wrigley
87
Chicago Bears running back 1975-1987
Walter Payton
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Chicago Bulls
Michael Jordan
89
Scottish Chicago Detective
Allan Pinkerton
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Chicago Gangster
Al Capone
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Chicago Landmark
The Sears Tower
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Chicago Mayor (!955-1976)
Richard Daley
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Chicago Poet
Carl Sandburg
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Chicago River flows into
Lake Michigan
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Chicago Sun-Times movie critic
Roger Ebert
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Chicken Fat
schmaltz (Yiddish)
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Same virus that causes Chicken Pox can cause this in older adults
shingles
98
Chicken Soup With Rice author
Maurice Sendak (children's book)
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Chief Joseph led this tribe
Nez Perce (led his troop 1,000 miles, but didn't make it to their goal of Canada; surrendered in 1877)
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First Chief Justice Of The United States
John Jay
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"Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" poet
Lord Byron (his longest poem other than "Don Juan")
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Childhood's End author
Arthur C. Clarke
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It begins, "All children, except one grow up."
Peter Pan
104
Children Of A Lesser God actress
Marlee Matlin (youngest woman and only deaf person to win Best Actress Oscar)
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Children's Corner composer
Claude Debussy (he dedicated the suite to his young daughter Claude-Emma)
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Chilean Cape
Cape Horn
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Chilean Desert
the Atacama
108
Chilean Island
Easter Island
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Chilean Poet
Pablo Neruda
110
Chili Palmer is a character in this novel/film
Get Shorty
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"Chim Chim Cher-ee" is a song in this musical
Mary Poppins
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China's Sorrow
the Yellow River (Called so due to excessive flooding; the Yangtze is called "China's fortune")
113
Chinese Detective character
Charlie Chan (played by non-Chinese actors)
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Chinese Dialect widely spoken in Hong Kong & Macao
Cantonese
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Chinese Medical technique
Acupuncture
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Chinese Philosopher
Confucius
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Japan seized this Chinese Region in 1931
Manchuria
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Chinese River
the Yangtze (longest); Yellow (or Huang He - second longest)
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Chiricahua Apache leader
Geronimo (led last major Native American stand 1881-1886)
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"Choo Choo" City
Chattanooga, TN
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Chris Martin band
Coldplay
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Chris O'Donnell played this author in the movie "In Love & War"
Ernest Hemingway
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Chris Van Allsburg book
The Polar Express (Author/Illustrator)
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Chrissie Hynde band
The Pretenders
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Christian Emperor
Constantine
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Christian IV was longest man to rule over this country (60 years)
Denmark
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Christian Roman
Constantine
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Christian Science founder
Mary Baker Eddy
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Christina Crawford "tell-all"
Mommie, Dearest (about her allegedly abusive mom, Joan Crawford)
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Christina Olson inspired this artist's "Christina's World"
Andrew Wyeth
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"Christina's World" artist
Andrew Wyeth
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Christine Todd Whitman was governor of this state 1994-2001
New Jersey
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"Christmas City" in PA
Bethlehem (appropriately named on Christmas Eve)
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Christmas Flower
the poinsettia
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Christmas Seals were first sold in 1907 to raise funds to fight this disease
Tuberculosis (fundraiser for the American Lung Association)
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Christopher Atkins starred in this desert island movie
The Blue Lagoon (with Brook Shields)
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Christopher Dodd served as senator of this state from 1981-2011
Connecticut
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Christopher Robin creator/author/father
A.A. Milne (his real son's name)
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Christopher Walken 1978 film
The Deer Hunter
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Chrysler Building rival
the Empire State Building (Surpassed it in height shortly after Chrysler Building was build)
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Chuck Barris hosted this TV show
The Gong Show
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Chuck Mangione played it on his 1978 hit "Feels So Good"
the flugelhorn
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He posted his 95 theses on a German Church Door
Martin Luther
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Church Father
Saint Augustine
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He broke the Church Of England from the Catholic Church
Henry VIII
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Churchill Downs race
the Kentucky Derby
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Cimarron County state
Oklahoma
148
Cinchona Trees medicint
Quinine (treats malaria)
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Cincinnati Reds player-manager
Pete Rose
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Cincinnati Reds catcher
Johnny Bench
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Cindy Birdsong's Motown group
The Supremes
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"Circle Of Friends" and "Tara Road" author
Maeve Binchy
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"Circle Of Life" is a song from this movie
The Lion King
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Circus Showman
P.T. Barnum
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name for a Citizen Army
a militia
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Citizen Kane director/writer/actor/producer
Orson Welles
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Citrullus Lanatus
Watermelon
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City Near Mexican border
San Diego
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Mythical City Of Gold searched for by many South American explorers
El Dorado
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(Greek for ) "City Of The Dead"
a necropolis
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Oscar-winner for City Slickers
Jack Palance (played Duke Washburn, Curly's twin brother)
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From 1936-1961, this capital was called Ciudad Trujillo
Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)
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Civic Arena here was first with retractable roof
Pittsburgh (now Mellon Arena)
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Civil Rights Leader
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
Rosa Parks
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Officials of the Civil Service of the Chinese Empire
mandarins
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The Five Civilized Tribes of ____________
Oklahoma (the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw & Seminole)
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Clair De Lune composer
Claude Debussy
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2 most popular styles of Clam Chowder
New England & Manhattan
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Clara Wieck's husband
Robert Schumann (married 1840; she was an outstanding composer & pianist also)
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Clarence Thomas scandal
Anita Hill
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Teenage Clark Kent TV show
Smallville
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3 Main Classes Of Rock
Igneous, Sedimentary (75% of exposed rocks on land), Metamorphic
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Classic 1877 Ballet
Swan Lake
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Classical Guitarist
Andres Segovia
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Classical Language of India/Hinduism
Sanskrit
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At the end of "Casablanca," Claude Rains (playing Captain Louis Renault) tells an officer to:
"Round up the usual suspects."
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Claudette Colbert Oscar-Winning film
It Happened One Night (first co-stars to win Best Actor & Best Actress; first French Actress to win Oscar)
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Claus von Bulow
Alan Dershowitz (Claus von Bulow was accused of the attempted murder of his wife Sunny von Bülow by administering an insulin overdose in 1980 which left her in a persistent vegetative state for the rest of her life; his conviction in the first trial was reversed and he was found not guilty in both his retrials)
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Clause 39 of this document was the beginning of the principle of due process of law
the Magna Carta (influenced Britain's Habeas Corpus Act of 1679)
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Clement V moved the papal residence here
Avignon
182
Clement XIV suppressed this order
the Jesuits
183
Clemson University location
South Carolina
184
Cleveland Rocks is theme song of this show
The Drew Carey Show
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Cliff Divers of La Quebrada location
Acapulco
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National Park with well-preserved Native American Cliff Dwellings
Mesa Verde (in Colorado); Others: Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument in NM, Montezuma Castle National Monument in AZ.
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1967 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film: "Closely Watched Trains" from this country
Czechoslovakia
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Show with Cloth Upper & rope sole
Espadrilles
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Another name for the Clove Pink flower
Carnation
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Clyde Barrow partner
Bonnie Parker
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CNN Anchor (3)
Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer, Soledad O'Brien
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Co-founder Of Ms Magazine
Gloria Steinem
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Coal Miner's Daughter
Loretta Lynn
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Birds once used in Coal Mines as gas detectors
Canaries
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Island off east Coast Of Africa
Madagascar
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Mythical animal represents Scotland on UK Coat Of Arms
a unicorn
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He killed Cock Robin
The Sparrow
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1975-1976 Cod War countries
Iceland & Britain
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Coffee Drink named for the resemblance of its color to that of a certain monk's habit (has less milk than a latte)
Cappuccino
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Nickname for death row at Cold Mountain penitentiary
The Green Mile
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Main vegetable in Cole Slaw
Cabbage
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Collapsed Stars create
Black hole
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Her "Collected Poems" won a Pulitzer in 1982, 19 years after her death
Sylvia Plath
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Egyptian Collection Of Spells
The Book of the Dead
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A Collective Settlement in Israel
a kibbutz
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College Football award
the Heisman Trophy
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Originally named College Of New Jersey
Princeton
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"Collide With Destiny" was a tagline for this 1997 film
Titanic
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Melono Collie And The Infinite Sadness group
Smashing Pumpkins
210
Colombian Author
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Colonial Capital of Virginia
Williamsburg
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Colony Founded by Cecil Calvert
Maryland (Cecil Calvert = Lord Baltimore)
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Color-changing Lizard
a chameleon
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Colorado Peak
Zebulon Pike
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Colorado Senator who twice sought Democratic nomination for president (1984, 1988)
Gary Hart
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Colorado Springs service academy
the Air Force Academy
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Name of this state is Spanish for "Colored Red"
Colorado
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Colors Of The Wind movie
Pocahontas
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Colts QB
Peyton Manning
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His presidential library is at Columbia Point in Boston
John F. Kennedy
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President who was previously president of Columbia University
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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classic Combat (board) Game
Battleship
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His first Broadway success was "Come Blow Your Horn" (1961)
Neil SImon
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"Come To My Window" singer
Melissa Etheridge
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Sketch-Comedy Show
Saturday Night Live
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Plot of "Here Comes Mr Jordan" was reused in this 1978 Warren Beatty comedy
Heaven Can Wait
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Comet Discoverer
Edmond Halley (also: Carolyn Herschel)
228
"Coming Of Age In Samoa" author
Margaret Mead
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"Coming Through The Rye" sculptor
Frederic Remington (another famous sculpture of his is "The Cowboy")
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____ for the Common Man
fanfare (Aaron Copland composition...associated with Olympics)
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Greek for "the many," or "common people"
Hoi polloi
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Common Sense author
Tom Paine
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political "barrier" between the West and Communist China
the Bamboo Curtain
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Company Introduced SX-70 instant camera
Polaroid
235
His "Complete Poems" won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for poetry
Carl Sandburg
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This physiologist developed the concept of conditioned reflex
Ivan Pavlov
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Confederate General
Robert E. Lee
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Confederate President
Jefferson Davis
239
Confederate Prison
Andersonville (now a historic site in Georgia)
240
Novel/Movie about a Confederate Soldier trying to get home
Cold Mountain (by Charles Frazier)
241
First Confederate State to re-join U.S.
Tennessee
242
Confederate Vice President
Alexander (Hamilton) Stephens
243
These tiny blood vessels connect arteries and veins
capillaries
244
Was joint capital of Connecticut with Hartford 1701-1875
New Haven
245
Connecticut River starts in this capital and forms the border of these two states
Hartford, CT; New Hampshire & Vermont
246
Constantine XI was the last ruler of this empire
the Byzantine Empire
247
85 Essays defending the Constitution
The Federalist Papers
248
Oldest delegate to Constitutional Convention
Benjamin Franklin (PA)
249
Consumer Advocate & Presidential candidate
Ralph Nader (first gained national attention testifying before Congress on auto safety)
250
Shark & Swordfish Contain High Levels of this element
mercury
251
Commander in Chief of the Continental Army
George Washington
252
Westernmost country in Continental Europe
Portugal
253
Cook Strait splits this country
New Zealand
254
Cooking Bananas
plantains
255
James Fenimore Cooper Novel
The Last Of The Mohicans (Story of the French and Indian wars)
256
Coquilles St. Jacques main ingredient
Scallops (French dish)
257
Corazon Aquino - she was President of this country 1986-1992
the Philippines
258
Cordon Bleu student
Julia Child (only woman in her class)
259
Spicier Corned Beef
pastrami
260
Cornelius Vanderbilt II's Rhode Island mansion
The Breakers (built in Newport)
261
The most prized color of this gem is Cornflower Blue
a sapphire
262
Object under English Coronation Chair (Westminster Abbey)
the Stone of Scone (Scotland stole in 1950, returned in 1951; was returned to Scotland in 1996)
263
Corps Of Discovery leaders
Lewis & Clark
264
Costa Rican capital
San Jose
265
Costa Verde Hotel is scene of this play
The Night of the Iguana (Written by Tennessee Williams)
266
Cotton Gin inventor
Eli Whitney
267
Cotton Pest
the boll weevil
268
He presided over the Council Of Nicaea (325 AD)
Constantine
269
Count Vronsky is a character in this novel
Anna Karenina
270
"Thank God I'm a Country Boy" singer
John Denver
271
Small South American Country Gained its independence from Netherlands in 1975
Suriname (formerly Dutch Guyana)
272
Court jester to the Duke of Mantua
Rigoletto (In Verdi's opera "Rigoletto")
273
Court Painter to Philip IV of Spain
Diego Velasquez
274
Cover Her Face author (the first of her mysteries to feature her detective Adam Dalgliesh, a Scotland Yard man)
P.D. James
275
The Cowardly Lion sought this
Courage
276
Cowboy Hats brand
Stetson
277
Cowboy Humorist
Will Rogers
278
Crab Nebula is the remnant of one of these explosive events observed in 1054
a supernova
279
this "worldly" cocktail is a mix of lime & cranberry juices, vodka & Cointreau
a cosmopolitan
280
This term for a family tree comes from the Latin for "crane's foot"
Pedigree
281
State that is home to Crater Of Diamonds State Park
Arkansas
282
Cake frosted with Cream Cheese icing
carrot cake
283
Creamy Sauce served over eggs Benedict or asparagus
Hollandaise sauce
284
Company that makes Creme Eggs
Cadbury
285
Creole Dish comes from French word for ham
jambalaya
286
Crime And Punishment author
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
287
Crimean Peninsula body of water
the Black Sea
288
Heroine Crimean War
Florence Nightingale (nurse to British soldiers)
289
Crispus Attucks scuffle
the Boston Massacre
290
Critique Of Pure Reason author
Immanuel Kant
291
Crockett And Tubbs were characters in this TV show
Miami Vice
292
Cross Creek author
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
293
Cross Of Gold orator
William Jennings Bryan
294
Country of "Cry, The Beloved Country"
South Africa
295
C.S. Lewis series
The Chronicles of Narnia
296
Cuban Leader
Fidel Castro
297
Cuban Missile Crisis month
October
298
Cubist Painter
Pablo Picasso
299
Cumberland Falls location (state)
Kentucky
300
Cuyahoga River location (city)
Cleveland
301
Cybill Shepherd TV Show
Moonlighting
302
Cyrus Vance was Secretary of State for this president
Jimmy Carter (was also Secretary of the Army under Kennedy)
303
Czech Composer
Dvorak (or Smetana)
304
DW Griffith 1915 Silent Film
The Birth Of A Nation (about KKK)
305
Dairy State
Wisconsin
306
Daisy Buchanan is a character in this novel
The Great Gatsby
307
Daisy Miller author
Henry James
308
2nd-in-order after Dalai Lama in Tibet
the Panchen Lama
309
Dale Carnegie 1936 book
How To Win Friends And Influence People
310
Dallas Cowboys coach (1960-1988)
Tom Landry
311
Dallas Mavericks owner
Mark Cuban
312
Dallas Nightclub Owner
Jack Ruby (Assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald)
313
Dame Margot Fonteyn ballet partner
Rudolf Nureyev (She was a famous British ballerina, and they were a famous pair)
314
"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" poet
John Keats
315
He gave the order "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"
Admiral David Farragut at Battle of Mobile Bay (Civil War, his order is U.S. Navy legend)
316
Dan Brown novel
The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons
317
P.I. Dan Tanna of Vega$ was played by this actor
Robert Urich
318
Dana Owens's stage name
Queen Latifah
319
Dances With Wolves director
Kevin Costner (won Oscar for Best Director)
320
"Dancing In The Dark" singer
Bruce Springsteen
321
"Danger Will Robinson" is the robot's famous line on this TV show
Lost In Space
322
Daniel Deronda author
George Eliot
323
Danish Astronomer
Tycho Brahe (Ty-co Bray-ah) (died in 1601)
324
Danish Author
Hans Christian Andersen
325
Danish Capital
Copenhagen
326
Danish Island
Greenland
327
Danish Peninsula
Jutland
328
Danish Philosopher, Danish Thinker
Soren Kierkegaard (helped lay foundation of existentialism)
329
Danish Physicist
Niels Bohr (won 1922 Nobel Prize, also worked on Manhattan Project)
330
Danny Kaye played the title character in this film
Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
331
Danny Ocean played by these two actors
George Clooney, Frank Sinatra
332
sister of Dante Gabriel
Christina Rossetti (he was a pre-Raphaelite painter (& poet), she a poet)
333
Daphne Du Maurier novel
Rebecca (inspired Hitchcock's 1940 film Rebecca; her dad was first Captain Hook in Peter Pan play)
334
Its former capital was Dar Es Salaam
Tanzania
335
Darby Shaw, Tulane Law Student, is main character in this Grisham thriller
The Pelican Brief (played by Julia Roberts in the movie)
336
Darius III lost to him
Alexander the Great (Darius III was King of Persia, 333 BC)
337
Dark Side Of The Moon band
Pink Floyd
338
play about the Darling Children
Peter Pan
339
Darrell Hammond impersonates him on SNL's Celebrity Jeopardy sketch
Sean Connery
340
Darth Vader voice
James Earl Jones
341
Daryl Hannah starred in this film about a Cro-Magnon gal raised by Neanderthals
Clan of the Cave Bear
342
Das Kapital editor
Friedrich Engels (he edited 2nd and 3rd versions after Karl Marx died)
343
Das Rheingold composer
Richard Wagner (first opera in the Ring Cycle/The Ring of the Nibelung)
344
Both she & her daughter Irene died of leukemia caused by overexposure to radiation daughter Irene
Marie Curie
345
Daughter Of Fortune author
Isabel Allende (sequel was "Portrait in Sepia")
346
Daughter Of Powhatan
Pocahontas
347
Dave Grohl band
the Foo Fighters, Nirvana
348
David Balfour is a character in this novel
Kidnapped (by Robert Louis Stevenson)
349
David Brewster invented this toy
the kaleidoscope
350
David Bushnell built the first of these in 1775 and called it "The Turtle"
Submarines
351
David Copperfield author
Charles Dickens
352
David E Kelley wife
Michelle Pfeiffer
353
David Farragut, Hero of __________
Mobile Bay
354
His first and middle names are David Herbert
D.H. Lawrence
355
David Janssen starred in this TV Show
The Fugitive (as Dr. Richard Kimble)
356
David Lee Roth band
Van Halen
357
"Days Of Future Passed" band
The Moody Blues
358
Days Of Grace was a memoir by this athlete
Arthur Ashe (published posthumously in 1993)
359
DC Complex
Watergate
360
DC Hospital
Walter Reed (now closed)
361
DC Institution
the Smithsonian
362
DC Library
the Library of Congress
363
DC Mayor (1978-1990)
Marion Barry
364
DC Museum
the Smithsonian
365
DC Paper
The Washington Post
366
De Beers product
Diamonds
367
Father Ralph De Bricassart is a character in this novel
The Thorn Birds
368
Bree Van de Kamp is a character on this TV show
Desperate Housewives
369
landmark on Paris's Ile de la Cite
Notre Dame
370
Madame de Maintenon's husband
Louis XIV (he secretly married her after Maria Theresa died)
371
Parc du Champ de Mars landmark
the Eiffel Tower
372
"De Profundis" writer
Oscar Wilde (a letter he wrote while in Reading Gaol to Lord Alfred Douglas, with whom he'd had an affair)
373
Author from De Smet, South Dakota
Laura Ingalls Wilder
374
Eamon De Valera was Prime Minister of this country three times in 20th century
Ireland
375
De Witt Clinton is considered the father of this massive project
the Erie Canal (he was also a NYC mayor, NY Governor, and U.S. Presidential candidate vs. Madison in 1812)
376
DePaul University city
Chicago
377
"_______ singin' in the dead of night"
Blackbird (Beatles song)
378
Dead Sea Scrolls are believed to be written by this sect
the Essenes
379
Dead Souls author
Nikolai Gogol (1842)
380
Deadpan Comic
Steven Wright
381
Dean Martin "group"
The Rat Pack
382
Dean Moriarty is a character in this novel
On The Road
383
"Death Be Not Proud" poet
John Donne
384
Willa Cather's "Death Comes For the __________"
Archbishop
385
Death In The Afternoon author
Ernest Hemingway (about bullfighting)
386
Author of Death In Venice novella
Thomas Mann
387
Death Of A Salesman playwright
Arthur Miller
388
Death Valley state
California
389
He played vigilante Paul Kersey in 5 "Death Wish" movies
Charles Bronson
390
Debbie Harry band
Blondie
391
Debbie Reynolds daughter
Carrie Fisher
392
Debby Boone song
You Light Up My Life
393
Deborah Kerr movie
From Here To Eternity
394
She took a stand on 12/1/1955
Rosa Parks
395
Colonists protested on 12/16/1773
the Boston Tea Party
396
This battle and German counter-attack started on 12/16/1944
the Battle Of The Bulge
397
Their first success: 12/17/1903
the Wright Brothers first flight
398
He was hanged 12/2/1859
John Brown (for treason)
399
12/20/1860: this state secedes
South Carolina (the first to secede from the Union)
400
The first one of these was published: 12/21/1913
the crossword puzzle
401
12/25/1991: he quits
Mikhail Gorbachev quit as Soviet leader
402
This holiday begins December 26
Kwanzaa (lasts 7 days)
403
12/7/1787: this state becomes the first
Delaware
404
12/8/1980: he is murdered
John Lennon
405
This state's Declaration Of Rights influenced the U.S. Bill of Rights
Virginia
406
On June 1, 1812 this president asked Congress for a declaration of war against Great Britain
James Madison
407
First signer of the Declaration of Independence
John Hancock
408
Deep Blue (a computer) beat him in a chess match in 1997
Garry Kasparov
409
A ball of deep-fried cornmeal
Hush puppies
410
Deer Meat
Venison
411
The Duke who defeated Napoleon
the Duke of Wellington
412
Chinese Defensive Barrier
the Great Wall of China
413
Defoe Heroine
Moll Flanders
414
Trinita Dei Monti Church feature
the Spanish Steps
415
Della Reese TV show
Touched By An Angel
416
Santa Maria Delle Grazie draw
The Last Supper
417
"Delta Dawn" singer
Tanya Tucker (country, 1972), Helen Reddy (1973, #1 hit)
418
Democracy In America author
Alexis de Tocqueville (French, published 1835)
419
During the 1968 Democratic Convention in this city, antiwar protesters clashed violently with police
Chicago
420
Dennis Christopher battled Italians & locals en route to Indiana's little 500 cycling championship in this 1979 film
Breaking Away
421
Dennis Franz 90s TV Show
NYPD Blue
422
Dennis Hastert, former U.S. Rep. from this state
Illinois (Speaker of the House, 1999-2007)
423
Denzel Washington played him in this 1992 biopic
Malcolm X
424
Orinially called the Department Of Foreign Affairs, in 1789 it changed its name to this
Department of State
425
In German, the title of this Thomas Mann novella is "Der Tod In Venedig"
Death In Venice
426
Descartes called this gland "the seat of the rational soul"
the pineal gland
427
Desert Fox
Erwin Rommel (German field marshall of WWII)
428
He bought the Desert Inn in Las Vegas
Howard Hughes (moved in in 1966 and bought the hotel a short time later - his first)
429
Desert Resort City
Palm Springs
430
General who led Operation Desert Storm
General Norman Schwarzkopf
431
20th Century Design School
the Bauhaus
432
Designing Woman actress
Delta Burke
433
Scottish man who founded a private detective agency in Chicago
Allan Pinkerton
434
His "Murders In The Rue Morgue" in 1841 is considered the first detective story in English
Edgar Allan Poe
435
"Little Deuce Coupe" band
The Beach Boys
436
It's the story of the Devil's Island imprisonment & escape of Henri Charriere
Papillon
437
Devil's Triangle
the Bermuda Triangle
438
D.H. Lawrence's sequel to "The Rainbow"
Women In Love
439
Diamond Head location (city)
Honolulu
440
Diamond Jubilee (1897, 2012)
Queen Victoria (1897), Queen Elizabeth II (2012)
441
Diana Ross stars in this 1972 biopic
Lady Sings the Blues (Ross's first film)
442
1977 drama in which Diane Keaton cruises nightclubs seeking one-night stands & more
Looking For Mr. Goodbar
443
Dianne Wiest 1986 Woody Allen film
Hannah And Her Sisters
444
Dick Cheney state
Wyoming
445
Dick Tracy actor & director
Warren Beatty
446
Dick York TV character
Darrin Stephens (Bewitched)
447
"Die Another Day" Bond Girl
Halle Berry
448
"Die Dreigroschenoper" musical is known as this in English
The Threepenny Opera (premiered 1928 in Berlin)
449
Kafka's "Die Verwandlung" was changed to this
The Metamorphosis
450
Died of Leukemia caused by overexposure to radiation
Marie Curie & daughter Irene
451
Diedrich Knickerbocker is one of this author's pen names
Washington Irving
452
"Diego And I" artist
Frida Kahlo
453
Diego Rivera wife
Frida Kahlo
454
He refused to recant his beliefs at the 1521 Diet Of Worms
Martin Luther
455
Dinah Shore boyfriend
Burt Reynolds
456
Diplomatic Official or a briefcase
an attache
457
Dire Straits guitarist/leader
Mark Knopfler
458
"No Direction Home" subject
Bob Dylan
459
Name for a movie's Director Of Photography
Cinematographer
460
Author of the Dirk Pitt novels
Clive Cussler
461
Dirty Dancing actor
Patrick Swayze
462
Dirty Harry actor
Clint Eastwood
463
This N.Y. region was declared a disaster area due to toxic waste
Love Canal
464
Disco Queen
Donna Summer
465
Discourse On Method author
Rene Descartes
466
Discovered 4 largest moons of Jupiter
Galileo
467
The opera where Leonore disguises herself as the title boy
Fidelio
468
Disney World location
Orlando
469
Disputed Region between India and Pakistan
Kashmir
470
The dividing line between the illuminated & unilluminated part of the moon
the terminator
471
Dizzy Gillespie & this alto sax man known as "Bird" helped popularize bebop in the '40s
Charlie Parker
472
Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" was turned into a film named this
Blade Runner
473
Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Reorganization
474
Czech composer of "The Bartered Bride"
Smetana