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Category: what the “EFF”?!

It’s a German stew made from rabbit; TVs Laverne and Shirley shouted it out in their show’s opening

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Hasenpfeffer

“Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!” It was the silly little chant coined by actors Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams, which marked the start of the star’s long-running ABC sitcom, Laverne & Shirley.

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Category: road trip “iSpy “

ISpy… Mount Washington, Lake Winnepesaukee and Dartmouth college

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New Hampshire 

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Category: road trip “iSpy “

I spy… Pikes Peak, the John Denver sanctuary, and red rocks amphitheater

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Colorado

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Which president was shot twice on the morning of July 2, 1881, causing him to pass away on September 19th, two and a half months later?

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President James Garfield

The summer of 1881 was one of the sultriest in the nation’s capital in years. To provide some relief for the stricken President, a corps of naval engineers who specialized in ventilating mine shafts was summoned to the White House and instructed to build a cooling device. They rigged up a large iron box filled with ice, salt, and water and a series of terry-cloth filters which were saturated by the melting ice. A fan drew in warm air from outside, which was cooled as it passed over the damp terry cloth, cleansed by charcoal filters, and propelled onward into the President’s bedroom. The device was not terribly efficient- in fifty-eight days it consumed a quarter of a million pounds of ice but it cooled the President’s room to a more or less tolerable eighty-one degrees, and stands in history as the first air conditioner

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Category: shout it out!

Of this schools, iconic fight cheer ESPN, once wrote “hotty toddy “has no real meaning, but it means everything in Oxford

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Ole Miss

University of Mississippi

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Category: the eyes have it

Lasik surgery, correct vision problems by using a laser to alter this dome shaped issue at the front of the eye

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Cornea 

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Category: chorus lines

“I like to be free in America OK by me in America everything free in America for a small fee in America “ is

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West side story

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19th Century Americans: On July 10, 1804 he wrote a letter of goodbye, just in case, to “my dearest Theodosia”; he lived until 1836.

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Aaron Burr

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Category: chorus lines

“I dreamed a dream in time gone by when hope was high and life was living “

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Les Miserables

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Category: celebrity tell-alls

“The last black unicorn quote: she estimates that she worked over 500 bar mitzvahs in her younger years

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Tiffany Haddish 

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Movie

Angelina Jolie won an Oscar for best supporting actress in this movie:

Set in the late 1960s, is the true story of Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder), a young woman who finds herself at a renowned mental institution for troubled young women

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“Girl, Interrupted”

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Category: not to be confused

Helicoid describes something shaped like a spiral; a helicon is a coiled brass type of this

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Instrument 

In the tuba family

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Category: American novelist

She wrote a piece of Jane Austen fanfiction called “the beautiful Cassandra” inspiring her pen name

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Cassandra Clare

Judith Lewis (née Rumelt; born July 27, 1973), better known by her pen name Cassandra Clare, is an American author of young adult fiction, best known for her bestselling series The Mortal Instruments.

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Two of this UK country’s major rivers are the Tay and the Clyde

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Scotland

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Category: fictional females

Cortana makes A-I sexy in this video game series

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Halo

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Category: let’s write a short story

We’ll model the writing style on the distinctive voice of the southern author of “the bear“

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William Faulkner


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Category: fictional females

Syrena is a mermaid in “On Stranger tides” in this movie series

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Pirates of the Caribbean

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Category: recent history

In late 1998, a Russian rocket and the space shuttle Endeavor delivered the first two pieces of this to earth orbit

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What is the international space station?

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Category: from the top, (NPR show)

The clarinet concerto written at age 35 by this genius was his last purely instrumental work

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Mozart

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Category: from the top, (NPR show)

Percy Granger’s two piano “fantasy on” this composer’s “Porgy and Bess “

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George Gershwin

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Category: endangered species list

Tigre americano this largest New World member of the Cat family is now endangered

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Jaguar 

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What does a toponymist study?

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a person who studies place names.

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This private detective agency in the United States from the early 1890s to 1937 played a key role in the events that led to the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921 and violent repression of labor union members.

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Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency

Significant incidents, later collectively known as the Coal Wars, occurred in various locations also involved the Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency

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Which PAC-Man fruit was worth the least amount of points?

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Cherries

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Music

Ranked number six on AFI’s one hundred years, one hundred songs survey of top tunes in American cinema, What song had been covered by Frank Sinatra, the Lemonheads, and Bon Jovi?

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Mrs. Robinson

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Landing in Florida on Easter in 1513, this explorer named what would become the US state for the Feast of Flowers

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Juan Ponce de Leon

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Category: 19th century America

In 1850 this poet begins writing “the song of Hiawatha “

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Category: sports stars

In 2012 this point guard and former MVP joined the Lakers from the suns

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Steve Nash

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What is the capital of Mongolia?

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Ulaanbaatar

Ulaanbaatar, capital and largest city of Mongolia. It is situated on the Tuul River

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What is the capital of Lithuania?

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Vilnius

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Who founded the Salvation Army?

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William Booth (10 April 1829 – 20 August 1912) was an English Methodist preacher who, along with his wife, Catherine, founded the Salvation Army and became its first General (1878–1912).

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Frozen ice composite made with sawdust. Named for the man who proposed it as a candidate material for a supersized aircraft carrier for the British Royal Navy during WWII. trials were conducted at two locations in Alberta, Canada.

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Pykrete

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an ancient Greek or Roman herald’s wand, typically one with two serpents twined around it, carried by the messenger god Hermes or Mercury.

a well-known symbol of medicine features two snakes winding around a staff, with wings at the top

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Caduceus

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In 1907 the U.S. Congress created this joint commission to investigate an unprecedented number of immigrants flowing into the United States.

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Dillingham Commission

In 1911, the Commission produced a 41-volume study that lead to literacy tests and other restrictions in immigration

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Category: I saw that on TV

He caught passes for the Bengals; now he’s Al Michaels partner on Sunday night football

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Chris Collingsworth

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Category: anatom”e”
This other name for the auditory tube honors in Italian anatomist

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Eustachian tube

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Category: art & artists
The last work of his record of Paris nightlife was “an examination at the faculty of medicine” in 1901 

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Toulouse Lautrec

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When is diplomat met the singer Psy in 2012 he said “until two days ago, I was the most famous Korean in the world “

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Ban Ki-moon

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Category: religions

Members of this Indian religion are expected to join the Khalsa and are not allowed to cut their hair

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Sikhism

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Byblos from which we got the Word “Bible”was one of the foremost cities of these ancient seafaring people

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Phoenicians 

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Category: Sports cities

The Fire

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Chicago

Soccer team
They play at soldier field. Mascot is Sparky a dalmatien

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Category: English literature

Ralph Allen, a rich philanthropist was the inspiration for Squire Alworthy in this authors “Tom Jones”

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Henry Fielding

43
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Category: biology

Most of the water absorbed by a plant is given off by the leaves via this 13 letter process

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Transpiration

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Eight years before she won Olympic gold this gymnast was a 2004 Virginia state champion

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Gabby Douglas


45
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Regarded as the first martyr of the Revolutionary War, Crispus Attucks, was killed on March 5, 1770 in this event

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The Boston Massacre

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Category: famous Americans

Iowa has a historical site for the birthplace of this president

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Herbert Hoover

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John Milton, subject in the sequel of this epic poem was the temptation of Christ in the wilderness

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Paradise regained 

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Treaty that ended war of 1812

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treaty of Ghent

On January 8, 1815, General Andrew Jackson lead American troops in a stormy rout of the British at the battle of New Orleans. It was a decisive victory, or it would’ve been if it hadn’t occurred two weeks after the signing of the treaty of Ghent. more than 2000 men died, fighting a battle in a war that was over .

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Category: Fiction

It’s both the setting and the title of this Dickens classic about little Nell

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The old curiosity shop 

50
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Category: World Capitals

Until 1970 Muscat, the capital was part of this mideast country’s name

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Oman

51
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Category: American islands

If you float down this North American river, you’ll actually find more than 1500 not 1000 islands

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Saint Lawrence river

The Thousand Islands are a group of more than 1,800 islands in the St. Lawrence River, straddling the border of the U.S. and Canada. A fashionable retreat for the elite in the late 19th century,

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Category: American islands

Theodore Roosevelt Island, a national Memorial serves as a wildlife refuge in this river

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The Potomac


53
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Category: religion

The number of days after his resurrection, that Jesus ascended into heaven

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40

54
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Category: name the play

Larry Slade, Harry Hope and Theodore “hickey “Hickman

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The iceman cometh

“The Iceman Cometh” focuses on a group of alcoholics and misfits who endlessly discuss but never act on their dreams, and Hickey, the traveling salesman determined to strip them of their pipe dreams.

By Eugene O’Neill

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Category: biographies

This star is the subject of Anne Edwards’ “a remarkable woman “and Charles Higham’s “Kate “

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Katherine Hepburn

56
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Category: biographies

“ the Rattigan version” profiles, this playwright who wrote “The Browning version”

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Terence Rattigan

57
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Category: London

This should be called “king Thutmose’s needle” since it was carved in his honor

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Cleopatra’s needle

58
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Category: London

In the 1940 film of the same name, Vivien Leigh died on this London bridge

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Waterloo Bridge

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Category: botany

If a flowering plant contains these two reproductive organs botanists call it perfect

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stamen and pistil

60
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Category: Soviet history

He was premier when Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut, went into space

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Category: political quotes

Completes “if the British empire and it’s Commonwealth last for 1000 years, men will still say…”

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“This was their finest hour”

Winston Churchill 1940

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Houdon’s most famous mythological statue is of this Roman goddess, holding a bow

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Diana 

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Category: Notorious

What is infamous French nobleman died at the asylum of Sheraton in 1814 it “pains” us to tell you

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Marquis de Sade


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Category: Bodies of water

In sailing from the English channel to the North Sea one would pass through this strait

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Strait of Dover


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Category: notorious

After a serious illness in 37 AD this Roman emperor became cruel and mentally unbalanced

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Caligula 

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Category: mythology

Stargazers should know these seven sisters are the daughters of Pleione, an ocean nymph

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Pleiades

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Category: Jazz

It’s the title of Billie Holiday‘s autobiography, and the Diana Ross’ film about her

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Lady sings the blues


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Category: Jazz

This bandleader’s theme song was “take the ‘a’ train”

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Duke Ellington 

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Appropriately it’s the national rose of Syria

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Damask Rose

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Category: transportation

In case you have to leave the oasis in a hurry, this is the faster of the two types of camels

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Dromedary
(Single hump)

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Category: history happening

Around 11 AM on October 25, 1854 Lord Cardigan leads this attack that’s less successful than a poem it inspired

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Charge of the light brigade

“The Charge of the Light Brigade” is an 1854 narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson about the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. He wrote the original version on 2 December 1854, and it was published on 9 December 1854 in The Examiner. He was the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom at the time.

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The Prado in this country is home to one of the world’s finest art collections

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Spain

73
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The big green machine was an unofficial nickname for this MLB team

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Oakland As

74
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Orson Welles acted in a series of advertisements for this winery from 1978 to 1981, best known for their slogan “We will sell no wine before its time,” becoming a much-parodied cultural trope of the late 20th century.

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Paul Masson California wine

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Beginning in 1986 and continuing for 29 years, this artist performed the song, “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”, annually on the episode before Christmas on Late Night with David Letterman (NBC, 1986–92) and Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 1993–2014), 28 times in all. The exception was in 2007 due to the Writers’ Strike

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Darlene Love

“Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” is a pop song originally sung by Darlene Love and included on the 1963 seasonal compilation album, A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector.

76
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In the Muppet Christmas Carol, who plays the voices for Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Sam Eagle and Animal

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Frank Oz

77
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What do malacologists study?

(Ancient Greek μαλακός (malakós) ‘soft’)

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They are scientists who study mollusks, such as snails, clams, cephalopods, and others, in a discipline named malacology

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Category: world capitals

Canals and Dutch architecture can still be seen in this city on the island of Java

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Jakarta

79
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Category: this central American capital was named for its patron saint, Joseph

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San Jose (Costa Rica)

80
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Category: celebrities

Born in Wales, he’s the first British actor to play Batman on the big screen

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Christian Bale 

81
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Category: on the download

His song “home” downloaded huge after he won American Idol in 2012

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Philip Phillips 

82
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Category: how Nobel of you

He got his job at age 4; 49 years later in 1989, he won a Nobel peace prize.

A

The Dalaï Lama

83
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Which president has a tenure of 30 days, much of which was unconscious after contracting pneumonia?

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William Henry Harrison

Died in 1841.
Ninth president
Nickname Tippecanoe.
His grandson, Benjamin Harrison, later became a U.S. President in 1888.

84
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Category: how Nobel of you

The IAEA, the international this agency shared the 2005 peace prize for its efforts to make nuclear power safe

A

Atomic energy

85
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Category: American Lit

“ Devon is sometimes considered the most beautiful school in New England” is a line from this John Knowles novel

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A Separate Peace

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In a 2009 essay contest, 12 year old Clara Ma came up with this winning name for the Mars rover

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Curiosity

87
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Category: military men

On June 6, 1944 he said “the eyes of the world are upon you”

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Dwight D Eisenhower

88
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Category: gingham style

In a 1953 film, Doris Day delivered “gingham fer the girls “as this lover of wild Bill Hickok

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Calamity Jane

89
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Category: Olympic cities

A two time Olympic host this New York village has a population of around 2500

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Lake placid

90
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Category: presidential acquisition

Florida cession (OK, we’ll tell you it was in 1819 during his first term)

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James Monroe

91
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What was the act designed to execute the 18th amendment, which prohibited alcohol, and lay down the terms of punishment?

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The Volstead Act

92
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Category: surrounded by this water

South padre island

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The Gulf of Mexico 

93
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Category: pin the tale on the writer

“The adventure of the speckled band” (1892)

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Arthur Conan Doyle

94
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Teresa Heinz Kerry was born to Portuguese parents in this, then-Portuguese colony on Africa’s east coast

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Mozambique 

95
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Lake Ladoga was divided between the Soviet Union and this nation until a 1940 war when the Soviets seized the entire lake

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Finland 

96
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On August 14, 1941 FDR and Churchill issued this charter of cooperation

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The Atlantic Charter

97
Q

Ancient Egyptians thought it was bird royalty, and Horus took its shape

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Falcon

98
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Architect Guarino Guarini designed the Cappella Della Sacra Sindone to house this relic

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The shroud of Turin 

99
Q

Alphabetically, Zagreb is the last world capital; this capital of a former Soviet republic is second to last

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Yerevan (Armenia)

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Category: briefly speaking

She won an Oscar for the film Shakespeare in Love despite only appearing on screen for eight minutes.

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Judi Dench

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