Mixed Study Card 2

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20th c american dancer famous mainly in europe; her choreography helped with formation of modern dance

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Isadora Duncan

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Composer of "Amahl and "the Night Visitors" won 2 pulitzers

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Gian Carlo Menotti 1911-2007, Italian,

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celebrated 20th c spanish cellist, went into exile (france then puerto rico) after franco came to power. famous performance @ white house in 1961

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Pablo Casals

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Italian Tenor of the late 19 early 20th c considered one of the greatest tenors in opera history

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Enrico Caruso

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Companions of Jason in the quest for the golden fleece

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argonauts

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mythological creature with a hundred eyes (hera put his eyes in the tail of a peacock)

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Argus

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1936 Chaplin film satirizes horrors of mechanical age

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Modern Times

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1st man made satellite in orbit

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Sputnik I

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2 autobiographers "Confessions"

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Augustine 4th C details his conversion to christianity & 18 c Rousseau

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1500 state troopers, sheriff deputies & guards stormed this 11/13/1971

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Attica State Prison

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subject of Lester David's "The Lonely Lady of San Clemente"

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Pat Nixon

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John Wayne's last movie

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The Shootist (1976)

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author of "Rich Man, Poor Man" & "The Young Lions"

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Irwin Shaw

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Two countries separated by Juan de Fuca strait

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USA & Canada

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what is "buzkashi" a popular sport in afghanistan

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Goat grabbing

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Interior of a restaurant artist

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Van gogh

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Where is the Taj Mahal

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agra, india

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an image of the univers as a clock wound up by God and ticking along w/its gears goverened by laws of physics

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A Clockwork Universe

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John Calvin is founder of this denomination

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Presbyterian

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Roman Emperor 41 AD known as "Little Boot"

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Caligula

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Roman leader who was Julius Caesar's nephew but was adopted by him and became his sucessor

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Augustus

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Roman Emperor aka Octavian

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Augustus

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1st roman emperor

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Augustus

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2nd Roman Emperor - who fled rome at the end of this reign

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Tiberius

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sir John Joseph Thompson discovered this particle in 1897

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Electron

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Queen Nicknamed Bloody Mary

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Mary I (daughter of Henry VIII & Katherine of aragon) she was a devout catholic and burned hundreds of Protestants at stake for heresy

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The only of Henry's wives to be buried with him

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Jane Seymour

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famous 9 day reign of england

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Lady Jane Grey

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Ship sunk in Havana harbor

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USS MAine

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Cider House Rules author and screenwriter

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John Irving

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musical w/ All that Jazz

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chicago

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composer of the Nutcracker

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Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky

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"aromatic" german city

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cologne

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new name of bombay

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mumbai

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asia mountain range - extending east through pakistan, india, china (tibet), nepal & bhutan

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Himalayas

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Ray anthony song started what dance

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the bunny hop

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You can't always get what you want - singer

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Rolling stones

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A passage to India author

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em forster

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women's suffrage amendment

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19th

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what was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty

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The Forbidden City

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Survivor & Apprentice producer

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Mark Burnett

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---- & andy radio 1928

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Amos

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Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll were these two radio starts

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Amos & Andy

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Corporation w/monopoly on tv in england until 1950s

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BBC

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Led 1930 march to sea for salt in india

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Gandhi ( to oppose taxes by the british and gain complete indian independence)

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greek noun for extreme happiness & well-being

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Euphoria

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Camden Yards

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Baltimore Orioles

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state of longhorn cavern state park

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texas

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lenin changed political party name to this

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communist

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nob hill city

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san francisco

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ghost of hessian trooper in "then legend of sleepy hollow"

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Headless Horseman

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Headless horseman was this

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a ghost of a hessian trooper

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what president wrote political memoir "six crises"

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Nixon

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2 country empire established in 1867 collapsed in WWi

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austria-hungary

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england port city home of the beatles

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liverpool

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canadian city named for mountain that is 2nd largest in canada.

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Montreal

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2nd largest french speaking city in world behind Paris

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Montreal

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tallest mountain in Canada

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Mount Logan (in Yukon)

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Cruel & insane ruler of Roman empire - appointed horse to senate - 1st century ad

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caligula

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1st & 2nd largest city in the world (including metro area)

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tokyo & seoul (mexico city is very close 3rd- NYC is 4)

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Austrian Monk Scientist

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Gregor Mendel

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The birth of Venus artist

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Sandro Botticelli

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20th C school of design and art movement comes from german for "build" & "house"

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bauhaus (founded by walter gropius)

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What was F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1st Novel

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This side of Paradise

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19th c french painter known for use of color & paintings of polynesian women

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Paul Gauguin

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Peruvian city - capital of the empire of spain in the new world until 19th C

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Lima

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27th President 1909-1913
Republican VP James S Sherman. was secretary of war under Roosevelt

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william howard taft

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330 lb one of the "three tenors" who died in 2007

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Pavarotti

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Press secretary shot during reagan assassination attempt

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James Brady

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Who attempted to assassinate Reagan ?

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John Hinckley Jr

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Lincoln VP & Future president

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Andrew Johnson

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State in SW Germany where hitler rose to power

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Bavaria

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Capital of Bavaria

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Munich

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Communist Pathet Lao have been in charge of this country since 1975

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Laos

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1989 US invaded panama and removed this leader who was tried & convicted for drug trafficking

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Manuel Noriega

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Voted the greatest US trained Thoroughbred racehorse of all time (won 20 of 21 races just after WW1)

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Man o War bred by August Belmont, jr

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Man o War sired this triple crown winner

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War Admiral (1937 triple crown winner)

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2nd tallest mountain in the world

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K2

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mt. vernan distillery created this liquor

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whiskey

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liquor produced by distilling wine

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Brandy (from dutch brandewijn - meaning burnt wine)

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grenada capital

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St George's

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men's fraternal organization that claim descent from the builder of the temple in Jerusalem

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Freemasons

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3 headed dog who guards entrance to Hades

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cerberus

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author of the brothers karamazov

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Dostoyevsky

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Dmitri, Ivan & Fyodor are three of the main characters of this dostoyevsky novel

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The brothers karamazov.

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John Keats: "Beauty is ___, ___ beauty, -- that is all ye known on earth, and all ye need to know"

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truth

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"Mr. Cub" shortstop & firstbaseman hall of famer

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Ernie Banks

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robert frost: "two roads diverged in a yellow ???"

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wood

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Thomas Gray: "the paths of glory lead but to the ?"

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grave

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"Tri-state area" east coast, 3rd, 5th, 11th to join union

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NY, NJ, Conn.

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o'connell street, parnell street, pearse avenue

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dublin

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"boy general" 3 days after graduating west point, fought at 1st battle bull run

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George Custer

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1862 admiral union navy

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david farragut

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Kate actress in "Temple of Doom"

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Kate Capshaw

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Katherine Hepburn played Ethel Thayer in this 1981 film

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On Golden Pond

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Mythological systers Atropos, Clotho & Lachesis were known as

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the fates

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"Sleep Tite" is a number from this musical with sleepwear in the title

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The Pajama Game

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Rochester NY Company

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(eastman) kodak

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Founder of Kodak (1892) who invented Roll Fillm

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George Eastman

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Philanthropist who donated to schools of dentistry & medicine at University of Rochester

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George Eastman

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philanthropist died by suicide in 1932 - due to having a painful degenerative spinal disease

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George Eastman

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Eastman donated money to this university allowing it to build a second campus on Charles River

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MIT

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River of Boston

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Charles River

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Prime Minister of England at start of world war two known for his "appeasement" policy

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Neville Chamberlain

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PM Neville Chamberlain signed this agreement conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany

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Munich Agreement of 1938

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Neville Chamberlain was succeeded by this Prime Minister after he resigned his post during the war, since Labour and Liberal parties would not support a government headed by him

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Winston churchill

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Member of Winston churchill's war cabinet that was PM before him

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Neville Chamberlain

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The edge is guitarist for

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U2

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Guitarist for Guns n' Roses and later supergroup Velvet Revolver

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Slash

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His riff on his riff in "Sweet Child o' Mine" is No.1 in Total Guitar 2004 list of 100 best

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Slash

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This Guns N Roses Guitarist was also a champion BMX rider

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Slash

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On January 30, 1972, British troops opened fire on unarmed and peaceful civilians in Derry, Ireland during a civil rights march. This music video is a tribute to the 14 killed and others wounded - by U2

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Bloody Sunday

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Front Man for Guns N' Roses

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Axl Rose

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This january 30, 1972 event is sometimes called the "bogside massacre"

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Bloody Sunday

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The 12-year Saville Inquiry, chaired by Lord Saville of Newdigate, ended in PM David Cameron making a formal apology from the UK for this event

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Bloody Sunday

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u2 is from here

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dublin ireland

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Original Beatles Drummer

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Pete Best

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Glenn Frey & Don Henley band

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The Eagles

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315 mile long river in NYC

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Hudson

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Top Model & talk show host

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Tyra Banks

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east gulf at the top of the red sea

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gulf of aqaba

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west gulf at the top of the red sea

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gulf of suez

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3,900 Chinese river

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yangtze

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bonn, germany & strassbourg, france are on this river

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Rhine

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aleutian islands & commander islands mark this sea's southern border

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bering sea

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cain & abel are in this bible book

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genesis

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in sacrifice to god - cain offered "fruit of the ground" abel offered these animals

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sheep

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former hubby of eva longoria from france had a hip hop album there

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tony parker

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former u of michigan & sacramento kings star raps as "c.webb"

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chris webber

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"A.I" in the NBA - controversial guard raps under the name jewelz

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alan iverson

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once part of a notorious brawl, this star defender now a laker tells his side on the "my world" cd

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ron artest - meta world peace

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First lady who prevented the british from burning gilbert stuart's painting of washington which still hangs in the east room

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dolly madison

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First lady "full of grace"

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Grace coolidge

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another world for spittoon

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cuspidor

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author of Peter Pan

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James M Barrie (JM barrie)

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Epic film starring/directed by Warren Beatty on the life of Communist, journalist John Reed

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Reds

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John Reed wrote this book about the October Revolution in 1917 Russia

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Ten Days that Shook the world

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Noble title of Aleksei Vronsky who has an affair with anna karenina

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Count

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Mr. woodhouse (eternally preoccupied with health & food) is the father of this Austen Title Character

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Emma

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playful nora helmer & her banker husband Torvald live in this author's "doll's house"

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Ibsen

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author of "the cherry orchard"

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chekhov

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Beethoven wrote a sonata & tchaikovsky a symphony with this pity-evoking title

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pathetique

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Mozart wrote this evening serenade in 1787 while working on "don giovanni"

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Eine kleine nacht music

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Finnish composer

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sibelius

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the besotted hindley earnshaw appears in this classic novel

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Wuthering Heights

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French Composer of "danse macabre" was writing music by the time he was 5

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Camille Saint-seans

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orange flavored liquer often an ingredient in cosmopolitan

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cointreau

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Malcolm guthrie wrote a 4-volume reference now the standard on this group of african languages (ends in U)

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Bantu

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(ends in U) delicacy - puffer fish in japan

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fugu

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Notorious japanese dish must be prepared by special chefs to remove toxins - Fugu is this type of fish

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Puffer Fish

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1988 "S." this was the first italian mineral water to be exported to france

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pellegrino

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pepsi bottled water

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aquafina

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Australian city with paper Morning Herald

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Sydney

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"truth" in russian

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pravda

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Paris Daily paper - translated world

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Le monde

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considered the first global newspaper it was rescued by the new york times which took full ownership in 2003

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International Herald Tribune

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earliest known use of this term was in an indianapolis star opinion piece of september 1914

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First World War

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a measure of cloth usually 40 yards

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bolt

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Beer-Drinking Mackenzie brothers werew a staple on this comedy show whose full name once included "network 90"

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sctv

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"leaves of grass"

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walt whitman

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american poet - sister lavinia found about 1000 poems upon her death in 1886

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Emily Dickinson

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american poet - after becoming engaged to sarah shelton he fell ill in a baltimore tavern & died 4 days later on oct 7 1849

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Edgar allen poe

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family of poets born in & around boston: amy, james russel, & robert

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Lowell

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bravo star & former "new york housewife" has cookbook in "the skinnygirl dish"

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bethenny frankel

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The first of the "real housewives" series was here

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Orange County

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Rads & Rems measure exposure to these

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x-rays

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unit equal to 1/100th of a chain
used in surveying

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link

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in "concord hymn" he wrote "here once the embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot heard round the world"

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ralph waldo emerson

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result of one or more multiplications

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product

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when he wasn't busy rubaiyating - this 11th centrure renaissance man wrote a pioneering work on algebra

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Omar Khayyam

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11th c Persian known to have written about 1000 rubaiyats (quatrains -4 line verses)

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Omar Khayyam

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Giga is 10 to this power

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9

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Mathematicians disagree as to whether zero belongs in this set of numbers denoted N

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The Natural numbers

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may 10, 1981 france elected as president this socialist who then nationalized most of the private banks

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francois mitterand

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French history - in july 2003 referendum this mediterranean island narrowly defeated a plan for limited autonomy

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corsica

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river in south of france

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the rhone

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october 1415 battle of this fortress - lost to the english actually took place in a nearby muddy field

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battle of agincourt

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The Battle of Agincourt is the centerpiece of this play by Shakespeare

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Henry V

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a 2 wheeled vehicle for artillery ammunition

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caisson

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IN 1845 this firm manufactured its first pool table for a cincinnati meatpacker; it's sold millions of tables since then

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The Brunswick Corporation

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Previously done by the trapp family this song about an instrumentalist was a top 40 hit every december from 1958-1962

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little drummer boy

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classic 1940 book (animals) Pat the ---

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bunny

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lesson on sharing : the rainbow --

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fish

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seuss tweaks the alphabet traditon - on beyond ----

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zebra

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by arnold lobel: days with ---- and ---- (2 different amphibians)

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frog & toad

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british prime minister took office in 2007

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Gordon Brown

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Country's prime minister - Nouri Al-Maliki helped draft its new constitution

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Iraq

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Shannon Hoon fronted this alternative rock band ("Blind")

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Blind Melon

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a stroke ended his tenure as PM of ISrael in 2006

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ariel sharon (he's been in a vegetative state ever since)

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Hassanal bolkiah is the minister of finance& defence, Prime minister & sultan of this country

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Brunei

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oldest clothing retailer in the us formed in 1818 - the grandchildren, all brothers, took over in 1850

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brooks brothers

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Female PM of india - served 3 consecutive terms - 1966-77 and a fourth 1980-84

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Indira Gandhi

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Son of Indira Gandhi who succeeded her after her assassination

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Rajiv Gandhi

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Sirimavo Bandaranaike - head of this country is considered the first female head of a government in the modern world

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sri lanka

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Considered the second female head of government in the modern world

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Indira Gandhi

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First prime minister of independent India

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Jawharlal Nehru

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she was killed in retaliation for ordering the Indian army to enter the Golden Temple to remove armed insurgents

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Indira Gandhi

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This pm and son of a pm was assassinated by the Tamil Tigers

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Rajiv Gandhi

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Paolo Maldini could tell you that in this sport - guarding an opponent closely is called marking him

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soccer

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in 2010 boston unveiled a statue of this 1970s bruins defenseman

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bobby orr

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Baseball award given to one player in each position in both NL and AL for outstanding fielding

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Golden Glove

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cape that is the USA southernmost mainland point

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Cape Sable

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1623 massachusetts cape named for the then queen of england

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cape anne

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chilean cape

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cape horn

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austrailian bay near sydney

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botany bay

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Brahms known for these instrumental sonatas

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Violin

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Countries where Gobi Desert is

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China & Mongolia

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Desert in Israel

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Negev

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actor in "hoffa" & Chinatown

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nicholson

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actor in "proof of life" & "3:10 to yuma"

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russell crowe

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actress in "a mighty heart" & "salt"

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angelina jolie

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2003 Mars rovers were called opportunity & this

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spirit

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1975 mars space probe missions

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VIking 1 & Viking 2

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Viking 1 & 2 went to this planet

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Mars

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in math you get a difference by subtracting the subtrahend from this

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the minuend

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He intended his wife clara to play his piano quintet, but when she fell ill, Felix Mendelssohn subbed

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Robert Schumann

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he was in "destry rides again" & Harvey

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jimmy stewart

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the road to hell is paved with these

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Good intentions

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2 tiny moons of mars named for ares' sons

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phobos & demos

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tallest mountain on mars

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olympus mons

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Lust for life by irving stone is a fictionalized biography of him

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Vincent Van Gogh

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Brother of van gogh who he wrote many letters to

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Theo

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Carnarvon GOrge is called the Grand Canyon of here

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Queensland

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john mcdermott won this city's first marathon on april 19, 1897

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boston

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1895 black educator

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booker t washington

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john phillips sousa march including the lyric "hurrah for the flag of the free"

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stars & stripes forever

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Butch cassidy & this gang - also a 1969 movie title - robbed their first train near wilcox, wyoming

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The wild bunch

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Gang in American Wild West which was actually an organized group of serveral gangs - took it's name from a Pass in Jackson County Wyoming

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Hole in the Wall gang

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Haitian religion

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voodoo

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"G" large support structure for launching rockets

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gantry

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GDP stands for this

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gross domestic product

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he established the national rainbow coalition

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jesse jackson

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who is the montague in shakespeare

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Romeo

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Juliet's last name in shakespeare

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Capulet

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Lover of Bassanio disguises herself as a lawyer & saves antonio - (shakespeare)

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Portia

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Nahum tate's 1681 adaptation of this play omitted the fool & added a love affair between edgar & cordelia

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King Lear

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Act 1 of this tragedy is set in venice: Act II in cyprus

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Othello

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Some Believe this comedy was written to be performed during epiphany festivities hence its name

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Twelfth NIght

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Shakespeare Play with Helena, Bertram, Parolles(scoundrel), Countess Of Rousslin, Widow & Diana

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All's Well that End's Well

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Play where helena picks Bertram to be her husband after King of France grants her any man after she cures him. She tricks Bertram into sleeping with her (instead of Diana) and he's a good husband in the end

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All's Well that End's Well

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Shakespeare play with title characters, octavius Caesar, Lepidus, Octavia (sister of Octavius) & Enobarbus

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Antony & Cleopatra

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How Antony & cleopatra die in shakespeare

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Antony on his own sword- slowly (after hearing of Cleopatra's fake suicide) Cleopatra of poisonous snakes (after refusing to be captured by Octavius Caesar)

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queen beatrix country

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the netherlands

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band with hit "crash"

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dave matthew band

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circular inward and outward forces

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Centripetal (inward) centrifugal (outward)

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60s british soul singer - I only want to be with you & son of a preacher man

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dusty springfield

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northern irish rocker - "gloria" & "moondance"

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Van Morrison

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sax man who took "giant steps" to modernize jazz with his innovative "sheets of sound" playing style

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john coltrain

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band with albums "in rainbows" or "ok computer"

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radiohead

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group of beauties or swans

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bevy

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canary islands are owned by this country

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spain

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scottish poet credited with words to auld lang syne

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robert burns

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characters on this show include: bumblebee man, kent brockman & dr. nick riviera

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the simpsons

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mr. eko, richard alpert & charles widmore are characters on this show

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lost

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lycanthrope is another word for this

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werewolf

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7th letter of greek alphabet - with t in the middle

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eta

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china leader oct 1 1949

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mao

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"outer" scottish islands

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outer Hebrides

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first man made fiber

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rayon

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starred i "a man for all seasons" on broadway and movie - won oscar

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paul scofield

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montreal group with 2007 album "neon bible"

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arcade fire

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canadian arena-rock trio that hit it big in the 70s with ayn rand inspired album "2112"

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rush

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cbs late late show host

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craig ferguson

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south carolina senator lindsey & quarterback otto share this last name

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Graham

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Hai Bar Carmel nature reserve in the carmel mountains in this country

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israel

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tennoji zoo country

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japan

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attica zoological park in this country

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greece

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literary adjective starting with "er" meaning "former"

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erstwhile

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doug flutie college

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boston college

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Jean Paul Sartre story where Garcin, Inez & Estelle are in a room together in hell

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No Exit

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Story & Author where Garcin proclaims "Hell is other people"

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No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre

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20th c French existentialist/author/playwright/etc who had a non-monogamous relationship with social theorist Simone De Beauvoir

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Jean Paul Sartre

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He declined the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature because such an award would forever limit his freedom

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Jean Paul Sartre

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He wrote Glass Menagerie

Back 274

Tennessee Williams

Front 275

He wrote A streetcar named desire

Back 275

Tennessee Williams

Front 276

He wrote the rose tattoo

Back 276

Tennessee Williams

Front 277

Brazil's largest city - largest city in south american - largest city in southern hemisphere

Back 277

Sao Paolo

Front 278

Jim Valvano was coach of this basketball team when they defeated houston at the buzzer in 1983

Back 278

NC State

Front 279

Gem Cutter ("L" 8 letters)

Back 279

Lapidary

Front 280

Peter Benchley Thriller where amity is a city not island

Back 280

Jaws

Front 281

dementors guard this island prison in a series of novels

Back 281

azkaban

Front 282

alistair Maclean wrote of this german-controlled greek island & the men sent to destroy a gun battery there

Back 282

Navarone

Front 283

the novelization of a play says this "land" is "always more or less an island"

Back 283

Neverland

Front 284

17th c flemish man got mythical with "minerva protects pax from mars ('peace and war')" - artist

Back 284

Peter paul rubens

Front 285

1799 portrait of Napoleon crossing the alps - artist

Back 285

Jacque Louis David

Front 286

Language in Avatar

Back 286

Na'vi

Front 287

where is arizona state (sun devils)

Back 287

Tempe

Front 288

qualcomm stadium is where?

Back 288

san diego

Front 289

these days from the name of a bird of greek legend refer to the carefree days of youth

Back 289

Halcyon days

Front 290

Notable Lakota indian with a monument in the black hills

Back 290

Crazy horse

Front 291

AKA Custer's last Stand

Back 291

Battle of Little Bighorn

Front 292

Lakota Sioux Holy man who spent time touring with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show

Back 292

Sitting Bull

Front 293

Geronimo was this type of indian

Back 293

Apache

Front 294

in 2009 this current supreme court justice was named solicitor general

Back 294

Elena Kagan

Front 295

attorney for Leopold & Loeb in 1924

Back 295

Clarence Darrow

Front 296

who defended John Scopes at the scopes trial

Back 296

Clarence darrow

Front 297

statesman, orator & 3 time presidential candidate who was Prosecutor in the scopes trial - who died 5 days after winning the trial

Back 297

William jennings Bryan (scopes lost trial but went free on a technicality)

Front 298

Tennessee's Butler Act made it unlawful to teach this

Back 298

Evolution

Front 299

Doctor imprisoned for his role in the assassination of lincoln

Back 299

doctor samuel mudd

Front 300

also called a twin or double star

Back 300

binary star

Front 301

magyarorszag is what the locals call this country

Back 301

hungary

Front 302

Hellas is what the locals call this country

Back 302

Greece

Front 303

Suomi is what the locals call this country

Back 303

Finland

Front 304

Glenn close thriller

Back 304

Fatal Attraction

Front 305

emma thompson was married to him

Back 305

kenneth brannagh

Front 306

first timer on a cattle drive

Back 306

green horn

Front 307

asian part of turkey also known as asia minor

Back 307

anatolia

Front 308

1599 building that was a 20-sided icosagon despite its name

Back 308

globe theater

Front 309

novel where lucy westenra "went to the window and looked out, but could see nothing except a big bat"

Back 309

Dracula

Front 310

Dracula author

Back 310

Bram Stoker

Front 311

boris & natasha are 2 of the many characters in this tolstoy tome

Back 311

war & peace

Front 312

anna sewell wrote this novel to "induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses"

Back 312

black beauty

Front 313

title qualities of this jane austen novel represent sisters elinor & marianne respectively

Back 313

sense & sensibility

Front 314

Dashwood sisters move to Barton Cottage in this Jane Austen novel

Back 314

Sense & Sensebility

Front 315

Main characters : dashwood sisters, edward ferrars, john willoughby, & Colonel Brandon

Back 315

Sense & Sensibility

Front 316

The music man takes place "right here"

Back 316

river city

Front 317

musical starts with Anna arriving in Bangkok

Back 317

The King and I

Front 318

1976 canadian olympic location

Back 318

Montreal

Front 319

Robert F Kennedy was assassinated at what LA hotel

Back 319

Ambassador Hotel

Front 320

adjective for treating the whole body , not just the part that is ailing

Back 320

holistic

Front 321

a popular wedding march comes from music mendelssohn wrote for this magical shakespeare play

Back 321

a midsummer night's dream

Front 322

in the 1500s this circumnavigator was hurt twice in the east indies & a third time fighting the moors

Back 322

magellan

Front 323

18th c swedish scientist who had visions of angels gave his name to a christian mystic movement

Back 323

Emmanuel Swedenborg

Front 324

"angel of hadley" is said to have saved a new england town when fighting with this indian king

Back 324

phillip

Front 325

this is sometimes called the first indian war

Back 325

King Phillip's war

Front 326

The charles, the mystic and the neponset all empty into this body of water

Back 326

boston harbor

Front 327

Nouakchott is capital of

Back 327

Mauritania

Front 328

physician starting clinic in Kansas

Back 328

The Menninger Foundation (clinic, sanatorium, & school of psychiatry, moved to houston 2003)

Front 329

range of female singing voice lower than soprano and higher than alto

Back 329

mezzo soprano

Front 330

what country has easter island

Back 330

chile

Front 331

lowest pitched and largest woodwind

Back 331

contra bassoon

Front 332

Who wrote Battle Hymn of the Republic

Back 332

Julia Ward Howe

Front 333

Singer of Fortunate Son

Back 333

CCR

Front 334

Sacrament of Communion among christians

Back 334

Eucharist

Front 335

formerly east pakistan

Back 335

Bangladesh

Front 336

The Portrait of a Lady & The turn of the Screw, The American, The Wings of the Dove, Daisy Miller, The Ambassadors by late 19th- early 20th c american author

Back 336

Henry James

Front 337

French composer (1668-1733) known as "Le Grand" known for works on harpsichord @25 was appointed by Louis XIV to organist in The Royal Chapel @ Versailles

Back 337

Francois Couperin (Baroque) Bach, Strauss, Ravel fans

Front 338

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928 english author mostly naturalism) fictional literary setting

Back 338

Wessex

Front 339

French Neoclassical painter

Back 339

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) preeminent painter of the era, In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity

Front 340

what captain did William Shatner play & in what tv show?

Back 340

Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek (66-69)

Front 341

What TV police Sergeant did WIlliam Shatner play 1982-86

Back 341

T J Hooker

Front 342

spin-off of the practice where shatner played Denny Crane

Back 342

Boston Legal

Front 343

starship in star trek

Back 343

uss enterprise

Front 344

who played Mr. Spock in star trek

Back 344

leonard nimoy

Front 345

star trek series ran 87-94 by Captain Jean-Luc Picard and is staffed by first officer Commander William Riker, the android Lieutenant Commander Data, security chief Lieutenant Tasha Yar, ship's counselor Deanna Troi, Klingon tactical officer Lieutenant Worf, Doctor Beverly Crusher, and conn officer Lieutenant Geordi La Forge

Back 345

Star Trek: the next generation

Front 346

He played Jean Luc Picard and recorded the opening voice over in Start Trek: the next generation

Back 346

Patrick Stewart

Front 347

android in Star Trek Next Generation played by Brett Spiner

Back 347

Data

Front 348

start trek 93-99 that started on a space station in the first couple years so as not to have two starships on air at the same time

Back 348

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Front 349

star trek with characters - benjamin sisko, kiera nerys, odo, Julian bashir, jazda dax and worf

Back 349

Star Trek Deep Space Nine

Front 350

long curly haired sax player

Back 350

kenny g

Front 351

French painter of Oath of the Horatii & Death of Socrates & the lictors bring to Brutus the bodies of His Sons

Back 351

Jacques-Louis David

Front 352

French neoclassical painter who was friend of Robespierre and member of Jacobin club - and friend of Napoleon

Back 352

Jacques-Louis David

Front 353

king executed in the french revolution

Back 353

Lousi XVI

Front 354

Place where the French National Assembly had to meet in 1789 when monarchy locked the chamber doors

Back 354

Tennis court (The Oath of the Tennis Court)

Front 355

"Day-O" Song

Back 355

The Banana Boat Song

Front 356

Element almost called fire air

Back 356

Oxygen

Front 357

Playwright known for profane dialogue

Back 357

David Mamet (1947-? American playwright, screenwriter, essayist, film director)

Front 358

who wrote Summa Theologica

Back 358

Thomas Aquinas (roman catholic saint)

Front 359

"You Can't Go Home Again"
"Look Homeward Angel"
"The Party at Jack's"
"O Lost" author

Back 359

1900-1938 american Thomas Wolfe

Front 360

Death of Marat is considered this French artist's masterpiece

Back 360

Jacques Louis David

Front 361

emperor of france 1804-1815

Back 361

Napoleon

Front 362

Napoleon was exiled here - but died on this other island

Back 362

Exiled to Elba - died on St. helena (british island)

Front 363

file sharing site taken down in Jan 2012 -

Back 363

Megaupload

Front 364

wildfires near here in NV in jan 2012

Back 364

Reno

Front 365

cruise ship that sank in jan 2012

Back 365

Costa Concordia

Front 366

British Physicist james Chadwick discovered this particle in 1932

Back 366

neutron

Front 367

amendment that says powers not given to the federal govt or denied to the states are reserved for the states

Back 367

10th

Front 368

Kiss this and receive the gift o eloquence and persuausion

Back 368

the blarney stone

Front 369

Spanish explorer discovered Florida

Back 369

Juan Ponce de leon

Front 370

spanish explorer 1474-1521
first governor of Puerto Rico - and rumored to have searched for the Fountain of Youth

Back 370

Ponce de Leon

Front 371

Graves disease affects this gland

Back 371

thyroid

Front 372

most common cause of hyperthyroidism is this immune system disorder

Back 372

Graves' disease

Front 373

thyroid disease also called Basedow's syndrome/disease b/c Basedow discovered it about the same time as another scientist

Back 373

Graves' disease

Front 374

korean war during this presidency (june 1950-july1953 is the war)

Back 374

Truman

Front 375

Founder of People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 and held power over country until death in 1976

Back 375

Mao Zedung

Front 376

"chairman" communist chinese revolutionary

Back 376

Mao Zedung

Front 377

President Nixon met this Chinese leader in 1972

Back 377

Mao Zedung

Front 378

Numberic group including Mao's fourth wife that came to power during China's Cultural Revolution (1966-76)

Back 378

Gang of Four

Front 379

Commumist party leader of China credited with developing China into one of the fastest growing economies in the world for over 30 years and raising the standard of living of hundreds of millions of Chinese

Back 379

Deng Xiaoping (was in power 78-92)

Front 380

1953 western starring Alan Ladd, with Jean Arthur & Jack Palance - Alan Ladd is a gunslinger in Wyoming helping Homesteaders agains cattle baron Ryker

Back 380

Shane

Front 381

"come back" Young Joey yells to Alan Ladd in this 1953 Western

Back 381

Shane

Front 382

Idi Amin ruled this country 1971-79

Back 382

Uganda

Front 383

he seized power in Uganda in a military coup Jan 1971

Back 383

Idi Amin

Front 384

His attempt to annex the Kagera Province of Tanzania led to the Uganda-Tanzania wars and the demise of his regime

Back 384

Idi Amin

Front 385

country originally allied with axis power - joined the allies in 1944 - former eastern bloc country ruled by Nicolae Ceausescu 1970s-80s

Back 385

Romania

Front 386

Last communist leader of Romania - overthrown by 1989 revolution

Back 386

Nicolae Ceausescu (he and wife elena were executed shortly afterward)

Front 387

Country with the greatest loss of life in WWII

Back 387

USSR

Front 388

The mutual defense treaty among eastern bloc countries during the cold war

Back 388

The Warsaw Pact

Front 389

Tunisia gained independence from ? in 1956

Back 389

France

Front 390

Pocahontas husband

Back 390

John Rolfe

Front 391

15 year old shoshone indian who accompanied Lewis & Clark

Back 391

Sacagawea

Front 392

President who commissioned lewis & clark

Back 392

Jefferson

Front 393

indian who saved the life of John smith in legend

Back 393

Pocahontas

Front 394

Indian associated with Jamestown, Virginia settlement

Back 394

Pocahontas

Front 395

Father of Pocahontas

Back 395

chief Powhaton

Front 396

Land Acquired by US in 1803

Back 396

Louisiana Purchase

Front 397

Pocahontas husband

Back 397

John Rolfe

Front 398

Merriweather & william explorers

Back 398

Lewis & Clark

Front 399

15 year old shoshone indian who accompanied Lewis & Clark

Back 399

Sacagawea

Front 400

War fought between Troy & Mainland Greece

Back 400

Trojan War

Front 401

President who commissioned lewis & clark

Back 401

Jefferson

Front 402

A narrative song of folk origin from old-provencal word for dancing-song

Back 402

ballad

Front 403

indian who saved the life of John smith in legend

Back 403

Pocahontas

Front 404

Indian associated with Jamestown, Virginia settlement

Back 404

Pocahontas

Front 405

Father of Pocahontas

Back 405

chief Powhaton

Front 406

Land Acquired by US in 1803

Back 406

Louisiana Purchase

Front 407

Merriweather & william explorers

Back 407

Lewis & Clark

Front 408

War fought between Troy & Mainland Greece

Back 408

Trojan War

Front 409

A narrative song of folk origin from old-provencal word for dancing-song

Back 409

ballad

Front 410

river deep - mountain high singers

Back 410

Ike & Tina Turner

Front 411

Naomi's Daughter in Law

Back 411

Ruth

Front 412

Alan-a-dale is a rooster minstrel in this story

Back 412

Robin Hood

Front 413

Leader of France at time of Louisiana Purchase

Back 413

Napoleon

Front 414

goddess helped the greeks in the trojan war b/c she was mad at the Trojan Paris

Back 414

AThena (because Paris judged Aprhodite to be the fairest and gave her the golden apple)

Front 415

1968 movie - dave enters the airlock w/o a space helmet

Back 415

2001:a space odyssey

Front 416

Highest grossing movie of 1968 that was co-written by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke

Back 416

2001: a space odyssey

Front 417

Sentient computer in 2001: a space odyssey

Back 417

HAL

Front 418

Movie opens with Ape tribe and giant black monolith

Back 418

2001: a space odyssey

Front 419

Austrian Composer of the Blue Danube in 1866 that was played at the World's fair in Paris 1867

Back 419

Johann Strauss II

Front 420

river deep - mountain high singers

Back 420

Ike & Tina Turner

Front 421

Naomi's Daughter in Law

Back 421

Ruth

Front 422

Alan-a-dale is a rooster minstrel in this story

Back 422

Robin Hood

Front 423

Leader of France at time of Louisiana Purchase

Back 423

Napoleon

Front 424

goddess helped the greeks in the trojan war b/c she was mad at the Trojan Paris

Back 424

AThena (because Paris judged Aprhodite to be the fairest and gave her the golden apple)

Front 425

1968 movie - dave enters the airlock w/o a space helmet

Back 425

2001:a space odyssey

Front 426

Highest grossing movie of 1968 that was co-written by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke

Back 426

2001: a space odyssey

Front 427

Sentient computer in 2001: a space odyssey

Back 427

HAL

Front 428

Movie opens with Ape tribe and giant black monolith

Back 428

2001: a space odyssey

Front 429

Austrian Composer of the Blue Danube in 1866 that was played at the World's fair in Paris 1867

Back 429

Johann Strauss II

Front 430

largest lake in Africa, 2nd largest freshwater lake after lake Superior

Back 430

Lake Victoria

Front 431

Lake on Uganda, Tanzania & kenya border

Back 431

Lake Victoria

Front 432

Landmark built originally as the entrance to the 1889 world's fair

Back 432

Eiffel Tower

Front 433

landmark that is the most visited paid monument in the world

Back 433

Eiffel Tower

Front 434

Prior to the Eiffel tower, this was the tallest manmade structure in the world

Back 434

The Washington Monument

Front 435

The Eiffel Tower was the tallest manmade structure in the world until this NY building was built in 1930

Back 435

the chrysler buildiNG

Front 436

it was the world's tallest building for only 11 months when the empire state building surpassed it in 1931

Back 436

the chrysler building

Front 437

The chryslery building is of this style

Back 437

Art Deco

Front 438

The "It" girl of Silent Films

Back 438

Clara Bow

Front 439

This roaring twenties actress starred in "wings" "it" & "mantrap"

Back 439

Clara Bow (was in silent and Talkies)

Front 440

Only Silent film to win best picture academy award

Back 440

Wings

Front 441

color-brilliant purplish pink named from nothern italian city

Back 441

magenta

Front 442

Sang "voodoo child"

Back 442

Jimi Hendrix

Front 443

president born in kentucky - was a lawyer -started as a whig became republican

Back 443

Abraham Lincoln

Front 444

Millard Fillmore, William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor & Daniel Webster were of this political party (John tyler was too - but he was expelled from the party)

Back 444

Whig

Front 445

Political party from early 1830s to mid 1850s led by Henry Clay -

Back 445

Whig

Front 446

19th c Political party formed in opposition to Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party

Back 446

Whig

Front 447

Northern voters of Whig Party became this Current party

Back 447

Republican Party

Front 448

This non-elected president was the final whig to hold presidential office

Back 448

Millard Fillmore

Front 449

Only president from New Hampshire was this democrat 14th pres of the US

Back 449

Franklin Pierce

Front 450

bakery term for a "northerner with southern sympathies" in the 1800s

Back 450

"doughface" - franklin pierce was one

Front 451

the kansas-nebraska act & the ostendo manifesto were considered two great calamaties of this president

Back 451

Franklin Pierce

Front 452

president with vp william r king who defeated whig party candidates Winfield scott & william graham in election of 1852

Back 452

Franklin Pierce

Front 453

hawthorne and this poet were schoolmates at Bowdoin college in 1820s

Back 453

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Front 454

Author who lived with his wife at the "old manse" for three years - hence the short story collection"Mosses from the Old Manse"

Back 454

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Front 455

The Scarlet Letter Author

Back 455

Nathaniel hawthorne

Front 456

Author who wrote "The Blithedale Romance" & "The House of the Seven Gables" while living in the Berkshires

Back 456

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Front 457

rip van winkle author

Back 457

washington irving

Front 458

short story collection "twice told tales" author

Back 458

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Front 459

story about a lazy hen-pecked husband who sleeps through the american revolution

Back 459

Rip Van Winkle

Front 460

Impression, Sunrise artist

Back 460

claude monet 19-20th c *painting is where "impression" name came from

Front 461

cab w/elevated seat

Back 461

hansom cab

Front 462

National Anthem of France

Back 462

La Marseillaise

Front 463

Originally title "war song of the army of the rhine"

Back 463

La marseillaise

Front 464

mexican artist known for murals

Back 464

Diego Rivera

Front 465

communist artist husbad of Frida Kahlo

Back 465

Diego Rivera

Front 466

female communist mexican artist - had painful injuries sustained from a bus/trolley car accident

Back 466

Frido Kahlo

Front 467

Attic Peninsula country

Back 467

greece

Front 468

2 towns first conflicts of american revolution

Back 468

lexington and concord

Front 469

atomic number of K

Back 469

19

Front 470

Newton or Leibnitz discovered this branch of math

Back 470

calculus

Front 471

capital of ontario, ca

Back 471

toronto

Front 472

NYC composer/lyricist of
a funny thing happened on the way to the forum
company
follies
a little night music
sweeney todd

Back 472

steven sondheim

Front 473

an open square in a city or town in italy

Back 473

piazza

Front 474

strait located at the entrance to the persian gulf

Back 474

strait of hormuz

Front 475

during what war was star spangled banner written

Back 475

war of 1812 - watching british bombard Fort McHenry, MD

Front 476

half man/half goat craeture known for being drunk & chasing nymphs

Back 476

satyr

Front 477

who gave "the checkers speech"

Back 477

richard nixon - sept 23, 1952 60 million people watched the address

Front 478

common sense pamphleteer

Back 478

Thomas Paine

Front 479

give me liberty or give me death!

Back 479

patrick henry

Front 480

Paine pamphlet written under the working title "Plain truth"

Back 480

Common Sense

Front 481

His lesser known works "the rights of man" & "the age of reason" were written in paris after the american revolution

Back 481

Thomas Paine

Front 482

this phrase was delivered by Patrick henry infront of the Virginia House of Burgesses in trying to get Virginia to deliver troops to the Revolutionary War

Back 482

Give me Liberty or Give me Death!

Front 483

Female ancient greek poet -from island of lesbos - approx 630-570 BC

Back 483

Sappho (saffo)

Front 484

Stephen Harper is the current prime minister of this country

(since 2006)

Back 484

Canada

Front 485

Pierre Trudeau, John Turner, Brian Mulroney, Kim Campbell, Jean Chretien, and Paul Martin have all held this title

Back 485

Prime Minister of Canada

Front 486

The first and only Female PM of Canada, also first Baby boomer, and only PM from British columbia

Back 486

Kim Campbell

Front 487

The first PM of canada (1867)

Back 487

John A Macdonald

Front 488

Painted "the last supper":

Back 488

da vinci

Front 489

Greek god who was half man/half goat & known for causing terror gives us this word for sudden terror

Back 489

panic

Front 490

9th century "apostle of the slavs" gave his name to this alphabet used by the slavs

Back 490

cyrillic

Front 491

setter dog breed developed in scotland & named for the nobleman who popularized it in early 19th c

Back 491

the gordon setter

Front 492

of the hatfields & mccoys the ones that lived in kentucky (the other in w. virginia)

Back 492

the mccoys live in kentucky

Front 493

1775 he blazed a trail through kentucky that became known as the wilderness road

Back 493

daniel boone

Front 494

Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road went through this "gap" in the Appalachians

Back 494

The Cumberland Gap

Front 495

who surrendered at yorktown (bringing the close of the American revolution)

Back 495

Cornwallis

Front 496

French designers shoes with Red soles

Back 496

christian louboutin

Front 497

singer with "inspire" perfume who believes "you are beautiful no matter what they say"

Back 497

christina aguilera

Front 498

Yankee shortstop with cologne "driven"

Back 498

Derek Jeter

Front 499

"U remind me" R & B Singer

Back 499

Usher

Front 500

Child's lit Plaza dweller

Back 500

Eloise

Front 501

British grunge singer married to gwen stefani

Back 501

Gavin Rossdale

Front 502

Singer of "not over you"

Back 502

gavin degraw

Front 503

two sons of Gwen Stefani & Gavin Rossdale

Back 503

Kingston & Zuma

Front 504

Bush - lead singer and rhythm guitarist

Back 504

Gavin Rossdale

Front 505

12th century queen elanor of this duchy

Back 505

Aquitane

Front 506

Husband of Eleanor of Aquitane and father of Richard I (aka the lionheart)

Back 506

Henry II

Front 507

Richard the Lionheart was actually Richard this number

Back 507

Richard I

Front 508

Richard the Lionheart went to fight in which war?

Back 508

The third crusade

Front 509

Sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - 6 months later

Back 509

Through the Looking Glass

Front 510

Author of Alice's Adventures in wonderland &through the looking glass

Back 510

Lewis Carroll

Front 511

Jabberwocky - one of the greatest nonsense verse poems in English lit is found in this book

Back 511

Through the Looking Glass

Front 512

The Hunting of the Snark is another nonsense poem by this children's lit author

Back 512

Lewis Carroll

Front 513

Jabberwocky author born -Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

Back 513

Lewis Carroll

Front 514

Sara Crewe is the little title character of this classic by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Back 514

A LIttle Princess

Front 515

Main character by Frances Hodgson Burnett who is treaty cruelly by Headmistress Miss Minchin

Back 515

A Little Princess - character is named Sara Crewe

Front 516

Along with A little Princess, she also wrote "the Secret Garden" and Little Lord Fauntleroy

Back 516

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Front 517

Burnett story a new york boy who goes to England To live with his Grandfather "the earl" to be an aristocrat - but instead helps his grandfather be more generous to his subjects

Back 517

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Front 518

coins thrown off mardi gras floats "d-o"

Back 518

doubloons

Front 519

this word for a wild brawl is from the name of a dublin fair

Back 519

donnybrook

Front 520

1727 this physicist became the first scientist buried in westminster abbey

Back 520

newton

Front 521

magician from the tempest

Back 521

prospero

Front 522

2nd century alexandrian astronomer

Back 522

ptolemy

Front 523

River that divides Washington DC from VA

Back 523

Potomac

Front 524

v.p. to resign due to criminal charges

Back 524

Spiro Agnew

Front 525

Period known for prolific works commissioned by kings & nobility

Back 525

Baroque

Front 526

1659-1695
greatest native English Composer during more than two centuries
composer to the Chapel Royal
organist for Westminster Abbey
Excelled at theater music

Back 526

Henry Purcell

Front 527

the opera Dido & Aeneas is by this english Composer

Back 527

Henry Purcell

Front 528

group made up of Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Graham Chapin & John Cleese

Back 528

Monty Python

Front 529

British TV Sketch Comedy Show - 1969-74

Back 529

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Front 530

River that flows from Montana and joins the MS river near St. louis

Back 530

Missouri River

Front 531

a work of art depicting Mary

Back 531

Madonna

Front 532

1949- "raging bull" boxer TKOed Marcel Cerdan and took Middleweight title

Back 532

Jake Lamotta

Front 533

this "Bronx bull" or "raging bull" was the first to beat Sugar Ray Robinson

Back 533

Jake Lamotta

Front 534

He & Jake Lamotta had a 6 bout that finished on February 14, 1951 aka boxing's "st valentine's day Massacre"

Back 534

Sugar Ray Robinson - who won

Front 535

Marcel Cerdan was flying back for a rematch with him when his plane crashed in the azores

Back 535

jake lamotta

Front 536

nom de plume of mary ann evans

Back 536

george eliot

Front 537

19th c author of Middlemarch
Silas Marner
Adam Bede
The mill on the Floss

Back 537

Mary Ann Evans - George Eliot

Front 538

s a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly solved with the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability, or object.

Back 538

deus ex machina "god out of the machine"

Front 539

Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) book centering on Tom & Maggie Tulliver up until their death on the local river

Back 539

The Mill on the Floss

Front 540

captain & tenille "love" hit

Back 540

Love will keep us together

Front 541

"love child" is a song by dian ross & them

Back 541

the supremes

Front 542

william styron novel

Back 542

sophie's choice

Front 543

veteran spy author delves into the war on terror in "a most wanted man"

Back 543

john le carre

Front 544

arthur golden japanese novel

Back 544

memoirs of a geisha

Front 545

california desert resort city where lucy ricardo met rock hudson

Back 545

Palm Springs

Front 546

nashua state

Back 546

new hampshire

Front 547

army aviator & air power advocate resigned from the service after his 1925 court martial

Back 547

billy mitchell

Front 548

"billy " manager of the NY Yankees

Back 548

Billy Martin

Front 549

"seems like mata hari picked her targets carefully" gets you to this list that antipater of sidon came up with

Back 549

seven wonders of the world

Front 550

bengal region country

Back 550

india

Front 551

Grozny is the capital of this russian region

Back 551

Chechnia

Front 552

rebels fought against american troops in this central american nation in 1927

Back 552

Nicaragua (sandinistas)

Front 553

a line in this 1863 poem mentions "the eighteenth of april in seventy five"

Back 553

paul revere's ride

Front 554

primitive aquatic plants are similar to bryophytes in that they lack true stems, roots & leaves

Back 554

algae

Front 555

1992 winter olympic games French "Al" city

Back 555

ALbertville

Front 556

20th c artist with mistress Francoise gilot

Back 556

Picasso

Front 557

Artist who said : "for me there are only two kinds of women, godesses or doormats"

Back 557

Picasso

Front 558

an internet publisher of great works is named for this melville scrivener & of course has his tale online

Back 558

bartleby

Front 559

Bartleby the scrivener is a short story by this 19th c American Author

Back 559

Herman Melville

Front 560

airway connecting the pharynx with the bronchi

Back 560

trachea

Front 561

"the lip" baseball nicknames

Back 561

leo deroscher

Front 562

"dr k." baseball nicknames

Back 562

dwight gooden

Front 563

hall of famer "Eck" baseball nickname

Back 563

dennis eckersly

Front 564

"the scooter" of the bronx -baseball nickname

Back 564

phil rizzudo

Front 565

"Good bye mr chips" author

Back 565

james hilton

Front 566

"billy phelan's greatest game" & "Ironweed" are books in his albany cycle

Back 566

william kennedy

Front 567

chapters in this pulitzer prize winner by Carol Shields include "birth, 1905", "marriage, 1927" & "sorrow, 1965"

Back 567

The Stone diaries

Front 568

Born in linlithgow in 1542, she married into french royalty & thus became the queen of 2 countrys

Back 568

mary queen of scots

Front 569

1st year inauguration day jan 20

Back 569

1937

Front 570

3rd wife of Henry VIII, died. Mother of Ed VI

Back 570

Jane Seymour

Front 571

The 3 Tenors

Back 571

Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras

Front 572

Who said "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing"

Back 572

Coach Vince Lombardi

Front 573

distinction between mortal sin and venial sin

Back 573

Mortal - serious enough to subject sinner to damnation
Venial - not as bad

Front 574

Stoic philosopher & emperor of Rome in the 2nd century AD

Back 574

Marcus Aurelius

Front 575

Who married Eleanor of Aquitaine 1154-1189

Back 575

Henry II

Front 576

A method that relentlessly tries to shape a person, argument or idea to a predetermined pattern

Back 576

"Procrustean" method

Front 577

Abuja is capital of

Back 577

Nigeria

Front 578

Nigeria's capital is

Back 578

Abuja

Front 579

Dushanbe is the capital of

Back 579

Tajikistan

Front 580

Tajikistan's capital is

Back 580

Dushanbe

Front 581

20th Century Spanish surrealist painter

Back 581

Salvador Dali

Front 582

late 18th early 19th century english landscape painter known for pastoral scenes

Back 582

John Constable

Front 583

type of architecture that uses a round arch

Back 583

Romanesque

Front 584

Seven deadly sins that lead to damnation

Back 584

pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, sloth (palegas)

Front 585

18th century german author wrote the "Ode to Joy" that is sung in Beethoven's 9th symphony

Back 585

Friedrich von Schiller notable works (The Robbers
Don Carlos
The Wallenstein Trilogy
Mary Stuart
William Tell)

Front 586

Banksy - movie about graffiti art billed as "the world's first street art disaster movie

Back 586

Exit through the gift shop

Front 587

1500s astronomer whose remains were reburied in a Polish Church in 2010

Back 587

Nicolaus Copernicus

Front 588

1500s Astronomer born in Prussia, kingdom of Poland

Back 588

Nicolaus Copernicus

Front 589

War between fur traders was about this native american meat & berry food

Back 589

Pemmican

Front 590

Philip Marlowe books take place in this town

Back 590

Los Angeles

Front 591

Crime and Punishment takes place in this city

Back 591

St.Petersburg

Front 592

tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow is a quote from this shakespeare play

Back 592

MacBeth soliliquoy by macbeth in the news of his wife's death

Front 593

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"

Back 593

From Romeo & Juliet by Juliet

Front 594

lady doth protest too much, methinks

Back 594

Gertrude in Hamlet upon seeing a play that portrays her in it

Front 595

20th century Chilean poet considered the greatest Latin-American poet. Was ambassador to France, nobel prize for lit 1971

Back 595

Pablo Neruda (was a communist and stalin fan)

Front 596

Author of The Acharnians 425 BC
The Knights 424 BC
The Clouds 423 BC
The Wasps 422 BC
Peace 421 BC
The Birds 414 BC
Lysistrata 411BC
Thesmophoriazusae 411 BC
The Frogs 405 BC
Ecclesiazusae c.392 BC
Wealth II 388 BC

Back 596

Aristophanes 446-386 BC comic playwright of athens, Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy

Front 597

Play Lysistrata finds the women of Greece withholding sexual relations from the men to end which war?

Back 597

The Peloponnesian War

Front 598

19th Century French Physician who first reported vertigo was caused by inner ear

Back 598

Prosper Meniere, "Meniere's Disease"

Front 599

A god who served poseidon and could change his shape at will

Back 599

Proteus

Front 600

harry chapin song with "son turned 10 just the other day"

Back 600

Cat's in the cradle

Front 601

Island where the Bounty Mutineers settled

Back 601

Pitcairn

Front 602

Captain of the Bounty that was overthrown by mutineers led by Fletcher Christian in 1789

Back 602

Captain Bligh

Front 603

Doctrines that call for a classless society where all means of production are commonly owned

Back 603

Marxism

Front 604

This house ruled from 1154-1399 (england)

Back 604

Plantagenet

Front 605

Opening in a bone; Magnum is one

Back 605

foramen

Front 606

Author of "Metamorphoses" & "The Art of Love"

Back 606

Ovid (43 bc-17/18 ad) roman poet best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria

Front 607

12th C Persian poet; author of "Rubai-yat"

Back 607

Omar Khayyam: Persian polymath: philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He also wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, mineralogy, music, climatology and theology.

Front 608

His Typee was partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, in 1842

Back 608

Herman Melville

Front 609

type of novel that is a popular sub-genre of prose fiction which is usually satirical and depicts, in realistic and often humorous detail, the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his wits in a corrupt society.

Back 609

picaresque

Front 610

picaresque novel written by John Kennedy Toole published 11 years after his suicide

Back 610

A confederacy of dunces

Front 611

John Kennedy Tool novel with main characters Ignatius Reilly, Myrna Minkoff, Irene Reilly

Back 611

A confederacy of dunces

Front 612

Novel by charles dickens that follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather,

Back 612

The Old Curiousity Shop

Front 613

stamp collector

Back 613

philatelist

Front 614

numismatist collects these

Back 614

Coins

Front 615

deposed King in 1327 (1307-1327) held in Berkley Castle established colleges at oxford and cambridge

Back 615

Edward II, deposed by wife Isabella of France. First English prince to hold title Prince of Wales.

Front 616

Roman name for EOS (greek name) goddess of the dawn

Back 616

Aurora

Front 617

"true cross" city on gulf of mexico

Back 617

Vera cruz

Front 618

Country of Timbuktu

Back 618

Mali

Front 619

capital of manitoba

Back 619

winnipeg

Front 620

strom thurmond got the 3rd most votes when he was elected

Back 620

Truman

Front 621

concluding a 4 book series - his 2004 novel "folly and glory" features kit carson william clark & jim bowie

Back 621

Larry mcmurtry

Front 622

the gastrointestinal tract is also called this canal, watson ("A")

Back 622

Alimentary

Front 623

2 veterbral these perform the rather important function of supplying blood to the brain

Back 623

artery

Front 624

tiny thin walled sacs in the lungs

Back 624

alveoli

Front 625

title of nobility rank just below earl - with a silent s

Back 625

vicount

Front 626

American artist born 1943 known for satirical comics

Back 626

Robert Crumb or R crumb

Front 627

most expensive aircraft is this stealth bomber

Back 627

b-2

Front 628

stone age -early man

Back 628

neanderthal

Front 629

webster who wrote the dictionaries

Back 629

noah

Front 630

the first issue of this "incisive" british medical journal was published on october 5, 1823

Back 630

lancet

Front 631

son of queen victoria who was king

Back 631

Edward Vii

Front 632

Only lincoln child to survive to adulthood

Back 632

robert todd lincoln

Front 633

This dutchman was the first european to see the country of new zealand

Back 633

Tasman

Front 634

name of the deck of aircraft carrier that holds the aircraft

Back 634

flight deck

Front 635

upper deck on a ship where folks can stroll

Back 635

promenade

Front 636

its the term for sums of money sent back to their homelands by immigrants in the us

Back 636

remittances

Front 637

(baseball)cardinal legend who hit safely over 3600 times (was 90 in 2011)

Back 637

stan musial

Front 638

noah's sons

Back 638

shem & ham

Front 639

colorful river in south africa

Back 639

orange river

Front 640

the largest natioal park lies on this island; at 375,000 square miles it occupies about 45% of this islands area

Back 640

greenland

Front 641

charles marlow & mr, kurtz novel

Back 641

Heart of Darkness

Front 642

cedric the saxon, rebecca , lady rowena novel

Back 642

ivanhoe

Front 643

charles ryder, Lord & lady marchmain - novel

Back 643

brideshead revisited

Front 644

christian, evangelist, mr.worldly wiseman - novel

Back 644

Pilgrim's progress

Front 645

Irish national park with 3 lakes

Back 645

killarney national park

Front 646

rock icon - he's had 12 top 10 hits on billboard, including 7 from a 1984 album, he's never had a no.1 single

Back 646

bruce springsteen

Front 647

He became NY's senior senator when daniel patrick moynihan retired in 2001 (c.s)

Back 647

charles schumer

Front 648

his "chicago poems" (c.s)

Back 648

carl sandburg

Front 649

alphabetically last current supreme court justice

Back 649

thomas

Front 650

Three Kinky Southern Girls Bring Rock Stars Scandals Aplenty mnemonic for the supreme court justices

Back 650

Clarence Thomas, Anthony Kennedy, Sonya sotomayor, ruth bader ginsburg, stephen breyer, john roberts, john paul stevens, anthony scalia, samuel alito

Front 651

sorceress was introduced into arthurian legend as arthur's healer by geoffrey of monmouth around 1150

Back 651

morgan la Fey

Front 652

fabled isle - final resting place of King arthur

Back 652

avalon

Front 653

"life" memoir of this rolling stone

Back 653

keith richards

Front 654

author of "good in bed" & "In her shoes"

Back 654

Jennifer weiner

Front 655

an eye socket

Back 655

orbit

Front 656

Granite Peak in Custer National Forest is this states highest point

Back 656

Montana

Front 657

the granite state is this state

Back 657

new hampshire

Front 658

train hit - drops of -----

Back 658

jupiter

Front 659

a jazz musician whose costumes combined ancient egypt & science fiction ----- ra

Back 659

Sun

Front 660

Mt Rushmore sculptor

Back 660

gutzen borglum

Front 661

sculptor who won the commissionn for "the burghers of calais" he promised to deliver "six sculptures for the price of one"

Back 661

Auguste Rodin

Front 662

French sculptor

Back 662

Auguste Rodin

Front 663

JFK sent 3000 troops to restore order after black student James Meredith attended this school in 1962

Back 663

University of Mississippii

Front 664

In october 1962 this UN Ambassador said he'd wait "until hell freezes over" for a soviet reply to photos taken over cuba

Back 664

Adlai Stevenson

Front 665

this film whose title refers to an establishment holds the reocrd for most wins, 8, without winning best picture

Back 665

cabaret

Front 666

"earthy" term for one's country of origin, especially if it's ireland

Back 666

old sod

Front 667

hollywood walk of fame is at this theater

Back 667

Grauman's Chinese Theater (known as mann's theater 1973-2001)

Front 668

guitarist in van halen

Back 668

eddie van halen

Front 669

lead singer of van halen after david lee roth left

Back 669

Sammy hagar

Front 670

activia-selling actress

Back 670

jamie lee curtis

Front 671

1812 he completed his 7th and 8th symponies

Back 671

beethoven

Front 672

on feb 27 1812 this poet addressed the hosue of lords for the first time speaking on the luddite rioting

Back 672

byron

Front 673

The Nisei week festival is held every august in the section of LA known as "little" this city

Back 673

little Tokyo

Front 674

Helm's deep & The taming of smeagol are chapters in the "two" titled book

Back 674

The two towers

Front 675

Proteus loves julie, but another woman catches his eye in this shakespeare play (two)

Back 675

The two gentlemen of verona

Front 676

Dominick Dunne wrote about a pair of women in a navy ensign's life in "the two mrs. " these

Back 676

Grenvilles

Front 677

french term for a small, prepared and usually decorative appetizer

Back 677

Canape

Front 678

river through omaha

Back 678

missouri river

Front 679

Peak in the back of the seal of portland oregon

Back 679

mt hood

Front 680

that's funny - the name of this arm bone is from the latin for "shoulder"

Back 680

Humerus

Front 681

Edward Jenner - vaccine for this disease

Back 681

small pox

Front 682

Louis pasteur vaccine

Back 682

rabies

Front 683

Jonas Salk vaccine

Back 683

polio

Front 684

Penicillin discoverer

Back 684

Alexander fleming

Front 685

scottish physician pioneer of naval hygiene. developed theory that citrus fruits cure scurvy

Back 685

James Lind

Front 686

English physician (1578-1657) was first person to describe in detail how blood flows from heart to parts of the body and back

Back 686

William harvey

Front 687

he's the only attorney general ever convicted of a felony

Back 687

john mitchell (from nixon admin)

Front 688

He became Attorney general in 2001 shortly after losing his re-election race as a senator from missouri

Back 688

John Ashcroft

Front 689

in july 2011 it completed its first orbit around the sun since its discovery in 1846

Back 689

Neptune

Front 690

whose symbol was cross of lorraine

Back 690

Joan of Arc

Front 691

broadway show about Betting - characters Nathan & Sky

Back 691

Guy & Dolls

Front 692

First English Child born in America Aug 18, 1587

Back 692

Virginia Dare

Front 693

What colony had the first english child born in america

Back 693

Roanoke colony (now NC)

Front 694

Chair of "God" comes up a lot in Revelation " a pure river of water of life flows from it"

Back 694

throne

Front 695

African country with 550 sq mi lake on western border with same name

Back 695

Chad

Front 696

fortified high point of athens from greek for "high" & "city"

Back 696

acropolis

Front 697

the parthenon is here

Back 697

Acropolis in Athens Greece

Front 698

This literally tranlates into English as "the citadel"

Back 698

acropolis

Front 699

Because of its classical Greco-Roman style, the ruins of Mission San Juan Capistrano's Great Stone Church in California, United States has been called the "American" this

Back 699

acropolis

Front 700

temple on the acropolis dedicated to athena

Back 700

Parthenon

Front 701

the Parthenon is considered one of the most important surviving building of this classic greek architecture style

Back 701

doric

Front 702

this american city has a full scale replica of the Parthenon

Back 702

Nashville

Front 703

Now on display in the British Museum, these statues were removed from the Parthenon by the british embassador to the Ottoman empire (1799-1803) in the early 1800s

Back 703

Elgin Marbles - Thomas bruce was the 7th earl of elgin

Front 704

Composer of Aida

Back 704

Verdi

Front 705

Silent German film about Dracula

Back 705

Nosferatu -unauthorized dram of Bram Stoker's Dracula - released in 1922

Front 706

joseph conrad book inspired by trip up the congo

Back 706

heart of Dearkness

Front 707

Nom de plume of Eric Blair who wrote Animal Farm & 1984

Back 707

George Orwell

Front 708

pyongyang is capital of

Back 708

North Korea

Front 709

1968 move where Taylor discovers Lady liberty poking through the sand

Back 709

Planet of the Apes

Front 710

articles of confederation & declaration of independence where drafted here

Back 710

2nd continental congress

Front 711

The first continental congress met at this hall b/c independence hall was being used

Back 711

Carpenter's Hall

Front 712

Principal meeting place of the Second Continental Congress & the Constitutional convention

Back 712

Independence hall

Front 713

20th C Amer "Beatnik" author cat's cradle
slaughterhouse five

Back 713

Kurt Vonnegut, jr

Front 714

Kerouac coined this term to characterize the underground, anti-conformist youth gathering in New York at that time

Back 714

"beat generation"

Front 715

"beatnik poet"

Back 715

Allen Ginsberg

Front 716

Poet of epic poem "Howl"

Back 716

Allen Ginsberg

Front 717

Jewish poet born in newark new jersey 1926 and grew up in paterson

Back 717

Allen Ginsberg

Front 718

three time pulitzer prize winning author/poet who spent time as a reporter for Chicago Daily news

Back 718

Carl Sandburg

Front 719

poet of "Chicago poems", "corn huskers" who also wrote "rootabaga stories" for children and biography of Abraham Lincoln (which won a pulitzer)

Back 719

Carl Sandburg

Front 720

the vivian girls (a band) are from this borough

Back 720

Brooklyn

Front 721

algonguian for "Great Water"

Back 721

Mississippi

Front 722

God often depicted eating a bunch of grapes and surrounded by satyrs

Back 722

dionysus (greek)
Bacchus (roman)

Front 723

regarded as the holiest location judaism

Back 723

The Temple Mount (claimed by judaism and islam)

Front 724

location of Colosseum, the appian way, pantheon, the forum, arch of Constatine, & st peter's basilica in the vatican

Back 724

Rome

Front 725

"large" cite in rome known for chariot races

Back 725

Circus maximus

Front 726

Playwright of "oedipus rex"

Back 726

sophocles

Front 727

tropical land mass of grassland and scattered trees

Back 727

savanna

Front 728

"old Soldier" general

Back 728

Douglas MacArthur

Front 729

what opera did Verdi write to honor the opening of what canal?

Back 729

Aida & Suez

Front 730

"ars gratia artis" - motto of Metro-goldwyn-mayer (mgm) means this

Back 730

art for art's sake

Front 731

20th c amer author of detective fiction -
sam spade main character
"the maltese falcon"

Back 731

Dashiell hammett

Front 732

Japanese island tokyo is on

Back 732

honshu
Hokaido, kyushu & shikoku are the other three

Front 733

20th C filmmaker
"wild strawberries"
"the virgin spring"
"cries and whispers"
"scenes from a marriage"

Back 733

Ingmar Bergman

Front 734

1998 territory carved out of NW Territories for the Inuit Homeland

Back 734

Nunavut

Front 735

Amer author of the red badge of Courage

Back 735

Stephen Crane

Front 736

Novel about Henry Fleming who was a deserter of the civil war who then returns to his regiment and fights the confederates

Back 736

Red Badge of Courage

Front 737

he played Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret Stage & screen

Back 737

Joel Grey

Front 738

"gravelly" singer of Hello, Dolly" & "it's wonderful world"

Back 738

Louis Armstrong

Front 739

France's national Anthem

Back 739

The Marseillaise

Front 740

Piece of music for instruments alone as an introduction to a longer work

Back 740

overture

Front 741

Clint Eastwood got his start on this western TV Series

Back 741

Rawhide - he played Rowdy Yates

Front 742

american western series aired 59-65 (on CBS) with characters - cattle drovers Gil Favor & Rowdy Yates

Back 742

Rawhide

Front 743

Longest running TV western

Back 743

Gunsmoke

Front 744

Western series tied with Law & Order in 2010 at 20 seasons for longest running primetime Live action series

Back 744

Gunsmoke - though gunsmoke had more episodes per season

Front 745

at the end of its run in 1975 cecil smith wrote: Our own Iliad and Odyssey, created from standard elements of the dime novel and the pulp western as romanticized by Buntline, Harte, and Twain. It was ever the stuff of legend

Back 745

Gunsmoke

Front 746

Radio series (1952-61) with characters :
marshal Matt dillon
Doc Charles Adams
Kitty Russell
Chester wesley proudfoot

Back 746

Gunsmoke (the radio series)

Front 747

this legendary actor introduced the first episode of Gunsmoke -especially the new start James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon

Back 747

Gunsmoke (the tv series)

Front 748

James Arness played this character for 20 years - a record

Back 748

Marshal Matt Dillon

Front 749

Setting for Gunsmoke

Back 749

Dodge City (kansas)

Front 750

2 longest running western series

Back 750

Bonanza

Front 751

Western that centers on the Cartwright family that lives near Lake Tahoe, NV

Back 751

Bonanza

Front 752

this western stars:
The show stars Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, and David Canary. T

Back 752

Bonanza

Front 753

This show's title comes from s a term used by miners in regards to a large vein or deposit of ore,[1

Back 753

Bonanza

Front 754

Guinea became independent from this country in 1958

Back 754

France

Front 755

President 1909-1912

Back 755

Taft

Front 756

20th c eng born film maker & actor known for "the gold rush" , "city lights" & "modern times"

Back 756

Charlie Chaplin

Front 757

Little Women Family

Back 757

The March Family - by louisa may alcott

Front 758

President with Famous "whistle stop tour" confounded predictions that he would lose re-election in 1948

Back 758

Truman

Front 759

Russian born 20th C Artist known for stained-glass panels in Jerusalem & murals at the metropolitan Opera House in NYC

Back 759

Marc Chagall

Front 760

Play about George & Martha with youngman trying to alter chromosomes

Back 760

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf

Front 761

Jewish russian-french artist - known for several styles including fauvism

Back 761

Chagall

Front 762

one time partner of woodward

Back 762

carl bernstein

Front 763

a tower w/several different stories each w/its own roof

Back 763

pagoda

Front 764

Commanding General of Union army accepted surrender at Appomatox Court House

Back 764

US Grant

Front 765

First year of Civil War

Back 765

1861

Front 766

First Lite Beer

Back 766

Miller Lite

Front 767

Reticulated Snakes

Back 767

pythons (reticulated means net-like and refers to their patterns)

Front 768

World's longest snake & longest reptile

Back 768

Reticulated Python (found in southeast asia)

Front 769

JFK's pt boat number -

Back 769

109

Front 770

JFK's rank when he commanded pT 109

Back 770

Lieutenant (jr grade)

Front 771

3 muscle types

Back 771

cardiac, smooth & skeletal

Front 772

cumberland falls state resort park

Back 772

kentucky

Front 773

soviet troops invaded this country to put down a revolution against the communist gov't in 1956

Back 773

hungary

Front 774

October 23 (start of a revolution in 1956) is now a national holiday in this country

Back 774

Hungary

Front 775

THis "cocktail" soviet diplomat/politician was the principle signer of the Nazi-Soviet Nonagression pact of 1939

Back 775

Molotov

Front 776

1998 Yugoslavia president

Back 776

Milosavich

Front 777

fred astaire's popular partner

Back 777

Ginger Rogers

Front 778

president of serbia republic 89-97, president of yugoslavia 97-2000

Back 778

Milosavich

Front 779

War in Slovenia (1991) (aka ten-day war)
Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995)
Bosnian War (1992–1995)
collectively make up these wars

Back 779

Yugoslav Wars

Front 780

Wings and legs of insects are connected to this middle body part

Back 780

Thorax

Front 781

insects respiration, digestion and reproduction systems are in this part of the body

Back 781

abdomen

Front 782

author of the rime of the ancient mariner

Back 782

samuel taylor coleridge

Front 783

Also name of a fenimoore cooper story - first american spacecraft to land on mars

Back 783

Pathfinder

Front 784

a farthing was worth this much in england/uk

Back 784

1/4 of a penny

Front 785

Billingsgate is on this river in this city

Back 785

Thames in london

Front 786

Trinovantum is the name given to this town in british medieval legend

Back 786

London

Front 787

Southwest indians named for these dwellings

Back 787

Pueblos

Front 788

main alcohol in booilermaker along with beer

Back 788

Whiskey

Front 789

main alcohol in tom collins - dry type of this

Back 789

gin

Front 790

rob roy main alcohol ingredient along with vermouth

Back 790

scotch

Front 791

singapore sling -main alcohol ingredient

Back 791

gin

Front 792

alcohol derives flavor from juniper berries

Back 792

gin

Front 793

From 2007 to 2011 the president, vp & prime minister all had the same family name in this country of indochina

Back 793

vietname - ngyuen

Front 794

he played dr strangelove

Back 794

Peter Sellers

Front 795

julian mcmahon played this comic book doctor who was struck by cosmic waves in 2005 & 2007

Back 795

dr. doom

Front 796

bible book of "and i beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake"

Back 796

Revelation

Front 797

"the fear of the lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction" bible book

Back 797

proverbs

Front 798

ed norton on the honeymooners

Back 798

art carney

Front 799

"art" big band leader

Back 799

artie shaw

Front 800

'art" -holy wide receiver for the redskins

Back 800

art monk

Front 801

stop motion animator created gumby & Pokey

Back 801

art clokey

Front 802

gotland & bornholm are islands in this sea

Back 802

baltic sea

Front 803

New york state's grand island & three sister's islands are in this river

Back 803

niagara river

Front 804

shoulder muscle

Back 804

deltoid

Front 805

in his diary he wrote "my election as president...was not half so gratifying" as his later election to congress in 1830

Back 805

JQ adams

Front 806

1930s novel - an audio version of this anti-war novel by a once blacklisted author has introductions from cindy sheehan & ron kovic

Back 806

Johnny got his gun by Dalton Trumbo

Front 807

only president elected as us representative after being president

Back 807

john quincy adams

Front 808

cross of loganberry, raspberry & black berry

Back 808

boysen berry

Front 809

wabash river is in this state

Back 809

indiana

Front 810

"color"ful river in indianapolis

Back 810

White River

Front 811

1964 summer olympics held here were the first olympics held in Asia

Back 811

Tokyo

Front 812

Olympic games cancelled due to WWII were supposed to be held here

Back 812

Helsinki (prior to that Tokyo - but japan invaded china and it was given to helsinki)

Front 813

1952 summer olympics were held here - it was famous for being the olympics where the most world records were broken prior to 2008 Beijing games

Back 813

Helsinki

Front 814

Muhammad ali first took the heavyweight title with a 1964 upset over this man

Back 814

Sonny Liston

Front 815

in 2011 muhammad ali said of this man, "the world has lost a great champion"; he had less kind things to say in the 70s

Back 815

Joe Frasier

Front 816

avenue in Manhattan known for the garment district

Back 816

7th avenue

Front 817

imaginary barrier separating the performers on stage from the audience during a play

Back 817

4th wall

Front 818

the lowest rank of commissioned officer in the us army or marines

Back 818

2nd lieutenant

Front 819

philip roth's book ____'s complaint

Back 819

portnoy

Front 820

umberto eco book -----'s pendulum

Back 820

foucalt

Front 821

non-violent crime of stealing property or money

Back 821

larseny

Front 822

handel work - includes a piece called "alla hornpipe"-- everybody dance!

Back 822

water music

Front 823

1981 maestro from india was made music director for life of the israel philharmonic

Back 823

mehta

Front 824

this composer of armenian heritage is best known for the "sabre dance" from his ballet "gayane"

Back 824

Khachaturian

Front 825

insult comic dog "tri"

Back 825

triumph

Front 826

ancient roman warship with multiple tiers "tri"

Back 826

Trireme

Front 827

represents the us in cases against the supreme court (general)

Back 827

solicitor general

Front 828

the 1896 case of homer plessy v. this judge set the precedent of "separate but equal" facilities

Back 828

ferguson

Front 829

people also called Lapps

Back 829

the Sami

Front 830

who played father knowns best & marcus welby

Back 830

robert young

Front 831

oscar madison & quincy me

Back 831

jack klugman

Front 832

between 2000 and 2010 these two neighboring states had the highest increase in population percentage - 35% & 25%

Back 832

nevada & arizona

Front 833

This spanish painter 1746-1828 - is considered the last of the old masters and first of the moderns and famous for the nude maja & the clothed maja

Back 833

Francisco goya

Front 834

Spansih artist was a court painter

Back 834

Francisco goya

Front 835

his "The disasters of war" were not published until 1863 - 35 years after his death

Back 835

Francisco goya

Front 836

leading cultural center in east-central Germany since Reformation - home to JS Back, Felix Mendelssohn, Richard Wagner & Robert Shumann - capital of book & music publishing in Germany until damaged in WWII

Back 836

Leipzig

Front 837

who created marble statue David

Back 837

Michelangelo

Front 838

19th C Germanic Romantic Composer known for "A German Requiem" and his "Lullaby"

Back 838

Johannes Brahms

Front 839

At the time of its completion this NY bridge was world's longest suspension bridg

Back 839

Brooklyn Bridge

Front 840

General Augusto Pinochet overthrew Salvador Allende in this country in 1973

Back 840

Argentina

Front 841

20th C American modern Dancer & Choreographer

Back 841

Martha graham

Front 842

This pennsylvania born american dancer (born 1894) danced into her 70s. And was the first dancer ever to perform at the white house & receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Back 842

Martha Graham

Front 843

highest civilian award of the USA

Back 843

Presidential Medal of Freedom

Front 844

the highest military decoration awarded by the US Govt

Back 844

medal of Honor (congressional is erroneous - the award citation includes the phrase "in the name of Congress")

Front 845

reached fame playing Stanley Kowalski on broadway

Back 845

Marlon Brando (he also played him in film)

Front 846

Starred in "Last Tango in Paris" & "On the Waterfront"

Back 846

Marlon brando

Front 847

choral singing w/out instruments

Back 847

a cappella

Front 848

the four seasons composer

Back 848

antonio vivaldi

Front 849

Painter of mona lisa

Back 849

da vinci

Front 850

strait separating european & asian turkey connects black sea and med sea

Back 850

bosporus strait

Front 851

20th c swedish born amer film actress "I want to be alone" retired in 1940s, recluse until death in 1990

Back 851

greta garbo - line was in "Grand Hotel"

Front 852

Said stars & sun revolve around earth - greek living in egypt

Back 852

ptolemy

Front 853

"barber"ous city of southern spain - has moorish palace "alcazar"

Back 853

Seville

Front 854

River Belgrade is located on

Back 854

danube river

Front 855

films "duck soup"
& "night at the opera" starred who?

Back 855

the marx brothers

Front 856

Northern Europeans known for plundering & savage - plundered rome in 5th c ad

Back 856

Vandals

Front 857

City home to tomb of Lenin, Gorki Central Park & Bolshoe Ballet Theater

Back 857

Moscow

Front 858

czech monk studied "genetics" in pea plants

Back 858

gregor mendel

Front 859

Carthagenian General
moved army through spain via the Alps

Back 859

Hannibal

Front 860

247-183/2 BC - General fought in the Punic Wars from the Carthage side

Back 860

Hannibal

Front 861

This 202 BC battle marked the end of the 2nd Punic War when Scipio defeated Hannibal

Back 861

Battle of Zama

Front 862

Mongol Warrior who united Mongols and Conquered from Korea to Eastern Europe

Back 862

Genghis Khan (grandfather of Kubla khan)

Front 863

13th C ruler ruled over what became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death.

Back 863

the Mongol Empire - Genghis Khan

Front 864

Italian for "master"

Back 864

maestro

Front 865

36th President Nov 1963-69 democrat
vp hubert humphrey
was a US Rep & US sen from TX

Back 865

LBJ

Front 866

day of groundhog day

Back 866

feb 2

Front 867

Roman god who ruled the sea

Back 867

neptune

Front 868

john o'sullivan coined the term for usa's right to cover continent

Back 868

manifest destiny

Front 869

liechtenstein capital

Back 869

vaduz

Front 870

ghana capital

Back 870

accra

Front 871

algieria capital

Back 871

algiers

Front 872

ethiopia capital

Back 872

addis abbaba

Front 873

flowers monet liked to paint

Back 873

water lillies

Front 874

external arched support for the wall of church or other building - used in many gothic cathedrals

Back 874

flying buttress

Front 875

german novel by Eric maria Remarque about horrors & futility of wwi

Back 875

All quiet on the western front

Front 876

Poland capital

Back 876

warsaw

Front 877

Norway Capital

Back 877

oslo

Front 878

netherlands capital

Back 878

amsterdam (the hague is seat of govt)

Front 879

Portugal capital

Back 879

lisbon

Front 880

iran capital

Back 880

tehran

Front 881

first ocean going vessel to use nuclear power

Back 881

uss nautilus (a sub) 4 us navy boats have been named that

Front 882

first vessel to complete a submerged transit beneath the North Pole on August 3, 1958

Back 882

uss nautilus

Front 883

this ship designated a National Historic Landmark in 1982. She has been preserved as a museum of submarine history in Groton, Connecticut,

Back 883

USS Nautilus

Front 884

this ship's sinking of the Houstanic was the first successful submarine attack of a warship

Back 884

The Hunley

Front 885

This capital of manitoba is the largest city in Canada's "prairie provinces"

Back 885

Winnipeg

Front 886

Lebanon Capital

Back 886

Beirut

Front 887

Haiti capital

Back 887

Port au prince

Front 888

liberia capital

Back 888

monrovia

Front 889

botswana capital

Back 889

gaborone

Front 890

lithuania capital

Back 890

vilnius

Front 891

belarus capital

Back 891

minsk

Front 892

the bahamas capital

Back 892

nassau

Front 893

Soviet Union Flag nickname

Back 893

hammer & sickle

Front 894

egypt capital

Back 894

cairo

Front 895

kuwait capital

Back 895

kuwait city

Front 896

guatemala capital

Back 896

Guatemala City

Front 897

gadsen purchase is the southern end of which 2 states

Back 897

arizona & new mexico

Front 898

Ireland capital

Back 898

Dublin

Front 899

magician in King arthur's court principal advisor to arthur

Back 899

merlin

Front 900

Month of March is named after this god

Back 900

Mars

Front 901

Joel & Benji madden - identical brothers form this group

Back 901

good charlotte

Front 902

kosovo capital

Back 902

pristina

Front 903

venezuela capital

Back 903

caracas

Front 904

kid in where the wild things are

Back 904

max

Front 905

religious festival commemorates resurrection of Jesus

Back 905

Easter

Front 906

Panama capital

Back 906

Panama city

Front 907

Hey Jude singer

Back 907

The Beatles

Front 908

no double jeopardy amendment

Back 908

5th

Front 909

author of "rootabaga stories" poerms about countryside & industrial heartland of US e.g. "chicago" & bio of Abe Lincoln -
20th c american

Back 909

Carl Sandburg

Front 910

The first Tudor King

Back 910

Henry VII

Front 911

VP of Mckinley when Mckinley was assassinated

Back 911

Teddy Roosevelt

Front 912

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead author

Back 912

Tom Stoppard

Front 913

british playwright knighted in 1997 known for:
as Arcadia,
The Coast of Utopia,
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour,
Professional Foul,
The Real Thing

Back 913

Tom Stoppard (fled czechoslavakia as a child from nazi occupation)

Front 914

British playwright who cowrote screenplays for Brazil & Shakespeare in Love

Back 914

Tom Stoppard

Front 915

who won victories for epirus over the romans - it was an empty victory

Back 915

pyrrhus

Front 916

Anthem author

Back 916

Ayn Rand

Front 917

author Jane Eyre

Back 917

charlotte Bronte

Front 918

Wuthering Heights author

Back 918

Emily Bronte

Front 919

"Heathcliff" is from this bronte novel

Back 919

Wuthering Heights

Front 920

Mr. Rochester is from this bronte novel

Back 920

Jane Eyre

Front 921

author of the ugly duckling

Back 921

Hans Christian Anderson

Front 922

Thursday is named for him

Back 922

Thor

Front 923

Prometheus & Atlas were these types of Gods

Back 923

Titans

Front 924

King who offended the gods & was tortured w/everlasting thirst & hunger in hades (stood in water but if he bent -water receded, if he reached to pick fruit the wind blew it out of reach)

Back 924

tantalus

Front 925

epic in latin by Virgil (29-19 bc)

Back 925

Aeneid

Front 926

epic about Achilles vs Agammenon in the trojan war

Back 926

Illiad by Homer (8th c bc)

Front 927

Homer epic about 10 year journey home to Penelope

Back 927

Odyssey by Homer (8th c bc)

Front 928

cambodia capital

Back 928

phnom penh

Front 929

laos capital

Back 929

Vientiane

Front 930

Malawi capital

Back 930

lilongwe

Front 931

process of reasoning that moves from specific instances to predict general principles

Back 931

induction

Front 932

alphabet for Russian and related languages

Back 932

cyrillic

Front 933

Gods in Mythology who ruled universe until overthrown by zeus

Back 933

Titans

Front 934

# of arabian nights tales

Back 934

1001

Front 935

into thin air &
into the wild author

Back 935

jon krakauer

Front 936

Krakauer book and film about Christopher McCandless who left society and ended up camping in a derelict bus for over 100 days before his death

Back 936

Into the Wild

Front 937

Krakauer's non-fiction account of 1996 Mount everest disaster

Back 937

Into thin Air

Front 938

Daughter of Agamemmnon who avenged his death w/help of her borther

Back 938

Electra

Front 939

Author of "the emperor's new clothes"

Back 939

Hans Christian Andersen

Front 940

Roman God of Love

Back 940

Cupid

Front 941

Helen of Tory is conceived this way

Back 941

Leda & the Swan (zeus)

Front 942

Troops may not be quartered in homes in peacetime amendment

Back 942

3rd

Front 943

often dome shaped small ornamental structure rising from a roof

Back 943

cupola

Front 944

"mercy mercy me"
"what's going on"
late singer

Back 944

marvin gaye

Front 945

"tears of a clown" singer

Back 945

smokey robinson

Front 946

Smokey Robinson back up group

Back 946

the miracles

Front 947

1932 novel by stella gibbons about starkadder family

Back 947

cold comfort farm

Front 948

author of sonnet
ozymandias

Back 948

Percy Bysse Shelley (principal eng romantic poet)

Front 949

The central theme of this percy shelley poem is the inevitable complete decline of all leaders, and of the empires they build, however mighty in their own time

Back 949

ozymandias
said (ozzymandees) 4 syllables

Front 950

1933 James hilton tale of a fabled land (shangri-la in the mountains of tibet)

Back 950

lost horizon

Front 951

1934 James Hilton novel of a school teacher and his long tenure at Brookfield (fictional boys public boarding school) during late 1800s thru wwi to Hitler's rise to Power

Back 951

Goodbye, Mr Chips

Chips is nickname for Mr. Chipping

Front 952

11th President who was an Eloquent Orator Known as "Napoleon of the stump"

Back 952

James K Polk

Front 953

The winter of our discontent
& "the moon is down"
author of those books

Back 953

Steinbeck

Front 954

19th c french painter and sculptor preferred subjects were ballet dancers & scenes from cafe life

Back 954

edgar degas

Front 955

Sweeney Todd was this type of barber

Back 955

Demon

Front 956

Port city in SW France known for Wine

Back 956

Bordeaux

Front 957

Tutti-frutti -singer

Back 957

little richard

Front 958

the belmont stakes location & nickname -

Back 958

Elmont, Ny & "Run for the carnations"

Front 959

Race nicknamed "run for the roses" or "Fastest two minutes in sports" or "most exciting two minutes in sports"

Back 959

Kentucky Derby

Front 960

City of Kentucky derby

Back 960

Louisville, KY

Front 961

age of horses run in kentucky derby - first saturday in may

Back 961

3 year old thoroughbreds

Front 962

official cocktail of the kentucky derby

Back 962

mint julep (bourbon, mint, sugar)

Front 963

race run at pimlico race course, in baltimore maryland 3rd saturday in may

Back 963

The Preakness Stakes

Front 964

The Preakness "flowery nickname"

Back 964

The run for the black-eyed susans

Front 965

Third and final leg of the US Triple Crown run in June- 5 weeks after the first leg and 3 weeks after 2nd leg

Back 965

Belmont Stakes

Front 966

length of hundred years war

Back 966

116 years

Front 967

an Indian conductor of western classical music. He is the Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Back 967

zubin mehta

Front 968

he was director of NY Philharmonic 59-69

Back 968

Leonard Bernstein

Front 969

late-romantic austrian composer who was briefly director of NY Met opera & NY Philharmonic

Back 969

Gustav Mahler

Front 970

composer of Das klagende Lied (song of lament)
1880: Three Lieder: "Im Lenz"; "Winterlied"; "Maitanz im Grünen"

Back 970

Gustav Mahler

Front 971

Work divided into three periods - "early/juvenile period" "middle period" "late period"

Back 971

Gustav Mahler

Front 972

This buddhist and active supporter of the dalai lama came to fame in American Gigolo 1980

Back 972

Richard Gere

Front 973

Who was married to Richard Gere 1992-95

Back 973

Cindy Crawford

Front 974

Two main actor& actress of Officer and a Gentlemen

Back 974

Richard Gere & Debra Winger

Front 975

nicknamed the "cowboy philosopher"

Back 975

WIll Rogers

Front 976

how many boys in pet shop boys

Back 976

2

Front 977

american humorist, actor, vaudevillian & cowboy who was one of the world's largest stars 1920-1930s

Back 977

Will Rogers

Front 978

Oklahoma's favorite son

Back 978

Will Rogers (born a cherokee)

Front 979

He was born allan stewart konisberg

Back 979

Woody Allen

Front 980

which band featured Harrison & starkey

Back 980

CCR

Front 981

great lakes - west to east

Back 981

superior - michigan - huron - erie-ontario

Front 982

the one great lake MI doesn't touch

Back 982

Ontario

Front 983

king of israel who cheated w/bathsheba

Back 983

David

Front 984

Century of the Black Plague

Back 984

14th C - 1347-1350

Front 985

who took small step for man giant leap for mankind

Back 985

Neil Armstrong

Front 986

lunar landing mission

Back 986

Apollo 11

Front 987

Astronauts in Apollo 11

Back 987

Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldren & Michael Collins

Front 988

this silent film of 2011 won best picture/actor/ original score

Back 988

"the artist"

Front 989

1920s sex symbol known for these films:
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle and Son of the Sheik.

Back 989

Rudolph Valentino

Front 990

"falcon's lair" was once owned by this silent film star and then by socialite Doris Duke (daughter of tobacco and energy tycoon James Buchanan duke)

Back 990

Rudolph Valentino

Front 991

this tycoon gave a $40 endowment to trinity college in NJ - and it was renamed in honor of his father

Back 991

James Buchanana Duke - "buck" duke - the university was Duke University. (there is also a library at Furman named for him)

Front 992

He had a monopoly on the American Cigarette market in the 1890s

Back 992

James Buchanan Duke - "buck" duke

Front 993

Period lasting from 5th cent ad to 15th cent ad (beginning of the renaissance)

Back 993

medieval period

Front 994

Ancient greek poet known for love lyrics born in Lesbos

Back 994

Sappho

Front 995

Who lived on the shores of Gitchee Gumee River

Back 995

Hiawatha

Front 996

20th c french philosopher and author of "no exit"

Back 996

Jean Paul Sarte

Front 997

Federated States of Micronesia

Back 997

Palikir

Front 998

Palikir is capital of

Back 998

Federated States of Micronesia

Front 999

Oscar Arias Sanchez was president of

Back 999

Costa Rica 2006-10 & 1986-1990; Nobel Peace Prize 1987 (efforts to stop civil wars in other C. American countries)

Front 1000

Quetzal Bird & currency of this country

Back 1000

Guatemala

Front 1001

"The once and future King"

Back 1001

King Arthur (b/c of belief that he will return)

Front 1002

King of Troy

Back 1002

Prium

Front 1003

"Sailor King" 1830-1837

Back 1003

William IV (1765-1837) pred: George IV (brother) succ: Victoria (niece)

Front 1004

Port Louis capital of

Back 1004

Mauritius

Front 1005

Mauritius capital is

Back 1005

Port Louis

Front 1006

Bishkek is capital of

Back 1006

Kyrgyzstan

Front 1007

Kyrgyzstan capital is

Back 1007

Bishkek

Front 1008

Who said "Am I my brother's keeper?"

Back 1008

Cain (in response to God asking where Abel is)

Front 1009

Cain and Abel, who killed who

Back 1009

Cain killed Abel

Front 1010

Who patented the 1st phonograph

Back 1010

Edison

Front 1011

What part of Britain was occupied by the Germans in WWII

Back 1011

The Channel Islands

Front 1012

David sent her husband Uriah to battle

Back 1012

Bathsheba (mother of Solomon who succeded David). David had already seduced her, tried to get husband to leave battle and have sex with wife. when that failed sent him to battle to die. then married Bathsheba. child died. Solomon came later. Lord not happy.

Front 1013

The Bible book that talks about Armageddon

Back 1013

Revelation

Front 1014

Noah's son considered to be ancestor of Egyptians and African peoples south of Egypt

Back 1014

Ham

Front 1015

Conakry is the capital of

Back 1015

Guinea (West Africa, on the coast)

Front 1016

Guinea's capital is

Back 1016

Conakry

Front 1017

16th c spanish priest founder of the Jesuits

Back 1017

Ignatius of Loyola

Front 1018

Ancient Greek known for tragedies "Bacchal", "Medea" and "The Trojan Woman"

Back 1018

Euripides 480-406 BC one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, other 2 being Aeschylus and Sophocles.

Front 1019

18th C French political philosopher "The Spirit of Laws" defended the principles of separation of power (lived during "the enlightenment"

Back 1019

Baron de Charles Montesquieu Separation of state powers: executive; legislative; judicial, Classification of systems of government based on their principles. Influenced James Madison & pre-revolutionary British America

Front 1020

"Father of the Constitution" & "Father of the Bill of Rights"

Back 1020

James Madison (virginia 1751-1836), co produced federalist papers (with Jay & Hamilton) to support ratifying Constitution, 1789 head of House of Rep., 1791 with Jefferson formed the Democratic-Republican party, Jefferson's Sec. of State (supervised LA Purch.), 4th pres. 1809-1817 war of 1812

Front 1021

Greek comedy in which title character persuades women of Athens & Sparta to refuse sex w/husbands until 2 cities make peace

Back 1021

Lysistrata

Front 1022

Italian artist of the 19-teens
Nude Sitting on a Divan
Madame Pompadour
Jeanne Hébuterne in Red Shawl

Back 1022

Modigliani (1884-1920) Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. Primarily a figurative artist, became known for paintings & sculptures in a modern style characterized by mask-like faces & elongation of form.

Front 1023

Drinking fountain on a ship or gossip or rumor

Back 1023

scuttlebutt

Front 1024

wales is separated from this country by st. george's channel

Back 1024

Ireland

Front 1025

year nixon visited China & reopened relations

Back 1025

1972

Front 1026

bristol bay is arm of this sea off alaska

Back 1026

bering sea

Front 1027

largest city & 2nd largest city in brazil

Back 1027

sao paolo & rio de janiero

Front 1028

when a man loves a woman original singer

Back 1028

percy sledge

Front 1029

the message singer

Back 1029

grandmaster flash and the furious five

Front 1030

1954 vietnam was split into North & South by this conference

Back 1030

Geneva Conference of 1954

Front 1031

Geneva Accords came out of Geneva conventions which were to happen 3 months after the end of this war (they were a delayed)

Back 1031

Korean War

Front 1032

19th C Hungarian composer and pianist "hungarian rhapsodies"

Back 1032

Liszt

Front 1033

Parallel dividing north from south korea

Back 1033

38th parallel

Front 1034

Source of "little strokes fell great oaks"

Back 1034

Poor richard's almanac - benjamin franklin

Front 1035

winter shade of pale singer

Back 1035

procol harum

Front 1036

SEIU stands for this

Back 1036

Service Employees International Union

Front 1037

James m. Cain Book -
cora & frank, a drifter, meet at a diner and conspire to kill cora's husband Nick - the Greek. Tried once and failed, tried again and succeeded. Cora is tried plea deal, dies in a car crash. Frank is found guilty of her murder.

Back 1037

The Postman always rings twice.

Front 1038

I got you (I feel Good) singer

Back 1038

James Brown

Front 1039

"cast not perals before swine" - who said it

Back 1039

Jesus - in his sermon on the mount - matthew 7:6

Front 1040

norwegian wood (the bird has flown) singer

Back 1040

the beatles

Front 1041

medieval author of "the consolation of philosophy" and translator of Greek philosophy into Latin

Back 1041

Boethius

Front 1042

Boethius wrote this while imprisoned (before his death) contemplating existence evil in a world ruled by god

Back 1042

Consolation of Philosophy

Front 1043

hebrew for "son of the commandment" & "daughter of the commandment"

Back 1043

Bar mitzvah & bat mitzvah

Front 1044

18th c French author notorious for his works dealing w/sexual perversity

Back 1044

Marquis de sade

Front 1045

Roman Empire ruler - 306-337 ad
first roman emperor to convert to christianity

Back 1045

Constantine the Great

Front 1046

This Edict of 313 (by Constantine & co-emperor licinius) allowed for religious tolerance of all religions in the empire

Back 1046

The Edict of Milan

Front 1047

Tangled up in blue

Back 1047

bob dylan

Front 1048

City of Palace of Nebuchadnezzer II where alexander the great died

Back 1048

Babylon

Front 1049

The Canon in D Composer "theme" of Ordinary People

Back 1049

Handel (Baroque)

Front 1050

Broadway play, 1800 drama by german poet friedrich schiller about qe1 & her royal rival mary queen of scots

Back 1050

Mary Stuart

Front 1051

Location of Mauritshuis

Back 1051

The Hague (art museum)

Front 1052

Greek virgin Goddess of the Hunt and the Moon daughter of Zeus, sister of Apollo

Back 1052

Artemis (also called Diana roman)

Front 1053

18 c. Scottish Philosopher known for skepticism

Back 1053

David Hume

Front 1054

Indian doctor, speaker, & spiritual writer who wrote: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfilment of Your Dreams

Back 1054

Deepak Chopra

Front 1055

James Joyce's Literary alter ego who is the main character in his semi-autobiographical A Portait of the Artist as a Young Man

Back 1055

Stephen Dedalus

Front 1056

Alexander the great cut this with his sword - after hearing only the future rule of Asia could untie it

Back 1056

Gordion knot

Front 1057

King Arthur knight known for exceptional purity and virtue - he could see the holy grail

Back 1057

Sir Galahad

Front 1058

1984 movie - Men ride giant worms & attack forces of the emperor

Back 1058

Dune

Front 1059

author of DUne

Back 1059

Frank Herbert

Front 1060

war between athens & sparta - sparta won

Back 1060

Pelopenisian War

Front 1061

King of England after Henry VII - 1509-1547 (his 2nd son)

Back 1061

Henry VIII

Front 1062

Three countries called "the low countries" much of there land is below sea level

Back 1062

Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg

Front 1063

Wednesday named after this top god

Back 1063

Odin

Front 1064

Ruler of Asgard

Back 1064

Odin

Front 1065

Odin's most famous son

Back 1065

Thor

Front 1066

Salinger Book Franny & ----

Back 1066

zooey

Front 1067

major river in France rising in swiss alps flowing west through lake geneva then sw and s across france to mediterranean sea near marseilles - its valley is known for vineyards, fruit & vegetable gardens

Back 1067

rhone

Front 1068

Roberto Clemente died flying supplies to this quake stricken country

Back 1068

nicaragua

Front 1069

Ancient Roman poet known for odes

Back 1069

Horace (65-8 bc) the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus

Front 1070

19th C English Philosopher & economist wrote "Utilitarianism" "On Liberty"

Back 1070

John Stuart Mill "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century"; conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control. proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by Jeremy Bentham. Hoping to remedy problems found in an inductive approach to science, such as confirmation bias, clearly set forth the premises of falsification as the key component in the scientific method.

Front 1071

Ancient Greek Biographer noted for his ethical insights

Back 1071

Plutarch (46-120ad) Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia.

Front 1072

Oslo used to be

Back 1072

Christiania (from 1624 to 1925) Oslo founded 1050.

Front 1073

scottish poet widely regarded as the national poet of scotland

Back 1073

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

Front 1074

well known works of his:
A Red, Red Rose; A Man's A Man for A' That; To a Louse; To a Mouse; The Battle of Sherramuir; Tam o' Shanter, and Ae Fond Kiss.

Back 1074

Robert Burns (scottish)

Front 1075

Auld Lang Syne Poet

Back 1075

Robert Burns

Front 1076

Author of 4 act Play Prometheus Unbound

Back 1076

Percy Shelley - he was inspired by Aeschylus' play "Prometheus Bound"

Front 1077

he was famous for these works:
Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, Music, When Soft Voices Die, The Cloud and The Masque of Anarchy

Back 1077

Percy Shelley - (1792-1922)

Front 1078

in 1812 Percy Shelley wrote the elegy Adonais in response to this other poet's death

Back 1078

John Keats

Front 1079

in 1822 - He died in a return trip from Livorno to lerici (italY)

Back 1079

Percy Shelly

Front 1080

Sister Carrie author

Back 1080

Theodore Drieser

Front 1081

this title character is actually named Caroline Meeber who leaves rural wisconsin life to move to the big city

Back 1081

Sister Carrie

Front 1082

The age of innocence author

Back 1082

Edith Wharton

Front 1083

there's many a slip 'twixt --- --- --- --- ---

Back 1083

the cup and the lip

Front 1084

there's no place like home source

Back 1084

song "home, sweet home"

Front 1085

author of the three sisters

Back 1085

Anton Chekov

Front 1086

orator, writer and statesman w/many speeches to Roman Senate

Back 1086

Cicero

Front 1087

nom de plume of
Sidonic Gabrielle Claudine - author of Cheri & Gigi

Back 1087

Colette

Front 1088

4th-5th C Christian bishop wrote "the city of god" & Autobiography "confessions"

Back 1088

Augustine

Front 1089

SOurce of "to err is human, to forgive divine"

Back 1089

An essay on criticism - alexander pope

Front 1090

person came to power at the end of the "war of the roses"

Back 1090

Henry VII ( he was a distant lancasterian and married ELizabeth of York to unite the two houses) - He is a Henry Tudor

Front 1091

2 people to win nobel prizes in two different fields

Back 1091

Linus Pauling & Marie Curie
marie - 1903 physics -radioactivity
1911-discovery of radium & polonium
linus - chemistry & peace - campaigning against nuclear war

Front 1092

the "baby tooth survey" proved the dangers of this

Back 1092

Nuclear testing (esp above ground) - showed effects from cow's milk of cow's that had eaten contaminated grass

Front 1093

Manifesto named for a philosopher/mathematician and scientist issued in 1955 highlighting the dangers on nuclear weapons

Back 1093

Russell-Einstein Manifesto (einstein signed it just days before is death april 18 1955)

Front 1094

author of Dial m for Murder

Back 1094

Frederick Knott

Front 1095

Pollyanna author american

Back 1095

Eleanor H porter

Front 1096

Grace Kelly stars in this Film Adaptation of a Frederick Knott work

Back 1096

Dial M for Murder

Front 1097

Bach's most famous organ piece

Back 1097

the toccata and fugue in d minor

Front 1098

the legend of sleepy hollow main char & this rival author

Back 1098

Ichabod crane & brom bones
by washington irving

Front 1099

geocentric universe person

Back 1099

ptolemy

Front 1100

Norse ruler of the gods

Back 1100

Odin

Front 1101

betty smith brooklyn novel

Back 1101

a tree grows in brooklyn

Front 1102

tendency of an organism to bend toward or away from light

Back 1102

heliotropism

Front 1103

secretariat nickname

Back 1103

"big Red" - chestnut colt like Man-o war

Front 1104

Buffalo bill's real name

Back 1104

William F Cody

Front 1105

Title character who plays "the glad came" to find the bright side in every situation

Back 1105

Pollyanna

Front 1106

Frail French Chanteuse "little sparrow"
france's greatest popular singer 1915-1963

Back 1106

edith piaf

Front 1107

this soldier & showman had a shooting contest with BIll Comstock for exclusive rights to his nickname

Back 1107

Bulffalo Bill Cody (they shot buffalo)
1846-1917

Front 1108

tiny organ in brain secretes melatonin - a hormone affecting wake/sleep patterns & photo periodic functions (season) shaped like a tiny pinecone - pea sized

Back 1108

Pineal gland

Front 1109

who's horse is trigger

Back 1109

Roy Rogers

Front 1110

Wife of Roy Rogers

Back 1110

Dale Evans

Front 1111

The name of Roy Roger's german shepherd

Back 1111

Bullet

Front 1112

who was nicknamed" king of the cowboys" and "queen of the west"

Back 1112

Roy Rogers & Dale Evans

Front 1113

Song Roy Rogers & Dale evans sange at the end of their tv show

Back 1113

Happy Trails

Front 1114

8 massive sculptures "the matter of time"
where?
by who?

Back 1114

Guggenheim museum Bilbao
Richard Serra

Front 1115

american minimalist Sculptor known for large works in sheet metal

Back 1115

Richard Serra

Front 1116

2005 work of art at central park by Christo and Jeanne-claude

Back 1116

The Gates - Feb 2005

Front 1117

Fabric panel artists who wrapped the Reichstag & the pont Neuf among other things

Back 1117

Christo & Jeanne-claude

Front 1118

Oldest standing bridge across the river seine in paris

Back 1118

Pont Neuf

Front 1119

berlin germany building designed to hold the Parliament of the German Empire

Back 1119

Reichstag

Front 1120

"norwegian beauty" worked w/unicef 1938-?
Actress & muse of bergman (lead in 9 of his films)

Back 1120

liv ullmann

Front 1121

words and music of My fair lady are by these librettist & composer

Back 1121

Lerner (librettist) & Loewe (composer)

Front 1122

My Fair Lady, Camelot & Brigadoon were three of their most popular broadway works

Back 1122

Lerner(lyrics) & Loewe(music)

Front 1123

john kennedy toole novel

Back 1123

a confederacy of dunces

Front 1124

prohibition amendment

Back 1124

18th (1919)

Front 1125

river on which calcutta is located "kolkata" is new name

Back 1125

hooghly river

Front 1126

The Munich pact 1938 forced this country to give up territory to the nazis

Back 1126

czechoslavakia

Front 1127

strait of south america separating continent from tierra del fuego & other islands

Back 1127

strait of magellan

Front 1128

coen Brothers movie w/jennifer jason leigh as reporter amy archer

Back 1128

the Hudsucker proxy

Front 1129

he starred in the hudsucker proxy and shawshank redemption

Back 1129

Tim Robbins

Front 1130

the invention in the hudsucker proxy that makes norville(tim robbins) a huge success

Back 1130

A hula hoop - at the end of the movie he is working on a frisbee

Front 1131

only active volcano on mainland europe in southwestern italy - buried pompeii & herculaneum & stabiae in ad 79

Back 1131

Vesuvius

Front 1132

Largest inland body of water -
saltwater lake between Europe & asia bordered by
azerbaijan & russia to the west
kazakhstan to n & e
turkmenistan to E
iran to S & W
volga river empties into it

Back 1132

Caspian Sea

Front 1133

country home to monte carlo casino & where grace kelly married prince rainier III in 1956 (became princess grace)

Back 1133

Grace Kelly

Front 1134

River that is the site of exchange "dr livingstone, I presume?" between David Livingstone (missionary) & henry STanley journalist

Back 1134

COngo river (livingstone was off track from nile)

Front 1135

"new frontier" speech given at democratic convention

Back 1135

jfk

Front 1136

Presidential legacies :
social security system
national labor relations board

Back 1136

FDR

Front 1137

Fashionable section of Boston

Back 1137

Beacon hill

Front 1138

Natn'l park in CA famous for dramatic rock formations and water falls

Back 1138

Yosemite

Front 1139

l 19th-e 20th c american painter known for rich watercolor painting of seascapes

Back 1139

Winslow Homer

Front 1140

Capital of Sicily
on the tyrrhenian sea - arm of the mediterranean

Back 1140

Palermo

Front 1141

an imaginary circle on the surface of the earth running n & s through the poles

Back 1141

meridian

Front 1142

1814 : battle of lake champlain war

Back 1142

the war of 1812

Front 1143

president responsible for "great society" legislation including civil rights, medicare, medicaid & escalation in the vietnam war

Back 1143

LBJ

Front 1144

river formed some of border between e & w germany flows from northern former czechoslovakia to north sea

Back 1144

Elbe River

Front 1145

December Birthstone

Back 1145

Blue Topaz

Front 1146

sang Cold as Ice

Back 1146

Foreigner

Front 1147

March Birthstone

Back 1147

Aquamarine

Front 1148

largest city in french riviera on mediterranean

Back 1148

Nice

Front 1149

State w/frank lloyd wright buildings & oak park

Back 1149

illinois

Front 1150

trainer who won the triple crown twice 1930 (gallant fox) & 1935`(omaha)

Back 1150

Jim Fitzsimmons

Front 1151

a piece of music usually for one voice in an opera, oratorio or cantata

Back 1151

aria

Front 1152

Number of horses that have one the triple crown

Back 1152

11 - none since 1978

Front 1153

Trainer who had two different horses (thunder gulch - Kentucky derby, belmont stakes & timber country - preakness) win the triple crown races in 1995

Back 1153

D. Wayne Lukas

Front 1154

First horse trainer to win $100 million dollars

Back 1154

D. Wayne Lukas

Front 1155

in 1999 Charismatic came within 2 lengths of winning this

Back 1155

Triple Crown

Front 1156

becoming the first person to enter both the Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse halls of fame.

Back 1156

D. Wayne Lukas

Front 1157

Last horse to win the triple crown - 1978

Back 1157

Affirmed

Front 1158

3 horses to win triple crown in the crown

Back 1158

secretariat (73), seattle slew (77) and affirmed 1978

Front 1159

first horse to win the triple crown

Back 1159

Sir Barton (1919)

Front 1160

Gallant Fox (1930), Omaha (1935), War Admiral (1937), Whirlaway (1941), Count Fleet (1943), Assault (1946), Citation (1948) won this

Back 1160

triple crown

Front 1161

War Admiral was an offspring of this champion

Back 1161

Man o' War

Front 1162

stream of consciousness narrative experimenter
novel - "To the Lighthouse"
essy - "A room of one's own"

Back 1162

Virginia Woolf

Front 1163

This Louisiana governer is the first Indian American governer of the U.S>

Back 1163

Bobby Jindal

Front 1164

20th C Amer Artist famous for paintings by dripping or pouring paint on a canvas

Back 1164

Jackson Pollock

Front 1165

Medal Given for most distinguished children's book

Back 1165

Newbery Medal

Front 1166

Newbery Medal is awarded by this Association founded by Melvil Dewey among others

Back 1166

American Library Association

Front 1167

Book - "Q&A" became what 2008 award winning movie?

Back 1167

Slumdog Millionaire

Front 1168

"big spender" , "if my friends could see me now"

Back 1168

Sweet CHarity

Front 1169

broadway composer who wrote songs w/lorenz hart

Back 1169

richard rogers

Front 1170

Joan Miro was born in this spanish seaport

Back 1170

Barcelona

Front 1171

Spanish painter, ceramist, sculptor born in barcelona (1893-1983)

Back 1171

Joan Miro (also called a surrealist)

Front 1172

spanish surrealist born in figuerres spain (1904-1989)

Back 1172

Salvador Dali

Front 1173

spanish painter with a flamboyant mustache

Back 1173

Salvador Dali

Front 1174

flamboyant spanish painter that sat on a rhinoceros on the tonight show and traveledhttp://www.flashcardexchange.com/mycards/add/2051271 with his pet ocelot

Back 1174

Salvador Dali

Front 1175

the chupa chups lollipop logo was designed by this spanish artist

Back 1175

Salvador Dali

Front 1176

pieta in art depicts this

Back 1176

Mary cradling the dead body of jesus

Front 1177

conf general earned nickname at bull run

Back 1177

stonewall jackson

Front 1178

Actual name of Stonewall Jackson

Back 1178

Thomas Jackson - confederate general

Front 1179

President with "square deal" & Panama canal

Back 1179

Theodore Roosevelt

Front 1180

aka Khatchaturian "dance"

Back 1180

The Sabre Dance - he was an armenian composer

Front 1181

George Fox founded this religion

Back 1181

Quaker aka Religious Society of Friends

Front 1182

"Great" rival of Julius Caesar founded colony in pamplona 75 bc

Back 1182

Pompey

Front 1183

He was originally an ally of Julius Caesar - marrying his daughter Julia Caesaris - but then became a rival when they both contended to be Roman Leader

Back 1183

Pompey the Great

Front 1184

actress-novelist-commedienne author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe Fannie was born Patricia Neal

Back 1184

Flagg

Front 1185

Author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle stop Cafe who was also co-host of Candid Camera with Alan Funt

Back 1185

Fannie Flagg

Front 1186

Santiago de compostela cathedral
houses remains of this saint
"traditional evangelizer of spain"
Iago

Back 1186

James

Front 1187

20th c afr amer Jazz songwriter, composer & bandleader
first name is edward
"mood indigo"
"satin Doll"
"sophisticated Lady"
"don't get around much any more"

Back 1187

Duke ellington

Front 1188

Long tall sally singer

Back 1188

Little Richard

Front 1189

statue of this hans christian anderson character is in the harbor of copenhagen, denmark

Back 1189

Little mermaid

Front 1190

the advent of piano came during this musical period

Back 1190

Classical (Baroque was written for harpsichord) piano's of classical didn't have as many keys as modern piano -and pedals were very difficult

Front 1191

as a teenager wrote essays for a new england paper under female pen name "silence do good"

Back 1191

Benjamin franklin

Front 1192

9 of 10 tallest peaks in South America in this country

Back 1192

argentina

Front 1193

blue nile flows from this country

Back 1193

ethiopia

Front 1194

marx brother that chased women and honked a bicycle horn

Back 1194

harpo marx

Front 1195

landmark inscribed w/"proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants there of"

Back 1195

Liberty Bell

Front 1196

John Grisham's first novel
passage from ecclesiastes

Back 1196

A time to to kill

Front 1197

Liberty Bell cracked when being tolled for his death in 1835

Back 1197

chief justice john marshall

Front 1198

buck is the main dog of this book

Back 1198

Call of the Wild

Front 1199

author of great satirical work "candide"
c 1759

Back 1199

Voltaire - aka Francois-Marie Arouet

Front 1200

20th C amer author known for "witty" poems published in the New Yorker
"candy is dandy but liquor is quicker"

Back 1200

ogden nash

Front 1201

A biography of him is subtitled:
: the Life and Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse

Back 1201

Ogden nash

Front 1202

Light verse Baltimore poet with a football/poem spread in Life

Back 1202

Ogden Nash

Front 1203

book about clarence gideon case written by anthony lewis

Back 1203

Gideon's trumpet

Front 1204

Gideon v Wainwright supreme court ruling

Back 1204

If you can not afford a lawyer one must be appointed to you at no cost

Front 1205

morris the cat brand

Back 1205

9 lives

Front 1206

r & b singer/pianist "what'd i say?" & :"on my mind"

Back 1206

Ray Charles

Front 1207

First American in space (sub-orbital)

Back 1207

Alan Shepard may 5 1961

Front 1208

1st american in space flew during this project

Back 1208

Mercury

Front 1209

1st american chimpanzee in space

Back 1209

Ham (2nd was Enos)

Front 1210

2nd american in space sub-orbital

Back 1210

Gus Grissom july 21, 1961

Front 1211

First American to orbit the EArth (3 times)

Back 1211

John Glenn

Front 1212

First American to sleep in orbit, longest spaceflight of the Mercury Project, and last American to be launched alone into Earth orbit & conduct an entire solo orbital mission

Back 1212

Gordon Cooper

Front 1213

Died during apollo 1 pre-flight test; was the first nasa astronaut to fly in space twice.

Back 1213

Gus Grissom

Front 1214

29th president march 1921-aug 1923
republican vp calvin coolidge
from ohio influential newspaper publisher

Back 1214

Warren Gamaliel Harding

Front 1215

King who in Legend was enemy of Robin Hood 1199-1216

Back 1215

King John

Front 1216

late 19th/early 20th c eng author of the jungle book & Just so stories

Back 1216

Rudyard kipling

Front 1217

eng author who published poems:
Gunga Din, The Road to Mandalay, the female of the species

Back 1217

Rudyard Kipling

Front 1218

first US writer to win the nobel prize in literature (largely in part to Babbit)

Back 1218

Sinclair Lewis

Front 1219

American Author of Babbit, Elmer Gantry & The Innocents

Back 1219

Sinclair Lewis

Front 1220

The ficitional Midwestern town of Zenith features in at least two of his novels

Back 1220

Sinclair Lewis (Babbit & Elmer Gantry)

Front 1221

Sinclair Lewis novel about a narcissistic alcoholic who mistakingly becomes a minister

Back 1221

Elmer Gantry

Front 1222

Stephen Harper's Party (pm of canada)

Back 1222

Conservative Party

Front 1223

singer "queen of soul"

Back 1223

aretha franklin

Front 1224

Protector of odysseus - on his way home from trojan war

Back 1224

Athena

Front 1225

king who asked dionysus for everthing he touched to turn to gold

Back 1225

King Midas

Front 1226

A beautiful youth who fell in love with his own reflection

Back 1226

narcissus

Front 1227

these held every four years on the plain of Olympus to honor zeus

Back 1227

olympic games

Front 1228

His 2nd paper - provided some empirical evidence for the existence of atoms. described movement of particles in a liquid called brownian motion

Back 1228

Einstein

Front 1229

random drifting of particles suspended in a fluid (a liquid or a gas) or the mathematical model used to describe such random movements

Back 1229

brownian motion

Front 1230

who created junk bond market in 1980s

Back 1230

michael milken

Front 1231

first name of laurel & hardy

Back 1231

stan & oliver

Front 1232

daughter of Zeus by Leda was abducted by Paris to start the Trojan War

Back 1232

Helen

Front 1233

Mtn range extending from black sea south east to caspian sea

Back 1233

Caucusus

Front 1234

"great" valley in malawi

Back 1234

Great Rift Valley

Front 1235

Gangster built flamingo hotel

Back 1235

Bugsy Siegel

Front 1236

What are antipodes

Back 1236

Points on earth surface completely opposite each other - like north and south

Front 1237

beautiful scenic island in the bay of Naples in southern italy

Back 1237

capri

Front 1238

state motto is Liberty and prosperity

Back 1238

NJ

Front 1239

french actress of late 19th-early 20th c considered queen of french tragedy

Back 1239

sarah bernhardt

Front 1240

French actress considered the most famous actress of the 19th c

Back 1240

sarah bernhardt (even starred as hamlet)

Front 1241

"divine sarah"

Back 1241

sarah bernhardt

Front 1242

hyphenated russian ballet composer

Back 1242

nikolai Rimsky-korsakov

Front 1243

state motto - every upward

Back 1243

NY

Front 1244

musical w/ "everything's coming up roses" & "rose's turn"

Back 1244

gypsy

Front 1245

battle of stalingrad was a major turning point in this war

Back 1245

WWII

Front 1246

"ramblin' guy" comic actor

Back 1246

Steve Martin

Front 1247

aka groundhog

Back 1247

woodchuck

Front 1248

author of For Whome the Bell Tolls

Back 1248

Hemingway

Front 1249

The title of this Hemingway work came from a John Donne line

Back 1249

For Whom the bell tolls

Front 1250

Hemingway novel about Robert Jordan (an american in the spanish civil war)

Back 1250

For Whom the bell tolls

Front 1251

"NO man is an island.." is from Meditation XVII by this english poet

Back 1251

John Donne (later in the same line is For whom the bell tolls)

Front 1252

French for "novel with a key", is a phrase used to describe a novel about real life, overlaid with a façade of fiction

Back 1252

Roman a clef (Hemingway's the sun also rises is considered this)

Front 1253

She coined "the lost generation"

she was an American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France

Back 1253

Gertrude stein

Front 1254

little dorrit author

Back 1254

charles dickens

Front 1255

Dickens work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period - focuses on debtor's prison

Back 1255

Little Dorrit

Front 1256

Dickens book with characters:
Arthur & Mrs Clennam
William and his children - Fanny, Edward (aka Tip) & Amy

Back 1256

Little dorrit

Front 1257

writers of the pirates of Penzance

Back 1257

Gilbert & Sullivan

Front 1258

No 5 Concerto for Piano in E-flat called "Emperor"

Back 1258

Beethoven

Front 1259

Who was W. Mark Felt

Back 1259

Deep Throat

Front 1260

what happens if groundhog sees his shadow

Back 1260

6 more weeks of winter

Front 1261

25th president
1897-1901 -republican
vp garret hobart & Theodore roosevelt

Back 1261

William Mckinley, jr

Front 1262

half man/ half bull monster
born to the queen of crete Pasiphae

Back 1262

Minotaur

Front 1263

strong black man who outperformed a steam drill in a contest then died from exhaustion

Back 1263

John henry

Front 1264

saint knwon for killing the Dragon

Back 1264

St George

Front 1265

hairy footed creatures who inhabit the middle-earth
2-4 ft tall, gentl & peace loving

Back 1265

Hobbits

Front 1266

ancient greek historian
Father of History
wrote about persian invastion of Greece 1st narrative beginning of wester historical writing

Back 1266

Herodotus

Front 1267

greek historian knwon for History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC.

Back 1267

Thucydides - aka Father of Scientific history vs. herodotus who was just father of history

Front 1268

musical with "aquarius"

Back 1268

Hair

Front 1269

Locatino of Krakatoa

Back 1269

Indonesia

Front 1270

silent film of 1915 about the south during and after civil war directed by d.w. griffith

Back 1270

birth of a nation

Front 1271

howard's end author (1910)

Back 1271

em forster

Front 1272

french painter & sculptor of l 19th-e20th c known for brilliant color & bold brushstrokes
influenced modern art

Back 1272

Henri Matisse

Front 1273

"the winter of our discontent" quote from shakespeare play

Back 1273

Richard III

Front 1274

John steinbeck got this title from Richard III quote

Back 1274

Winter of our Discontent

Front 1275

purposed sun-centric universe
polish cleric & scholar

Back 1275

Copernicus

Front 1276

spanish explorer & conquistador 15-16th c.
florida & puerto rico
looked for fountain of youth

Back 1276

Ponce de leon

Front 1277

"queen of scut"
"first lady of song"
20th c afr amer female jazz vocalist

Back 1277

Elle Fitzgerald

Front 1278

city home to saint mark's square (pigeons)

Back 1278

venice

Front 1279

where is basilica of St Mark
the bell tower
the palace of the doges
the academy of fine arts

Back 1279

venice

Front 1280

country formerly called south west africa
*(swapo - south west africa people's organization) waged guerrilla warfare to try and force south africa out of it in 1988 - settled & 1990 became independent

Back 1280

namibia

Front 1281

russian physiologist

Back 1281

ivan pavlov

Front 1282

russian known for work with Conditioned reflex

Back 1282

ivan pavlov

Front 1283

palermo was settled by this ancient civilization ini 8th century bc

Back 1283

phoenicia

Front 1284

what is a librettto

Back 1284

text of an opera

Front 1285

chopped fish patty mixed w/eggs &crumbs & served cold w/jellied broth

Back 1285

Gefelte fish

Front 1286

river in china flows from highlands of tibet flowing eastward to pacific ocean at shanghai

Back 1286

Yangtze

Front 1287

arm of indian ocean bordering pakistan

Back 1287

arabian sea

Front 1288

shakespeare town

Back 1288

stratford upon avon

Front 1289

shakespeare wife

Back 1289

anne hathaway

Front 1290

crown prince Haakon (Magnus) - what country

Back 1290

norway - current -born in 1973 - married a single mother r Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby in 2001

Front 1291

current king of norway

Back 1291

harald V

Front 1292

Father of current Norway King Harald V

Back 1292

Olaf V

Front 1293

home to beethoven, brahms, haydn, mozart, shubert, and johann strauss the younger

Back 1293

vienna

Front 1294

northern profiteers during reconstruction

Back 1294

carpetbaggers

Front 1295

2nd lowest of stringed instruments lowest in a string quartet

Back 1295

cello

Front 1296

4 that make up string quartet

Back 1296

2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello

Front 1297

villian in the stories of robing hood

Back 1297

sheriff of nottingham

Front 1298

wood where robin hood lives

Back 1298

sherwood forest

Front 1299

Robin Hood's fellow outlaws

Back 1299

Merry Men

Front 1300

Robin hood's lady

Back 1300

Maid Marian

Front 1301

Robinhood's friar friend

Back 1301

Friar Tuck

Front 1302

Robin Hood's Second in command

Back 1302

Little John

Front 1303

20th C American Composer & Conductor
was music director of the NY Philharmonic Orchestra
broadway production of west side story

Back 1303

Leonard bernstein

Front 1304

one of 3 great high renaissance artists
w/da vinci & michelangelo
considered the most classical

Back 1304

raphael

Front 1305

This renaissance artist's best known work is "the school of athens" ( a fresco at the apostolic palace at the vatican)

Back 1305

Raphael

Front 1306

Thomas Gainsborough's most famous painting

Back 1306

The Blue Boy - rumored to be the son of a hardware merchant

Front 1307

movie with ugarte character

Back 1307

Casablanca played by Peter Lorre

Front 1308

greek painter l 16th-17thc spent time in spain known for religious subjects & for distorted, elongated figures

Back 1308

El Greco

Front 1309

a girl/woman's sexual feelings for her father

Back 1309

electra complex

Front 1310

cymbeline author

Back 1310

Shakespeare

Front 1311

greek name for greek & roman god of wine and revelry

Back 1311

dionysus -

Front 1312

roman name of dionysus

Back 1312

bacchus

Front 1313

shakespeare comedy about katherina, kate & husband
petruchio - she is wild and returns in the end

Back 1313

the taming of the shrew

Front 1314

kiss me, kate by cole porter is based on this shakespeare play

Back 1314

the taming of the shrew

Front 1315

mississippi author
"greatest voice of the south"
nobel prize for lit in 1950

Back 1315

william faulkner

Front 1316

author of Lord of the Flies
won 1983 nobel prize for lit

Back 1316

william golding

Front 1317

26th president
1901-1909
republican & progressive party leader was governer of NY

Back 1317

Theodore Roosevelt

Front 1318

youngest president

Back 1318

Theodore Roosevelt

Front 1319

youngest elected president

Back 1319

JFK

Front 1320

Mesilla valley borders which river?
how did us acquire?

Back 1320

rio grande - gadsen purchase

Front 1321

2 german authors of early 19th c -known for fairy tales

Back 1321

Grimm brothers

Front 1322

town to never host or play in a super bowl

Back 1322

cleveland

Front 1323

"eternal city"

Back 1323

Rome

Front 1324

russian space station

Back 1324

mir

Front 1325

how many in a gross

Back 1325

144

Front 1326

how many gallons/quarts/pints in a peck

Back 1326

2 gallons, 8 quarts, 16 pints

Front 1327

how many pecks in a bushel

Back 1327

4 ( a kenning - now obsolete was 2 pecks)

Front 1328

painting, drawing or scultpure of mary holding dead body of jesus

Back 1328

pieta

Front 1329

painted sistine chapel & architect of St. Peter's in Rome

Back 1329

Michelangelo

Front 1330

Buonarotti is this artist's last name

Back 1330

michelangelo

Front 1331

only person to have swept triple crown events w/ different horses
1995 Thunder Gulch (K & B) & timber country (P)

Back 1331

D wayne Lukas

Front 1332

3 canadian maritime provinces

Back 1332

New Brunswick
PEI
Nova Scotia

Front 1333

easternmost province of Canada

Back 1333

Newfoundland & labrador

Front 1334

south's unofficial anthem in civil war (banjo heavy)_

Back 1334

dixie

Front 1335

the wsm barn dance radio show aka

Back 1335

the Grand ole opry

Front 1336

who said "win this for the gipper"

Back 1336

Knute Rockne during 1928 army-notr dame football game. "Gipper" was Geroge Gipp who ronald reagan played in a movie

Front 1337

knute rockne was legendary coach for this college team (1918-1930)

Back 1337

Notre Dame - he died in a plane crash 1931

Front 1338

Danish author known for fairy tales

Back 1338

hans christian andersen

Front 1339

"The Steadfast Tin Soldier," "The Snow Queen," "Thumbelina," "The Little Match Girl,"

Back 1339

Hans christian andersen

Front 1340

The Ugly Duckling & The Little Mermaid author

Back 1340

Hans christian andersen

Front 1341

Greek god who ruled the sea

Back 1341

poseidon

Front 1342

Book by Mary Mapes Dodge that introduced dutch speed skating to the american public

Back 1342

hans Brinker or The silver skates (the silver skates are the prize for winning the race that hans brinker hopes to enter)

Front 1343

This Mary Mapes Dodge book popularized the story of the little dutch boy who plugged the dike with his finger

Back 1343

Hans Brinker, Or the Silver Skates

Front 1344

kills his father (king Laius) and marries hjis mother (jocasta)

Back 1344

Oedipus

Front 1345

Slovakia capital

Back 1345

Bratislava

Front 1346

official enrollment of a dead person as a saint in roman catholic & eastern orthodox church

Back 1346

canonization

Front 1347

highest of 4 casts in Hinduism

Back 1347

Brahmans

Front 1348

magic man miranda's dad

Back 1348

prospero

Front 1349

oldest Hindu scripture

Back 1349

Vedas

Front 1350

pentagon & fed reserve bldg are in this architectural style adhering to greek & roman Models

Back 1350

neoclassical

Front 1351

3 great divisions of Christianity

Back 1351

eastern orthodox church, protestant churches, roman catholic church

Front 1352

author of "the prince"
advising rulers to retain power through cunning & ruthlessness

Back 1352

niccolo machiavelli

Front 1353

"the diary of a young girl" is about

Back 1353

anne frank

Front 1354

author of Les Miserables

Back 1354

Victor Hugo

Front 1355

Father of History

Back 1355

Herodotus

Front 1356

Muslims believe this was revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad

Back 1356

Koran

Front 1357

greek god of the udnerworld (& the underworld istelf)

Back 1357

hades

Front 1358

Study of the glands & hormones

Back 1358

endocrinology

Front 1359

king which louisiana is named after

Back 1359

Louis XIV

Front 1360

composer born in Salzburg austria who was childhood prodigy and was in the court of the Holy roman Emperor - Franz Joseph II in Vienna

Back 1360

wolfgang amadeus mozart

Front 1361

AHA

Back 1361

american heart association

Front 1362

Most famous oracle in Greece & the location of a temple of apollo

Back 1362

Delphi

Front 1363

Artism reduce art to essentials

Back 1363

minimalism

Front 1364

karate instructor "doctor" or "teacher"

Back 1364

sensei

Front 1365

freedom of Religion, speech, press & assembly & right to petition the govt amendment

Back 1365

1st

Front 1366

20th c american painter known for flowers & desert scenes

Back 1366

georgia o'keefe

Front 1367

red bearded pirate "corsair"

Back 1367

barbarossa

Front 1368

20th c amer writer wrote elmer gantry & babbit

Back 1368

sinclair lewis

Front 1369

Patron Saint of England

Back 1369

st george

Front 1370

1st to refer to NYC as gotham

Back 1370

washington irving

Front 1371

part of troposphere 7 miles up w/winds >60 knots

Back 1371

jet stream

Front 1372

these were possibly discovered with the 1883 eruption of krakatoe when weather mappers tracked the effects on the sky

Back 1372

Jet Stream (two main types are polar and subtropical)

Front 1373

The transition between the troposphere & stratosphere

Back 1373

Tropopause - In the troposhere - temperature decreases with altitude, and in stratosphere temperature increases with altitude

Front 1374

Lowest portion of earth's atmosphere - average depth in the middle latitudes is about 11 mi

Back 1374

troposphere

Front 1375

second major layer of earth's atmosphere

Back 1375

Stratosphere (between troposphere & mesosphere)

Front 1376

layer of the atmosphere approx 6-30 mi altitude that is the main layer containing the ozone layer

Back 1376

stratosphere

Front 1377

Third (middle) layer of the atmosphere above the stratosphere and below the thermosphere

Back 1377

Mesosphere (temperature decreases again with altitude)

Front 1378

4th layer of the atmosphere between mesosphere & exosphere

Back 1378

Thermosphere

Front 1379

This is the biggest of all the layers of earth's atmosphere - it is where the space station has a stable orbit

Back 1379

Thermosphere (this is where aurora's occur too)

Front 1380

outermost layer of the earth's atmosphere

Back 1380

Exosphere

Front 1381

31st president was harding & coolidge's commerce secretary
1929-1933 republican
vp charles curtis

Back 1381

Hoover

Front 1382

Metal used in Spacecraft & skin of gehry bilbao spain museum

Back 1382

titanium

Front 1383

Document signed by King John in 1215 limiting absolute power of the king, etc.

Back 1383

Magna Charta

Front 1384

author of lady chatterley's lover

Back 1384

DH Lawrence

Front 1385

Joan jett's Band

Back 1385

the blackhearts

Front 1386

"hail columbia" played by us army band to honor whom

Back 1386

VP

Front 1387

a merry man who was large and burly at first meeting w/robin hood beat robing in a fight w/cudgels

Back 1387

little john

Front 1388

prime minister Jenny Shipley (1997) country

Back 1388

New zealand

Front 1389

Sculpture of David in florence (who sculpted)

Back 1389

Michelangelo

Front 1390

capital of sri lanka

Back 1390

colombo

Front 1391

playwright of blithe spirit

Back 1391

noel coward

Front 1392

eng playwright of Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Present Laughter

Back 1392

Noel Coward (1899-1973)

Front 1393

General 2004 ran for pres west pt 1st in class

Back 1393

wesley clark

Front 1394

1567-1643
he was to italian renaissance music what michelangelo was to it's visual art
was muisc director of st mark's in venice 1613 - became a priest in 1630

Back 1394

Claudio monteverdi

Front 1395

19th amer songwriter wrote
oh! susanna
the old folks at home
jeannie with the light brown hari
beautiful dreamer

Back 1395

Stephen foster

Front 1396

3 wars between carthage & rome 2nd & 3rd cent bc
hannibal in 2nd war
carthage destroyed after the 3rd

Back 1396

Punic wars

Front 1397

a trade route between asia & europe opened by the mongols

Back 1397

silk road

Front 1398

1962 john glenn was 1st american in space to eat what was it?

Back 1398

applesauce in toothpaste type tube

Front 1399

gluttonous guy in "the merry wives of windsor" & "Henry IV both parts"

Back 1399

Falstaff

Front 1400

1972 Boxer Panamanian
"hands of stone"
won lightweight crown

Back 1400

Roberto Duran

Front 1401

religious day after halloween

Back 1401

All saints day

Front 1402

who crowned Napoleon emperor of France

Back 1402

Napoleon

Front 1403

plane that bombed hiroshima

Back 1403

enola gay

Front 1404

who discovered saturn's rings

Back 1404

galileo

Front 1405

what was the pink panther in "the pink panther"

Back 1405

diamond

Front 1406

scripps institution of oceanography is where?

Back 1406

san diego

Front 1407

wrote la comedie humaine (the human comedy)

Back 1407

Honore de Balzac

Front 1408

who challenged Truman's conduct of the Korean war & was fired for it

Back 1408

MacArthur

Front 1409

18th c italian author whose "memoirs" gave him a reputation as a lover

Back 1409

Giovanni Jacopo Casanova

Front 1410

Andorra La vella is capital of

Back 1410

Andorra

Front 1411

First American to orbit the EArth (3 times)

Back 1411

John Glenn

Front 1412

First American to sleep in orbit, longest spaceflight of the Mercury Project, and last American to be launched alone into Earth orbit & conduct an entire solo orbital mission

Back 1412

Gordon Cooper

Front 1413

Died during apollo 1 pre-flight test; was the first nasa astronaut to fly in space twice.

Back 1413

Gus Grissom

Front 1414

Jean Paul Marat was a leader in this war

Back 1414

French revolution - murderd by Charlotte Corday

Front 1415

The Death of Marat was painted by this french artist

Back 1415

Jacques - louis david

Front 1416

Apostle whose blood was shed in rome

Back 1416

Peter

Front 1417

which apostle is considered the first pope by the roman catholic church

Back 1417

Peter

Front 1418

His brother Andrew was also an apostle

Back 1418

Peter

Front 1419

this emperor is said to have had Peter put to death

Back 1419

Nero

Front 1420

This is one of the miracles of Jesus where : On the mountain, Jesus begins to shine with bright rays of light, the prophets Moses and Elijah appear next to him and he speaks with them. Jesus is then called "Son" by a voice in the sky, assumed to be God the Father, as in the Baptism of Jesus.[1]

Back 1420

Transfiguration

Front 1421

century that Julius Caesar is killed

Back 1421

First Century BC

Front 1422

The murder of Thomas a Becket
what century

Back 1422

12th century (died in 1170)

Front 1423

12th century Archbishop of Canterbury who conflicted with Henry II of England over rights& privileges of church and was assassinated by the king's followrs in canterbury cathedral

Back 1423

Thomas Becket or Thomas a Becket -

Front 1424

2006 - "a man's a man for a' that" lost a vote to "flower of" this british land as a possible future national anthem

Back 1424

scotland

Front 1425

it's the "land of baluch & uzbeks, pashtoons & hazaras, turkmen & tajiks with arabs & Gojars"

Back 1425

Afghanistan

Front 1426

Dvorak wrote the "moravian" these for soprano & contralto voices

Back 1426

duets

Front 1427

"high fidelity" star

Back 1427

john cusack

Front 1428

"saving grace" gal

Back 1428

holly hunter

Front 1429

created by this author - mirkwood was originally called greenwood until sauron's shadow fell on it

Back 1429

tolkein

Front 1430

the boy & his dad must move off the title thoroughfare & duck into the woods for safety in this cormac mccarthy novel

Back 1430

the road

Front 1431

this "american buffalo" playwright returned to nature with his 1977 play "the woods"

Back 1431

David Mamet

Front 1432

All the pretty horses
& The road author

Back 1432

Cormac McCarthy

Front 1433

No COuntry for Old Men author

Back 1433

Cormac McCarthy - title came from William Butler Yeats poem

Front 1434

Irish poet of 1928's "Sailing to Byzantium"

Back 1434

WIlliam Butler Yeats

Front 1435

when macbeth heard this wood "began to move" upon him, he probably turned a whiter shade of pale

Back 1435

Birnam wood

Front 1436

Grand Canyon State

Back 1436

Arizona

Front 1437

The Natural State

Back 1437

Arkansas

Front 1438

The Golden State

Back 1438

California

Front 1439

Centennial State

Back 1439

Colorado

Front 1440

Constitution State

Back 1440

Connecticut

Front 1441

Backup singers were "the revolution"

Back 1441

prince

Front 1442

Backup singers were "the four seasons"

Back 1442

frankie vallie

Front 1443

the first state

Back 1443

delware

Front 1444

the aloha state

Back 1444

hawaii

Front 1445

the sunshine state

Back 1445

florida

Front 1446

what are the 4 giant or Jovian planets

Back 1446

Jupiter Saturn Uranus & Neptune

They are "Gas giants"

Front 1447

nancy pelosi & maxine waters from this state

Back 1447

ca

Front 1448

speaker boehner is from this xavier state

Back 1448

ohio

Front 1449

john conyers & john dingell are from this state

Back 1449

michigan

Front 1450

steny hoyer _ house minority whip - heads home to this states 5th district

Back 1450

maryland

Front 1451

this is an official in a political party whose primary purpose is to ensure party discipline in a legislature

Back 1451

whip

Front 1452

this official is also president of the senate

Back 1452

The Vice President

Front 1453

in the house and senate - this is the second highest ranking official in the minority party

Back 1453

minority whip

Front 1454

peach state

Back 1454

georgia

Front 1455

backup group & the blue notes

Back 1455

harold melvin

Front 1456

gem state

Back 1456

idaho

Front 1457

prairie state

Back 1457

illinois

Front 1458

blade of a windmill ("V")

Back 1458

vane

Front 1459

Hoosier state

Back 1459

Indiana

Front 1460

hawkeye state

Back 1460

Iowa

Front 1461

"v" south american ruminant related to the guanaco

Back 1461

vicuna

Front 1462

sunflower state

Back 1462

kansas

Front 1463

bluegrass state

Back 1463

Kentucky

Front 1464

First perfect 10 in olympic gymnastics by her

Back 1464

Nadia Cominich

Front 1465

Pelican state

Back 1465

louisiana

Front 1466

the dodo was a flightless bird endemic to this island in the indian ocean

Back 1466

Mauritius

Front 1467

large extinct flightless bird from New Zealand - maybe from polynesian for "fowl"

Back 1467

Moa

Front 1468

the "Great" species of this arctic seabird, now extinct, was flightless; living species like the razorbill can fly

Back 1468

auk (superficially similar to penguins but not really closely related)

Front 1469

SHerlock holmes address

Back 1469

221 b Baker street

Front 1470

COlorful first case of sherlock holmes

Back 1470

a study in scarlet

Front 1471

mosque towers

Back 1471

minarets

Front 1472

small posts called balusters suport the horizontal rail that logically is called this

Back 1472

balistrade

Front 1473

yankee who pitched perfect game in world series

Back 1473

don larsen

Front 1474

college basketball wizard who won 10 men's ncaa titles from 64-75

Back 1474

John Wooden

Front 1475

pine tree state

Back 1475

maine

Front 1476

one lap to go flag is this color in nascar

Back 1476

white

Front 1477

sonny liston sport

Back 1477

boxing

Front 1478

bottom color of the rainbow

Back 1478

violet

Front 1479

jan ullrich sport

Back 1479

biking

Front 1480

USGS stands for this

Back 1480

united states geological survey

Front 1481

antioch is in present day

Back 1481

turkey

Front 1482

old line state

Back 1482

maryland

Front 1483

the bay state

Back 1483

massachussets

Front 1484

Omar al-bashir is the current president of this country

Back 1484

Sudan

Front 1485

This country with capital Juba became an independent state on July 9,2011

Back 1485

South Sudan

Front 1486

current president Salva Kiir Mayardit is the first president of this country

Back 1486

South Sudan

Front 1487

schelde river - port city literally means "at the wharf"

Back 1487

antwerp

Front 1488

American writer of "Daisy Miller" novella, "the turn of the screw" , "the portrait of a lady" & "the ambassadors"

Back 1488

henry james

Front 1489

G R R Martin "A song of ice and fire" was adapted for HBO as this

Back 1489

Game of THrones

Front 1490

he wrote "a song of ice and fire"

Back 1490

G R R Martin

Front 1491

"the house of the dead" is a fictionalized version of this 19th c Russian's prisonOn

Back 1491

Dostoyevsky - (1821-1881)

Front 1492

war and peace
Anna Karenina author
(1828-1910)

Back 1492

Leo tolstoy

Front 1493

he wrote lolita - first published in paris in 1955

Back 1493

Vladimir Nabokov

Front 1494

20th c russian author exiled from russia in 1974 -won nobel prize in lit 1970, wrote "THe Gulag Archipelago" & "One day in the life of Ivan denisovich"

Back 1494

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Front 1495

Solzhenitsyn novel retelling the day of prisoner in the 104th squad in a gulag

Back 1495

One day in the life of Ivan denisovich

Front 1496

father of hel in norse gods - got changed to a rock
"oki"

Back 1496

loki

Front 1497

Japanese mushroom
"oki"

Back 1497

Enoki

Front 1498

dr. regina benjamin is the current this

Back 1498

surgeon general

Front 1499

free enterprise is also known as this enterpise in economic terms

Back 1499

private

Front 1500

chief law enforcer of the house

Back 1500

Sergeant at Arms

Front 1501

(political party)
descredited by a failed august coup, it went out of business december 25, 1991 (include the country, please)

Back 1501

communist party of the soviet union

Front 1502

split by the slavery issue it didn't nominate it's incumbent Millard Fillmore in 1852

Back 1502

Whig party

Front 1503

S. Epatha Merkerson played Anita Van Buren on this show

Back 1503

law and order

Front 1504

voice of charlie in charlie's angels

Back 1504

john forsythe

Front 1505

aka the states' rights democrat party, this souther splinter group quit whistlin after truman beat dewey

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dixiecrats

Front 1506

Foreign born inventor who's 1922 NY Times obituary mentions that his patent no 174, 465 has been called "the most valuable patent ever issued"

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alexandar graham bell (scotland)

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Great lakes state

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Michigan

Front 1508

North star state

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minnesota

Front 1509

magnolia state

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mississippi

Front 1510

a single unit of hereditary information

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gene

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Spanish conquistador 1510-1554 who traveled in the US Southwest (new mexico) hoping to conquer the seven cities of gold

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Francisco Vasquesz de coronado

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august 1664 governer was forced to surrender new netherland to the british

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stuyvesant

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Stuyvesant was the director general of new netherland which was later renamed this by the english

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new york

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it remained a separate colony for most of it's 71 years until it was absorbed by massachusetts bay colony in 1691

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the plymouth colony

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outlets on the roof to let out air (connecting to plumbing drains)

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vents

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Spanish conquistador 1510-1554 who traveled in the US Southwest (new mexico) hoping to conquer the seven cities of gold

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Francisco Vasquesz de coronado

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august 1664 governer was forced to surrender new netherland to the british

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stuyvesant

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Stuyvesant was the director general of new netherland which was later renamed this by the english

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new york

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it remained a separate colony for most of it's 71 years until it was absorbed by massachusetts bay colony in 1691

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the plymouth colony

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outlets on the roof to let out air (connecting to plumbing drains)

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vents

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2011 is 50th anniversary of his flight aboard mercury capsule freedom 7

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Alan Shepard

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this late actor drove a t-bird as dan tanna

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RObert urich in Vega$

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spenser for hire

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robert urich

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algeria is a major exporter of this resource - the NG in LNG

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natural gas

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this country's exports to the middle east were own 15% in 2006 - backlash from caricatures of muhammad

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denmark

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schooner builder (right or left)

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Shipwright

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born in 1225 this italian is the patron saint of catholic schools, univesities & colleges

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st thomas of aquinas

Front 1528

italian priest immensely influential in scholasticism

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thomas aquinas

Front 1529

Summa Theologica and the Summa Contra Gentiles are his best works

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thomas aquinas

Front 1530

paduan patron saint of lost things

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st anthony

Front 1531

first chief justice of the u.s. (1789-95)
and president of the continental congress from 1778-1779
from NYC

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John Jay

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Madison co-wrote the Federalist Papers with these two

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Alexander Hamilton & John Jay

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After being the first chief justice of the us, John Jay became governer of this state (1795-1801) he emancipated the slaves there in 1799
Leader of the federalist party

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NY

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full title of a dickens novel is "the posthumous papers of " this club

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pickwick club

Front 1535

nixon pursued this state dept official

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alger hiss

Front 1536

after 18 years in captivity starting at age 11 - she called her memoir "a stolen life"

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jacee dugard

Front 1537

a code secretly based on a daphne du maurier novel is at the heart of this ken follett bestseller

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the key to rebecca

Front 1538

While working as the companion to a rich American woman vacationing on the French Riviera, the narrator becomes acquainted with a wealthy Englishman, Maximilian (Maxim) de Winter, a reasonably young widower. After a fortnight of courtship, she agrees to marry him, and after the marriage accompanies him to his mansion, the beautiful West Country estate Manderley. is from this book by daphne du maurier

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Rebecca

Front 1539

daphne du maurier short story made into a film by alfred hitchcock

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the birds

Front 1540

in early 2011 "portlandia" debuted on tv & this portland band went to no 1
(month in rock & roll)

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The decemberists

Front 1541

Monthly rock n roll - U2's second album

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October

Front 1542

in the 1940s franklin roosevelt coined this term in reference to all the countries allied against the axis powers

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united nations

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oscar nominated steven spielberg directed film based on a children's novel set before and during World War I, by British author Michael Morpurgo

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War Horse

Front 1544

albert Narracott names this title character "Joey"

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War Horse

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Magnolia State

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Missississippi

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Show-me State

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Missouri

Front 1547

Treasure state

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Montana

Front 1548

Cornhusker State

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Nebraska

Front 1549

Silver State

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Nevada

Front 1550

Granite state

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New hampshire

Front 1551

Garden State

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New Jersey

Front 1552

Land of Enchantment

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New Mexico

Front 1553

The Empire STate

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New York

Front 1554

First in Flight State

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North Carolina

Front 1555

Peace Garden State

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North Dakota

Front 1556

Buckeye STate

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Ohio

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Sooner State

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Oklahoma

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Beaver State

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Oregon

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Keystone State

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Pennsylvania

Front 1560

Island of enchantment is this us property nickname

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Puerto Rico

Front 1561

Ocean State

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Rhode Island

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Palmetto State

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South Carolina

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Mount Rushmore State

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South Dakota

Front 1564

Volunteer STate

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Tennessee

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Lone Star State

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Texas

Front 1566

Beehive State

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Utah

Front 1567

Green Mountain State

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Vermont

Front 1568

The old dominion

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Virginia

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Evergreen state

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Washington

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Mountain State

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West Virginia

Front 1571

America's Dairyland

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Wisconsin

Front 1572

Cowboy state or
Equality State

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Wyoming

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state motto is "the crossroads of America"

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Indiana

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live free or die state

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New Hampshire

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"forever west" & "like no place on earth" are slogans from this state

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wyoming

Front 1576

"live like you mean it" & "america's dairyland" state

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Wisconsin

Front 1577

"wild and wonderful" & "open for business" state

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Wild and wonderful

Front 1578

Live passionately has recently started accompaning this other Virginia Slogan

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Virginia is for Lovers

Front 1579

Say WA! is slogan for this state

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Washington

Front 1580

Greatest Snow on Earth,
This is still the Right place,
Life elevated
are slogans for this state

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UTah

Front 1581

Great Faces. Great Places
slogan

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South Dakota

Front 1582

state of independence
slogan

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Pennsylvania

Front 1583

Native America
state slogan

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Oklahoma
also Oklahoma is OK

Front 1584

Birthplace of Aviation state

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Ohio

Front 1585

legendary
is the state slogan for this state

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North Dakota

Front 1586

First in Flight state

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North Carolina

Front 1587

The city that never sleeps

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New York

Front 1588

Come see for yourself
state slogan

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New Jersey

Front 1589

Big Sky Country
& The last best place state

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Montana

Front 1590

land of 10,000 lakes

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minnesota

Front 1591

the spirit of america state

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massachusetts

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sportsman's paradise

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Louisiana

Front 1593

there's no place like home state

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Kansas

Front 1594

restart your engines
state

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indiana (as in indy 500)

Front 1595

fields of Opportunities
state

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Iowa

Front 1596

Mile after Magnificent Mile
The land of Lincoln
state

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Illinois

Front 1597

It's good being first
state

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Delaware

Front 1598

Beyond your dreams, within your reach
state

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Alaska

Front 1599

George clooney oscar nominated film about a family in Hawaii

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The Descendants

Front 1600

author of Money ball,
The big short
The blind side

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Michael Lewis

Front 1601

Terrence Malick's film chronicles the origins and meaning of life by way of a middle-aged man's childhood memories of his family living in 1950s Texas, interspersed with imagery of the origins of the universe and the inception of life on Earth

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Tree of Life (Starring Sean Penn)

Front 1602

Romantic comedy written by Woody Allen follows Gil Pender (owen wilson) and his trips to the past in the middle of the night in France

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Midnight in Paris

Front 1603

author of the help

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Kathryn Stockett

Front 1604

oscar nominated- scorcese directed film (in 3d) based on a brian selznick book about a boy who lives alone in a Paris railway station and the enigmatic owner of a toy shop there.

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Hugo
book was The invention of Hugo Cabret

Front 1605

The book's narrator is a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell. In the story, Oskar discovers a key in a vase that belonged to his father that inspires him to search all around New York for information about the key.

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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
-his father died in 9/11

Front 1606

the title of this film is actually the name given to a scrapbook of a scavenger hunt made by the main character Oskar

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Extremely Loud & incredibly close

Front 1607

Meryl Streep stars as magaret thatcher in this movie

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The Iron Lady

Front 1608

dust in the wind - artist

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Kansas

Front 1609

she stars in "my week with Marilyn"

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Michelle Williams

Front 1610

Glenn Close plays a woman passing as a man to get work in 1910s ireland in this film

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Albert Nobbs

Front 1611

The Palme d'Or (English: Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded at this film festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition.

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Canne Film Festival

Front 1612

"can't get enough" singer

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Bad Company
...can't get enough of your love..

Front 1613

she was the second youngest to win best supporting actress playing Holly Hunter's daughter in the Piano

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Anna Paquin

Front 1614

(1991) made history as the first animated feature to be nominated for Best Picture

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Beauty and the Beast

Front 1615

Marisa Tomei one an oscar in best supporting actress for playing mona lisa vito in this movie (1992)

Back 1615

My Cousin Video

Front 1616

"what's your name"

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Lynyrd Skynyrd

Front 1617

definitive southern rock band with Ronnie Van Zant on vocals

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Lynyrd Skynyrd

Front 1618

Group that split up after Ronnie Van Zant was killed in a plane crash in 1977 (they regrouped in 90s)

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Lynyrd Skynyrd

Front 1619

muppets creator

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jim henson

Front 1620

Comedy Director Blake edwards is married to this Mary Poppins actress

Back 1620

Julie Andrews

Front 1621

Inspector in the Pink Panther

Back 1621

Inspector Clouseau

Front 1622

"(don't fear) the reaper" by this thinking man's heavy metal group - colorful group

Back 1622

Blue oyster cult

Front 1623

blue oyster cult's hit (don't fear) the reaper was featured in this John Carpenter Horror Film Classic

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Halloween

Front 1624

based on Academy Award®-winning film. It tells the story of an Irish musician and a Czech immigrant drawn together by their shared love of music - (singularly titled)

Back 1624

Once

Front 1625

whose reighn was disputed & excluded from offical british monarchy website

Back 1625

matilda (in 1141)

Front 1626

first norman king of england
1066 until 1087

Back 1626

william I - william the conqueror

Front 1627

sequel to the adventures of tom sawyer

Back 1627

the adventures of huckleberry finn

Front 1628

flesh pad on palm at base of thumb (regarding love life)

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mount of venus

Front 1629

california dreamin'

Back 1629

the mamas and the papas

Front 1630

Jumpin Jack Flash
singer

Back 1630

Rolling stones

Front 1631

Brian Jones (guitars)was found dead in a swimming pool shortly after being fired from this group

Back 1631

Rolling Stones

Front 1632

musical based on gregory maguire novel - elphaba, galinda/glinda, score by stephen schwartz

Back 1632

wicked

Front 1633

author of wicked

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Gregory maguire

Front 1634

french revolution began here when mobs stormed the palace - about 10 miles sw of paris

Back 1634

versailles

Front 1635

NYC museum of American Art esp 20th-21st century

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The whitney

Front 1636

Founder and namesake of this museum orginally offered her collection of 700+ works to the metropolitan museum of art (which the museum declined)

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The Whitney

Front 1637

Graham nash of Crosby, stills, nash & young was lead singer of this british group

Back 1637

the Hollies

Front 1638

Highway to Hell by this group is on the Iron Man 2 soundtrack

Back 1638

AC/DC

Front 1639

Country where AC/DC were from

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australia

Front 1640

satchmo "satchel mouth" jazz trumpet player

Back 1640

louis armstrong 1901-1907 also nicknamed Pops

Front 1641

"born to be wild" & "Magic carpet ride" are by this group named after a Herman Hesse Novel

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Steppenwolf

Front 1642

This trumpeter also had vocal hits with:
including "Stardust", "What a Wonderful World", "When The Saints Go Marching In", "Dream a Little Dream of Me", "Ain't Misbehavin'

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Louis "satchmo" armstrong

Front 1643

Ann & Nancy Wilson make up the core of this "barracuda", "magic man" & "these dreams" singing group

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heart

Front 1644

Don Giovanni Opera composer

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Mozart

Front 1645

he wrote the operas
Cosi fan tutte
Don Giovanni
the Magic Flute
the marraige of Figaro

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Mozart

Front 1646

"people will say we're in love"
"oh, what a beautiful morning"
what musical

Back 1646

oklahoma!

Front 1647

1223 italian saint set up nativity scene with/live animals in greccio

Back 1647

st francis of assisi

Front 1648

13th c italian preacher He is known as the patron saint of animals, the environment and one of the two patrons of Italy (with Catherine of Siena),

Back 1648

St francis of assisi

Front 1649

female saint of Italy along with St francis of assisi

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Catherine of Siena

Front 1650

atacama desert country - has statue "hand of the desert"

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Chile (it's also in peru, bolivia & argentina) most is in chile after war of the pacific

Front 1651

Desert in South American that is considered the driest on earth - and has been compared to Mars (some films record mars scenes there)

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Atacama Desert

Front 1652

Singer of "i love rock n roll" with group Blackhearts

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Joan Jett

Front 1653

Highway that stretches from Prudhoe Bay Alaska all the way to chile or Argentina except for the "Darien gap" - due to rainforest

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The Pan-American Highway

Front 1654

river flowing through Hades (souls of the dead drunk from it to forget)
river of forgetfulness

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Lethe (said lee-thee)
styx is the river of hate

Front 1655

This singer who sometimes drops his middle name sings "small town"

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John Mellencamp

Front 1656

ferryman in the underworld

Back 1656

Charon

Front 1657

River Achilles was dipped in & that the gods swore by

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Styx

Front 1658

in ancient times, relatives would put a coin in the mouth of the dead to pay the toll to cross this river (border between Earth & the Underworld)

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Styx

Front 1659

David lee roth is the vocals On "you really got me" by this group

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Van Halen

Front 1660

In his "inferno" the Acheron river forms the border of Hell

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Dante

Front 1661

The allman brothers band sing about this "wanderer"

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Ramblin' Man

Front 1662

18th cent eng author of Robinson Crusoe
-an english sailor
-friday is his companion
-rescued after 28years on island

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daniel defoe