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    | He's revered as China's supreme sage & foremost teacher | 
    Confucius
 
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    | In 1988 this French oceanographer received 1 of 15 Nat'l Geographic Society Centennial Awards | 
    Jacques Cousteau
 
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    | The Spaniards named this Central American nation for Nicarao, an Indian leader | 
    Nicaragua
 
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    | Aurora Greenway is General Hector Scott's lover in Larry McMurtry's "Terms of" this | 
    Endearment
 
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    | The vertical difference between the sides of one of these crustal fractures is called the throw | 
    fault
 
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    | Wild celebrations are called Bacchanal after the festivals that honored this wine god | 
    Bacchus
 
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    | Water was Elizabeth I's playful nickname for this court favorite | 
    (Diana: What is Essex?)
  Sir Walter Raleigh
 
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    | In 1995 the American Film Institute honored this "E.T." director with its Life Achievement Award | 
    Steven Spielberg
 
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    | The name of this Alpine peak is French for "white mountain" | 
    Mont Blanc
 
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    | Zofia Zawistowska, an Auschwitz survivor, is the heroine of this 1979 William Styron novel | 
    Sophie's Choice
 
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    | Carbon monoxide causes death by displacing oxygen from this blood pigment | 
    hemoglobin
 
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    | A sponge found in Asian waters is known as this Roman love goddess' "flower basket" | 
    Venus
 
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    | In 1456, 25 years too late, her sentence for heresy was revoked & annulled | 
    Joan of Arc
 
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    | For its publication of the Pentagon Papers, this newspaper won a 1972 Pulitzer Prize | 
    (Ana: What is The Washington Post?)
  New York Times
 
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    | It's Austria's chief river | 
    the Danube
 
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    | Ursula & Gudrun Brangwen are featured in 2 of his novels, "The Rainbow" & "Women in Love" | 
    (Diana: Who is D.E. Lawrence?) (Alex: If you had just said "Lawrence", we would have accepted it, but you gave us some extra information, which was incorrect.)
  D.H. Lawrence
 
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    | In this type of exercise, muscles are contracted against resistance without movement of the joints | 
    (Diana: What is isotonic?)
  isometric
 
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    | Inspiration may be called the Pierian Spring after a place sacred to these 9 goddesses of arts & learning | 
    the Muses
 
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    | This Greek "Father of Medicine" may have left the island of Cos after he was blamed for a fire | 
    Hippocrates
 
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    | This Chinese-American was awarded the 1976 Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture | 
    I.M. Pei
 
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    | One of the world's largest diamond deposits is located at Orapa, Botswana, in this desert | 
    (Ana: What is the Sahara?)
  the Kalahari
 
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    | This character is the head nurse in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" | 
    Nurse Ratched
 
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    | Geodesy is a scientific branch concerned with the exact shape & size of this | 
    the Earth
 
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    | Predatory or shrewish people may be compared to these monsters with women's heads & birds' bodies | 
    (Diana: What are vibragos?)
  Harpies
 
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    | During the Third Crusade, this red-bearded Holy Roman emperor drowned while trying to cross a river | 
    (Diana: Who was Charlemagne?)
  Frederick Barbarossa
 
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    | Chief Justice 1953-1969, he was the first recipient of the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award | 
    Earl Warren
 
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    | The mountain known as K2 is also called this after the Englishman who surveyed it c. 1860 | 
    Godwin-Austen
 
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    | Offred is the title character of this Margaret Atwood tale | 
    (Alex: Less than a minute to go.)
  The Handmaid's Tale
 
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    | This is defined as the breakdown of glucose or other sugars by yeast or bacteria in the absence of oxygen | 
    (Ana: What is an anarobic...sugar breakdown?)
  fermentation
 
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    | It was the formless abyss that existed before the world was created; now it's a synonym for total anarchy | 
    chaos
 
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