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Paris's Ile de la Cite is home to this structure many consider the birthplace of Gothic architecture |
Notre Dame
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Jack Bruce, Sid Vicious & John Entwistle are all famous for playing this instrument |
the bass
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While writing "Crime and Punishment", he quickly penned "The Gambler" to meet a publisher's obligation |
Dostoevsky
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This metropolis' first high rise was the 482-foot Mitsui Kasumigaseki, completed in 1968 |
Tokyo
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A talking cricket warns him, "woe to boys who refuse to obey their parents and run away from home!" |
Pinocchio
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The principal money-earner in a family |
the breadwinner
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Renzo Piano's Potsdamer Platz Project included a musical theatre near where this infamous structure stood |
the Berlin Wall
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Eric Clapton may have gotten this nickname because it took him so long to change his guitar strings |
"Slowhand"
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Shortly after writing "Catriona", a sequel to "Kidnapped", he died on the island of Samoa |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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A granite cone called Sugar Loaf Mountain rises on a peninsula in Guanabara Bay in this cosmopolitan city |
Rio de Janeiro
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Even though your child's been good, you still might want to attend meetings of the PTA, which stands for this |
the Parent-Teacher Association
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Hansel & Gretel dropped a trail of these to find their way home; didn't work! |
bread crumbs
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This British architect's epitaph is "If you seek his monument, look around you" |
Christopher Wren
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This guitarist with his own band is heard here playing lead on someone else's No. 1 hit |
Eddie Van Halen
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In 1941, before taking her final dip, she wrote her sister Vanessa, "I am certain now that I am going mad again" |
Virginia Woolf
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Its original Spanish name translates to "The Town of the Queen of the Angels" |
Los Angeles
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Irish wit who quipped, "to lose one parent... may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness" |
Oscar Wilde
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An important cereal-growing region of a nation |
the breadbasket
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In 1976 this guitarist's album "Breezin'" was the first to simultaneously top the jazz, R&B & pop charts |
George Benson
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Rejected in 1863 when its autos & subways seemed too fantastic, his "Paris au XXIeme Siecle" was finally published in 1994 |
Jules Verne
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In this city you can walk a flight of 137 steps up to Trinita Dei Monti, a 15th C. French church built by Charles VIII |
Rome
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This 1938 Nobel Literature Prize winner's parents were Presbyterian missionaries |
(Alex Trebek: Yes, they were missionaries in China!)
Pearl Buck
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According to the Latin satirist Juvenal, that which was provided to placate the masses |
bread and circuses
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On architectural blueprints, "DD" refers to this type of "national" opening |
a Dutch door
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Last name of a famous Spanish classical guitarist born in 1893; it's also a province in Spain |
(Alex Trebek: Let's see if you can run the category...)
Segovia
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His 1898 letter to the president of France accused "the War Office of having led a vile campaign in the press" |
Emile Zola
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This city's Hofburg is the residence of President Heinz Fischer & home to the famous Spanish Riding School |
Vienna
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Chromosomes are inherited from both parents; only the father can provide the one designated by this letter |
Y
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These thin-sliced pickles are flavored with mustard, celery seeds, cloves & turmeric |
bread-and-butter pickles
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