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SMALL MIDWESTERN COLLEGES |
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Ethnic Uzbeks make up 9% of Turkmenistan, 24% of Tajikistan & 71% of this country |
Uzbekistan
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"Take The 'A' Train" was Duke Ellington's theme & "One O'Clock Jump" was this "noble" bandleader's |
(Bob: Who is Duke Ellington?)
Count Basie
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The last "Stars & Bars" flag of the Confederacy had this many stars; it must have been unlucky |
13
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St. Mary's College, just north of South Bend, is about a mile from this larger Catholic school |
Notre Dame
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The story of this unfinished ziggurat was once used to explain the origin of languages |
Tower of Babel
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Ice cream flavor seen here in an astronaut version: |
(Alex: And look at this ice cream [banging the square on his lectern]--you can hear it!) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Neapolitan
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In 1942 this nation controlled all or part of a dozen present-day eastern Asian countries |
Japan
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'90s jazzmen like Joshua Redman play '30s music in Robert Altman's film set in this Missouri city |
(Alex: ...we have less than a minute to go, Matt.)
Kansas City
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Gen. Buckner unconditionally surrendered Fort Donelson to this Union general |
Grant
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Eureka College in Illinois is the alma mater of this U.S. president born not far off in Tampico |
Ronald Reagan
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After his death, his final lines in the film "Giant" were dubbed by Nick Adams |
James Dean
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James Boswell was Samuel Johnson's |
(Mark: What is pseudonym?)
biographer
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As a large & geographically distinct part of Asia, India is often called one of these |
a subcontinent
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Sax great heard here in a 1960 recording: |
(Matt: Who is Stan Getz?)
John Coltrane
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The announcement of the Union's victory at Vicksburg was made on this summer national holiday |
July 4th
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Coed schools in Ohio include Dyke, Malone & this first U.S. coeducational college |
Oberlin
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Despite its popular name, Schubert may not have planned it to have more than 2 movements |
the "Unfinished Symphony"
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Derived from Greek, it's another term for pharmacist |
apothecary
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Cape Baba, jutting into this arm of the Mediterranean, is Asia's westernmost mainland point |
(Mark: What is the Adriatic Sea?) ... (Alex: Cape Baba is in Turkey, and it juts into [*].)
the Aegean
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A slightly lowered unit of the scale, or a label that has recorded Thelonious Monk & Herbie Hancock |
Blue Note
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The only person executed after the war for his war crimes was Henry Wirz, commander of this prison |
Andersonville
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Beloit, in this state, is one of the USA's most respected small colleges |
Wisconsin
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The biggest mystery in "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" is how this author planned to finish it |
Charles Dickens
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Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is the major city of this peninsula in far eastern Russia |
Kamchatka
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This 1960s style pioneered by Ornette Coleman "liberated" improvisers from set melodies |
(Matt: What is liberato?)
free jazz
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This blond soldier lost control of his horse during the End of the War Parade, May 23, 1865 |
(Alex: And some say he did it deliberately!)
Custer
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"A person on business from Porlock" kept Coleridge from finishing this opium-induced masterpiece |
(Matt: What is The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?)
Kublai Khan
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