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The IRS approved this form for use by all persons whose income was $10,000 or less |
Short Form
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On June 1, 1831, James Clark Ross discovered this when a compass needle he was holding pointed straight down |
(S: What is the South Pole?) (J: What is the North Pole; Antarctica?)
Magnetic North Pole
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The saxophone belongs to this family, not the brass |
Woodwinds
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The University of San Marcos, Peru's oldest school of higher learning, was founded here in 1551 |
Lima
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Not surprisingly in 1892, this state became the first to make Lincoln's birthday a legal holiday |
Illinois
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In "The Compleat Angler", Izaak Walton wrote "I have laid aside business and gone to do this" |
Fishing
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In December, he became head of France for the 2nd time |
(Scott: Who was Mitterrand?)
Charles de Gaulle
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Newton figured the Earth should be an oblate spheroid with an equatorial bulge because it does this |
Spin on its Axis
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If someone showed you his "Fender Stratocaster", you'd be looking at one of these |
Guitar
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From 1936-1961, this capital of the Dominican Republic was called Ciudad Trujillo |
Santo Domingo
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In Canada, the Monday before May 25th is a holiday named for this queen |
Queen Victoria
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When crowned in 1804, he told the Pope, "I am the successor of Louis XIV, not Charlemagne" |
Napoleon
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The World's Fair, symbolized by a 334-foot high atomium, was opened April 17 by King Baudouin in this capital |
(Alex: And we have a minute to go...)
Brussels
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From the Greek for "number", it's the science of numbers |
(Leslie: What is numerology?) (Scott: What is algebra?)
arithmetic
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Term for the various strands of gut, nylon, or wire stretched over the head of a sidedrum |
Snares
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This city was founded in 1434 to succeed Angkor Thom as capital of the Khmer Empire |
Phnom Penh
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In 1889 the 2nd Socialist International designated this day to honor the world's workers |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
May 1st
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In March 1964, he said, "For the first time in our history, it is possible to conquer poverty" |
Lyndon Johnson
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Jordan's King Hussein's cousin was overthrown and killed in this neighboring country |
(S: What is Saudi Arabia?)
Iraq
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A lean, small-boned person is an ectomorph; an endomorph is round; and this type is muscular |
Mesomorph
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In a famous opera, the Queen of the Night gives Tamino this instrument |
(L: What is a lyre?)
The Magic Flute
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Windhoek is the capital & largest city of this newly independent former mandate of South Africa |
Namibia
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American wit who said that "Puritanism was the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy" |
(J: Who was Dorothy Parker?)
H.L. Mencken
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This Russian made news on October 29th when he turned down a cash prize worth $41,420 |
(Jim: Who was Solzhenitsyn?) [He turned down the Nobel Prize for Literature.]
Boris Pasternak
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In this pre-birth procedure, a small amount of fluid is withdrawn from the sac in the uterus and tested |
amniocentesis
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The pitch of one of the two standard orchestra clarinets |
B Flat and A
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When in this European capital, don't forget to see the Antonin Dvorak Museum and the tomb of St. Wenceslas |
Prague
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Failing to corner the silver market in 1980, he said "A billion dollars is not what is used to be" |
Bunker Hunt
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