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Linguists have debunked the common belief that Eskimos have dozens of words for this substance |
(B: What is ice?)
Snow
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This city's Independence Nat'l Historical Park has been called "The most historic square mile in America" |
(M: What is Boston?)
Philadelphia
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This Arctic bear's feet are webbed & have hairy soles |
Polar bear
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This Alberta capital is called the Gateway to the North |
Edmonton
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"A Tale of Two Cities" opens as Dr. Alexander Manette is released after 18 years in this prison |
The Bastille
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It's one's partner in crime |
(B: What is a co-conspirator?)
Accomplice
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These systems of communication that use the hands can be as rich & complex as spoken tongues |
Sign language/signing
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Pompey's Pillar, a rock formation in Montana, was named by Capt. William Clark for the son of this Indian guide |
Sacajawea
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Large feral populations of the "mute" species of this long-necked bird inhabit the Mid-Atlantic coast |
(B: What is a goose?) (E: What is a flamingo?)
Swans
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A ferry & 2 suspension bridges connect Dartmouth, Nova Scotia with this capital |
Halifax
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At one point in this 1862 novel, Jean Valjean owns a factory |
Les Miserables
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It means to set free, as from slavery |
Emancipate
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Sentence diagrams called these may include lines called branches |
Trees
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Dating from the early 1700s, the Gonzalez-Alvarez House in this city is the oldest house in Florida |
St. Augustine
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The silver dollar fish resembles this feared fish of the Amazon basin but is strictly herbivorous |
Piranha
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Commercial cod fishing, long a mainstay of this Newfoundland capital, declined to almost nothing by 1990 |
St. John's
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In "Through The Looking Glass", Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the meaning of this nonsense poem |
Jabberwocky
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Literally meaning "all powerful", it's often used to describe God |
(Mike: What is omniscient?)
omnipotent
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Considered part of grammar, it's the study of the interrelation of words in a sentence |
Syntax
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Carmel Mission in Carmel, Calif. was the headquarters of this Franciscan priest until his death in 1784 |
Fr. Junipero Serra
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A pocket gopher's pockets are fur-lined & located in these |
Cheeks
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This Manitoba capital annexed the adjacent community of Saint Boniface in 1972 |
Winnipeg
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In the final scene of "Rebecca", this stately mansion of Maxim De Winter burns |
Manderley
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Lionel Hampton's instrument |
(B: What is a xylophone?)
Vibraphone
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This famed M.I.T. scholar has proposed that humans have the inborn ability to learn language |
(B: Who is Negroponte?)
Noam Chomsky
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Sunflower Landing near Clarksdale, Miss. is believed to be where he found the Mississippi River in 1541 |
(E: Who is La Salle?)
Hernando De Soto
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Scientists divide these toothless whales into 3 groups: right whales, gray whales & rorquals |
Baleen whales
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This British Columbia capital was the capital of the colony of Vancouver Island 1848-1866 |
Victoria
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The title of this 1965 Frank Herbert novel refers to the desert planet of Arrakis |
Dune
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From the Latin word for "tear", it describes someone mournful, who cries easily |
Lachrymose
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