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In an 1870s ballet, Prince Siegfried falls in love with one of these graceful birds |
Swan
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The storming of this prison in 1789 is one of the most famous events of the French Revolution |
Bastille
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Hieronymus Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" is one of the delightful paintings at this Spanish museum |
The Prado
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Hepatitis & cirrhosis are diseases of this organ |
Liver
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Oxford graduate Hugh Grant played a student at this other British university in the coming-of-age film "Maurice" |
Cambridge
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Esperanto adverbs generally end in "E"; these words, like bela for "beautiful", in "A" |
Adjectives
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This singer took "Oh, Pretty Woman" to No. 1 in 1964 |
Roy Orbison
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This German earned the nickname "The Desert Fox" while commanding the Afrika Korps in WWII |
Erwin Rommel
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A Tokyo museum dedicated to this Beatle opened Oct. 9, 2000, which would have been his 60th birthday |
John Lennon
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The tympanic membrane is another name for this body part |
Eardrum
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Traditionally, the ballet "Suite en Blanc" is performed without scenery, in costumes of this color |
White
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A fine restoracio might insist you wear a kravat, which is this |
Tie
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This composer of the opera "Siegfried" also named his son Siegfried |
(Alex: Ott, with a voice like yours, you should be singing Wagner!)
Richard Wagner
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Even though it's been "found", this Peruvian ruin, seen here, is still called "The Lost City of the Incas" |
Machu Picchu
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Seen here, Manet's painting of "Nana" hangs in the Kunshalle, a great museum in this seaport of northern Germany |
Hamburg
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When the intestine bulges into the groin muscles, it's the inguinal type of this |
Hernia
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Puerto Ricans eat mofongo, a mashed plantain dish that gets its strong flavor from cloves of this |
Garlic
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Dudek is 20; ducent is this many |
200
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Before he became the "King of the Cowboys" on film, he formed the Sons of the Pioneers singing group |
Roy Rogers
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As queen of the Netherlands during WWI, she helped maintain Dutch neutrality |
(Robin: Who was Juliana?)
Wilhelmina
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We wonder what they sell in the gift shop of the Opium House Museum in Sop Ruak, this nation's Golden Triangle |
(Alex: Ott, I love your voice!) (Ott: Thanks!)
Thailand
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A deficiency of vitamin D is a common cause of this disease that causes bone deformities like bowed legs |
rickets
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It's the official language of Bahrain |
Arabic
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Arbaro is this type of place as in Longfellow's "Jen la Arbaro Pratempa" |
Forest/woods
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In a Sir Walter Scott novel, this title character is an outlaw of the MacGregor clan |
Rob Roy
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This "Magnificent" sultan, seen here, was the 10th ruler of the Ottoman Empire |
Suleiman
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The central gallery of this French museum, once a train station, is seen here |
Musee d'Orsay
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Alexia is word blindness; this is a reading disability in which letters are reversed &/or transposed |
(Alex: Robin, well done! Hate to slow you down, but we have to take a break.)
Dyslexia
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This 19th C. Norwegian wrote incidental music for Bjornstjerne Bjornson's play "Sigurd Jorsalfar" |
Edvard Grieg
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Originally the pseudonym of the language's creator, Esperanto means "one who" does this |
Hopes
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