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Her marriage to Mel Leventhal produced Rebecca Walker, who produced the memoir "Black, White and Jewish" |
Alice Walker
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His album "The 12 Year Old Genius" topped the U.S. charts in 1963 |
Stevie Wonder
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Lady Godiva was a naked babe in arms when this Scot & Shakespeare title character was on the throne |
Macbeth
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This Louisiana state tree could use some Rogaine |
the bald cypress
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In 1859 tightrope walker Charles Blondin crossed this watery wonder many times; later he did it on stilts |
Niagara Falls
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Financial support for a man's ex-wife |
alimony
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Jean Toomer's "Cane" (1923) is one of the major works of this New York City movement |
the Harlem Renaissance
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In 1655 Cromwell suppressed a Royalist revolt & this Dutchman painted "The Slaughtered Ox" |
Rembrandt
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The strawberry is not a member of the berry family but is in fact a member of this garden flower family |
the rose
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In 1828, thanks to his syllabary, the Cherokee Phoenix became the USA's first Indian language newspaper |
Sequoyah
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From the Greek for "long-lasting", it's a long-term close friend |
a crony
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Soon after this jazzman died, poet Michael Harper published a "Dear John" book about him |
John Coltrane
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In 2004 Brooke Shields was back on Broadway in the hit revival of this musical |
Wonderful Town
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The only writing Bronte sister whose life overlapped Jane Austen's |
Charlotte
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Andes Indians chew the leaves of this narcotic plant with lime juice for extra stamina |
coca
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Lincoln's election as captain of his company in this 1832 Indian war "gave me more pleasure than any I have had" |
(Alex: You could make it very difficult for Sandra and Jack to catch up.) (Michael: Let's do $3,900.) (Alex: $3,900--interesting wager.)
the Black Hawk War
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Marked by an elegant or exclusive quality |
tony
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Donald Goines wrote 4 novels about an urban revolutionary named for this father of modern Kenya |
Jomo Kenyatta
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Families love this Orlando attraction housed in a building that appears to be upside down |
Wonder Works
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While Christopher Wren was drawing up plans for London, this man & Joliet were drawing the route of the Mississippi |
Marquette
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This Mediterranean fruit appears on the Spanish city of Granada's coat of arms |
a pomegranate
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In 1692, while president of Harvard, he received the first divinity degree in the American colonies |
(Michael: Who is Mather?) (Alex: Which one?) (Michael: Who is... Cotton Mather?) (Alex: No.)
Increase Mather
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A phony, exaggerated showing of holiness or moral superiority |
(Sandra: Wh--Sorry.) (Michael: What is parsimony?)
sanctimony
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Last name of poet Nikki, or first name of the man whose "room" is a James Baldwin book title |
Giovanni
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Michael Douglas was praised for his portrayal of a professor in this 2000 film |
(Sandra: What is... Wonder Boy?) ... (Alex: You were so close, Sandra. There were a number of them.)
Wonder Boys
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Abelard could have read the daily news about this famous Spaniard born Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar |
El Cid
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It's the Hawaiian good luck plant & it suits you to one |
a ti
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In 1787 this uprising reached its climax when 1,100 farmers attacked an arsenal in Springfield, Mass. |
(Sandra: What is the Whiskey Rebellion?)
Shays' Rebellion
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Bitterness & resentment in speech or attitude |
acrimony
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