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The Burgundians captured this French leader & sold her to the English for 10,000 francs |
(R: Who is Marie Antoinette?)
Joan of Arc
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These glands secrete liquid into the mouths of mammals to help break down starches |
Salivary glands
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Last name of Anne, sister of Emily & Charlotte, who wrote "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" |
Bronte
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In the 1840s William Colenso explored the northern end of this country's North Island |
New Zealand
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"Private Benjamin" (1980) |
Goldie Hawn
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In the thesaurus, "Fluffy" & "Fleecy" are listed with this word that's also an "April-Fresh" fabric softener |
Downy
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During the war France helped Owen Glendower in his attempt to free this country from English rule |
(L: What is Scotland?)
Wales
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It's the growth-influencing gland at the base of the brain |
Pituitary gland
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Anne has been convinced not to marry Wentworth in this woman's novel "Persuasion" |
Jane Austen
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This island's first colony c. 986 & its first modern permanent one in 1721 were established by Norwegians |
Greenland
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"Gilda" (1946) |
Rita Hayworth
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In 1961 the future sex counselor born Ruth Siegel married a man named this |
(R: Who is Masters?) (L: Who is Weistheimer?)
Manfred Westheimer
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The Frenche captured this poet brave and handsome, but the kynge wyth 16 pounds dyd pay hys ransome |
(Alex: I was hoping you noticed the spelling!)
Geoffrey Chaucer
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This ductless gland in the base of the neck secretes the hormones for controlling metabolism |
(R: What are adrenaline glands?)
Thyroid gland
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, her "Black and Blue" was selected for Oprah's Book Club in 1998 |
(R: Who is Toni Morrison?)
Anna Quindlen
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1843's "Incidents of Travel in Yucatan" was devoted to telling of this civilization's ruins |
Mayans
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"Nell" (1994) |
Jodie Foster
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Pot pies are a good way to "dress up" these |
Leftovers
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This weapon with a rapid rate of fire was an early English asset |
(D: What is a bow & arrow...crossbow?)
Longbow
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These glands located above each kidney secrete steroids & epinephrine |
(Alex: Hurry! Two clues left - which one?)
Adrenal Glands
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Money & "A Room of One's Own" are needed if a woman is to be a writer, she asserted in a 1929 essay |
(less than a minute to go, Rocco...)
Virginia Woolf
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Around 1620 Pietro Della Valle brought to Europe a copy of this script from Behistun in Mesopotamia |
(D: What is Hammurabi's Code?)
Cuneiform
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"Sabrina" (1954) |
(D: Who is Katharine Hepburn?)
Audrey Hepburn
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This Manhattan area, once a haven for Jewish immigrants, was called Loisada when Spanish speakers moved in |
(D: What is Spanish Harlem?)
Lower East Side
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It's the cone-shaped organ in the brain that secretes melatonin |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
the pineal gland
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In 1899 readers awakened to "The Awakening", written by this woman |
Kate Chopin
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While awaiting a permit to look for Troy, he spent part of 1869 in Indianapolis getting a divorce |
(L: Who was Carter?)
Heinrich Schliemann
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"Sabrina" (1995) |
Julia Ormond
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On June 18, 1997 the convention of this religious group voted to boycott Disney |
Southern Baptists
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