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Under this name, Charles Dodgson imagined traveling down the rabbit hole with Alice |
(Chris: Who is Lewis... Charles Lewis?)
Lewis Carroll
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In this 1997 Dustin Hoffman film, the U.S. wages a fictional war with Albania |
(Alex: And we have about a minute left.)
Wag the Dog
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The Columbus Quest & the Seattle Reign are teams of the ABL, a new women's league in this sport |
Basketball
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Appropriately, a musical about this composer is presented every summer in My Old Kentucky Home State Park |
Stephen Foster
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To the nearest 100, number of years the United States of America has been an independent nation |
200
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Flirting by using one's tootsies is called "playing" this |
Footsie
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Don't tell his big brother, but Eric Blair was his real name |
George Orwell
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Albania is located on the eastern shores of the Ionian Sea & this sea |
(Chris: What is the Mediterranean?)
Adriatic
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Group who recorded the 1982 Top 10 hit heard here: ("Vacation") |
The Go-Go's
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Alabama's official outdoor drama is this play, enacted in the summer at Helen Keller's birthplace |
"The Miracle Worker"
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To the nearest foot, the height of Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain |
7
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It's a humorous term for comic strips, or the section in which you find them |
Funnies
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Look in the dark recesses of your heart & tell me Jozef Korzeniowski's pen name |
Joseph Conrad
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Albania's capital, it centers on Skanderbeg Square |
Tirana
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All 3 of these monster sisters had snaky hair, not just Medusa |
Gorgons
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He's the former resident in the title of the Nauvoo, Illinois pageant "City of Joseph" |
Joseph Smith
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To the nearest hour, flight time of the Concorde from London to New York |
(Dave: What is 3?)
4
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Shark part that's slang for a 5-dollar bill |
Fin
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Mystery writer Nicholas Blake, in reality a "My Left Foot" star's father |
Cecil Day-Lewis
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After Albania broke with the USSR, it turned to this country which gave it billions until a tiff in 1978 |
(People's Republic of) China
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They go for their ride at the beginning of act III in this Wagner opera named for them |
"(Ride of the) Valkyries"
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As a young man, Andy Griffith spent several seasons playing this Elizabethan courtier in "The Lost Colony" |
Sir Walter Raleigh
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To the nearest billion, number of Cokes you'd need to buy to give one to everyone in the world |
(Chris: What is 4 billion?) (Dave: What is 5 billion?)
6 billion
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Thomas Gray wrote, "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis" this "to be wise" |
Folly
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Francois Marie Arouet chose this best of all possible pseudonyms |
Voltaire
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King Zog I ruled from 1928 until 1939, when this country annexed Albania |
Italy
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Formed in 1920 this group grew out of the National American Woman Suffrage Association |
League of Women Voters
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Featuring a cast of hundreds, the "Ramona" Pageant has been an annual event in Hemet in this state since 1923 |
California
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To the nearest light year, the distance between Earth & Alpha Centauri |
4 light years
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Some folks call this island country the "Crossroads of the South Pacific" |
Fiji
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