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This Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tale about a ghostly canine was based on local legend |
The Hound of the Baskervilles
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His record as the youngest international grand master in chess stood from 1958-1991 |
Bobby Fischer
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Term for the circle that encloses a comic strip character's dialogue |
a balloon
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Many say this country's ruler, Tzu-Chi, gave a deathbed command to have her nephew, the emperor, killed |
China
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The word "malossol" on a caviar label means the roe is preserved with a minimum of this seasoning |
salt
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This element has two crystalline allotropes: diamond & graphite |
carbon
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Some consider this author's "The History of Henry Esmond" his greatest work, not "Vanity Fair" |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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In 1995, 8th grader Chris Galeczka won this contest by knowing that Afghanistan is where Pashtu & Dari are spoken |
the National Geography Bee
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Typesetters may use the Dvorak layout on one of these; it reduces their finger movements from Qwerty |
a keyboard
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This emperor for whom a wall is named built a spectacular villa at Tivoli, near Rome |
Hadrian
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These chocolate confections are so-called because they resemble the fancy fungi of the same name |
truffles
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These charged, stable elementary particles are present in all atoms in shells around the nucleus |
electrons
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The title of his novel "Far From the Madding Crowd" is found in "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" |
Thomas Hardy
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In 1995, for her groundbreaking study of African chimps, she was awarded the Hubbard Medal |
Jane Goodall
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This term refers to printing beyond the edges & trimming back the sheet; first aid isn't required |
bleeding
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This country's King Alphonso II was known as "Alphonso El Gordo", which means Alphonso the Fat |
(David: What is Spain?)
Portugal
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Ancient Romans cultivated these gastropods on farms; fattening them on meal & wine |
snails
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It's a material such as germanium whose resistivity is midway between a conductor & an insulator |
a semiconductor
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Philip Carey is the central character in this Somerset Maugham novel |
(David: Well, I hope it's [*].) (Alex: Yeah, but you didn't phrase it in the form of a question, unfortunately, and in the Double Jeopardy! Round we cannot offer you any assistance in that regard, and so it will cost you. You have to be careful; don't blurt out responses. Think about them. It just cost you the $800.)
Of Human Bondage
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The daughter of a world champion steer roper, she was the Country Music Association's best Female Vocalist, 1984-1987 |
Reba McEntire
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Term for non-copyrighted pictures or drawings you can snip out & include in your own work |
(Isaac: What is public domain?)
clip art
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This founder of the Capetian Dynasty succeeded his father as duke of the Franks in 956 |
Hugh Capet
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Eggs Meyerbeer, named in honor of the composer, is made with these organs the French call reins |
kidneys
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This force, supposed to act radially outward on a body moving in a curve, is a fictitious force |
centrifugal force
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This monumental work by Edward Gibbon covers 13 centuries until the capture of Constantinople |
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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In 1993 the Metropolitan Museum presented an exhibition of paintings by this grandson of Sigmund Freud |
Lucian Freud
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A color separator produces four negatives: cyan, magenta, yellow & this color |
black
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As a child during World War II, this current Dutch queen lived in Canada |
Beatrix
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Served with bearnaise sauce, this thick cut of beef is named for a French statesman, not a French castle |
Chateaubriand
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It's the resistance of a fluid to a flow; syrup has a higher one than water |
viscosity
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