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In the 1840s Victor Hugo began writing this book using the title "Le Miser" |
Les Misérables
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A non-ferrous metal is any metal other than steel or this |
Iron
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Arizona's Kaibab National Forest lies near this national park |
Grand Canyon
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The 1935 film "Naughty Marietta" was her first collaboration with Nelson Eddy |
Jeanette MacDonald
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Oklahoma got this nickname from those who staked claims before land was open for settlement |
"The Sooner State"
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Representing Massachusetts' 8th District, Joseph P. Kennedy is the son of this late New York senator |
Robert F. Kennedy
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This author of "No Exit" said no to a Nobel Prize in 1964 |
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Squamata, meaning "scaly", is the reptile order that composes these two types of creatures |
Lizards & snakes
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Divisions of this state's Sumter National Forest include Long Cane, Enoree & Tiger |
South Carolina
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In 1923 her first magazine article, "In China Too", appeared in the Atlantic Monthly |
Pearl S. Buck
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This cowboy humorist is buried at a shrine in Claremore, near his birthplace |
Will Rogers
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Former "Love Boat" star Fred Grandy represents this state's 6th District in the House |
Iowa
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"Contes de ma Mere l'Oye" by Charles Perrault is a collection of these |
Mother Goose tales
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The coelacanth, thought to be extinct until one was caught in 1938, is this type of creature |
Fish
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This state's Chippewa & Superior National Forests contain many of its 10,000 lakes |
Minnesota
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Actress to whom Charles II referred when he supposedly said, "Let not poor Nelly starve" |
Nell Gwyn
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This university in Stillwater has won 29 NCAA wrestling titles, more than any other college |
Oklahoma State University
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In 1990 Socialist Bernard Sanders won this New England state's only House seat |
Vermont
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This playwright was a friend of Jean Racine, & his company staged Racine's first play |
Moliere
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Simply put, his law says that if you double the pressure of a gas, you halve its volume |
Robert Boyle
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This national forest in Oregon shares its name with the mountain contained within its borders |
Mount Hood
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From 1986-89, Gro Harlem Brundtland served as this Scandinavian country's prime minister |
Norway
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This part of the state was once known as "No Man's Land" or the "Cimarron Strip" |
Panhandle
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who represents this state's 18th District, was born in Havana |
Florida
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Under this pen name, Francois-Marie Arouet wrote "Micromegas", a tale of a 120,000-foot-tall being |
Voltaire
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This mineral, which occurs in such forms as sand & quartz, is the main material in most rocks |
Silica
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A national forest in Missouri's Ozarks is named for this 19th century writer |
Mark Twain
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She was a textile factory worker when she was chosen as the U.S.S.R.'s first female cosmonaut |
Valentina Tereshkova
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Oklahoma's second-largest city, it's been called "The Oil Capital of the World" |
Tulsa
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This Missourian is the House Majority Leader |
Richard Gephardt
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