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This late entertainer's Las Vegas museum displays 18 of his pianos, including one played by Chopin |
Liberace
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The Missouri & Ohio are the chief tributaries of this river |
the Mississippi
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Around 1620 Cornelis Drebbel demonstrated the 1st workable submarine on this British river |
the Thames
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It's the descriptive name for a cake in which fruit baked on the bottom comes out on top |
an upside-down cake
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This Oz creator wrote a series of "Twinkle Tales" under the pseudonym Laura Bancroft |
(Frank) Baum
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Meaning loathsome, this adjective is used to describe a particular Himalayan "snowman" |
abominable
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Winner of the 1958 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, he launched a 60th birthday comeback tour in 1994 |
Van Cliburn
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It's "The Natural State" as well as "The Land of Opportunity" |
Arkansas
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The Spanish Inquisition was established in 1478 at the request of this royal pair |
Ferdinand and Isabella
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Almonds are generally divided into 2 types: sweet & this |
bitter
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He wrote under his real name Ford Madox Hueffer, before legally changing his name to this in 1919 |
Ford Madox Ford
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Sculpted by Phidias, this ancient wonder rose 40 feet with skin made of ivory |
(Tyler: What's the statue of Zeus at Olympus?) […] (Alex: Oh Tyler, unfortunately you gave me additional information which made it incorrect.)
the statue of Zeus at Olympia
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A contestant on Celebrity Jeopardy!, he's famous for his romantic ballads & Gershwin interpretations |
Michael Feinstein
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Four Corners in the Western U.S. is where these 4 states meet at a single point |
(Marjorie: What are California, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico?) (Alex: No, you started off incorrectly by mentioning California. We've got [*].)
Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, & Utah
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After a stormy campaign, this former U.N. Secretary-General was elected president of Austria in 1986 |
(Kurt) Waldheim
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The Chinese equivalent of ravioli, they give their name to a soup |
wontons
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This "Vanity Fair" novelist sometimes called himself Mr. Michael Angelo Titmarsh or The Fat Contributor |
Thackeray
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MRI, which stands for this, cannot be used on patients with pacemakers or artificial metal joints |
magnetic resonance imaging
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Covering 625 square miles, it's Louisiana's largest lake |
Lake Pontchartrain
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This council that opened in 1545 was called in part to counteract Protestant teachings |
(Alex: Well, you're very good at finding them. Let's see if you can come up with a correct response on this one, Marjorie.) […] (Marjorie: Council of Nance, what is the Council of Nance?) […] (Alex: Boy, you're in a good mood for somebody who, uh, just missed a clue.)
the Council of Trent
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These beans are ground, spiced & deep-fried, & served in a falafel |
chickpeas (or garbanzos)
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Less famous than her sisters, this Englishwoman wrote under the name Acton Bell |
Anne Brontë
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Commonly used title of clergyman Mason Weems, known for his 1800 biography of George Washington |
Parson
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It's the southernmost of the New England states |
Connecticut
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Named for a monastery, this group led by Robespierre instigated France's reign of terror in 1793 |
the Jacobins
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Originally from Naples, it's an Italian turnover made of pizza dough & stuffed with savory fillings |
a calzone
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Rose Blight is a pseudonym of this feminist who wrote "The Female Eunuch" |
Germaine Greer
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This country's pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair was designed by Lucio Costa & Oscar Niemeyer |
(Marjorie: What is Italy?) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Brazil
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