WHERE IN THE WORLD IS DIEGO GARCIA? |
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BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS |
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WHEN PUSHKIN COMES TO SHOVE |
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Important strategically, the small island of Diego Garcia is found in this ocean |
the Indian Ocean
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Clarice Starling, "Buffalo Bill" |
Silence of the Lambs
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Found in water: cocodrilo |
a crocodile
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The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is a leading tourist attraction in this capital |
Moscow
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Diego Garcia was critically important as a refueling base during this Jan. 1991 military operation |
Operation Desert Storm
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Major Strasser, Victor Lazslo |
Casablanca
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Pushkin was part black; one of his great-grandfathers was an Ethiopian general of this "great" Czar |
(Joe: Who is... Catherine the Great?)
Peter the Great
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Charity begins at _____ on the range |
home
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Diego Garcia is named for a man from this nation who explored the region in the 1500s |
Portugal
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Alain Charnier, "Popeye" Doyle |
The French Connection
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Pushkin's masterpiece, the verse novel "Eugene Onegin" was turned into an opera by this fellow Russian |
Tchaikovsky
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Great White _____ Diamond |
Hope
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Made from coral reefs and sand, Diego Garcia is one of these ring-shaped islands surrounding a lagoon |
an atoll
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Emperor Joseph II, Antonio Salieri |
Amadeus
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A reptile: tortuga |
(Alex: [*] or turtle, yes.)
a tortoise
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After a number of scandals as a young man, Pushkin was banished to this Ukrainian peninsula |
the Crimean
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Ride the _____ goodbye |
wave
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Diego Garcia is about equidistant from Mauritius & this island country off the southern coast of India |
Sri Lanka
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Molly Brown, Jack Dawson |
(Alex: [*]! King of the world!)
Titanic
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The life of this 16th century czar was good enough to inspire a classic play written by Pushkin in 1825 |
(Joe: Who is Ivan the Terrible?)
Boris Godunov
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The long _____ hare |
march
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