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This South Dakota capital was first known as Mahto, Sioux for "bear" |
Pierre
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Mark Knopfler & Neil Dorfsman produced this group's "Money For Nothing" |
Dire Straits
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This dentist drilled Tom McLowery at the O.K. Corral on October 26, 1881 |
Doc Holliday
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The Louvre or Prado, for example |
a museum
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After the First Punic War this island was ceded to Rome in an offer it couldn't refuse |
Sicily
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Before his "of Arabia" days, he built a raft in defiance of an Ottoman order & visited the Sinai's Pharaoh's Island |
Lawrence
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Every October 23 this California city's swallows leave its mission for the winter, but return on March 19 |
San Juan Capistrano
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Some Hindus were taken aback at her 1998 MTV Video Awards performance of "Ray of Light" |
Madonna
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It's the first color mentioned in the song "America the Beautiful" |
amber
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Term for the minimum number of people required at a meeting to conduct business legally |
a quorum
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Under the Treaty of Utrecht France ceded Acadia in what is now this country to England |
Canada
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Chapter 19 of this Biblical book says the Hebrews left Egypt & "The same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai" |
Exodus
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Founded in 1565, this Florida city served as one of Spain's North American military headquarters |
St. Augustine
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This word for fun little facts comes from the Latin for "the place where 3 roads meet" |
trivia
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It's where you keep your guppies, gourami & mollies |
an aquarium
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This national park created in 1890 didn't have its spectacular valley until California ceded it in 1906 |
Yosemite
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Still in the Sinai are these "inhabitants of the desert" who wandered in over the last 1,400 years |
Bedouins
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Located 60 miles west of Albany, it's the burial site of the author of the "Leatherstocking Tales" |
(Ajuan: What is Rensselaer?)
Cooperstown
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"Ukulele Lady" is a track on her "Bathhouse Betty" album |
Bette Midler
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It's elementary, if 98 is California & 100 is Enrico Fermi, then 99 is this man |
Albert Einstein
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This lightest metal is often used in the treatment of manic depression |
lithium
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The Munich Pact ceded the western part of Czechoslovakia, known as this, to Germany |
the Sudetenland
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This metal from the mines of El Maghara helped usher in the Bronze Age in the area |
(Dane: What is brass?)
copper
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Once a large Mormon settlement, this Illinois town is now home to a Labor Day weekend grape festival |
Nauvoo
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This "We're An American Band" band was named after a railroad line |
(Ajuan: What is Bachman-Turner Overdrive or BTO?)
Grand Funk Railroad
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This futuristic novel written in the 1940s was originally to be titled "The Last Man in Europe" |
1984
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It's the point or support on which a lever pivots |
a fulcrum
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Spain ceded this largest of the Marianas to the U.S. in 1898 & sold the rest to Germany in 1899 |
Guam
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Israel, which occupied the peninsula from 1967 to 1982, withdrew because of these accords |
(Dane: What are the Mideast Peace Accords?) ... (Alex: There have been many Mideast Peace Accords.)
Camp David Accords
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