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REALLY TOUGH CAPITAL CITIES |
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Before his Gulf War exploits, he was deputy commander of U.S. forces in the invasion of Grenada |
Norman Schwarzkopf
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Luigi Moretti designed buildings for Mussolini & this Washington, D.C. complex that led to Nixon's fall |
Watergate
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This basketball star is the only man picked AP's Athlete of the Year 3 years in a row: 1991, 1992 & 1993 |
Michael Jordan
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"Ugly Hell, gape not! Come not Lucifer!" is a line from a play about this doctor |
Doctor Faustus
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This type of whiskey bears the name of the Kentucky county where it was first produced |
Bourbon
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The parents of this Bengals QB & pro football announcer first named him Norman, not Boomer |
Boomer Esiason
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This style influenced by the Romans is named for England's 4 kings between 1714 & 1830 |
(John: What are the Hanoverians?) (Karen: Who are the Tudors?)
Georgian
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Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1999, he walked 2,795 batters but struck out twice as many |
Nolan Ryan
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Written around 1589, "The Massacre of Paris" was about the 1572 slaughter of these Protestants |
Huguenots
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Possibly from the Latin for "farewell to meat", it's a time of pre-Lenten merrymaking |
Carnaval
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Landlord Stanley Roper on "Three's Company", he also played Dustin Hoffman's landlord in "The Graduate" |
Norman Fell
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524 firms competed to design a new library at this city to recall the ancient one |
Alexandria, Egypt
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Port Moresby |
Papua New Guinea
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This ski event comes in regular, giant & super giant varieties |
Slalom
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His most famous (& maybe most imitated) poem is titled "The Passionate" this "to His Love" |
Shepherd
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This term for a steaming hot spring comes from the name of a famous Icelandic hot spring like this one |
Geyser
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We're "positive" this popular author was pastor of NYC's Marble Collegiate Reformed Church for 52 years |
Norman Vincent Peale
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Habitat, built for this city's Expo 67, was a revolutionary prefabricated housing complex |
Montreal
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In 1998 a drug scandal caused 93 of 189 riders to drop out of this European bike race |
Tour de France
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Marlowe probably had no peace when he wrote "Accursed be he that first invented" this |
War
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From the Old Slavic for slave, this word entered the language from Karel Capek's 1921 play "R.U.R." |
Robot
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This Canadian-born director's films include "In the Heat of the Night" & "Moonstruck" |
(Karen: Who is Norman Lear?)
Norman Jewison
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This architecturally controversial Paris complex opened in 1977 |
(Karen: What is the Beaubo?)
Pompidou Centre (or the Beaubourg)
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Kenyan men took first & second in this race April 20, 1998 |
Boston Marathon
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The Hellespont is mentioned in line 7 of Marlowe's work on this famous mythological pair |
(Karen: [No response])
Hero & Leander
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This Scottish entree may derive its name from the Old French for "haguier", to chop or hash |
Haggis
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