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One of Mongolia's main occupations is raising these animals to produce cashmere |
Goats
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"Crimes and Misdemeanors", "Hannah and Her Sisters" |
Woody Allen
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Galileo's first discovery in 1609 was that the surface of this is not smooth, but pitted |
Moon
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At Cambridge Charles got his university colors in this sport |
(Terry: What is field hockey?) (Suzy: What is rowing?)
polo
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He published "The Interpretation of Dreams" |
Sigmund Freud
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Under a League of Nations mandate, the British oversaw the affairs of this region from 1920 to 1948 |
Palestine
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The name of Mongolia's Communist Party newspaper Unen, like Russia's Pravda, means this |
Truth
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"THX 1138", "American Graffiti" |
George Lucas
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He predicted a comet he observed in 1682 would return in 1758 (he was right) |
Edmond Halley
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On January 28, 1999 Prince Charles made his first public appearance with this woman; it was at a party for her sister |
Camilla Parker Bowles
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His first airship took flight near Friedrichshafen, Germany on July 2, 1900 |
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
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It can mean the roof of the mouth, or more generally the sense of taste |
Palate
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The 1996 election was won using a platform called this, in imitation of the USA's Republicans in 1994 |
(Paul: What is "The Big Tent"?)
"Contract with Mongolia"
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"RoboCop", "Basic Instinct", "Starship Troopers" |
Paul Verhoeven
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Edwin Hubble was the first to say the Andromeda nebula was one of these, separate from ours |
Galaxy
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As president of the RSC, this group, Charles probably knows not to say the name of "the Scottish play" |
Royal Shakespeare Company
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The Boxers were rebelling in China & the British were fighting this group in South Africa |
Boers
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A board on which a painter mixes colors, or the range of colors he uses |
Palette
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The ruined city of Karakorum is where this conqueror established his headquarters in 1220 |
Genghis Khan
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"Crimewave", "The Quick and the Dead", "Evil Dead II" |
Sam Raimi
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Aristarchos proposed a heliocentric theory about 1,700 years before this famous Pole |
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Charles honeymooned on this royal yacht that no longer rules the waves; it's been retired |
Britannia
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In February Dwight F. Davis donated a silver cup to this sport |
Tennis
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A fence of stakes forming a defensive barrier or fortification |
Palisade
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Like Native Americans, many Mongolians follow this type of mystic healer whose name means "he who knows" |
Shaman
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"Badlands", "Days of Heaven", "The Thin Red Line" |
Terrence Malick
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In 1967 Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered this new type of star that emits regular bursts of radio waves |
Pulsar
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The prince gets no money from the state; he earns about 5 million pounds yearly from the duchy of this |
(Alex: We have a minute to go.)
Cornwall
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The Populists met in May 1900 in South Dakota to nominate this man for president |
William Jennings Bryan
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These heroic champions of chivalry share their name with a 1950s Richard Boone TV character |
Paladins
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