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Play of young love that includes the lines "Did my heart love till now?... for I ne'er saw true beauty till this night" |
Romeo and Juliet
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Yale |
New Haven, Connecticut
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While returning to Greenland in about 1000, he rescued some sailors & received his nickname, Leif the Lucky |
Leif Ericson
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This speed demon of the dog world was originally used to hunt gazelles in Egypt more than 5,000 years ago |
the greyhound
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It's the "Peacock Network" |
NBC
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In buildings over 10 stories they're powered by electric traction systems & lifted by steel cables |
elevators
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When Will compared "thee to a summer's day", he wrote, "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of" this month |
(Sam: What is April?)
May
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George Washington University |
Washington, D.C.
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On his fourth voyage to the New World in 1503, he was marooned in Jamaica for one year |
Christopher Columbus
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The name of this color is from the Latin for "sea water" |
(Melissa: What is marine?)
aquamarine
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This one of the "Big Three" networks used to have phonograph in its name |
CBS
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Cyrus Field's first transatlantic telegraph cable that worked connected Newfoundland & this "Emerald Isle" |
Ireland
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In this romance, Ferdinand says, "Here's my hand", & Miranda replies, "And mine, with my heart in't" |
(Oliver: What is The Taming of the Shrew?)
The Tempest
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Brown University |
Providence, Rhode Island
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He left Plymouth, England with 5 ships; the Golden Hind was the only 1 to complete the circumnavigation of the globe |
(Melissa: Who was Magellan?)
Sir Francis Drake
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A "fishy", misleading clue in a mystery story |
a red herring
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The first radio broadcast of a presidential inaugural address was this president's in 1921 over KDKA |
Warren G. Harding
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Andrew S. Hallidie invented these & helped install them in San Francisco in 1873 |
cable cars
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This "seasonal" play says that "the course of true love never did run smooth" |
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Carnegie Mellon University |
(Melissa: What is New York City?)
Pittsburgh
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Set adrift in a 1789 mutiny, he & 18 men sailed in an open boat over 3,500 miles across the Pacific to Timor |
(Oliver: Who was Captain Cook?)
William Bligh
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In "Othello" jealousy is described as this, "which doth mock the meat it feeds on" |
a green-eyed monster
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The broadcasting service of the U.S. Information Agency, abbreviated VOA |
Voice of America
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World Book calls it "a cable of nerve cells" that extends from the neck down 2/3 of the backbone |
the spinal cord
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The first line of this comedy is "If music be the food of love, play on" |
(Sam: What is The Merchant of Venice?)
Twelfth Night
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Duke University |
(Alex: Oliver, you've obviously been applying to a lot of colleges!)
Durham, North Carolina
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On April 17, 1524 this Italian "bridged" the Atlantic & reached New York Harbor, anchoring at the Narrows |
Giovanni da Verrazzano
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Pearl Jam won a Grammy in 1996 for Best Hard Rock Performance with their hit "Spin" this |
"The Black Circle"
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Bud Paxson, who founded PAX TV in 1998, set up this buyer's delight in 1982 |
Home Shopping Network
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This type of bridge, like the Golden Gate, is so named because it hangs from steel cables |
a suspension bridge
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