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ISLANDS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC |
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On April 18, 1775 Paul Revere only made it to Lexington on his warning ride; Samuel Prescott got to this city |
Concord
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2-word "seasonal" term for the part of the Major League Baseball year when every team's a contender |
spring training
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In 1862 Peruvian slave raiders carried away about 1/3 of this Chilean island's population, but not the big heads |
Easter Island
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Later "The Voice of" this English organization, in 1939 Richard Dimbleby became its first war correspondent |
the BBC
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In "Henry VIII", Thomas Cranmer is the Archbishop of this |
Canterbury
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A cooling device from Sapporo |
a Japan fan
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General Casimir Pulaski's ability to command was hampered by his inability to do this (unlike his men) |
speak English
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A manager sounds like an army general when he uses this system of alternating players at the same position |
a platoon
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The Isthmus of Taravao separates the 2 sections that make up this largest French Polynesian island |
Tahiti
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The Dauphin known by this first name appears in "Henry VI, Part I" |
Charles
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A Scandinavian entranceway |
a Norway doorway
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The flag resolution of 1777 called for 13 white stars on a blue field, "representing a new" this |
(Larry: What is new country?) (Marianne: What is a new nation?)
constellation
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In 2008 the Mets made this former Minnesota lefty baseball's best-paid pitcher |
Johan Santana
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This island is named for the captain of the British whaler L'Aigle, not the first mate of the Pequod |
Starbuck (Island)
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Kate Webb, a rare female Vietnam War reporter, was captured in this adjoining country & presumed dead, but got out |
Cambodia
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In Act II, Scene I of "Othello", Othello says, "Come, Desdemona, once more well met at" this island |
(Darryl: What is Crete?)
Cyprus
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Filled tortilla food item from Rabat |
Morocco taco
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The First Lord of the Admiralty at the outbreak of the war, he was known for his lunch-break preferences |
the Earl of Sandwich
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The game-winning one of these was an official batting statistic in the 1980s, & Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader |
an RBI
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Legend says that the god Maui threw a fishhook into the sea from Samoa & brought up this current island kingdom |
(Larry: What is Micronesia?)
Tonga
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Novelist Stephen Crane was a correspondent in the 1897 Greco-Turkish war, then this war |
(Alex: That's the one that came next.)
the Spanish-American War
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It's the play in which a herald says, "Know, Rome, that all alone Marcius did fight within Corioli gates" |
Coriolanus
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Sheep wool in Thessaloniki |
Greece fleece
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Victories in the NW Territory by this brother of an explorer forced Britain to surrender the area in 1783 |
George Rogers Clark
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He's the Red Sox slugger nicknamed "Big Papi" |
(David) Ortiz
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At 4,341 feet, Mount Victoria on Viti Levu is the tallest peak in this Pacific archipelago |
Fiji
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Murdered reporter Anna Politkovskaya's book "A Small Corner of Hell" is about Russia's war in this region |
Chechnya
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Imogen is the daughter of this title King of Britain |
Cymbeline
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A household task in a latitude zero country of South America |
an Ecuador chore
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