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In 1500 Pedro Cabral sailed too far west in rounding Africa & spotted what is now this country on April 22 |
Brazil
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Shape of the organ of Corti in your ear & of some staircases |
spiral
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Portugal, Italy, France |
France
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He was nominated for Best Actor, Best Director & Best Screenplay for 1978's "Heaven Can Wait" & 1981's "Reds" |
Warren Beatty
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In a less poetic metaphor, Keats wrote to Fanny Brawne, "I...resent" this organ "having been made a football" |
(Jessica: What is the stomach?) (Brad: What is a pigskin?)
heart
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Big building on the back of the U.S. $5 bill |
Lincoln Memorial
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On May 23, 1927 the New York Times reported that he said, "We (that's my ship and I) took off rather suddenly" |
Charles Lindbergh
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Psychologist Abraham Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs" is often portrayed in the shape of this Egyptian structure |
pyramid
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Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia |
(Brad: What is Croatia?)
Serbia
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This actress won her second Oscar for her role in the 1951 film version of "A Streetcar Named Desire" |
Vivien Leigh
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"As Ever, Gene" is a collection of this playwright's letters to his pal, critic George Jean Nathan |
Eugene O'Neill
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In 1889 a Red Sea swarm of these covered an estimated 2,000-square-mile area |
locusts
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In 333 B.C. this leader defeated Darius III, king of Persia, at Issus in Syria but was unable to capture him |
Alexander the Great
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One of the simplest, it's the only orchestra instrument named for its geometric shape |
(Alex: We have about a minute left in the round.)
triangle
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Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador |
(Jessica: What is Venezuela?)
Colombia
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For a 1936 film bio, Paul Muni won an Oscar for portraying this French scientist |
(Jessica: Who is Pierre Curie?)
Louis Pasteur
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His teenage daughters hated having to read to him & resented his remarriage in 1663 |
(Jessica: Who was John Donne?)
John Milton (he was blind)
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Bridges connect the 4 main islands on which this largest city in Nigeria is built |
Lagos
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In 1526 Babur, a Muslim ruler from central Asia, established the Mogul Empire in what is now this country |
(Brad: What is Mongolia?)
India
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Certain cells in your retina are named for their resemblance to this figure bounded by a closed curve |
[Jessica raises fist] ... (Alex: And that gets you back on the plus side, way to go!)
cone
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Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Afghanistan |
Kazakhstan
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Julie Christie won an Oscar as a beautiful but empty woman in this "endearing" 1965 film |
Darling
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Though married 3 times, this author of "Cheri" continued to publish under her single maiden name |
Colette
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He's chronologically first on the list of U.N. Secretaries-General |
Trygve Lie
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The Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations for invading this neighbor in November 1939 |
(Matthew: What is Poland?)
Finland
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(Sofia of the Clue Crew standing in front of a chalkboard) Kepler tried circles & ovals, but his first law states that this is the shape of a planet's orbit around the sun |
(Jessica: What is an oval?)
ellipse
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Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras |
(Jessica: What is Honduras?)
Nicaragua
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He earned Oscar nominations for producing "The Color Purple" & for composing its score |
Quincy Jones
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Sheilah Graham got material for 3 memoirs for her affair with this author |
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Neoprene is a synthetic one |
latex
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