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First planted in Brazil around 1727, by the 19th century it was the country's top export |
coffee
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405 miles but only 2 letters long, this Italian river flows past Turin, Cremona & Ferrara |
Po
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The poblano type of these is popular when making them rellenos, or stuffed |
chilies
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This Egyptian canine spends his day around Lake Nasser |
jackal
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The theme of Raj Kapoor's "Ram Teri Ganga Maili" is the pollution of this river |
Ganges
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The London Underground is also called this |
the Tube
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23 years after the United States did so, Brazil abolished this in 1888 |
slavery
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The east coast Italian cities of Rimini & Bari are found on this sea, an arm of the Mediterranean |
Adriatic
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Author Diana Kennedy says, "Always serve a wedge of" this dessert "with plenty of the extra syrup" |
flan
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In Aug., thousands of these birds stop in Egypt on their migration to South Africa; that's a lot of baby deliveries! |
storks
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"Rajah Harishandra", India's first full-length story film, premiered in 1913 in this city, a future film center |
Bombay (now Mumbai)
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This show that originated on the BBC features Tinky Winky & Laa-Laa |
Teletubbies
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This dance was popular for decades in Brazil before achieving popularity in the U.S. around 1930 |
samba
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A 7-mile tunnel through this mountain peak connects Italy to Chamonix, France |
Mont Blanc
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You can make the traditional ties for these from strands of their corn husk wrappings |
tamales
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A close relative of the wild goat, this Egyptian mammal's name would be great for an "ENDS IN X" category |
(Evan: What is the oryx?)
ibex
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India's 1st talkie, 1931's "Alam Ara", began a pattern of stopping the action for an often irrelevant one of these |
song
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E.H. Baily's 17-foot-tall statue of Lord Nelson is in this London plaza |
Trafalgar Square
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South America's most populous city, it was founded by Jesuit priests in 1554 |
(Gabrielle: What is Rio de Janeiro?) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Sao Paulo
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The play "Much Ado About Nothing" takes place in the port city of Messina on this Italian island |
(Jackie: What is... [time expiry signal] [*]?) ... (Alex: You ran out of time, Jackie.)
Sicily
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Cochinita pibil, a classic Yucatan dish, is one of these cooked in a pib, or pit |
pig
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The fennec, Vulpes zerda, is also called the "desert" type of this |
fox
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Before he teamed up with Ivory, he directed the Oscar-nominated Indian short "The Creation of a Woman" |
Ismail Merchant
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It rises in Gloucestershire, near Cheltenham |
the Thames River
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In 1861 this 9,300-square-mile island just south of Corsica became a part of the kingdom of Italy |
Sardinia
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The name of this chopped fruit relish means "rooster's beak" |
pico de gallo
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These fish-eating falcons populate Egyptian coastal areas like the Gulf of Aqaba |
ospreys
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This 2001 film is about the chaos surrounding an arranged marriage in the Verma family |
(Alex: With a minute to go.)
Monsoon Wedding
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4 museums in England that house national collections bear the name of this sugar magnate |
Sir Henry Tate
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