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FROM THE U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST |
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It's the creature under investigation here in the "Dinosaurs" series It wasn't until Marsh's field workers found a more complete & better-preserved specimen that he realized the plates stood up along the creature's spine |
(Jonathan: What is a Brontosaurus?)
Stegosaurus
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The U.S. Supreme Court is made up of this many justices |
9
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He was the editor of "Household Words", which published his "Hard Times" in 1854 |
Charles Dickens
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You might remember in 2000 this Lilith Fair maiden won a Grammy for her song "I Will Remember You" |
Sarah McLachlan
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Also called the yellow poplar, this state tree is named for its flowers that resemble a certain Dutch flower |
tulip tree
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Get out your No. 2 pencils, it's time for this short, written test |
pop quiz
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The "Perfect Crimes?" series naturally profiled this 1920s Chicago pair who thought their crime was perfect |
Leopold and Loeb
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The 3 branches of the U.S. federal government |
Executive, Judicial & Legislative
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With successes like "Peter Pan", he could afford to help sponsor Scott's Antarctic expedition |
James M. Barrie
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He's the singer seen here |
Tim McGraw
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Ho! Ho! Ho! Every December this town's post office remails more than 500,000 letters & packages because of its postmark |
(Boyd: What is North Pole?) (Sarah: What is Christmas?)
Santa Claus
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Johann Strauss, Jr. was the "King" of it |
waltz
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The program seen here covered this real monarch of ancient Egypt, subject of a 2002 blockbuster film Only now, over a century after its discovery, are Egyptologists beginning to understand its significance |
the Scorpion King
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Total number of voting members in the House of Representatives |
(Sarah: What is 335?)
435
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Author Horace Walpole helped get this poet pal's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" published |
Thomas Gray
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"I Keep Forgettin'" that before he went solo, he sang lead for the Doobie Brothers |
Michael McDonald
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Indiana's longest river, it flows 475 miles across the state & empties into the Ohio River in the southwest corner |
Wabash
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After high school, Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran worked on this type of Israeli collective settlement |
kibbutz
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THC's website tells what happened on your birthday; on Jan. 16, 1919 this amendment got its state ratification |
(Boyd: What is the 19th?)
18th Amendment (Prohibition)
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When needed, it has the power to declare war upon other nations |
Congress
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Virginia Woolf & E.M. Forster were novelists in this group that was centered in Gordon Square |
the Bloomsbury Group
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He called Madonna's remake of his "American Pie" "sensual and mystical" |
Don McLean
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The first federal road to cross Indiana east to west was the Cumberland Road, also known by this name |
National Road
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This seaport in southern Spain is a major exporter of figs, olives & sherry |
Cadiz
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The "Save Our History" episode seen here focused on this area along the Schuylkill River For it was here that Washington transformed them, under horrendous conditions, from a struggling, poorly-trained group of militiamen, into conquering warriors |
Valley Forge
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It's the year in which the U.S. Constitution was written |
1787
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This poet whose middle name was Manley was noted for his "sprung rhythm" |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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During an appearance on the "Jamie Foxx Show", she sang "Wedding Bell Blues" |
Marilyn McCoo
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This Democrat, now Indiana's junior senator, served as the state's governor from 1989 to 1997 |
Evan Bayh
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In 1967 Leon Uris made the bestseller list with this gem of a spy novel |
(Sarah: What is...I don't know?)
"Topaz"
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