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Each year over 50,000 pilgrims climb to the summit of this Japanese volcano |
(Stacie: What is Mount Fiji?)
Mount Fuji
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The titmouse is not a kind of mouse, but a small gray one of these |
bird
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Title rank of Dumas' man "of Monte Cristo" |
Count
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In the first game in 1890, Navy's Red Emrich scored 4 of these, but they were only worth 4 points each |
touchdowns
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Appropriately, it's what Canadians call the July 1 national holiday |
(Michael: What is July 1st?)
Canada Day
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It begins "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers & effects..." |
the Fourth Amendment
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This continent's Guiana Highlands, which consist of open grasslands & tropical forests, are thinly populated |
South America
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Fireflies are not flies at all, but members of this insect order -- just ask Ringo |
(Myles: What is...[time] beetle?) (Michael: What are beetles?) (Alex: Myles came up with the correct response, but unfortunately, he was too late.)
beetles
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Roger, we copy: this future Dallas Cowboys QB was the star as Navy upset Army in 1962 |
Roger Staubach
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This territory became a U.S. commonwealth July 25, 1952 |
(Stacie: What is Guam?)
Puerto Rico
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The journalistic press taken collectively, according to Edmund Burke |
the Fourth Estate
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The Al Lisan Peninsula separates this saltiest body of water on Earth into northern & southern basins |
the Dead Sea
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The horned toad is not an amphibian, but one of these reptiles |
lizard
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This 1851 book told a big white "tail" of the men of the Pequod |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Moby-Dick
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At the 1906 game Navy introduced this song that's symbolized Midshipman football ever since |
"Anchors Aweigh"
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Traditionally, July's flower is this Monet favorite |
(Alex: Minute to go.)
water lily
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In 1198 this campaign was proclaimed by Pope Innocent III |
the Fourth Crusade
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On 3/21/99 Bertrand Piccard & Brian Jones landed in this country as the first hot-air balloonists to circle the Earth |
(Stacie: What is Switzerland?) (Myles: What is France?) ... (Alex: They landed in Egypt, they took off from Switzerland.)
Egypt
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The koala bear is not a bear, but one of these nonplacental mammals |
marsupial
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This Jules Verne title trip begins with the adventurers entering a volcano in Iceland |
Journey to the Center of the Earth
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Army probably should have had the edge at the 1926 game, played at this newly dedicated Chicago field |
Soldier Field
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On July 30, 1619 the first representative assembly in America convened in this Virginia city |
Jamestown
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In relativity theory, it's time regarded as a coordinate to specify completely the location of any event |
(Myles: What is a quadrant?)
the fourth dimension
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This river is navigable from Basel, Switzerland to its mouth at the North Sea |
the Rhine
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A sea wasp is not an insect, but one of these stinging ocean "fish" |
jellyfish
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It's the first name of both the title character of an 1857 Flaubert novel & an 1816 Austen novel |
Emma
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The 1945 Army win was led by running backs Doc Blanchard, "Mr. Inside", & Glenn Davis, nicknamed this |
"Mr. Outside"
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On July 10, 1553 this unfortunate lady was proclaimed queen of England, succeeding Edward VI |
Lady Jane Grey
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It was founded in 2613 B.C. by Snefru, Egypt's first true pyramid builder |
the Fourth Dynasty
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