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THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A DANE |
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In 1812 fleeing Muscovites burned many buildings as his troops marched into Moscow |
Napoleon
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Sharon, Jack, Kelly & Ozzy |
The Osbournes
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Norman Mailer's "Ancient Evenings" is set in this country between the reigns of Ramses II & Ramses IX |
Egypt
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Bronner's Christmas Wonderland in Frankenmuth, MI. has over 500 of these scenes, & one's life-size |
nativity scenes
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In 1724 this Dane was sent to explore the water routes between Siberia & North America |
(Vitus) Bering
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29.57 ml., milliliters, equals 1 fl. oz., this |
fluid ounce
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In 1703 this city on the Neva River became Russia's first built in imitation of western European cities |
St. Petersburg
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Cousin Pearl, Mr. Drysdale, Elly May |
The Beverly Hillbillies
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This dueling vice president was the subject of a 1973 novel by Gore Vidal |
(Aaron) Burr
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Liberty, Kansas has restored the site of the first daylight bank robbery by this man's gang |
(Jesse) James
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This Danish baroness' best-known work is "Out of Africa" |
(Isak) Dinesen/Karen Blixen
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It's abbreviated V.O. & movies that tell coming-of-age stories use a lot of it |
voiceover
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In 1972 Nixon & Brezhnev signed an agreement to limit nuclear arms after a series of meetings called SALT, or this |
(Tom: What is Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty?)
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
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Hannibal Smith, Howling Mad Murdock, B.A. Baracus |
The A-Team
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(Sarah of the Clue Crew in Alaska) This famed western writer turned way northwest to write his historical novel "Sitka" |
(Lisa: Who is Zane Grey?)
Louis L'Amour
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The Alpine-Alpa Restaurant near Wilmot, Ohio has a 23 1/2-foot-tall one of these timepieces |
(Tom: What is a clock?) (Alex: Be more specific.) (Tom: What is a grandfather clock?) (Alex: No.)
cuckoo clock
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In 1920 this man became the director of Copenhagen's Institute for Theoretical Physics |
Niels Bohr
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MRE is short for these military munchies |
meals, ready-to-eat
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In 1240 Batu & his troops destroyed Kiev & Russia became a part of this empire |
(Lisa: What is the Mongolian Empire?)
the Mongol Empire
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Basil, Sybil, Polly, Manuel |
Fawlty Towers
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Robert Graves wrote this 1934 classic about a Roman emperor in the form of an autobiographical memoir |
I, Claudius
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An Auburn, Indiana museum has over 15 examples of this "Duesy" of a car, including the one seen here |
Duesenberg
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Born in Copenhagen in 1813, this Danish philosopher helped lay the foundation of existentialism |
(Alex: With a minute to go.)
(Soren) Kierkegaard
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Found before Albany & Oswego, SUNY stands for this |
State University of New York
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In 1903 Russia's Socialist Democratic Labor Party split into 2 groups: the Bolsheviks & this |
the Mensheviks
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Noah Bain, Alexander Mundy, Alister Mundy |
It Takes a Thief
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In a 2002 novel this author of the "North and South" trilogy told the history of "Charleston" |
(John) Jakes
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The Berghoff Restaurant in Chicago displays one of these issued in 1933, bearing the number 1 |
(Tom: [no response]) (Alex: The first liquor license after Prohibition.)
liquor license
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Kepler's mentor, this Danish astronomer lost part of his nose in a duel |
Tycho Brahe
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(Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Goodyear Blimp's home base) Each side of the Goodyear Blimp displays about 3,800 of these devices, abbreviated LED |
light-emitting diode
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