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By definition an anaerobe is an organism that lives in an environment free of this element |
oxygen
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This singer cut his "Black Or White" video after complaints it was lewd & too violent |
Michael Jackson
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This musical direction is sometimes abbreviated stacc. |
staccato
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This Pennsylvania capital was previously called Louisbourg, after Louis XVI |
Harrisburg
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"Martin" was one of the other poems in his 1914 collection "Trees and Other Poems" |
Joyce Kilmer
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In 1989 accidents on this exercise apparatus "bounced" nearly 16,000 people to the hospital |
a trampoline
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The Gutenberg Discontinuity is the boundary that separates the core from this part of the earth |
the mantle
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In January 1992 this former first lady announced her candidacy for president of the Philippines |
Imelda Marcos
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Solmization is the system of representing these by syllables instead of letters |
notes
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It was chosen as a state capital in 1837, the same year Lincoln moved there |
Springfield, Illinois
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Rupert Brooke wrote, "there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever" this country |
England
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Until 1967 it was illegal to teach this theory in Tennessee public schools |
the theory of evolution
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From its Latin name argentum, Ag is the chemical symbol for this metallic element |
(Billy: What is gold?)
silver
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This author of the smash bestseller "Roots" died in 1992 at age 70 |
Alex Haley
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Italian for "in chapel style", it has come to mean singing without instrumental accompaniment |
a capella
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Named for a city in France, it's located in the Green Mountains on the upper Winooski River |
Montpelier (Vermont)
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Longfellow wrote, "There was a little girl who had" one of these "right in the middle of her forehead" |
[This answer was accepted. The exact quote should be "a little curl".]
a curl
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You'll often find Alfred E. Neuman on the cover of this magazine |
Mad magazine
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It's the solid part of the earth as distinguished from the atmosphere & hydrosphere |
the lithosphere
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Croatia & Slovenia, former parts of this country, were recognized by the Euro. Community as ind. states |
Yugoslavia
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A musical composition that accompanies a procession; funeral ones are played in slow tempo |
a march
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This city, not Richmond, is where you can find the first White House of the Confederacy |
Montgomery, Alabama
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In this poem, T.S. Eliot wrote, "I should have been a pair of ragged claws" |
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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In 1779 this Virginia college became the 1st in the U.S. to offer professional training in law |
(Billy shouts this answer.) (Alex: Guess where Billy is from?) [laughter]
The College of William and Mary
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In 1979 it was discovered that this genetic structure spirals to the left, not to the right as once believed |
DNA
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In 1991 reformer Ron Carey became the first directly elected president of this transportation union |
The Teamsters
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This French term that means "improvised" often refers to a piano piece that sounds improvised |
impromptu
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Centennial Park in this southern capital contains a full-scale replica of the Parthenon |
(Nick: What is Atlanta?)
Nashville
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In "Harlem" he asked, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" |
Langston Hughes
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In 1977 John Neumann, a bishop of Philadelphia, became the first American male to be made this |
(Billy: What is Archbishop?) (Nick: What is Cardinal?)
saint
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