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ISLANDS OF THE WEST INDIES |
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For a piece of the pie... this game full of factoids came out with a 20th anniversary edition in 2002 |
Trivial Pursuit
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In 1885 one of these explosions, the brightest to appear for the next century, appeared in the Andromeda galaxy |
a supernova
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This largest West Indian country's Isle of Youth was formerly called the Isle of Pines |
Cuba
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The font seen here is named for this machine famously used by Mark Twain |
(Sam: What is a courier?)
a typewriter
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By 1903 this American had settled in France where she was joined by Alice B. Toklas |
Gertrude Stein
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To be indebted |
to owe (o)
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This classic board game was once known as Criss-Cross Words |
Scrabble
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1 of 2 Caribbean overseas departments of France |
Martinique or Guadeloupe
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The Pantone formula guide shows 1,114 of these with their corresponding ink formulas |
(Sam: What are fonts?)
colors
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This "Waiting for Godot" author moved to France where he worked with fellow Irishman James Joyce |
Samuel Beckett
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The first word of "The Rainbow Connection" |
Why (y)
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"Fiend Folio" & "Monster Manual" are 2 of the books used in conjunction with this game |
Dungeons and Dragons
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AKA Zidovudine, the drug AZT was approved in 1987 to fight this virus |
HIV/AIDS
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This capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands is the largest cruise-ship port in the Caribbean |
(Matt: What is St. John?) (Mary: What is Port Charlotte?)
Charlotte Amalie
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Named for their large storage tray, these proofs with a nautical name are checked before pages are made up |
galleys
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This Pennsylvania-born woman was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1904 for her art |
(Matt: Who is Moses?)
Mary Cassatt
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The sugar one is also called the Mennonite one (Mennonites like it) |
pea (p)
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Known as Jumpman when introduced in Donkey Kong, this video game character has since appeared in over 70 games |
Mario
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In 1919 this rocket pioneer published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes" |
(Robert) Goddard
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1 of the 2 nations formed when the Grenadines chain split in the 1970s |
(Mary: What is Trinidad?)
Grenada or St. Vincent and the Grenadines
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The resolution of printers is measured in DPI, dots per inch; on a screen, in PPI, this |
pixels per inch
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The story of this dancer who became a French citizen in 1937 was made into a telepic starring Lynn Whitfield |
Josephine Baker
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A pigtail once mandatory in the British army |
queue (q)
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It's all there in black & white; this strategy game is named for a Shakespeare play |
Othello
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In 1885, 14 years after a more famous find, this German archaeologist excavated Tiryns in Greece |
Heinrich Schliemann
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This country has been independent since 1804, making it the 2nd-oldest independent nation in the Western Hemisphere |
Haiti
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One paragraph seen here is right ragged, the other is right this, also called aligned & flush |
(Alex: With a minute to go now.)
justified
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Look up in the Paris opera & you'll see a ceiling by this Russian-born artist who moved to France in 1923 |
Marc Chagall
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"Haw" tells an animal to turn left & this means turn right |
gee (g)
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