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In March 1942 Hitler approved Operation Aida, an offensive by Rommel to cross North Africa to this river |
Nile
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Henry David Thoreau's 1859 essay "A Plea for" this Harpers Ferry guy didn't work; he was executed |
John Brown
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A woman facing the guillotine, 1793: "Farewell, my children, I go to rejoin your father" |
Marie Antoinette
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This detective was 18 when she began her career in "The Secret of the Old Clock", so she's 98 today |
Nancy Drew
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This grandfather clock part moves to & fro by the action of gravity & acquired momentum |
pendulum
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1935's "The Little Colonel" contains the scene in which Bill Robinson tap dances up & down the stairs with her |
Shirley Temple
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To help the war effort, this composer wrote "Any Bonds Today?" for the Treasury Department |
Irving Berlin
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The 3,106-carat Cullinan Diamond was cut into more than 100 smaller gems that are now part of this royal collection |
the British Crown Jewels
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A composer, 1827: "I shall hear in heaven" |
Beethoven
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In this Dashiell Hammett novel, Effie Perine describes her boss' client by saying, "She's a knockout" |
The Maltese Falcon
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In German, the plural of "mother" gets this diacritical mark |
(Alex: [*], over "Mutter".)
umlaut
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"Before the Frost/Until the Freeze" was a 2009 double album from this band fronted by Chris Robinson |
The Black Crowes
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The 4.25-carat Kahn Canary Diamond, found in Arkansas in 1977, was worn by her to her husband's inaugurations |
Hillary Clinton
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A Mexican bandito, 1923: "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something" |
Pancho Villa
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This Agatha Christie spinster first appeared in print in the 1926 short story "The Tuesday Night Club" |
Miss Marple
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This language of the Incas is still spoken in Peru & Ecuador |
Quechua
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"Shop Around" was the first Top 40 hit by this group featuring Smokey Robinson |
The Miracles
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In July 1942 the port of Sevastopol fell to the Germans & the rest of this peninsula soon followed |
the Crimean Peninsula
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Spiro Agnew pleaded this, Latin for "no contest", to tax fraud charges in 1973 |
nolo contendere
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An Irish writer, 1900: "My wallpaper & I are fighting a duel to the death. One... of us has to go" |
Oscar Wilde
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Inspector Kurt Wallander solves mysteries in this country, homeland of his creator Henning Mankell |
(Vince: What is Germany?)
Sweden
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To build up or gather, like snow |
accumulate
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The middle initial of this movie actor known for playing gangsters stood for Goldenberg |
Edward G. Robinson
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The final land battle of WWII was fought on this island in the Ryukyus in June 1945 |
(Nora: Uh, what is Iwo Jima?) (Alex: No, you picked the wrong one. That was earlier. The Battle of [*].)
Okinawa
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Chief Pleas is the parliament of Sark, one of these islands between England & France |
the Channel Islands
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An admiral, 1805: "Thank God, I have done my duty" |
(Vince: Who is John Paul Jones?)
Horatio Nelson
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This John D. MacDonald shamus living in the Fort Lauderdale Marina considers himself to be a "salvage consultant" |
Travis McGee
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The name of this branch of math comes from the Latin for "small stone" |
(Alex: Vince?...) [The time's-up signal sounds and Vince tries to ring in with his signaling device.] (Vince: Oop.)
calculus
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Walker Smith used this name as a professional boxer |
Sugar Ray Robinson
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