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Nebuchadnezzar is sometimes credited with building the hanging gardens of this city |
Babylon
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This Bill Haley number was only a minor hit until featured in the movie "Blackboard Jungle" |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
"Rock Around The Clock"
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Jokingly, this May observance is said to fall nine months after Father's Night |
Mother's Day
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Thomas Hardy, who gave us "The Return of the Native", also wrote of this girl "of the d'Urbervilles" |
Tess
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The name of this aromatic wine found in martinis comes from the German word for wormwood |
vermouth
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This metal, Al, used in beverage cans & food wrap was once considered a precious metals |
aluminum
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The ancient Egyptians were a polytheistic people, meaning they had many of these |
gods
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It's the last federal holiday of the year |
(Tony: What is Thanksgiving?)
Christmas
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Last name shared by "Murder in the Cathedral" author T .S. & "Adam Bede" author George |
Eliot
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The sour mash type of this Kentucky whiskey is made by adding part of the old mash to new batches |
bourbon
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Selenium is sometimes added to this material during vulcanization to increase abrasion resistance |
(Tony: What are tires?)
rubber
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For the Persian Empire, Cyrus the Great set up a mail delivery system similar to this Old West one |
the Pony Express
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It's celebrated the evening before All Saints' Day |
(Stefanie: Uh, what is All Souls' Day?)
Halloween
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This Miss Marple creator was one of the 1st authors to be published in a Penguin paperback |
Agatha Christie
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It's the spirit found in a daiquiri cocktail |
rum
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This element, symbol He, is the most difficult of all gases to liquefy |
helium
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About all that is accepted about this author is that he was blind & wrote the "Iliad" & the "Odyssey" |
Homer
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The name of this 8-day Jewish festival is Hebrew for "dedication" |
Hanukkah
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He's the legendary king in Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" |
King Arthur
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This country produces a resinated wine called kokkineli in addition to the more famous retsina |
Greece
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This metal, aka quicksilver, becomes a solid at minus 40 degrees |
mercury
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At his death in 323 B.C., Alexander the Great's empire covered parts of these 3 continents |
(Tony: What is the total known world? Of the time?) (Alex: Incorrect.) (Tony: Oh, nope, I do know!)
Europe, Asia & Africa
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This French holiday that commemorates the storming of a prison is also known as la Fete Nationale |
Bastille Day
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The final version of his "Paradise Lost" was published in 1674 |
Milton
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Zubrowka is a Polish form of this spirit with a bit of buffalo grass steeped in it |
vodka
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Betadine, used as a skin antiseptic, is a solution of povidone & this element symbolized I |
iodine
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