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EUROPEAN CAPITAL RHYME TIME |
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In "On Writing" this horror author wrote about his early life in Maine & gave advice to aspiring novelists |
Stephen King
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This salad that features romaine lettuce & grated cheese is said to be named for Mr. Cardini, not a certain Julius |
a Caesar salad
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A Hostess food product in Finland |
a Helsinki Twinkie
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This short-lived enterprise employed Buffalo Bill Cody & ceased at the completion of the U.S. telegraph system |
the Pony Express
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Fe2O3 is ferric oxide, better known on your car's body as this |
rust
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In Olympic skiing, it's the race in which competitors go the fastest |
(Miguel: What is the luge?)
the downhill
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Ingrid Betancourt's "Even Silence Has an End" recounts her 6 years of captivity in the jungles of this country |
(Alex: Remember, she was captured by rebels in [*]. Six years.)
Colombia
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I contributed a recipe to "Cooking for Heroes", a Red Cross cookbook: French-Canadian pea soup with this type of meat |
ham
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An Italian book |
a Rome tome
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Fittingly, these patriotic "outfitters" have a line of clothing called "Aerie" |
American Eagle
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Potassium binoxalate, KHC2O4, has been used on stains made by this liquid that once came in wells in schools |
ink
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At the 2004 Olympics, a mishap in passing this sank the U.S. women's 4 x 100 track relay team |
the baton
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This memoir is subtitled "One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" |
Eat, Pray, Love
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This kitchen personage's salad is tossed greens topped by Julienned cheeses & meats, sliced veggies & hard-cooked egg |
(Miguel: What is a Cobb salad?)
a chef salad
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A gear in the Czech Republic |
a Prague cog
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Want a bar of this "avian" product? Specify whether you'd like chocolate or soap, please |
Dove
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Ca(NO3)2, used as a fertilizer, is made from atmospheric this, the atmosphere's most abundant element |
nitrogen
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The climax of the movie "Breaking Away" is this university's "Little 500" bicycle race |
Indiana
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"Me Talk Pretty One Day" is a memoir of life in Paris by this humorist whose name rhymes with "Paris" |
David Sedaris
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Beware: the soup called "mock" this is actually made from a calf's head cooked in water |
turtle
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A boy in Ukraine named for actor Schreiber |
a Kiev Liev
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This energy drink company now offers a cola & "Energy Shots" |
Red Bull
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SnF2, found in toothpaste, is also called stannous this |
fluoride
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The odd-looking hip rotation helps you cover more ground with each step in the Olympic race in this activity |
race walking
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Barack Obama wrote the foreword to this other leader's book "Conversations with Myself" |
Nelson Mandela
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The name of this chunky seafood soup comes from a French word for the cauldron in which fishermen made their stews |
chowder
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A list of maritime cargo in the capital of Hungary |
a Budapest manifest
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This sporting shoe company's logo features a feline jumping over the letters |
Puma
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A Newport-to-Ensenada race is named for this type of boat |
yacht
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