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While attending Lisbon Falls High School in Maine, this horror author published a newspaper, The Village Vomit |
Stephen King
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Fantine & her daughter Cosette |
Les Misérables
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This type of felt hat that Dick Tracy wore is named for a play by Sardou |
a fedora
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December 2 is International Day for the Abolition of this, which didn't disappear in 1865 |
Slavery
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Cape Catoche, the northeastern tip of this large peninsula, lies a little more than 30 miles north of Cancun |
the Yucatan
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To point your Mauser |
(Chloe: [No response])
aim
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Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from this lung disease for many years, but died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1894 |
tuberculosis
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Miguel de Cervantes & Aldonza |
(Chloe: What is Don Quixote?)
The Man of La Mancha
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1950s fashion favored this canine skirt |
a poodle skirt
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March 22 is World this Resource Day; the theme for 1999 was "Everyone Lives Downstream" |
Water
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This companion island to Trinidad has its own airport, Crown Point International |
Tobago
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What a film reel is stored in; hence something finished is "in" it |
the can
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Already a successful poet, in 1814 he started his career as a novelist with a tale of the Highlands |
Sir Walter Scott
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Emile de Becque & Ensign Nellie Forbush |
(Carl: What is The Pirates of Penzance?) (Chloe: What is The H.M.S. Pinafore?)
South Pacific
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This company's canvas All Star basketball shoe goes all the way back to 1917 |
(Chloe: What is All Star?) (Alex: No.) (Chloe: Or [*]?) ... (Alex: Yes, and the reason we're ruling against you, Chloe, is that I said "No" after you gave me an incorrect response.)
Converse
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September 16 is International Day for the Preservation of this atmospheric layer |
the Ozone Layer
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A monument dedicated to the men who lost their lives on the USS Maine stands in this capital's Parque del Maine |
Havana
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About the "Human Comedy" series, he said, "French society was to be the historian, I was only to be its secretary" |
Honoré de Balzac
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Aunt Eller Murphy & Laurey Williams |
Oklahoma!
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This French-named garment looks like a skirt but is actually pants |
culottes
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Can't wait for Oct. 20, World Day for this science of collecting & arranging numerical facts & data |
statistics
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This Venezuelan waterfall was named for an American bush pilot who discovered it in 1935 |
Angel Falls
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His "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" spans 100 years from the Civil War to the civil rights movement |
Ernest J. Gaines
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Rolf Gruber & Mother Abbess of Nonnberg Abbey |
The Sound of Music
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The French name of these casual summer shoes derives from a tough wiry grass that's used to make rope |
(Carl: What is hemp?) ... (Alex: We're going for the name of the shoe, not the name of the grass.)
espadrilles
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International this Remembrance Day, January 27, commemorates the 1945 date on which Auschwitz was liberated |
Holocaust
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This southwestern U.S. desert has a river of the same name, flowing mainly underground to near Soda Lake |
Mojave
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It's the plant seen here; Don Draper favors one of its products |
rye
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