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A small portion of this country, the only part that's in Europe, lies on the Balkan Peninsula |
Turkey
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Title spy guy from "The Bourne Identity" |
Jason
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At its height, it was known as the empire "on which the sun never sets", a reference to a line by John Wilson |
the British Empire
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Canada's Micmac Indians were early players of this winter game & a brand of stick was named for them |
hockey
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Most rose species, like rosa chinensis, are native to this continent |
Asia
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A bachelor may keep a "little" one of these with phone numbers of girls ranging from Ann to Zoe |
a little black book
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A 1995 peace accord divided this 2-named country into a Muslim-Croat Federation & a Serb Republic |
Bosnia-Herzegovina
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It's the given name of "Citizen Kane" |
Charles (Foster Kane)
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By the time of Trajan's death in 117 A.D., this empire covered the area seen here |
the Roman Empire
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Lewis & Clark described a common game of hiding a small object in one of these--guess which |
(Kathleen: What is a shell?)
hand
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Don't tell the band Poison, but the smooth buttercup Z& zephirine drouhin are bred to not have these |
thorns
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On October 10, 1896 the New York Times published a section devoted to these for the very first time |
book reviews
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In the 1990s Greece imposed a trade embargo on this nation in a dispute over its name |
Macedonia
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Rick's romantic rival in "Casablanca" |
Victor (Laszlo)
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On May 28, 1804 he proclaimed what became known as the First Empire |
Napoleon
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Long before Jim Thorpe, Roger Williams wrote that Indians "have great meetings of" this game, "town against town" |
(Alex: They play [*], yeah.)
football
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Though they're not made of iron, roses are susceptible to fungal infections producing orange spots called this |
rust
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The first of these portable libraries was a horse-drawn cart driven by Joshua Thomas in Maryland in April 1906 |
a bookmobile
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The southernmost point of the Balkans is Cape Taenarum on this Greek peninsula |
the Peloponnesian Peninsula
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"Indiana" Jones; "Indiana" comes from the dog, remember |
Henry
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At the time of his death in 1227, his Mongol Empire stretched from Beijing to the Caspian Sea |
(Kathleen: Who is Attila the Hun?)
Genghis Khan
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Baggataway was one of the original Native American names for this stick & ball game |
lacrosse
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The most popular garden roses are the hybrid these; there's a "black" variety, but don't try to brew it |
tea roses
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Paper lice & silverfish are 2 examples of these |
bookworms
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The northern boundary of the Balkan Peninsula is mostly defined by 2 rivers: the Sava & this one |
the Danube
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First name of Harry Bailey's big brother in "It's A Wonderful Life" |
George
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The Dual Monarchy was a byname of this hyphenated empire that collapsed in 1918 |
Austria-Hungary
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Illinois women enjoyed a game in which plum pits functioned as these |
(Alex: They used them as [*].)
dice
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It's the anatomical name for a rose's soft, sometimes edible floral cup |
a hip
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Produced in Ireland between the mid-700s & the early 800s, it's an illuminated manuscript of the 4 gospels in Latin |
the Book of Kells
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