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"Shades of Gray" & "Cold Mountain" |
the Civil War
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In certain emergencies, we hope to see the sign that will guide you to one of these |
a hospital
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He improved a smokeless lab burner & in 1841 invented the carbon-zinc electric cell |
(Robert) Bunsen
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Sandra Booker, Nina Simone & Esperanza Spalding are all sultry chanteuses of this 4-letter musical genre |
(Anne: What is scat?) [Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before Final Jeopardy!]
jazz
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The failed liberal Decembrist revolution of 1825 got hundreds of its leaders banished to this vast region |
Siberia
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Found in the Middle East, it's considered by some to be the world's oldest continuously inhabited city |
Damascus
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"M*A*S*H" & "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" |
the Korean War
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It's what the symbol seen here represents |
the Republican Party
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In 1935 Percy Julian synthesized physostigmine, used in the treatment of this eye-pressure disease |
glaucoma
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In 2011 Ronnie Dunn's "Bleed Red" was in rotation on KXY, "Oklahoma's Classic" this |
Country
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In 1783, during her reign, Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from the Turks |
Catherine (the Great)
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Thank you, thank you very much for this song, Wayne Newton's first Top 40 hit |
"Danke Schoen"
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"All Quiet on the Western Front" |
World War I
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On sheet music this symbol that resembles a small "b" tells you that a note should be lowered by a half step |
a flat
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Ernst Chain found that this animal substance does its deadly work by destroying a respiratory coenzyme |
(Justin: What is... cyanide?)
snake venom
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A 1979 song by the Sugarhill Gang called this performer's "Delight" launched a musical genre |
"Rapper's Delight"
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Privatization in the 1990s gave power to the wealthy businessmen called these, from a term for government by the few |
oligarchs
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He developed a new silver-based process for photography in the 1830s |
(Louis) Daguerre
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"Rags of Glory" & "Kruger's Gold" |
the Boer War
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When the symbol seen here is found on a clothing label, it indicates this special instruction |
do not use bleach
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In 1958 this American chemist & vitamin C advocate published the book "No More War!" |
Linus Pauling
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Dub poetry, a political type of this Jamaican musical form, developed in music halls there in the 1970s |
(Justin: What is ska?)
reggae
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Founded by this "Great" guy, the Life Guards protected Russia's royalty through the end of the Romanovs |
Peter the Great
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Deliberately irrational art movement preceding Surrealism |
Dadaism
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"For Whom the Bell Tolls" |
(Brian: What is the Sp--uh...) (Alex: Say it!) (Brian: The Spanish Revolution?)
the Spanish Civil War
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In the 18th century Antoine Lavoisier gave this element its name, from the Greek for "acid forming" |
oxygen
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This structure follows "ambient", "tech" & " left- field" in types of electronica music |
house
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In May 1905 imperial Russia's naval swan song came when 2/3 of its fleet was destroyed by this nation |
Japan
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Life hung by a thread for this guy of Greek literature who sat beneath a sword |
Damocles
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