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Before her untimely death, this royal enjoyed singing & playing instruments |
Marie Antoinette
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A noisy or confused tumult |
commotion
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A 3'4" member of the 192nd Ohio was the shortest man in blue in this war |
the Civil War
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"Miss Independent" & "Stronger" were hits for this idol |
(Chris: Who is Kanye West?) [Initially ruled incorrect; reversed before Daily Double at clue 20 as the clue did not specify original artists and West did have hits with songs of those names.]
Kelly Clarkson
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In 2011 the Mr. Bubble brand of this celebrated its 50th birthday |
bubble bath
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It's sometimes referred to as Mount Tacoma |
Mount Rainier
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"Tahitian Women Bathing" is one of his paintings at the Met |
(Chris: Who is Lautrec?) ... (Alex: When you talk about Tahitian women, you're talking about [*].)
Paul Gauguin
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Between 1799 & 1804, he lowered the French army's minimum height from 5'4" to 5'1" |
Napoléon
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"Fallin'", from 2001, was the first Top 40 hit for this singer & pianist |
Alicia Keys
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In the 1980s his constant companion was a chimp named Bubbles |
Michael Jackson
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Appropriately, the highest mountain peak in this South American country is Pico Cristobal Colon |
Colombia
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"The Two Fridas" shows a bleeding, brokenhearted Frida Kahlo on the left, torn over her divorce from this artist |
(Jason: Who is Dalí?)
Diego Rivera
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To get that zesty flavor, add some eye of newt to one of these elixirs |
a potion
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5'5" James Jabara was the USA's first ace in this type of plane, flying the F-86 |
a fighter jet
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In 2012 Carly Rae Jepsen hit No. 1 singing, "Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my number, so" this title |
"Call Me Maybe"
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In the movie "The Wizard of Oz", this good witch arrives in Munchkinland in a bubble |
the (Good) Witch of the North (Glinda)
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Scientists estimate that since 1912, this highest African mountain has lost more than 80% of its ice cap |
(Alex: With less than a minute to go, you're right.)
Mount Kilimanjaro
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His paintings of the naked & clothed "Majas" caused him to be called before a tribunal |
(Basia: Who is Picasso?)
Francisco Goya
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A private act of prayer |
a devotion
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This giant of early American naval history was called "little" by John Hancock & Abigail Adams |
John Paul Jones
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Supermodel Paulina Porizkova, who married Ric Ocasek of this group, appeared in their video for "Drive" |
The Cars
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This traditional British dish of meat & cabbage is named for the sound it makes as it's cooking |
bubble and squeak
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Most of the Carpathian Mountains lie in Slovakia & this country |
(Basia: What is Poland?) (Chris: What is the Czech Republic?)
Romania
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A 17th c. marquess of Worcester was one of those who tried hopelessly to build this kind of machine |
a perputual motion machine
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5'5" Frederick Funston won fame for capturing rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo in these islands in 1901 |
the Philippines
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This band made its Top 40 debut in 1967 with "Happy Jack" |
The Who
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Donald Glaser won a 1960 Nobel Prize for inventing this device in which subatomic particles are studied |
a bubble chamber
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It's the highest mountain in Canada & the second-highest in North America |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Mount Logan
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