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This "Animal Farm" author is buried at All Saints Church in Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire |
George Orwell
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Santa Claus might be interested in pogonology, which deals with this facial hair |
a beard
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Among its nicknames are "The Breadbasket of America" & "The Sunflower State" |
Kansas
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The ancient city of Ubar, trade center for this fragrant gift for the Baby Jesus, was discovered in 1991 |
(Ellen: What is myrrh?)
frankincense
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Oxidized iron in this planet's surface material gives it its reddish color |
Mars
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In 1986 Wole Soyinka became the first African to win this award for literature |
the Nobel Prize
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It's the type of insect studied in apiology |
bees
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The top half of this state separates Quebec, Canada on the west from New Brunswick on the east |
Maine
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The Greeks added a set of this to the Phoenician alphabet & it didn't cost them $250 each to do it |
vowels
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Even the Hubble Space Telescope can't reveal the surface features of this outer, smallest planet |
(Ellen: What is Mercury?) ... (Alex: [*], yes. Not the inner planet, Ellen. Anne, back to you.)
Pluto
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This American novelist was descended from Ebenezer Zane, founder of Zanesville, Ohio |
Zane Gray/Grey
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Campanology is the art of doing this, as Quasimodo could tell you |
(Alex: Minute to go.)
bell-ringing
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Its coastline is longer than any other state's except Alaska |
(Alex: And you were not misled by confusing coastline with shoreline. Good for you, Anne. Select.)
Florida
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The Mycenaeans flourished during the age of this metal & probably imported tin from Britain to make it |
bronze
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In 1990 the Magellan spacecraft discovered lava flows over 100 miles long on this planet |
Venus
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While working in New Salem, Abe earned the respect of the Clary's Grove Boys by beating one in this sport |
(Colleen: What is baseball?) ... (The end-of-round signal sounds.)
wrestling
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This author won the Pulitzer Prize for "The Making of the President 1960" |
Theodore White
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An expert in nephrology would know a lot about this bodily organ |
the kidney
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Of the more than 8,500 lakes in this state, Winnebago is the largest |
(Anne: What is Minnesota?)
Wisconsin
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Some sources say this ancient wonder was built by Semiramis, a legendary queen of Assyria |
(Anne: What is the Sphinx?) (Alex: Sorry. The reference here is to [*]. That's all right, you're still in the lead. You've got $5,000 but there are no more Daily Doubles.)
the hanging garden of Babylon
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Titan, a moon of this planet, is larger than 2 of the planets |
(Anne: What is Jupiter?)
Saturn
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One of the books we know he read was Mason Weems' life of this President |
(George) Washington
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His son, Alistair, or Mouse, for whom he wrote "The Wind in the Willows", died at age 20 |
(Kenneth) Grahame
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In the architectural sense, ecclesiology deals with the building of these |
churches
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In 1811 John Jacob Astor set up a Pacific Fur Co. Trading post for in what is now Astoria in this state |
Oregon
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The Lydians used to mint gold coins about 560 B.C. under the reign of this rich king |
(Colleen: Who is Midas?)
(King) Croesus
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This seventh planet is twice as far from the Sun as the sixth |
(Anne: What is Neptune?)
Uranus
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Although he enlisted in this 1832 Indian war, he saw no fighting |
the Black Hawk war
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