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He ran for a U.S. Senate seat in 1964 & 1970 before winning one in 1974 |
John Glenn
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It's the kind of meat you need to make schweineschnitzel |
(M: What is veal?)
Pork
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On March 20, 1969, he married Yoko Ono in the registrar's office in Gibraltar |
John Lennon
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Senator & Mrs. Bird aid Eliza as she flees the Shelby estate in this Harriet Beecher Stowe novel |
"Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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The Jewish sabbath begins at sunset on this day |
Friday
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This literary count was born in 1828 at Yasnaya Polyana, the estate where he lived most of his life |
Leo Tolstoy
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This astronaut who died in the Apollo 1 fire was the subject of "Starfall", co-written by his wife Betsy |
Virgil "Gus" Grissom
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You'll need a pound of these spears to make the soup known as spargelsuppe |
Asparagus
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Before "It's Not Unusual" became a major hit, he performed under the name "Tiger Tom" |
Tom Jones
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This Gore Vidal transsexual protagonist's original first name was Myron |
Myra Breckinridge
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Gandhi said, "Hinduism will live so long as there are Hindus to protect" this animal |
Cattle/Cows
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Count Andrassy helped arrange the Compromise of 1867, which created this dual monarchy |
Austria-Hungary
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In "Apollo 13" Tom Hanks portrays this astronaut |
Jim Lovell
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Gerostete Austern are these mollusks roasted & served on the half shell |
Oysters
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In 1962 this trumpeter & Jerry Moss founded A&M Records |
Herb Alpert
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In her "The Bell Jar", Doreen is picked up by Lenny Shepherd, a New York disk jockey |
Sylvia Plath
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His enlightenment has been dated to around 528 B.C. after a 7-week stay under the bodhi tree |
Buddha
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Count Bernadotte, a diplomat & nephew of this country's King Gustav V, was assassinated in 1948 |
Sweden
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Buzz Aldrin left NASA in 1971 & became commander of the test pilot school at this California air force base |
(M: What is Langley?)
Edwards AFB
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Kase is this dairy product, an essential ingredient in the dish known as kasespatzle |
Cheese
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CCR's 1969 hit "Proud Mary" was written by this man, the group's lead vocalist |
John Fogerty
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Blackmailer Arthur Geiger is murdered in this author's "The Big Sleep" |
Raymond Chandler
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Methodist John Wesley was adamant about not breaking away from this church |
Church of England
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This inventor of the first electric battery also discovered & isolated methane gas |
Alessandro Volta
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In 1981, on the Soyuz 40 mission, Dumitru Prunariu became the first person from this country in space |
(J: What is Czechoslovakia?)
Romania
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The name of hasenohren, which are deep-fried pastries, means this animals' ears |
Rabbits
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"Everybody's Talkin'", the theme to "Midnight Cowboy", was his first Top 10 hit |
Harry Nilsson
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Clif Clawson is the medical school roommate of this Sinclair Lewis title character |
"Arrowsmith"
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According to the first Vatican Council, when the Pope speaks this way, he's infallible |
Ex Cathedra
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This Polish count distinguished himself at the 1777 Battle of Brandywine |
(M: Who is Kosciusko?)
Casimir Pulaski
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