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Congress originally granted them only $2500 to explore the Louisiana Territory |
Lewis and Clark
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Joseph P. Lash won for his biography of this historical couple, based on Eleanor's private papers |
The Roosevelts (Eleanor & Franklin)
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At the start of this Puccini opera the Japanese heroine is 15, but 2 acts & 3 years later, she kills herself |
Madame Butterfly
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Irritation of mucous membranes can result in this explosive involuntary expulsion of air |
sneeze
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The European Witch Cult looks up to, or rather looks down to, this evil guy |
the devil
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Often found as nodules in chalk deposits, when struck by steel it produces a spark |
flint
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This crime increased in the U.S. during wildcat period of 1800s when banks were able to design their own notes |
counterfeiting
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He won a special citation in 1977 for "Roots" |
Alex Haley
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Composed at 12, his 1st opera was "La finta semplice", not "The Marriage of Figaro" |
Mozart
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1/26th of the alphabet |
letter
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A look or stare from a witch that is believed to cause harm or bad luck |
(Jason: What is a hex?)
evil eye
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Siltstone, sandstone & shale are all rocks of this type |
sedimentary
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The need to conserve materials & manpower for this war helped pass (the) prohibition into law |
World War I
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TV astronomer who, in 1978, won a Pulitzer for "The Dragons of Eden" |
Carl Sagan
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In this Benjamin Britten opera inspired by Shakespeare, Oberon is sung by a countertenor or a contralto |
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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This lunar term, title of a James Bond movie, actually means a silly or stupid person |
Moonraker
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The 4 major witches' sabbaths are Candlemas, May Day Eve, Lammas, & this |
Halloween
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A type of glass is formed when magma does this very rapidly |
cools
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A founder of Virginia, he visited the Massachusetts Region before the Pilgrims |
John Smith
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Thornton Wilder's prize-winning play about life & death in a small "corner" of New Hampshire |
Our Town
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African country in which the opera containing the following is set: |
(Alex: The "Grand March" from Aida.)
Egypt
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The high-pitched electronic tone often used to delete some word on radio or TV |
bleep
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In Homer's "Odyssey", the witch Circe was famous for her power to do this |
(Alex: Or change men into swine.)
turn people into pigs
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Geologists define one as a large rounded piece of rock more than 256 mm in diameter |
boulder
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After purchasing Manhattan for the Dutch, this man helped the Swedes buy land in what is now Delaware |
Peter Minuit
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Theodore Roethke, Wallace Stevens & W.H. Auden all won the prize for this type of literature |
poetry
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In 1832, at age 18, this great Italian composer was turned down by (the) Milan Conservatorium for lack of ability |
(Chris: Who was Vivaldi?)
Verdi
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Name for mud found on bottom of the ocean in deep waters, or what any mud does between your toes |
ooze
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Standing inside this 5-pointed star can protect you from witchcraft |
pentacle
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Granite & gneiss are composed mainly of feldspar & this common mineral |
quartz
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