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In 1166 he succeeded his father, William the Bad, on the throne of Sicily |
William the Good
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Each June 11 this state celebrates King Kamehameha I Day |
Hawaii
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He's been called "the man who reared 50 million kids" |
(Dan: Who is Jonas Salk?)
Benjamin Spock
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To take an up close & personal peek at Pike's Peak you have to be in this state |
Colorado
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Descriptive of a Colt revolver |
six-shooter
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He not only holds U.S. patent no. 4,805,631 for a heart monitor, he's also king of Morocco |
King Hassan II
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In Australia this holiday was called 8-Hour Day to mark the successful struggle for a shorter work day |
Labor Day
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He directed the building of his hospital & leper colony in French Equitorial Africa |
Dr. Schweitzer
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In 1865 this Wyoming city was named after a lieutenant killed by the Indians, not a ghost |
Casper
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One variation of this popular parlor game begins with "Is it animal, vegetable or mineral?" |
20 questions
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When this czar traveled to Amsterdam, he spent 4 months working as a carpenter in a shipyard |
Peter the Great
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Waitangi Day in New Zealand commemorates the 1840 treaty signed between the British & these natives |
Maoris
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This Maryland doctor set John Wilkes Booth's broken leg |
Dr. Samuel Mudd
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Not many people run into Bigfoot in the Rockies, but many see bighorns, which are these |
(Oded: What are mountain goats or [*]?) [Oded's response was accepted at first and the decision was reversed at the next Daily Double.]
sheep
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Joanne Woodward won an Oscar for playing a woman with multiple personalities in this 1957 film |
The Three Faces of Eve
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Since 1986 workers in Iraq have been rebuilding this king's southern palace in what was Babylon |
Nebuchadnezzar
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The wife of a French nobleman just below a duke, or a long, oval gem cut usually with 58 facets |
(Dan: What is a, um, cabochon?) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
marquise
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Poppies are most associated with this federal holiday |
(Dan: What is Veterans Day?)
Memorial Day
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In 1898 this army medical officer headed a commission that studied the spread of typhoid fever |
(Oded: Who is Edward Jenner?)
Walter Reed
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In the U.S. the southernmost point of the system is in New Mexico & the northernmost is in this state |
(Dan: What is Montana?)
Alaska
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In 1844 U.S. expansionists who wanted to annex the entire Oregon territory used this slogan |
54-40 or fight!
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When Solon ruled this city, he diminished the power of the aristocracy & freed those enslaved by debt |
(Dan: What is, um, Jersusalem?)
Athens
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One method of casting jewelry is called the cire perdue method, which means this |
lost-wax
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This birthplace of Richard Nixon has established a city holiday in his honor |
(Cecilia: What is Whittier, California?)
Yorba Linda
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After testing 605 compounds, this German bacteriologist discovered a remedy for syphilis |
(Oded: Who is Wasserman?) (Cecilia: Who is Fleming?)
Paul Ehrlich
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This Scotish explorer was the 1st white man to cross the Rockies; he did it up in Canada in 1793 |
(Alexander) Mackenzie
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Severe torture to extract a confession, or, in masonic rites, a master mason |
3rd degree
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