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Oldest evidence of man's use of iron is some beads from 4000 B.C. found at Giza in this country |
Egypt
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Tale in which a little child says, "But (he) hasn't got anything on" |
"The Emperor's New Clothes"
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Despite embargo which he himself instituted, JFK smoked cigars made in this country |
Cuba
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Thought illiterate, Union spy Mary Bowser dusted the study & read papers of this Confederate leader |
Jefferson Davis
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Of XX, XY or YY, chromosome pair that makes a man out of you |
XY
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As in many cultures, the chief source of early Roman slaves was people captured during this |
during war
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He saw the genie of the magician's ring as well as the genie of the lamp |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Aladdin
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A vessel specifically for expectorating |
spittoon
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In 1963, JFK said he would completely withdraw our troops from there in 1965 |
Vietnam
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A 19th century magazine editor, Sarah Hale is now remembered for this poem about a girl & her fleecy pet |
"Mary Had a Little Lamb"
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It's what an amoeba uses its pseudopods for |
to move/locomotion
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In 363 A.D., this oracle's last prediction was that it would never again make a prediction |
the Delphic oracle
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It can precede boy, jar or pepper |
bell
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The Kennedys watched 1960 election returns from the family compound at this Cape Cod location |
Hyannis Port
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Tho Simone de Beauvoir wrote "The 2nd Sex", she said she wasn't one of these advocates of women's rights |
(Sue: What is a suffragette?)
feminist
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They're the respiratory organs of the turtle |
(Sue: What are its... feet?)
lungs
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The name of this ancient city came from the Phoenician "Kart-hadasht", meaning "new town" |
Carthage
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The only state in the lower 48 that ends in a double letter |
Tennessee
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He opposed JFK in both the 1952 Massachusetts senate race & on the 1960 Republican national ticket |
(Robin: Who was Nixon?)
Henry Cabot Lodge
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Sarah Bernhardt, Sarah Siddons & Eva Le Gallienne were known for portraying this Shakespearean hero |
Hamlet
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Term for the central hole in the iris of most vertebrates |
pupil
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According to local legend, the tomb of this "unlucky" Biblical prophet was in the city of Nineveh |
Jonah
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2 of the 5 double letter words found in the titles of 1987's "Best Picture" Oscar nominees |
(Barbara-Anne: What are [*] and, uh, oh gosh--I'm sorry, I don't know.) (Alex: The five movies were [*], [**] and Her Sisters, Children of a [***] God, A [****] with a View, and The [*****]; all of them had double letters.)
platoon, Hannah, lesser, room and/or mission
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When companies in this industry raised prices in April 1962, he got them to back down |
steel industry
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Her 1896 "Boston Cooking School Cook Book" was 1st to use precise measures now common in U.S. cookbooks |
(Barbara-Anne: I own one of her books.) (Alex: We've got a minute to go in the round.)
Fannie Farmer
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From the Norman French meaning to shed roe, it's the process of egg laying by fish |
spawning
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