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This "Great" czar was 17 when his mother arranged for him to marry a beautiful girl named Eudoxia |
Peter the Great
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This Dumas title team plus D'Artagnan are "All for one, one for all" |
the Three Musketeers
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Though set in the sewers of New York City, almost all of it was filmed in North Carolina |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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He died on Oct. 4, 1669 & was interred in Amsterdam's Westerkerk |
Rembrandt
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It's the distance from the center of a circle to any point on its circumference |
the radius
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The chubby cherub who pierces hearts with his arrows |
Cupid
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Guinness says Henry Long, elected in the 15th c. at age 15, was the youngest member ever of this legislature |
the British Parliament
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He wrote a total of 14 books about the land of Oz |
Baum
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1990 sequel to "Three Men and a Baby" |
Three Men and a Little Lady
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Daniel Chester French made the huge marble statue of him that sits in his D.C. memorial |
Lincoln
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A secant is a straight line that intersects a circle at 2 points, this does it at 1 point |
a tangent
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English lore says a woman will do this in a short time to the first man she sees on Valentine's Day |
marry
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By the time he was a teenager, Felix Mendelssohn was a respected composer from this country |
Germany
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In this novel, considered J. London's most popular, the dog Buck seems more human than animal |
The Call of the Wild
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The name of the maniacal doll in "Child's Play 2" |
Chucky
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Like Sr. Buonarotti, this was Sr. Caravaggio's first name |
Michelangelo
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In a triangle, if angle C is a right angle, angles A & B will add up to this many degrees |
90
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In the past a man would "wear his heart"--his girl's name--on this part of his shirt |
the sleeve
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He was a student in Appolonia when he heard that his great-uncle Julius had been assassinated |
Octavius
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He championed free trade in "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" |
Adam Smith
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It's what Phoebe Cates & Zach Galligan found a "New Batch" of |
Gremlins
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While living in France, he produced his famous paintings "The Night Cafe" & "Sunflowers" |
van Gogh
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In a binary system you can tell when a number is odd, as it always ends in this |
1
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Some trace the day to the Roman Lupercalia, held to insure protection against these beasts |
wolves
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This peasant girl was 14 when she saw her visions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858 |
Bernadette
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He refused the Pulitzer Prize he was awarded in 1926 for "Arrowsmith" |
Sinclair Lewis
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His title roles in 1990 were "Cry-Baby" & "Edward Scissorhands" |
Johnny Depp
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Aptly, Canaletto is most famous for his paintings of this, his native city |
Venice
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The general form of one of these equations is ax +bx + c = 0 |
(Chris: What is a polynomial equation?) (Agatha: What is a line?) (Lauren: What is a graph?) [After the break Alex announced the clue was thrown out due to the squared sign not appearing next to "ax".]
a quadratic equation
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The city in which a "massacre" took place on that day in 1929 |
Chicago
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