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He completed vols. 2 & 3 of Karl Marx's "Das Kapital" |
(Avi: Who is Engel?) [Originally accepted as correct; reversed before Final Jeopardy! after the tape was reviewed]
Friedrich Engels
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To have "one foot in" this means to be hovering on the brink of death |
(R: What is the hole?) (Alex: No - had to be more specific on that one)
The Grave
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Swans often do this in a "V" formation |
Fly
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This Dickens novel begins "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...." |
"A Tale of Two Cities"
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Favorite Southern ones include pecan, chess, sweet potato, black bottom & peach |
Pies
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Bell came up with the photophone, a device that transmits sound via this |
(A beam of) Light
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After being expelled as editor of the Socialist "Avanti" in 1914, he founded his own fascist paper |
Benito Mussolini
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To "Go whole" this means to stop at nothing, you animal, you |
Hog
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Scientists say this relative of the squid has the most highly developed brain among invertebrates |
Octopus
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In a John Hersey work, U.S. Major Victor Joppolo obtains one of these for the Italian town of Adano |
A Bell
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Lalaurie House in this section of New Orleans is said to be haunted by the screams of slaves |
The French Quarter
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When Bell made the first transcontinental call, this man was once again on the receiving end |
Watson
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When this conquistador arrived in Mexico in 1519, Aztecs believed he was the god Quetzalcoatl |
Hernando Cortez
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If you did this to someone's "goose", you spoiled his plans |
Cooked It
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The glass snake isn't really a snake, it's a limbless variety of this reptile |
Lizard
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In this novel Winston Smith's job at the Ministry of Truth is to rewrite the public records |
"1984"
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The First Flight Inn is in this state, as you might expect |
North Carolina (near Kitty Hawk)
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In 1847 Edison was born in the U.S. & Bell was born in this country |
(S: What is the UK?) (Alex: Be more specific...) (S: Scotland.)
Scotland
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This radical "club" led by Robespierre came to power in 1793 & began the Reign of Terror |
The Jacobin Club
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This cliche referring to callousness in the face of calamity was inspired by the emperor Nero |
Fiddling While Rome Burns
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The indri is the largest of these mammals, but the ring-tailed is probably the best-known |
Lemurs
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Frontiersman Natty Bumppo was the title character in this James Fenimore Cooper novel |
"The Deerslayer"
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America's Young Woman of the Year, a.k.a. Junior Miss, is chosen every summer in this Alabama city |
Mobile
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In 1872 he opened a school in Boston to train teachers of these people |
The Deaf
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Most of the fighting during this war in the 1850s took place near the Russian port of Sevastopol |
The Crimean War
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This phrase comes from the old custom of making the sign of the cross with a coin on someone's palm |
Cross My Palm With Silver
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Weighing up to 110 lbs. or more, the capybara is the largest member of this order of mammals |
Rodents
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Arthur Koestler's criticism of the Soviet Union in which the party leader is referred to only as No. 1 |
"Darkness At Noon"
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Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee & "Stonewall" Jackson are depicted on horseback on this GA. monument |
Stone Mountain
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Most reference sources report that on March 10, 1876 Bell spilled this on his pants |
Battery Acid (hence the call, "Watson, come here, I need you")
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