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"Surveyor President" |
George Washington
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It's said that when Leonardo da Vinci lay dying, this portrait was at his bedside |
the "Mona Lisa"
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On September 20, 1904 he flew the first complete circle by an airplane while Orville watched |
Wilbur Wright
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Tho he remained a bachelor for all his life, he's most famous for his "Wiegenlied" or "Lullaby" |
Johannes Brahms
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The 2 highest waterfalls in North America, Yosemite & Ribbon Falls, are both in this state |
California
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The novel in which Mr. Ratchett is stabbed on a train -- 12 times |
"Murder on the Orient Express"
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"Father of the University of Virginia" |
Thomas Jefferson
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When WWI began, both W. Kandinsky & Marc Chagall returned to this, their native country |
Russia
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In 1968 this German airline was the first to put the Boeing 737 into service |
Lufthansa
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William Herschel, who is famous in this field of science, also did a little composing |
astronomy
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Mt. Mitchell near Asheville in this state's Black Mountains is the highest peak east of the Mississippi River |
North Carolina
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Dame Agatha thought this play might run for 8 months; it opened in 1952 & it's still running |
The Mousetrap
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"Hero of New Orleans" |
Andrew Jackson
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Paul Cezanne's work consisted mostly of still lifes & these, called "paysages" in French |
landscapes
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In 1952 this country's de Havilland Comet became the 1st jet plane in commercial service |
Great Britain
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Donizetti made his mark with an opera based on this wife of Henry VIII |
Anne Boleyn
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Lake Pontchartrain is this state's largest lake |
Louisiana
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Much of this book takes place aboard the S.S. Karnak during an Egyptian cruise |
"Death on the Nile"
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"Trust Buster" & "Four Eyes" |
Theodore Roosevelt
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After more than 40 years at N.Y.'s Museum of Modern Art, this huge Picasso painting was returned to Spain |
"Guernica"
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In 1933 he became the first man to fly solo around the world; 2 years later he died in a crash in Alaska |
Wiley Post
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He didn't finish his Oratoria trilogy & wrote only 5 of his 6 planned "Pomp & Circumstance" marches |
Edward Elgar
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The old courthouse in this Virginia port city houses the Gen. Douglas MacArthur Memorial |
Norfolk
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Christie said this female detective always expected the worst of everyone, & was usually right |
Miss Marple
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"Butcher from Galena" & "Old Three Stars" |
Ulysses S. Grant
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Impressionist born in Pennsylvania in 1844, she died near Paris in 1926 |
(Russ: Who is Marie Cassatt?) ... (Alex: I had to penalize you there, Russ, because, as you know, on Jeopardy!, if you give me the last name, that's sufficient during the regular play of the game, but if you add a first name and the first name is incorrect, then we have to rule against you. Her name is [*], not Marie.)
Mary Cassatt
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The first airship to make a round trip crossing of the Atlantic was one of these in 1919 |
zeppelin (or dirigible)
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His "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" is a tone poem based on a written poem |
Claude Debussy
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The huge lake created by the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River is named for this conservationist |
John Wesley Powell
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Many people wanted her to change the surprise ending of this '53 courtroom drama, but she refused |
Witness for the Prosecution
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