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Ottawa, Canada is famous for these flowers seen here |
tulips
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Chile uses this basic unit of currency |
(Amanda: What is a dollar?)
a peso
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Christopher Lee, later of "Lord of the Rings", sucked blood in 1968's he "Has Risen from the Grave" |
Dracula
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Athina Roussel, granddaughter of this Greek tycoon, inherited billions when she turned 18 in 2003 |
Onassis
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You can cook the Thanksgiving turkey this way so the outside is crispy & the inside juicy (just beware of splattered oil) |
deep fry
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The Italian city of Pisa is located at the mouth of the Arno River, where it flows into this body of water |
the Mediterranean Sea
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Seeing the English Gardens at Mottisfont Abbey made Martha Stewart laugh at her own efforts to grow these |
roses
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No peeking! This building is portrayed on the back of the $20 bill |
(Amanda: What is the Treasury Department?) (Vicky: What is Monticello?)
the White House
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Sonny Chiba, star of such memorable films as "The Bushido Blade", appeared in "Volume One" of this Tarantino epic |
Kill Bill
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This prince was really in the swim when he was voted water polo captain at St. Andrews University |
Prince William
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This region of the U.S. includes Mississippi & Alabama |
the Deep South
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In Italian it's known as "La Torre Pendente" |
the Leaning Tower
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Being shaped like this gives the flower seen here its name & also its genus name, Campanula |
bell
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Italy has issued Euro coins with part of this painter's "Birth of Venus" on the reverse |
Botticelli
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"To Kiss in Shadows" & "Stealing Heaven" won 2003 Rita Awards for this type of novel |
romance
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Ulysses Grant's granddaughter Julia married a prince from this country & had to flee its revolution in 1917 |
Russia
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Seen here, he was an endocrinologist before promoting Ayur Veda, an ancient form of holistic medicine |
Deepak Chopra
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At the head of his own militia, this medieval author of "The Prince" helped conquer Pisa for Florence in 1509 |
Machiavelli
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Bergamot is also called the "balm" of these creatures to which it's highly attractive |
bees
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Cherry blossoms are featured on the back of the coin worth 100 of these |
Yen
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This 2004 Fox show featured the line "I'm going to Waikiki to get a bikini wax... want to meet me after your shift's over?" |
(Jeff: What is Temptation Island?)
North Shore
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Oralando Montagu is making a lot of "bread" selling this lunch item (he's descended from the Earl who invented it) |
a sandwich
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Oprah's first selection for her book club, in 1996, was this book by Jacquelyn Mitchard about a kidnapping |
The Deep End of the Ocean
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Born in Pisa in the 16th century, he studied the laws of falling bodies & the motions of projectiles |
Galileo
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A 1971 New Jersey law made the common meadow type of this, not the African type, the state flower |
a violet
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The name of this unit of currency used in Libya is from the Latin for "ten" |
Dinar
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A song from "Dirty Dancing" says, "Now I've had" this; "Yes, I swear it's the truth and I owe it all to you" |
"The Time Of My Life"
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(Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper of CNN.) My great-great-great grandfather was this shipping & railroad magnate known as "The Commodore" |
(Jeff: Who is Vanderbilt?) (Alex: Which one?) (Jeff: ...Andrew.)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
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People on bed rest are at risk for a serious blood clot in the legs known as DVT, short for this |
deep vein thrombosis
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This island off the Italian coast where Napoleon was first exiled was controlled for many years by Pisa |
Elba
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