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Congress fled to Lancaster when General Howe attacked this city Sept. 25, 1777 |
Philadelphia
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His first name was Joseph; Rudyard was his middle name |
Kipling
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Among the earliest musical scales, a pentatonic scale consists of this many tones |
5
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Basil Rathbone, Raymond Massey & John Barrymore |
Sherlock Holmes
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These people of northern Spain are thought to be direct descendants of the prehistoric Iberians |
(Alex: That's right and we've got less than a minute to go.)
Basques
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In English verse, this word refers to the pattern of stressed & unstressed syllables |
meter
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The Quartering Act required the colonists to do this |
give rooms to soldiers (and feed them)
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Dylan Thomas never learned to speak this, the native language of the country in which he was born |
Welsh
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In chamber music a string trio consists of these 3 instruments |
violin, cello & viola
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Warner Oland, Sidney Toler & Roland Winters |
Charlie Chan
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Pico de Teide, Spain's highest mountain is on Tenerife in this island group |
Canary Islands
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A narrative short lyric tale meant to be sung, "Frankie & Johnny" is one |
ballad
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Some say Jefferson left the cabinet when Washington wouldn't support this country's war with Britain |
France
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A staff member of the Atlanta Constitution for 24 years, he's best known for his Uncle Remus stories |
Joel Chandler Harris
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It's not known how his last symphony came to be called the "Jupiter Symphony" |
Mozart
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Douglas Fairbanks, Tyrone Power & Guy Williams |
Zorro
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1 of 2 groups of nations which Spain joined in the 1980s |
(1 of) European Common Market or NATO
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Originally this 4-letter word referred to a minstrel; it's now a synonym for poet |
bard
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The British Proclamation of 1763 forbad the colonists from settling west of these mountains |
Appalachian Mountains
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This hard-boiled creator of Mike Hammer hammers out his novels in South Carolina |
Mickey Spillane
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His "Royal Fireworks Music" could be put out with his "Water Music" |
(George Frideric) Handel
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Dick Gautier, Sean Connery, & Errol Flynn |
Robin Hood
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This type of Spanish is the official language of Spain |
Castillian
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Discordant or harsh sounds which are frequently used for poetic effect |
(Jan: What is dissonance?) [Initially ruled incorrect; reversed before Final Jeopardy!]
cacophony (dissonance)
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Name of the boat John Paul Jones used to intercept the frigate Serapis |
Bonhomme Richard
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"Lord Jim" author who spent part of his youth in exile in Russia because his dad was a Polish revolutionary |
(Joseph) Conrad
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Gounod's version of this famous religious song with a Latin text was 1st sung in 1859 at a Paris concert |
"Ave Maria"
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Humphrey Bogart, James Garner & Robert Mitchum |
Philip Marlowe
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Setting of 3 popular operas, it's also home to Europe's largest gothic cathedral |
Seville
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Type of poem in which the 1st letter of each line reading down forms a word |
acrostic
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