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The salutatory address at Princeton's 1988 commencement was given in this ancient tongue |
Latin
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In 1972 this ex-Teamster leader tried to go to Hanoi to free POWs, but the U.S. gov't stopped him |
Jimmy Hoffa
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The Porcupine River flows into this U.S. state from the Yukon Territory |
Alaska
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A span, which is approximately 9" long, is based on the span of this part of the body |
hand
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Glumdalclitch was a friendly 9-year-old who took care of him in Brobdingnag |
Gulliver
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"The Seven Samurai" became this title group in a 1960 U.S. film |
The Magnificent Seven
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Byelorussian is better known by this more colorful name |
White Russian
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This July 1985 famine relief fundraiser has been called Bob Geldof's "global jukebox" |
Live Aid
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At Niagara Falls, 90% of the flow of the Niagara River goes over this fall |
(Alex: They go over [*] Falls on the Canadian side of the border.)
Horseshoe
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There are 4 gills in a pint, so there are this many gills in a quart |
8
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Simon Tappertit, John Wemmick, Mr. Turveydrop & Mr. Tulkinghorn were all created by this English author |
Dickens
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Ingmar Bergman directed this fellow Swede in her last theatrical film, 1978's "Autumn Sonata" |
Ingrid Bergman
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This country's official language is Magyar |
Hungary
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A ban on the general use of this germ killer in 1972 meant Phisohex had to be sold by prescription |
(Art: What is penicillin?)
hexachlorophene
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This river enters the east end of Lake Geneva near Montreaux & leaves the west end in Geneva |
Rhone
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In the metric system, the weight of 1 liter of water is equal to 1 of these units |
kilogram
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Eugene O'Neill play about a black ex-con who's manaaged to become ruler of a West Indian island |
The Emperor Jones
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S. Bondarchuk not only wrote & directed this Oscar-winning Tolstoy epic, he played the male lead |
War and Peace
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You can call it Croatian, or you can call it by this longer name |
Serbo-Croatian
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He was chosen to replace Thomas Eagleton as the 1972 Democratic vice-presidential nominee |
(Alex: We've got less than a minute.)
(Sargent) Shriver
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Though much of the Yangtze is navigable, very little of this 3,000 mile-long Chinese river is |
Huang He (Yellow River)
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Unit of measure in printing; there are 12 of them to a pica, about 72 of them to an inch |
point
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King Priam's daughter, she was blessed w/the gift of prophecy but condemned by Apollo to be disbelieved |
Cassandra
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Francois Truffaut's "The Bride Wore Black" was an homage to this master of suspense |
Hitchcock
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Italian for the "Frankish tongue", it's a means of communication between peoples of different languages |
lingua franca
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After speaking out against this, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov was exiled in January 1980 |
invasion of Afghanistan
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Europe's 2nd-busiest airport serves Frankfurt & is named for these 2 rivers |
Rhine & Main
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Term for 1 hundred-millionth of a centimeter, it's named after a Swedish physicist |
angstrom
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Among his characters are Charles Strickland, Philip Carey & Sadie Thompson |
Somerset Maugham
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"The Clowns", this director's tribute to circus performers, was originally made for Italian TV |
(Sue: Who is Truffaut?)
(Federico) Fellini
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