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In 1702 Maria Winckelmann Kirch became the first woman to discover one of these heavenly travelers |
a comet
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This author's novels include 1863's "Five Weeks in a Balloon" |
(Jules) Verne
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In 2015 this drama about Windy City doctors joined the "Chicago P.D." & "Chicago Fire" franchise |
Chicago Med
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On Aug. 5, 1884, William A. Brodie, Grand Master of Masons in New York, laid the cornerstone for this monument |
the Statue of Liberty
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The Al-Sudd swamp of South Sudan is formed by this branch of the Nile |
(Kent: What is the Blue Nile?)
the White Nile
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Specific word meaning "not found in the phone book" |
unlisted
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In 1929 President Herbert Hoover presented her with a $50,000 check to buy a gram of radium for a Warsaw lab |
Marie Curie
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On the Saffir-Simpson scale, the most destructive of these are classified as category 5 |
hurricanes
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On one show named for this comic, he played a Chicago shrink who shared his secretary with a dentist |
Bob Newhart
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This organization founded in 1888 promised it wouldn't be "confined to professional geographers" |
the National Geographic Society
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In the Pantanal Floodplains of central Brazil, you might encounter anacondas & these rodents |
capybaras
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As an adjective, it can simply mean "under the navel" |
umbilical
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Leona Woods was the only woman on Enrico Fermi's team, which produced the first controlled one of these in 1942 |
nuclear reaction, or nuclear explosion
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A Naval training center in Illinois is named for this geographic quintet |
the Great Lakes
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If this sitcom was titled with the characters' last names instead of their first, it would be "Mr. Biggs & Ms. Flynn" |
(Erin: What is Will & Grace?)
Mike & Molly
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This state's Atchafalaya Basin is the USA's largest river swamp |
Louisiana
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From the Latin for "further", these "motives" are purposely left hidden |
ulterior
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In June 1960 she began studying Vervet monkeys on an island in Lake Victoria, as a trial run for her later chimp studies |
Jane Goodall
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The 1950s drama "The Untouchables" was based on a memoir of the same name written by this Chicago g-man |
Elliot Ness
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In 1886, this 4-letter German patented his 3-wheeled motorwagen, which many consider the first automobile |
(Karl) Benz
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A direction begins this word for a youngster who has risen annoyingly quickly through the ranks |
an upstart
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In 1929 this anthropologist traveled to New Guinea to study children there |
Margaret Mead
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In the late 1500s the "Five Nations" of this confederacy were the Onodaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Cayuga & Seneca |
the Iroquois Confederacy
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Subtitle of the 1970s show that starred Darren McGavin as Carl Kolchak, a reporter covering the supernatural |
The Night Stalker
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Charles Martin Hall invented a cheap process for extracting aluminum from this ore |
bauxite
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Home to groves of black gum, juniper & water ash, the Great Dismal Swamp straddles Virginia & this state |
North Carolina
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"I take" this with your remark, sir, meaning my annoyance is throttingly high |
umbrage
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