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In September 1890 this church discontinued the sanctioning of polygamy |
the Mormon Church
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This basketball "Stilt" co-starred in 1984's "Conan the Destroyer" |
Wilt Chamberlain
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Cliff Walk, a dramatic 3-mile path along the coast, is a highlight of this Rhode Island resort city |
Newport
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By definition, an anhydrous compound doesn't have this in it |
water
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Margaret Truman wrote a 1969 book about pets who lived in this famous residence |
the White House
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This was the color of Picasso's period from 1901 to 1904; by 1905 he had turned to rose |
blue
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He didn't command the famous charge on the third day at Gettysburg that's now named for him |
George Pickett
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This director of "The Doors" appeared as a college professor in the film |
Oliver Stone
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You can take guided tours of poet Carl Sandburg's home in Flat Rock in this "Tar Heel State" |
North Carolina
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Number of carbon atoms in each molecule of carbon dioxide |
1
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Maya Angelou played Nyo Boto, Kunta Kinte's grandmother, in this TV miniseries |
Roots
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Of nearly 5,000, about 10,000 or over 20,000, the estimated total number of works Picasso produced |
over 20,000
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Saying he "smelled a rat", Patrick Henry didn't attend this May 1787 convention |
(Peter: What is the Constitutional Congress?)
the Constitutional Convention
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You may have forgotten 1994's "Clean Slate" starred this "SNL" church lady as an amnesiac |
Dana Carvey
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Greenville in this state is the home of the annual Delta Blues Festival |
(Peter: What is North Carolina?) (Rima: What is South Carolina?)
Mississippi
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It's time you gave us these symbols for americium & promethium |
Am & Pm
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"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand", she wrote in "Silas Marner" |
George Eliot
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Picasso had 2 children with Francoise Gilot: Claude & this woman |
Paloma Picasso
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In the 1930s in Berkeley, Herbert McLean Evans isolated this vitamin from wheat germ oil |
(Peter: What is riboflavin?)
vitamin E
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Max on "Hart to Hart", his last film role was in 1995's "The Last Good Time" |
(Rima: Who was Robert Wagner?)
Lionel Stander
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This presidential home 8 miles south of Alexandria, VA. is open every day of the year, including holidays |
Mount Vernon
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The equation m/V=d means mass divided by volume determines this |
density
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This Dane wrote her only novel, "The Angelic Avengers", under the pseudonym Pierre Andrezel |
Isak Dinesen
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In 1971 this museum honored Picasso's 90th birthday by hanging his work in its Grande Galerie |
the Louvre
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In the 1900s both this progressive & his son Philip were elected governor of Wisconsin |
Robert La Follette
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The McTeagues in 1994's "Greedy" share the name of the main character in this German director's classic "Greed" |
Erich von Stroheim
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The Jersey Lily, the saloon this judge named for actress Lillie Langtry, is an attraction in Langtry, Texas |
Judge Roy Bean
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The principle behind this police tool is a redox reaction |
(Gareth: What is a radar gun?)
breathalyzer
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This American studied psychology with Wm. James before moving to Paris with her brother Leo in 1903 |
(Rima: Who was Sylvia Plath?)
Gertrude Stein
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Picasso met & married dancer Olga Koklova while working for this ballet company |
(Rima: What was the Bolshoi?)
the Ballet Russes
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