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This Smith graduate went to India to study politics before founding Ms. Magazine |
(Charles: Who was Helen Gurley Brown?)
Gloria Steinem
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This country awards the "Order of Pius" for personal & civil merit |
(Keith: What is Italy?)
Vatican City
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In the Temple of Vesta, goddess of the hearth, this was allowed to go out only once a year |
the flame (fire)
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This labor union went underground after it was outlawed in 1982 |
Solidarity
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Lyle Russell Cedric Henderson used this nickname to conduct "The Tonight Show" band |
Skitch
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This king's last words were "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" |
Richard III
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She married a man named Fortune, but after a few anthropological field trips, they got divorced |
Margaret Mead
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In 1988, he won the 1st "America's Hope Award", & his name appeared twice on it |
Bob Hope
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Interestingly, the earliest form of the Etruscan alphabet contained this # of letters |
26
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More than 70% of land for this use remains in private hands, the highest % in the Warsaw Pact |
agriculture (farming)
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German-born Simone Kaminker found "Room at the Top" as 1 of France's finest film stars under this name |
Simone Signoret
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He said, "O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die." |
Romeo
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Sadly, she died 14 years before the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote |
Susan B. Anthony
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In 1988, they became the 1st pop group to get the American Music Awards' Award of Merit |
The Beach Boys
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Fencers in ancient Egypt wore this piece of equipment tied to their wigs |
mask
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Poland borders on this body of salt water |
the Baltic Sea
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Patti Woodward, who won an Oscar for her moving performance as Ma Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath" |
Jane Darwell
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She said, "O happy dagger, this is thy sheath; there rest, & let me die." |
Juliet
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"Ramona" author Helen Hunt Jackson & this poetess were childhood playmates in Amherst, Mass. |
Emily Dickinson
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2 of the 3 types of short subjects for which you can win an Oscar |
(Alex: Live action was the third.)
animation & documentary
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It was the capital of Hammurabi's empire |
Babylon
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It equals 100 groszy |
1 zloty
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Ray Cramton, who was the main man on "Medical Center" |
Chad Everett
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She gasped, "O my dear Hamlet -- the drink, the drink! I am poisoned!" |
(Stephen: Who was Ophelia?)
Gertrude (his mother)
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She was a nurse, cook & spy during the Civil War, but was best known as the Moses of her people |
Harriet Tubman
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Of the only 25 recipients of this Nobel Prize, 15 have been Americans |
Economics
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The Sumerians established Sumer in what is now this Mideast country |
(Alex: We have a minute to go in the round.)
Iraq
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In 1795, partition by Russia, Austria & this country wiped Poland off the map |
Prussia
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Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevic, Clouseau's frazzled boss in "The Pink Panther" movies |
Herbert Lom
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He said, "I kissed thee ere I killed thee: no way but this, killing myself, to die upon a kiss" |
Othello
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