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Since 1969 the figure for this has been set a $200,000 a year |
the presidential salary
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If you holiday in Britain for a fortnight, you stay this long |
2 weeks
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"Dear Alec" is a tribute to this actor at 75 |
Alec Guinness
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Completes the Patrick Henry line, "I know not what course others may take, but as for me..." |
give me liberty or give me death
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For nearly 300 years, this Peruvian city was the capital of Spain's South American empire |
Lima
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Triton, a gigantic sea deity, was the son of this god of the sea |
Poseidon
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Nicknamed the "Fed", this agency helps to regulate our nation's banks |
Federal Reserve Board (System)
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On Broadway you sit in the orchestra; in the West End you, not the horses, sit in these |
(Mark: What are stables?)
stalls
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You can watch this CNN interviewer "Live!" or read his book "Tell Me More" |
Larry King
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Upon sighting a large Indian camp June 25, 1876, he said, "We've got them!" |
Custer
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About half of Iceland's people live in this city's metropolitan area |
Reykjavik
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This early group of gods was overthrown in a battle led by Zeus |
Titans
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To ease the burden of the Supreme Court, Congress established these courts in 1891 |
appellate
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If you hook your Hoover to the mains, you've done this |
plugged it in
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This British singer tells all in "They Made a Monkee Out of Me" |
Davy Jones
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He said, "I took the canal zone & let Congress debate, & while the debate goes on the canal does too" |
Theodore Roosevelt
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The South African stock exchange is in this city, the economic heart of the country |
Johannesburg
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Amon, one of Egypt's chief deities, eventually merged with this sun god |
Ra
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In Congress, it's a provision unlikely to pass on its own that's attached to a more important bill |
a rider
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In England braces don't hold back the teeth but hold up these |
trousers
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"Henry V" star who called his 1989 memoir "Beginning" |
Kenneth Branagh
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In an 1896 speech, William Jennings Bryan said, "You shall not crucify mankind upon this" |
a cross of gold
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This city at the foot of Mount Carmel is Israel's main seaport |
Haifa
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Pan, the Greek god of flocks & shepherds, was part man & part this animal |
goat
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A tax measure introduced in the House is then referred to this standing committee |
Ways and Means
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A line on a ship showing how far it can submerge when loaded & a word for a tennis shoe share his name |
Samuel Plimsoll
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This actress chronicled her life with William Randolph Hearst in "The Times We Had" |
Marion Davies
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Robert Goodloe Harper said, "Millions for defense, but not one cent for" this |
tribute
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Nearly all of France's kings were crowned in a cathedral in this city about 80 miles from Paris |
(Mark: What is Rouen?)
Reims
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In Greek mythology, this husband of Gaea was the earliest sky god |
Uranus
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