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This church faced periodic persecution for 300 years, until Constantine's conversion |
the Christian Church
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Prince Chulalongkorn becomes king at the end of this Rodgers & Hammerstein musical |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
The King and I
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Estavayer-Le-Vac, Switzerland boasts a museum full of these dead amphibians arranged in human poses |
frogs
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Several weeks before July 4, 1776 New Hampshire issued its own one of these |
a Declaration of Independence
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One biography of this author was called "The Man Who Wrote Dracula", which lacks a certain bite |
Bram Stoker
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Director of the CIA during the Iran-Contra scandal, he died before he could testify at the hearings |
William Casey
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In 73 B.C. he escaped from a school for gladiators & gathered an army of 70,000 rebels |
Spartacus
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"Cold-blooded" author who set his musical "House of Flowers" in a bordello in the West Indies |
Truman Capote
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In English, Brazil's Museu do Ouro & Colombia's Museo del Oro are both known as this |
the Museum of Gold
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New Hampshire quarries provided this type of stone for building the Library of Congress |
granite
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"Madame Sarah" is Cornelia Otis Skinner's biography of this woman |
Sarah Bernhardt
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In 1975 the Rockefeller Commission concluded the CIA was spying illegally in this country |
(Richard: What is Cuba?)
the U.S.A.
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Ironically, the last titular emperor of Rome bore this name, the same as Rome's founder |
Augustus Romulus
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This island, famous for its coffee beans, is the home of the Royal Kona Coffee Mill & Museum |
the Big Island of Hawaii
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A key element in local gov't is this type of meeting held annually on the first Tuesday in March |
a town meeting
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He was a biographer himself, but he's best known as the subject of a 1791 biography |
(Richard: [No response])
Samuel Johnson
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He directed the CIA in the 1950s while his brother was Secretary of State |
Allen Dulles (his brother was John Foster Dulles)
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Admission was free at this huge arena, estimated to have been 3 times the size of the Colosseum |
the Circus Maximus
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The Woolaroc Museum near Bartlesville in this state is famous for its collection of Indian blankets |
Oklahoma
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Though it's New Hampshire's largest port city, the naval shipyard of the same name is in Maine |
Portsmouth
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Maude Howe Elliott won a Pulitzer Prize for co-authoring a book about this poet, her mother |
(Joe: Who is Harriet Beecher Howe?)
Julia Ward Howe
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The CIA & this watchdog "council" were established by the same act of Congress in 1947 |
the National Security Council
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Emperor Julian, who sought to restore paganism in place of Christianity, was nicknamed this |
Julian the Apostate
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The buildings that house the Science Museum of Va. & Paris' Musee d'Orsay were once this type of station |
a train station
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In New Hampshire, these geographic features are called notches |
(Richard: What are ravines?)
mountain passes
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This author, not Gary Larson, is the subject of "The Far Side of Paradise" |
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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One of the CIA's early major operations was to help restore this Mideastern potentate to his throne in 1953 |
(Richard: Who is Mossadec?) (Joe: Who is King Farouk?) ... (Alex: Richard realized he was wrong after he said the name of the prime minister. Minute to go in the round.)
the Shah of Iran
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