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This national capital city was called Bytown until 1855 |
(Laura: [no response])
Ottawa
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This poet & Lincoln biographer served in the Spanish-American War |
Carl Sandburg
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In a division problem, any number that's "left over" is called this |
remainder
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The Cooper-Hewitt Museum became part of this Washington-based institution in 1968 |
the Smithsonian
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At Leyte Island in 1944, he said, "By the grace of almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil" |
Douglas MacArthur
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Between 1913 & 1918 2 of his daughters & 1 niece were wed at the White House |
(Donna: Who was Teddy Roosevelt?)
Woodrow Wilson
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It's the capital of the province of Ontario |
Toronto
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His collection "Dubliners" ends with "The Dead", one of the world's great short stories |
James Joyce
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It's the instrument most often used to measure an angle |
protractor
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This city's Natural History Museum is named for department store owner Marshall Field |
Chicago
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On Aug. 24, 1963 he said, "I once said, 'We will bury you', and I got into trouble with it" |
Nikita Khrushchev
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His oldest daughter, Ruth, was born in 1891, between his 2 presidential terms |
Grover Cleveland
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This province and its capital have the same name |
Quebec
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This novelist's father, also named John, served as county treasurer of Monterey, California |
Steinbeck
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In the metric system, this unit is equal to the mass of 1 cubic centimeter of water |
(Donna: What is a centiliter?) (Laura: What is a liter?)
gram
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This Malibu, California museum, named for its oil magnate founder, is the world's richest |
the Getty Museum
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. commented in 1904 that these "are what we pay for civilized society" |
taxes
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His mother, Nancy Hanks, may have been born out of wedlock |
Abraham Lincoln
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Vancouver isn't on Vancouver Island, but this capital, named for a queen, is |
Victoria
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He refused to accept the 1940 Pulitzer Prize awarded for his play "The Time of Your Life" |
William Saroyan
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Because their product is 1, 3/4 & 4/3 are said to be this |
reciprocals
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In 1990 art worth some $100 million was stolen from the Gardner Museum on the Fenway in this city |
Boston
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In 1917 this congresswoman said, "I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote no" |
Jeannette Rankin
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John Parke Custis was the only one of his 4 stepchildren who lived to adulthood; he died at age 27 |
George Washington
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Whitehorse is the capital of this Canadian territory that borders Alaska |
Yukon
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This creator of detective Lord Peter Wimsey was one of the first women to get an Oxford degree |
Dorothy Sayers
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Analytic geometry uses a coordinate system named for this French philosopher-mathematician |
Descartes
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While the Guggenheim Museum is in NYC, Peggy Guggenheim's collection is in this Italian city |
Venice
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In 1964 this Republican said, "To insist on strength...is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering" |
Barry Goldwater
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Ulysses Grant Jr. was nicknamed "Buck" because he was born in this state |
Ohio
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