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Chief resorts along this coastal strip include Cannes, Nice & Monte Carlo |
the French Riviera
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He & his brothers Dom & Vince each played 10 or more seasons in the Major Leagues |
Joe DiMaggio
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Teaching practices were attacked in Rudolph Flesch's 1955 book "Why" he "Can't Read" |
Johnny
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The 13th Amendment, abolishing this, took effect Dec. 18, 1865 |
slavery
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They were Marilyn Monroe's original first & middle names |
Norma Jean
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Carroll was ordained a deacon in this denomination in 1861, but felt unsuited for parish work |
Church of England
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Enderby Land & Wilkes Land on this continent are claimed by Australia |
Antarctica
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Kim Il-sung, leader of this Communist Asian country, was born Kim Sung-chu in 1912 |
(Santina: What is Korea?) (Alex: Which one?) (Santina: South Korea.)
North Korea
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This organization was founded on February 17, 1897 as the National Congress of Mothers |
PTA
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In 1821 he became Florida's provisional governor; 8 years later he became president |
Andrew Jackson
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In 1968 this actor made his film directing debut with "Rachel, Rachel", starring his wife Joanne Woodward |
Paul Newman
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Carroll's hobby was this; among his subjects were Tennyson & Rossetti |
(Santina: What is painting?) (Dan: What is poetry?)
photography
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The kingdom of Lesotho is economically dependent on this country which surrounds it |
South Africa
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Spanish king Ferdinand II of Aragon was Ferdinand V of this place |
Castile
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Latin for "racecourse", it's the aggregate of courses of study given in a school |
(Alex: We have a minute to go.)
curriculum
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In the 1870s this philanthropist built the first U.S. factory to use the Bessemer steel-making process |
Andrew Carnegie
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For playing the title role in 1941's "Sergeant York", this actor won his first Oscar |
Gary Cooper
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He was a fellow of Christ Church College at this university & spent most of his life there |
Oxford
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With 594,861 square miles, it's Canada's largest province |
Quebec
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His wife, Anna, bore him 10 children; that's about 1 for every 3 days he was president |
William Henry Harrison
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This program for disadvantaged preschoolers was created under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 |
Operation Headstart
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On July 4, 1817 De Witt Clinton broke ground for this in Rome, New York |
the Erie Canal
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In TV movies he's played Bobby Kennedy in "The Missiles of October" & JFK in "Kennedy" |
(Dan: Who is William Devane?) (Alex: Not a bad guess.)
Martin Sheen
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Carroll's poem about this title pair ends with the line "They'd eaten every one" |
"The Walrus and the Carpenter"
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Paricutin, one of the world's newest volcanoes, burst forth in a cornfield in this country in 1943 |
Mexico
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As this man's running mate, Herschel V. Johnson lost to the Lincoln-Hamlin ticket in 1860 |
Stephen Douglas
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This American-born saint has been called the "mother of the parochial school system in the U.S." |
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
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This last major conflict between Indians & U.S. troops occurred Dec. 29, 1890 |
(Santina: What is Little Big Horn?)
Wounded Knee
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Her big break came when she was chosen to star in the 1914 serial "The Perils of Pauline" |
Pearl White
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Under his real name, he wrote an 1879 book about this Greek mathematician "and His Modern Rivals" |
Euclid
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