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He succeeded his uncle as king of the Huns c. 433, at first sharing the throne with his brother Bleda |
Attila
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The largest of these in the U.S., 17 1/2" around & 1 2/3 lbs., fell on Coffeyville, Kansas Sept. 3, 1970 |
hailstone
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Paintings from an 11,000-year-old culture were found in this South American rain forest in 1996 |
the Amazon
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A proposed title for this Oscar-winning Henry Mancini-Johnny Mercer song was "Blue River" |
"Moon River"
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It's the official language of Cuba |
Spanish
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Italian author Carlo Collodi is best remembered for his story of this puppet |
Pinocchio
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When this man was assassinated in 1968, Ralph Abernathy succeeded to the leader of the SCLC |
(Alex: Southern Christian Leadership Conference.)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The aneroid type of this weather instrument is often used as an altimeter |
barometer
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On Sept. 19, 1994 U.S. troops landed in this Caribbean island nation to prepare for the return of Pres. Aristide |
Haiti
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Song from "Fiddler on the Roof" containing the line "find me a match, catch me a catch" |
"Matchmaker, Matchmaker"
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It was once referred to as Judean |
Hebrew
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"Memories de M. D'Artagnan" was his main source of inspiration for "The Three Musketeers" |
Alexandre Dumas
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Bao Dai, the last emperor of this country's Nguyen dynasty, succeeded his father, Khai Dinh, in 1926 |
Vietnam
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Nearly all weather occurs in this lowest region of the Earth's atmosphere |
troposphere
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On Dec. 4, 1991 Terry Anderson was released after almost 7 years in captivity in this country |
Lebanon
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Irving Berlin's royalties from this song popularized by Kate Smith were donated to the Boy & Girl Scouts |
"God Bless America"
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A Slavic language, Bulgarian is written in this alphabet |
Cyrillic
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"Quo Vadis?" author Henryk Sienkiewicz was the 1st man from this country to win a Nobel Prize for Literature |
(Dave: What is Czechoslovakia?)
Poland
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In April 1989 A. Bartlett Giamatti succeeded Peter Ueberroth in this post |
commissioner of baseball
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The Earth has 3 types of prevailing winds: prevailing westerlies, polar easterlies & this type |
trade winds
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This agreement to eliminate trade barriers between the U.S., Canada & Mexico took effect Jan. 1, 1994 |
NAFTA
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This song begins, "What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play" |
(Dave: What is "Life Is A Carousel"?) (Debbie: What is "Come to the Cabaret"?) (Alex: [Looks at judges] No. The song is [*], not "Come To The Cabaret".)
"Cabaret"
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Of the Native American languages, this one has the most speakers in the U.S. |
Navajo
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This Danish author's "Letters from Africa, 1914-31", was published posthumously in 1981 |
Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
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He preceded & succeeded Benjamin Disraeli as British prime minister |
(Alex: And we have a minute to deal with INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS.)
William Gladstone
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In terms of damage, this 1992 hurricane that hit Florida & Louisiana was the USA's costliest |
Andrew
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In April 1996 this trade negotiator became U.S. Secretary of Commerce |
Mickey Kantor
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This song introduced by Dick Van Dyke in "Bye, Bye Birdie" begins, "Gray skies are gonna clear up" |
"Put on a Happy Face"
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The Punic language of ancient Carthage is considered a dialect of this earlier language |
Phoenician
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Born in Colombia, this author of "Love in the Time of Cholera" is known as "Gabo" to his friends |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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