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Former U.N. Secretary-Genaral Kurt Waldheim has been pres. of this country since 1986 |
Austria
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The African kingdom of Buganda was located in what's now this country |
Uganda
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At the end of Edmond Rostand's play, Roxane professes her love for this hero |
Cyrano de Bergerac
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The Illini go to Illinois & the Elis to this school |
Yale
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About 1869 Julius Lothar Meyer & Dmitry Mendeleyev came up with this chart separately |
periodic table
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The Committee of Public Safety held power by using this, which gave their reign its name |
(Joseph: What is the Reign of [*]?)
terror
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Brig. General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. led the 4th Division ashore at Utah Beach in this invasion |
D-Day
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A separate Turkish state was proclaimed on this Mediterranean island in 1975 |
Cyprus
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Scarlett O'Hara married Charles Hamilton after losing this man to Melanie |
Ashley Wilkes
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He entered Princeton at age 13, graduated at 16 & went on to be Jefferson's vice president |
(Walter: Who is Madison?)
Aaron Burr
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Putting a little sodium into a Bunsen burner flame will turn the flame this color |
yellow
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The mob that stormed the Bastille was looking for these |
(Joseph: Who are, uh, King Louis & Marie Antoinette?)
weapons
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He participated in the 1st mechanized trip to the South Pole as well as the 1st expedition to climb Everest |
(Alex: We have a minute to go.)
(Sir Edmund) Hillary
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The largest island surrounded by fresh water is Ilha de Marajo in this South American river |
Amazon
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25 years after "The Hustler", this Walter Tevis character was revived for "The Color of Money" |
"Fast Eddie" Felson
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This future president of El Salvador was a member of Notre Dame's class of 1948 |
NapoleĆ³n Duarte
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In the atmosphere, this common gas exists mainly as a molecule of 2 atoms |
(Rhea: What is nitrogen?) (Joseph: What is hydrogen?)
oxygen
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This king decided to join the emigres, nobles who fled the country, but was arrested at Varennes |
Louis XVI
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Ho Chi Minh's nickname was Bac Ho, bac meaning this relative in Vietnamese |
uncle
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A statue of Roger Williams stands in a park overlooking this city Williams founded in 1636 |
Providence
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This Midwest University is home to the Kinsey Institute |
(Rhea: What is the University of Wisconsin?)
Indiana
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It's created when the molecules on the top of a liquid are attracted to each other |
surface film (surface tension)
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This leader was arrested , tried & guillotined within 48 hours at the end of July 1794 |
Robespierre
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Familial relationship of Madame Sun Yat-sen to Madame Chiang Kai-shek |
(Alex: Joseph, it seems to be your day.) [Laughter] (Joseph: $8,000!) (Alex: All right.) (Joseph: No, wait a sec... uh...) (Alex: No, you can't change your mind, I'm sorry. You're stuck with that. You'll still be in the lead if you're wrong. I hope for your sake that you are right.) (Joseph: I hope for my sake too.) [Laughter] ... (Alex: You have $20,000!) [Screams and cheers from the audience] (Joseph: [Fist pumps] Wooo! [Hand slaps the podium]) (Alex: Joseph, before you make your next selection let me ask you a question because when I read that clue I got the feeling you were going to ring in again when though you didn't have to. Am I right or wrong?) (Joseph: No, I'm just a very tense person.) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
sisters
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Gatun Lake & Miraflores Lake are part of this waterway |
[Joseph pumps fist.]
Panama Canal
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West Point's colors are black, grey & gold, the colors of the ingredients in this |
gunpowder
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1 amu, or atomic mass unit is 1/12 of the mass of an atom of this element |
(Rhea: What is nitrogen?)
carbon
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The 1791 constitution divided France into these, which still exist today |
(Walter: What are provinces?)
departments
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