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Sheep in Great Britain were contaminated by this 1986 nuclear disaster |
Chernobyl
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Fandango dancers accompany themselves by clicking these instruments |
Castanets
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Each of these units of heredity is a segment of DNA |
a gene
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On March 16, 1973 she opened a new version of London Bridge |
Queen Elizabeth II
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This singer's son, Frank Jr., was released unharmed in 1963 after $240,000 was paid to kidnappers |
Sinatra
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From 1859 to 1861 he served as a licensed riverboat pilot on the Mississippi |
Mark Twain
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In 1986 U.S. aircraft bombed Tripoli & Benghazi in this country |
Libya
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This Cuban dance with a 1-2-3-Kick was a U.S. craze around 1940 |
(Lewis: What is the cha-cha?)
the conga
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Cytology is a branch of biology that studies these units of life |
cells
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The Huey P. Long Bridge, which crosses this river, was dedicated in 1935 |
The Mississippi
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Tania was the nom de guerre of this heiress kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974 |
Patricia Hearst
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This author discussed the horror genre in his 1981 work "Danse Macabre" |
Stephen King
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In Dec. 1990, just 3 weeks after replacing Thatcher, he made his first trip to the U.S. as prime minister |
John Major
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The merengue, a Dominican & Haitian dance with a limping step, originated on this island |
Hispaniola
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Myelin, a white fatty substance, surrounds some of these internal fibers |
(Lewis: What are muscles?)
nerves
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While Washington is known for crossing the Delaware, his 3,500'- long bridge crosses this river |
the Hudson
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In 1936 Gen. Chang Hsueh-Liang kidnapped this generalissimo at Sian |
Chiang Kai-shek
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This author of "The Good Earth" wrote 5 novels under the pseudonym John Sedges |
Pearl Buck
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In 1990 this rabbi, founder of the Jewish Defense League, was shot to death in New York City |
Meir Kahane
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The slow part of the Czardas, a dance from this country, is called the Lassu |
Hungary
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These organs release an enzyme called renin that helps maintain blood pressure |
(Alex: The physician comes through on the medical clue.)
the kidneys
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All of the world's bridges with main spans over 3000' are this type of bridge |
duspension
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In 1984 WIlliam Buckley, this U.S. agency's station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped & later killed |
the CIA
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Arthur Mizener's 1951 work "The Far Side of Paradise" is a biography of this author |
(Diane: Who is Robert Louis Stevenson?)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In April 1980 boatloads of Cubans began leaving this harbor for the U.S. |
(Diane: What is Marisol?)
Mariel
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This Indonesian island is noted for trance dances, such as the barong, which sometimes turn violent |
(Tilney: What's Java?)
Bali
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In 1674 this Dutch biologist became the first to observe bacteria & protozoa under the microscope |
(Alex: With less than a minute to go.)
van Leeuwenhoek
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1 of the 2 stone bridges built prior to 1610 still in use over the Seine |
Pont Notre Dame or Pont Neuf
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About 75 B.C. this future Roman ruler was captured by pirates on a journey to Rhodes |
(Alex: He captured the pirates and crucified them.)
Julius Caesar
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In 1846 he was appointed surveyor of customs in his native Salem, Massachusetts |
(Tilney: Who is Herman Melville?) (Alex: No, and it's odd that we thought you might say that. Melville was working in New York. [*].)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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