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Collier's Ency. calls him the "semihistorical semimythical author of moralizing beast fables" |
Aesop
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Punishments inflicted on people are not to be "cruel or" this |
unusual
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It's the science of sound |
(Curt: What is...?) (Alex: Sorry, you took too long.)
acoustics
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Sculptors in this country began to carve monumental stone figures during the Han Dynasty |
China
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This country is the home of the Stuttgart Ballet |
West Germany
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"Major Barbara" playwright who said, "Music is the brandy of the damned" |
George Bernard Shaw
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Federico Fellini based a 1969 film on this first century satire by Petronius |
Satyricon
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Under the First Amendment, a citizen has the right to petition the gov't for a redress of these |
grievances
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Geologists say the we're just now reaching the end of this "age" that began over 1 million years ago |
ice age
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This statue's face probably represents the Egyptian Pharaoh Khafre, who built a nearby pyramid |
Sphinx
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The royal anthem of this country is "King Christian Stood by (the) Lofty Mast" |
Denmark
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In a nursery rhyme, this line follows "rings on her fingers & bells on her toes" |
and she shall have music wherever she goes
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"Philippic", meaning an angry speech, is from Demosthene's orations against this region's king Philip |
Macedonia
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The government cannot deprive a person of his life, liberty or property without this |
due process of law
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A clock with 2 hands is not called digital but this |
analog
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If you know that he sculpted "The Burghers of Calais", you deserve a "Kiss" |
Rodin
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Yugoslavia has 6 of these, represented on its coat of arms by 6 torches |
republics
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Jimmy Durante was famous for saying this |
(Curt: What is, "Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are?")
Stop the music
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Shakespeare based several of his plays on North's translation of this Greek's "Parallel Lives" |
Plutarch
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1 of 2 "excessive" items prohibited by the Eighth Amendment |
fines (or bail)
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It was first developed as a means of detecting both icebergs & submarines |
sonar
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He put a real tutu on his famous statue of a 14-year-old ballet dancer |
Degas
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For centuries the kings of Poland were entombed in Wawel Cathedral in this city |
(Danny: What is Warsaw?)
Krakow
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The lyricist who wrote, "I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man--Who could ask for anything more?" |
(Alex: [upon reveal of the Daily Double] 10,300 with time running out.) ... (Eric: Who was Hammerstein?)
Ira Gershwin
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Seeking to end Peloponnesian War, Aristophanes wrote this comedy about a sex strike |
Lysistrata
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In the Federalist Papers, this statesman argued that a bill of rights was "unnecessary" & "dangerous" |
Alexander Hamilton
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Chas. Wm. Beebe & Otis Barton invented this spherical diving apparatus used to study deep-sea life |
(Eric: What is the bathyscaphe?)
bathysphere
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In 1785 this great French sculptor traveled to America to make studies for a statue of Geo. Washington |
Houdon
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Albania lies on the southeast shore of this arm of the Mediterranean |
Adriatic
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His diary entry from July 30, 1666 says, "Musick is the thing of the world that I love most." |
(Samuel) Pepys
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