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British author Rebecca West was given this title in 1959 |
dame
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Both the Olympics & the Nemean Games were held in his honor |
Zeus
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Some macaques have long ones, some have short ones & the barbary ape doesn't have one at all |
tails
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It's title may suggest it's written for NYC residents, but 79% of its readers live elsewhere |
The New Yorker
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Name shared by an island in the Bahamas & the capital of El Salvador |
San Salvador
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Actor N. Shelley says he gave the famous speech on the retreat at Dunkirk as this man wasn't available |
Winston Churchill
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This "Garp" author said reading Charles Dickens' books made him want to become a novelist |
John Irving
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The Anchor Atlas of World History calls these 2 epics "the primer of Greek youth" |
The Iliad and The Odyssey
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The American species of this red-breasted singer is known to scientists as Turdus migratorius |
(Alex: That's right and we have a minute to go.)
robin
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A leading postwar West German magazine, its name translates to "the star" |
(Judith: What is Der Spiegel?)
Stern
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The Ganges & Brahmaputra Rivers have built up a 50,000 square mi. delta into this bay |
Bay of Bengal
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On April 19, 1951 he told a joint session of Congress, "I now close my military career & just fade away" |
(Douglas) MacArthur
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This creator of Captain Wolf Larsen was the illegitimate son of a traveling astrologer |
Jack London
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It's said he wandered around Athens during the day with a lamp looking for an honest man |
Diogenes
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Whippets were bred originally to chase these lagomorphs for sport |
rabbits
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1 of 2 current magazines of over 300,000 circulation whose names begin with "Modern" |
(Rob: Uh, Modern Homes?)
Modern Bride or Modern Maturity
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When China took over this country in 1950-51, it acquired a "roof" |
Tibet
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Lincoln said at Gettysburg that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not" do this |
perish from the Earth
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We hope his "Fahrenheit 451" will never be subjected to the treatment given to books in it |
(Ray) Bradbury
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Found around 900 B.C., it became a military state some 300 years later |
Sparta
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It's the largest cat native to Latin America where it's known as "el tigre" |
(Rob: What is the puma?) (John: What is an ocelot?)
jaguar
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Rodale Press' top-selling magazines are Organic Gardening & this one about health conservation |
Prevention
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In exchange for what's now N.Y., England gave the Dutch what's now this South American country |
Suriname
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This senator told an audience in 1968, "Like my brothers before me, I pick up a fallen standard." |
Ted Kennedy
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She dedicated her novel "Rubyfruit Jungle" to actress Alexis Smith |
Rita Mae Brown
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The Greeks didn't call themselves Greeks but these |
Hellenes
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The rare tuatara is the only living member of an entire order of this class of vertebrates |
reptiles
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Women's magazine, still published today, that began as a supplement to Tribune and Farmer |
Ladies' Home Journal
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During the Roman Republic, this river formed the boundary between Italy & Cisalpine Gaul |
Rubicon
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In his 1st speech as president he said, "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over." |
(Rob: Who is Lyndon Johnson?)
Gerald Ford
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