TREASURES OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY |
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The NPG has the complete gallery of presidential portraits outside the White House--here's this chief executive |
(Emily: Who's FDR?)
(Harry) Truman
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A large pooch originally bred for boar hunting |
the Great Dane
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When referring to this temperature unit abbreviated K, just use the name of the unit, no "degrees" |
kelvin
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Trajan narrowly escaped death when one of these shook the city of Antioch in 115 |
an earthquake
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Yankee fans know the lines on this uniform fabric pattern can be 1/16" or 3/32" wide |
pinstripes
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In 2017's "Justice League", Jeremy Irons played this Batman butler |
Alfred
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Changing human communication forever, this inventor phoned it in back in 1876 |
(Alexander Graham) Bell
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A nickname for Broadway |
the Great White Way
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The EPA standard for carbon monoxide exposure includes 35 of these "parts" |
parts per million
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Antoninus Pius ordered the construction of the Antonine this about 100 miles north of Hadrian's |
a wall
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If you like these little solid circles, visit the Tokyo Museum of Yayoi Kusama, the queen of them |
polka dots
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Jeremy's son Max Irons was Henry in this wolfish 2011 fairy tale with no "Little" in its title |
Red Riding Hood
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This St. Louis-born performer's talent & sensuality made her a music hall star in France in the 1920s and '30s |
Josephine Baker
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A book about Ronald Reagan's transition from acting to politics is titled "The Making of" him |
(Jonathan: Who is the Gipper?)
the Great Communicator
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"Atmos", divers can endure pressure of about 6 of these units, each 14.7 pounds per square inch |
atmospheres
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Tiberius was the Caesar of the King James Bible line do this "to Caesar the things that are Caesar's" |
render
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The type of symbol seen here is the Persian boteh; it is repeated in this pattern named for a Scottish town |
Paisley
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In 1994's "The Lion King", Jeremy Irons voiced this villainous cat |
Scar
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Before it was a Sam Peckinpah film title, it was a real Western gang, including Butch & Sundance |
(Laura: Who are the Untouchables?)
the Wild Bunch
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This 11,000-sq.-mile Canadian lake is named for native people who were sometimes forced to labor for the Cree |
the Great Slave Lake
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Named for an Englishman, it's the basic unit of force in the International System |
a newton
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Despised tyrant Caracalla was obsessed with this better-regarded Macedonian & tried to dress & act like him |
Alexander the Great
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The motifs in quatrefoil designs have 4 of these |
leaves
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Jeremy Irons had a breakthrough role in the 1981 miniseries this place "Revisited" |
Brideshead
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The "Glory! Glory!" of this 3-named hymn writer included writing anthem of the Union army |
Julia Ward Howe
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Flightless bird of the north Atlantic extinct since the mid-1880s |
the great auk
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An 1881 scientific congress in Paris put this Frenchman's name on the unit of electric current |
(Jonathan: Who is Coulomb?) (Emily: Who is Joule?)
Ampere
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This brutal heir of Marcus Aurelius wasn't killed by a gladiator, but his advisers did have him strangled by a wrestler |
(Laura: Who is Caligula?)
Commodus
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This word for a white& color checked pattern comes from a Malay word |
(Laura: What is madras?)
gingham
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Max Irons stars as a CIA analyst who stumbles on a plot in this show; the '70s film version had "Three Days of" this in its title |
Condor
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