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The buildup of this insecticide in some birds & fish led to its restriction in 1972 |
DDT
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"The Lodger", a 1913 novel by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, is a ripping yarn about his London crimes |
Jack the Ripper
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The Bozeman, Overland & Oregon ones all crossed Wyoming |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
trails
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This Gershwin opera was not performed at the Met until 1985 |
Porgy and Bess
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His 1904 Nobel Prize was for work on digestion, not conditioned reflexes in dogs |
Pavlov
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Used to preserve biological specimens, it's the simplest of the organic compounds called aldehydes |
formaldehyde
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Harold Adrian Russell Philby, who spied for the Soviets, was better known by this nickname |
Kim
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In 1966 his "Foundation" trilogy won a Hugo Award for the best all-time science fiction series |
(Greg: Who is Tolkien?)
(Isaac) Asimov
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The Buffalo Bill Historical Center is in this city |
Cody
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"The Marriage of Figaro" was the first of 3 collaborations between Lorenzo da Ponte & this composer |
Mozart
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This American "jungle doctor" didn't have to hang down his head when he founded hospitals in Laos |
Tom Dooley
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Once widely used as an anesthetic, CHCl3 is the chemical symbol for this |
(Greg: What is laughing gas?)
chloroform
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He was a prior of a Dominican convent many years before he became Grand Inquisitor of Spain |
Torquemada
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He died in 1975 shortly after publishing his last Nero Wolfe novel, "A Family Affair" |
Rex Stout
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"Geographical" term for Jim Bridger, Jedediah Smith & others who trapped in the state |
mountain men
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The Unattractive Tonio in "I Pagliacci" has this profession |
a clown
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This man was the first person to become a qualified pediatrician & psychiatrist |
Dr. Spock
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Astronomers knew very little about Pluto until this moon was discovered in 1978 |
(Alex: Same as the ferryman on the river Styx, [*].)
Charon
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Dutch Schultz was 1 of the most famous victims of this organization of killers for hire |
(Greg: What is [stuttering] Murder for Hire?)
Murder Incorporated
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Nevil Shute's novels "A Town Like Alice" & "On the Beach" are largely set in this country |
Australia
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It's the name of a river, Cheyenne's county & the city that's home to the University of Wyoming |
(Greg: What is Cheyenne?) (Jonathan: What is Caspar?)
Laramie
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She sang in a Baptist church in Philadelphia before she became the Met's first black soloist |
(Eileen: Who is Leontyne Price?)
Marian Anderson
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Frederick Leboyer's controversial approach to this includes dim light & a warm bath |
childbirth
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An important source for vit. A, this group of pigments gives pumpkins & apricots their color |
carotene
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Prince Felix Yusupov & his conspirators threw this man in the Neva River in 1916 |
Rasputin
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This author of "Gorky Park" has also written under the pen names of Jake Logan & Martin Quinn |
(Alex: Taking us to less than a minute to the end of this round.)
Martin Cruz Smith
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After this governor died in 1924, his wife was elected to complete his term of office |
(Alex: His wife, Nellie Tayloe Ross.)
William Ross
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Enrico Caruso made his U.S. debut on November 23, 1903 as the Duke of Mantua in this opera |
Rigoletto
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Doctor Yelena Bonner is the widow of this Soviet dissident |
Sakharov
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