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In Sweden's scale model of the solar system, Stockholm's 230-foot Globe Arena is the Sun & this dwarf planet is 5" wide, 185 miles away |
Pluto
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Right Said Fred: "I'm a model, you know what I mean, & I do my little turn on the catwalk" |
(Beth: What is "I'm Sexy And I Know It"?)
"I'm Too Sexy"
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"Our discussion is ...on the right way to conduct our lives", this Greek philosopher wrote in "The Republic" |
Plato
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A place to house your hound when you head out of town |
a kennel
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A small chapel marks the source of this river in the Valdai Hills about 200 miles northwest of Moscow |
the Volga
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900 Hessian mercenaries spent new year 1777 as prisoners after Washington crossed this river & captured them |
the Delaware
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Almost 2,000 years old, a celestial globe called the Farnese Atlas does not show individual stars but only these |
(Stephen: What are galaxies?)
constellations
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No Doubt: "Take this pink ribbon off my eyes" |
"Just A Girl"
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According to Karl Marx, this is "the opium of the people" |
religion
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It can mean a small mug but is usually a way to refer to your head; use yours now! |
a noggin
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Sir John Hawkwood fought for Florence, for the pope & for the English in the first few decades of this long war with France |
the Hundred Years' War
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The model here shows a grain of dust from one of these traveling bodies, magnified 20,000 times |
a comet
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Mariah Carey: "I feel good, I feel nice, I've never felt so satisfied" |
"Emotions"
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A persistent issue in bioethics is the fate of patients in PVS, persistent this state |
vegetative
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A thickened area of skin, perhaps on your hands |
a callus
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This peninsula stretches south about 700 miles from the Isthmus of Kra to Singapore |
(Beth: [Before wagering] Faint heart never won fair maiden or game show. Um... $5,000.)
the Malay Peninsula
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In the 400s B.C., Athenian soldier & historian Xenophon fought in a rebellion in this empire against its ruler Artaxerxes II |
the Persian Empire
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A model kit for this last moon mission contains parts to make a lunar module & lunar rover |
Apollo 17
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R.E.M.: "Now, Andy, did you hear about this one? Tell me, are you locked in the punch?" |
"Man On The Moon"
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This English liberal philosopher and author of two treatises on government helped inspire the Declaration of Independence |
John Locke
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In machine sewing, thread is wound upon this spool |
a bobbin
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This Yemeni capital lies at the foot of Mount Nuqum more than 7,200 feet above sea level |
(Stephen: What is Yerevan?)
Sana'a
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With a name meaning "lord", in the 11th century he fought for the king of Castile & later for the Moorish ruler of Zaragoza |
El Cid
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A NASA scale model uses a grapefruit-sized sun in D.C.; the Sun's "neighbor", Proxima this, would be a cherry in California |
Centauri
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The Goo Goo Dolls: "And I'd give up forever to touch you" |
"Iris"
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Francis Bacon is considered a father of this school of philosophy that holds that all knowledge comes from experience |
empiricism
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An 8-letter Olympic game of horse |
(Beth: [Sighs] Um... [Sighs]) (Alex: Oh...) (Beth: What is [*]?) (Alex: Ooh, Beth, you just beat the time's up signal.) [Applause]
dressage
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Italy's highest point is on this Alpine peak it shares with France |
Mont Blanc
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Since the 1800s, Nepalese hill men have served in the British Army as these mercenaries. 13 have earned the Victoria Cross |
the Gurkhas
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