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Reading the Iliad & Odyssey in their original language is this language to us |
Greek
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It's the nickname of Vice President Gore's wife, Mary Elizabeth |
"Tipper"
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More than 80% of Algeria is covered by this desert |
Sahara
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At age 7 this "Wizard Of Menlo Park" attended public school for 3 months -- his only formal education |
Thomas Edison
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Though Walter Cronkite retired at 65, this 65-year-old CBS anchorman, his successor, doesn't plan to |
Dan Rather
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He's currently the only black justice on the Supreme Court |
Clarence Thomas
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Pope John Paul II's poem "Easter Vigil 1966" was first published in this, his native language |
Polish
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As Elwood Blues, he hosts "The House of Blues Radio Hour" |
Dan Aykroyd
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Gwynedd & Clwyd are the northernmost counties in this country, part of the United Kingdom |
Wales
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In 1832 this telegraph inventor became professor of painting & sculpture at NYU |
Samuel Morse
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Because of the staged quality of these two 1996 events, TV may not cover them live in the year 2000 |
the Democratic & Republican National Conventions
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As TLC & Boyz II Men could tell you, it's singer-songwriter-producer Kenneth Edmonds' nickname |
"Babyface"
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This author of "Crime and Punishment" wrote "The Idiot" while on the run from creditors |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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This "If It Makes You Happy" singer once sang back-up for Michael Jackson |
Sheryl Crow
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Part of this South American country's city of La Paz lies in a canyon carved by the La Paz River |
Bolivia
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This sewing machine inventor's uncle Tyler invented the spring bed |
(Faith: Who is Singer?)
Elias Howe
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In 1996 Rupert Murdoch, owner of this network, launched an all-news channel |
Fox
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This botanist donated his life savings to a research foundation at Tuskegee bearing his name |
George Washington Carver
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His "Eventyr, fortalte for Born", or "Fairy Tales, Told for Children" was published in 1835 |
Hans Christian Andersen
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In a 1996 ad campaign Nike ran this Seattle Mariner for president |
Ken Griffey, Jr.
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This city became the capital of the Saud dynasty in the early 1800s |
Riyadh
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Eureka! This man who discovered the law of hydrostatics invented the compound pulley & the catapult |
Archimedes
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George Clooney boycotted "Entertainment Tonight" to protest this TV newsmagazine videotaping him |
Hard Copy
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Arkansas' first woman director of the Department of Health, she became U.S. Surgeon General in 1993 |
Joycelyn Elders
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In due process you can tell us his "Der Prozess" was metamorphosed into English as "The Trial" |
Franz Kafka
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Nick Park's "Wallace & Gromit" shorts have earned 3 Oscars using this film making process |
claymation
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Bordered by Syria & Israel, this small country is only 135 miles long & 35 miles wide |
(Faith: What is Jordan?)
Lebanon
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In 1929 this American launched the first instrument-carrying rocket |
Robert Goddard
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Pat Buchanan & Michael Kinsley are 2 of the pundits who've been "caught in" this CNN debate show |
(Matthew: What is Larry King Live?)
Crossfire
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The modern civil rights movement began in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus |
(Alex: Let me help you out a little... Jordan will not be the correct response in this category!)
Rosa Parks
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