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This scandal of 1924 involved the secret leasing of oil reserves in Wyoming & California |
Teapot Dome
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Macbeth asked, "Is this" one of these weapons "which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?" |
a dagger
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This first lady met her husband at the home of her sister in Springfield, Illinois |
Mary Todd Lincoln
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"Godlike" name shared by theatres on Shaftesbury Avenue in London & West 125th Street in Harlem |
the Apollo
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In 1987 his "Irises" sold for $53,900,000, a record price for a work of art to that time |
Van Gogh
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When he was in power the Venezia Palace in Rome was his headquarters |
Mussolini
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Thomas Carlyle called "a poet without" this emotion "a physical and metaphysical impossibility" |
love
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In the 1950s her hairstyle with the famous bangs became her trademark |
Mamie Eisenhower
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In 1963 British director Tyrone Guthrie founded a theatre named for himself in this Minnesota city |
Minneapolis
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This American illustrator's 1943 paintings "The Four Freedoms" " toured the country during World War II |
Rockwell
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When Sun Yat-sen died in 1925, he became leader of the military & later of the Nationalist government |
(Brendan: What is China?)
Chiang Kai-shek
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It "is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land" |
April
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She was born 1731, the year before her husband |
Martha Washington
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In 1958 Broadway's Globe Theatre was renamed in honor of these married actors |
Lunt & Fontanne
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Owens-Corning is the world's largest producer of this fiber |
[The end-of-round signal sounds as Brendan was calling for the $400 clue.]
fiber glass (glass fiber)
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To prove that blue could be more than a minor color in a picture, he painted "The Blue Boy" |
Gainsborough
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In July 1944 a conference in Bretton Woods, N.H. created 2 organizations: the World Bank & this Fund |
the International Monetary Fund
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The author who wrote, "and now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death" |
(Edgar Allan) Poe
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In May & June 1977 this first lady visited the leaders of 7 nations in the Caribbean & Latin America |
Rosalynn Carter
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This "Grand" Paris theatre closed in 1962, but its name is still synonymous with gruesome horror |
(Brendan: What is Macabre?)
Grand Guignol
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In 1988 the News Corporation LTD., controlled by this Australian, bought TV Guide |
(Susie: Who is Maxwell?)
(Rupert) Murdoch
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This artist known for his "Arrangements", once made maps for the U.S. Coast Survey |
(Brendan: I have no idea.)
James Whistler
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In 1966 it became the first planet to be touched by a man-made object |
(Brendan: What is Mars?)
Venus
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"Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths", he wrote in "The Misanthrope" |
Moliere
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Although best known by a nickname, her given name was Dorothea |
Dolley Madison
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It's the type of summer headgear that's used to describe summer stock theatres |
straw hat
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Norelco & Magnavox are consumer brands of Philips NV, which is based in this country |
(Brendan: What is France?)
the Netherlands
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This artist's 1st major commission was "The Adoration of the Magi" for the monks of San Donato a Scopeto |
(Susie: Who is Michelangelo?) ... (Alex: Brendan, less than a minute to go.)
Leonardo da Vinci
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