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The inscription on this piece of jewelry that Abe Lincoln gave Mary Todd in 1842 says "Love is eternal" |
(Frank: What is a... ring?) (Alex: Be more specific.)
a wedding ring
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A surgical knife, its name comes from scalpere, meaning "to scratch" |
a scalpel
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He wrote "The Firebird", "Petrushka" & "The Rite of Spring" for Sergei Diaghilev |
(Amy: Who is Tchaikovsky?)
Stravinsky
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Of Hole in the Head, Hole in the Wall or Hole in One, the one that was Butch Cassidy's famous hideout |
the Hole in the Wall
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In this country 1 yuan is equal to 10 jiao |
China
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Sex & profanity are reasons schools have pulled his "The Catcher in the Rye" from reading lists |
J.D. Salinger
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Lady Bird Johnson was the first first lady born in this state |
Texas
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The name of this pregnancy specialist comes from obstare, meaning "to stand before" |
an obstetrician
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Most of the score of this British duo's first operetta, "Thespis", is lost |
Gilbert & Sullivan
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Morgan Earp was killed while playing billiards a few months after this notorious 1881 shootout |
the Gunfight at O.K. Corral
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Malta, Turkey & Italy use units called this |
(Alex: With a minute to go.)
lira
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In 1988 the tide was out for this Pat Conroy novel; a South Carolina school pulled it from reading lists |
Prince of Tides
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When she visited India in 1962 with her sister Lee, she rode an elephant |
Jackie Kennedy
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This term for a band of tissue that connects muscle & bone comes from a word meaning "to stretch" |
(Amy: What is sinew?) (Frank: What is ligament?)
a tendon
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Russian-American choreographer who was the brother of Soviet composer Andrei Balanchivadze |
(George) Balanchine
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Bat Masterson laid down the law in this Kansas town, the "Wickedest Little City" in the West |
Dodge
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This Portuguese territory's unit of currency is called the pataca |
Macau
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Teachers in Erie, Penn. have blacked out the mating passages in her "Gorillas in the Mist" |
Dian Fossey
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It was the first name of Grover Cleveland's wife, but some people called her "Frank" or "Frankie" |
Frances
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This name for the thighbone is Latin for "thigh" |
femur
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Humorous composer Peter Schickele invented this fictional composer in 1953 |
P.D.Q. Bach
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Wild Bill Hickok probably never married her, but a cab driver named Clinton Burke did |
(Jean: Who was Annie Oakley?)
Calamity Jane
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In Kiey, the capital of this country, you can use a unit of money called the hryvnia |
Ukraine
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The Robert Cormier book about a "War" over this sweet has been challenged all over the country |
chocolate
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This president's first wife, Letitia, gave birth to 9 children: his second wife, Julia, had 7 |
(Jean: Who is Martin Van Buren?)
John Tyler
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The name of this disease also called lockjaw comes from a Greek word meaning "spasm" |
tetanus
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Franco Alfano completed this composer's "Turandot" after his death |
Puccini
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A Creek Indian named Jim July was this Old West "Bandit Queen"s last lover |
Belle Starr
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The name of this Spanish unit of currency is a diminutive of peso |
(Jean: What is peseto?) (Alex: Yes. No.)
peseta
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His novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was called "garbage passed off as literature" & purged |
(Gabriel Garcia) Marquez
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