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At -109 F°., solid carbon dioxide is more commonly called this |
dry ice
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This Verdi work is partly based on a synopsis by Egyptologist Auguste Mariette |
Aida
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The name of this elementary school official is from the Latin for "first person" |
the principal
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In his teens this discoverer of Florida fought with the troops that drove the Moors from Granada |
Ponce de Leon
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You can make a "mock" version of this reptile soup with veal bones & calf brains |
turtle soup
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This author of "Burr" & "Lincoln" has also written detective stories under the name Edgar Box |
Gore Vidal
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The temperature at this center region of the Sun is about 27,000,000° F. |
the core
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This English queen appears in Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda" & "Roberto Devereux, Conte d'Essex" |
(Steve: Who is Elizabeth?) (Alex: Elizabeth?)
Elizabeth I
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This type of teaching aid includes filmstrips, slides, graphs & recordings |
audio visual
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James Bay in Canada honors English navigator Thomas James, who, like Hudson, searched for this route |
the Northwest Passage
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Joy of Cooking's recipe for Florentine sauce calls for 1 cup of this, finely chopped |
spinach
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Early in his career, this "Dracula" author was encouraged to write by Henry Morton Stanley |
Bram Stoker
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Changes in the Earth may eventually cause igneous & sedimentary rocks to become this type |
metamorphic
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Gian Carlo Menotti's "The Saint of Bleecker Street" is set in this city |
New York City
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From 1826 until his death, this French educator taught at the Nat'l Institute for Blind Children in Paris |
(Louis) Braille
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In 1500 Bartolomeu Dias perished near this African cape that he'd discovered years earlier |
(David: What is Cape Horn?)
the Cape of Good Hope
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The nuts used in this paste, an essential ingredient in marzipan, must be blanched & finely ground |
almonds
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He spent 20 years researching "Queen", & wrote a 700-page outline, but didn't live to write the book |
Alex Haley
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It's a branch of math or, in dentistry, a hardened plaque on the teeth |
calculus
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First performed in 1983, "A Quiet Place" was this "West Side Story" composer's only full-length opera |
Bernstein
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This president's 3 Secretaries of Education were Terrel H. Bell, William Bennett & Laura F. Cavazos |
(Paul: Who is Bush?)
Ronald Reagan
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Porcelain believed to be from his Golden Hind has been recovered from a bay near San Francisco |
Drake
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Sole Mirabeau is garnished with olives, tarragon leaves & these little fish fillets |
(David: What are sardines?)
anchovies
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From 1973-77 this author of "The Choirboys" was a consultant for the TV series "Police Story" |
(Joe) Wambaugh
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Atoms with the same atomic number but different mass numbers are termed this |
isotopes
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Bizet's 1860s opera about this cruel czar wasn't performed until 1946 |
Ivan the Terrible
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This teachers' union affiliated with the AFL-CIO has more than 2,000 locals |
(David: What's the NEA?) (Paul: What's the American Teachers' Association?)
the American Federation of Teachers
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Rene-Robert Cavelier, who sailed down the Mississippi to its mouth, took this title, after his family manor |
Pierre de la Salle
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To make carpetbag steak, cut a deep pocket in the steak & stuff it with 4 or 5 of these bivalves |
(Steve: What are clams?)
oysters
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Her "D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study" led to a lifelong friendship with Henry Miller |
(Anais) Nin
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