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He was captured & enslaved by Barbary pirates years before he wrote "Don Quixote" |
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What the mouse did when the clock struck one in "Hickory Dickory Dock" |
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Chromium compounds make a ruby red & an emerald this color |
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If you want to be on his show, ask Fido to bone up on a stupid pet trick |
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This bread's wrapper features red, yellow & blue balloons all over it |
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In England long ago, husbands gave their wives money on Jan. 1 to buy a year's worth of these hem holders |
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Swiss author Johann Wyss was most famous for this adventure novel |
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Mozart wrote the tune & later, in 1806, Jane Taylor wrote the words to this song about a star |
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On the Celsius scale, this is the melting point of ice |
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Jerry Seinfeld wasn't insulted when he was introduced as Geo. Stanberry by this "Master of Insults" |
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As this teenage character on TV, John Haymes Newton can be seen wearing the following: |
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In this language "Happy new year" is "Hauoli makahiki hou" |
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Robert K. Massie, who wrote "Nicholas & Alexandra", won a Pulitzer Prize for his book about this czar |
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This 49er miner's daughter wore sandals made from "herring boxes, without topses" |
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Most light bulbs don't contain a vacuum or oxygen but this gas whose symbol is Ar |
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She says she's "the only woman in the history of the world who left J. Carson and didn't ask him for money" |
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"Ask any mermaid you happen to see, 'What's the best tuna?'" & you'll get this reply |
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The reason the 1989 Rose Parade was not held on January 1 |
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Victorian prime minister whose verse play, "The Tragedy of Count Alarcos", appeared in 1839 |
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When a cowboy sings "Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies", he's talking to these young animals |
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The Pythagorean theorem only applies to this type of triangle |
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Walter Hill chose him for "48Hrs." based on his performances on "Saturday Night Live" |
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Songs the Elis sing at this university include "Bingo", "Bull-Dog" & "Bingo, That's The Lingo" |
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It's sounded on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year |
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Elected class poet at Harvard after 6 others declined, he later became 19th c.'s leading transcendentalist |
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Completes the line "Oh, I went down South for to see my Sal, sing polly-wolly-doodle..." |
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This light metal is the most abundant metal in the earth's crust |
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Ed Grimley is his alter ego |
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Appropriately, this type of animal is featured in the Lufthansa & Japan Air Lines logos |
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February 6, 1989 marked the start of the Chinese year named for this reptile |
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