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Wilson was our last president born in Virginia, & he was our first |
George Washington
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He wrote "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", a children's story as well as the James Bond novels |
Ian Fleming
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Each year, Idaho sends samples of this crop to California's Camp Pendleton to be tested for disease |
potatoes
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If the new London bridge in England, not Arizona, fell down. it would fall into this river |
the Thames
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Type of fairy that Tchaikovsky set a-dancing in "The Nutcracker" |
a sugar plum fairy
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She was at UCLA on a basketball scholarship when Bob Kersee discovered her track & field talents |
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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He was the 1st president to only serve one term |
Adams
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This country's 1930s civil war was the setting for Graham Greene's "The Confidential Agent" |
Spain
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Also called an electronic oven, it uses high-frequency electromagnetic waves to heat food |
a microwave oven
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To get to Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral you have to cross a bridge over this river |
the Seine
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The Hallelujah Chorus is found at the end of Part II of this Handel work |
"The Messiah"
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At his academy he reiterated what he'd learned from Socrates & sometimes adapted his ideas |
Plato
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While serving as this man's vice president, Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton |
(Thomas) Jefferson
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The title of this 1872 Samuel Butler novel, published anonymously, is an anagram for "nowhere" |
Erewhon
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In Jan. 1988 this company announced it would sell VHS format VCRs in addition to Betamax |
(Alex Trebek: Yes, they created the Betamax.)
Sony
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This lake on the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border sounds like a watering hole for Santa's sleigh team |
Reindeer Lake
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Bach's set of repetitive pieces designed to show contrapuntal technique is called "The art of" this |
the Fugue
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He studied directing at NYU under M. Scorsese & was an "absolutely mahvelous" student |
Billy Crystal
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Teddy Roosevelt became president upon his assassination |
McKinley
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Mr. Lockwood, a tenant of Thrushcross Grange, narrates this Emily Bronte story |
Wuthering Heights
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In 1978 the Double Eagle II became the 1st gas-filled craft of this type to cross the Atlantic |
a balloon
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During the 16th c. Ivan IV claimed all of this great river's valley for Russia |
the Volga
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Spanish city in the title of the opera that gave us the following aria... |
(Alex Yang: What is "The Barber of [*]?)
Seville
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At Cornell, "Gravity's Rainbow" author Thomas Pynchon studied under this author of "Lolita" |
(Vladimir) Nabokov
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The only president whose father was a signer of the Declaration of Independence |
John Quincy Adams
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Her 1st novel "Sense & Sensibility", was published 2 years before "Pride & Prejudice" |
Jane Austen
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Some 85% of water used in the western U.S. is used for this purpose |
irrigation
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Though the Nile is longer, this 2nd longest river in Africa carries more water |
the Congo (the Zaire)
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This composer died before finishing "The Tales of Hoffmann"; Ernest Guiraud finished it |
Jacques Offenbach
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In Yale, he was in Robert Penn Warren's creative writing class; now he runs NBC TV |
Brandon Tartikoff
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