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In 1520 this explorer found a strait just north of Tierra del Fuego |
Magellan
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She was valedictorian of her high school class in Plains, Georgia |
Rosalynn Carter
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Though this city has representatives in West Germany's Bundestag, its citizens cannot vote |
West Berlin
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When Simple Simon met the pieman, he was going to this event |
[Applause] (Alex: You did well in that category; those nursery rhymes are paying off for you, Ryan.)
the fair
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Nuclear energy is released when this part of the atom is split |
the core (the nucleus)
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In 1988 this nautical character wore a Santa suit on boxes of his Christmas Crunch cereal |
[Matt said "Captain".]
Cap'n Crunch
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In full armor, sword in one hand, banner of Castile in the other, he waded into the Pacific in 1513 |
(Vasco Nunez de) Balboa
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Martha Washington is buried at this national shrine in Fairfax County, Virginia |
(Ryan: What is Arlington National Cemetery?) (Matt: What is Valley Forge?)
Mount Vernon
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You must pass the Matura exam to attend one of this country's universities in Graz, Salzburg or Innsbruck |
Austria
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The answer to this question is "3 bags full" |
(Ryan: Uh, Baa, baa black sheep, [*]. What is [*]?)
Have you any wool?
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Radioactive elements give off three kinds of rays named for these Greek letters |
alpha, beta & gamma
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L.A.'s Universal Studios is opening a terrifying new attraction, a simulated 8.5 one of these |
an earthquake
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In 1487 Bartolomeu Dias rounded the southern tip of this continent |
Africa
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Aaron Burr introduced this lady to our future 4th president |
Dolley Madison
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Common name of the treaty the Soviet Union & 6 of its satellites signed in Poland in May 1955 |
the Warsaw Pact
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"Hickety pickety, my black hen, she" does this "for gentlemen" |
lay eggs
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Martin Klaproth named this element he discovered in 1789 in honor of a planet found 8 years earlier |
uranium
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By itself it's a gait; with "fox" or "turkey", it's a dance |
a trot
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This noted sponsor of explorers was the 3rd son of Portugal's King John I |
Prince Henry (the Navigator)
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Tina Turner said this glamorous first lady was always her role model |
(Matt: Who is Nancy Reagan?)
Jackie Kennedy
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The state of N.J. was named after the island of Jersey in this group between England & France |
the Channel Islands
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As far as we know, it's the only thing that conceited Little Jack Horner ever said |
What a good boy am I!
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If an element has 26 protons, 30 neutrons & 26 electrons, this is its atomic number |
26
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In ice skating, examples of these include the Lutz, the double Lutz & spreadeagled Lutz |
jumps
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Founded in 1608 by Champlain as a fur trading post, it was the capital city of New France |
Quebec
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Mary Tyler Moore played this Mary in a 1988 TV miniseries |
Mary Lincoln
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The names of its 3 official languages are both found within the name of this Eastern Bloc country |
Czechoslovakia
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"As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with" this many wives |
7
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It occurs in the core of a reactor when the cooling system fails & temperatures rise above 5,000ยบ F. |
meltdown
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Anthony Kennedy has replaced Lewis F. Powell in this job |
Supreme Court Justice
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