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William Gillette's plays "Held by the Enemy" & "Secret Service" were set in this war |
the Civil War
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As you might expect, the name of this sign means "bull" in Latin |
Taurus
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"Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" was his first published collection of poems |
Robert Burns
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It's also the capital of Cape Province, South Africa |
(Melissa: What is Johannesburg?)
Cape Town
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Appropriately, the National Library of Medicine is in this state abbreviated Md. |
Maryland
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It precedes ray, rated & marks the spot |
X
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After the Spanish-American war, the U.S. paid Spain $20 million for this Pacific island group |
the Philippines
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Green is a harmonious color for people born under this sign; wearing it might make them less "crab"by |
Cancer
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Years before his 1st volume of poetry was published in 1913, he was a chicken farmer in Derry, N.H. |
Robert Frost
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Among this country's 9 provinces are Liege, Luxembourg & Antwerp |
Belgium
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The Folger Shakespeare Library is on this famous hill |
Capitol Hill
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Something done to perfect exactness is said to be "Done to a" this |
T
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On May 10,1876 the Centennial Exposition opened in Fairmount Park in this Pennsylvania city |
Philadelphia
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It's the only sign symbolized by a cat |
Leo
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Poet & Lincoln biographer who wrote about Lincoln's death in "Cool Tombs" |
Sandburg
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This country's Great Victoria Desert was first crossed in 1875 by Ernest Giles, who named it |
(Melissa: What is Africa?)
Australia
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George Bush selected this univ. in College Station, Texas as the site of his presidential library |
(Jason: What is Rice?)
Texas A&M
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With a line over it, this Roman numeral for 5 turns into 5,000 |
V
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In 1852 this party selected General Winfield Scott as its presidential candidate |
the Whig Party
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Boldness, not sheepishness, is a major characteristic of this sign represented by a ram |
Aries
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While England's poet laureate, he wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
Tennyson
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At 1550 sq. miles, this country's Lake Nasser is one of the world's largest artificial lakes |
Egypt
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Samuel Pepys left his library to his alma mater, Magdalene College at this university |
Cambridge
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The only letter not used in spelling any of the 50 states |
(Jason: What is X?) ... (Alex: You can't ring in a second time on the same clue, Jason.)
Q
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In the War of 1812 the British captured this ship captained by James Lawrence |
the Chesapeake
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This sign is connected to the myth of Eros & Aphrodite, who turned into fish to escape a monster |
Pisces
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This Quaker poet's "Snow-Bound" tells the story of a family isolated during a blizzard |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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2 nations occupy this island, the second-largest in the West Indies |
(Jason: What is Haiti?)
Hispaniola
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The library of King Ashurbanipal was in Nineveh, the last capital of this empire |
(April: What is the Babylonian Empire?)
the Assyrian
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With a little circle on top of it, this letter stands for a unit of length for wavelengths of light |
A
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