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In 1774 patriots in York, Maine destroyed a supply of this, as Bostonians had in 1773 |
tea
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Cousins Bess & George often help this teenage detective solve her mysteries |
Nancy Drew
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Screenwriter Callie Khouri described her win as "a happy ending for" this Susan Sarandon-Geena Davis film |
Thelma & Louise
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In 1461 Margaret of Anjou's men freed her husband Henry VI from captivity during these floral wars |
the Wars of the Roses
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Hiroshige is one of the greatest of this country's Ukiyo-e painters |
Japan
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At 81 he conducted the Boston Pops in a July 4, 1976 concert in honor of the Bicentennial |
Arthur Fiedler
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In 1970 U.S. forces in Vietnam invaded the Parrot's Beak region of this neighboring country |
Cambodia
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This author considered calling one of his books "Alice's Doings in Elf-Land" |
Lewis Carroll
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She thanked her director Peter Bogdanovich & her father when she won for "Paper Moon" |
Tatum O'Neal
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In the 1980s this princess of Monaco worked at Dior as an assistant to Marc Bohan |
(Will: Who is Grace Kelly?)
Princess Stephanie
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He was a close friend of Joan Miro & Miro's influence can be seen in his mobiles |
(Alexander) Calder
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In 1956 construction began on the Guggenheim Museum, designed by this man while in his late 80s |
Frank Lloyd Wright
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This nuclear plant finished venting radioactive gas from its crippled reactor number 2 in July 1980 |
Three Mile Island
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Tommy Stubbins, a cobbler's son, narrates some of Hugh Lofting's books about this physician |
Dr. Dolittle
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In 1974 this urbane British actor was co-hosting the Oscars when a streaker flashed by |
David Niven
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This Russian empress helped her old lover Stanislaw II become king of Poland |
Catherine the Great
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In 1985 this city's Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts purchased over 1,000 works by Thomas Eakins |
Philadelphia
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In 1957 this cellist inaugurated a music festival in Puerto Rico, his adopted home |
Casals
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Charles Julius Guiteau was hanged June 30, 1882 for the assassination of this man |
(Noel: [After a long pause] Who is Archduke Ferdinand?)
President Garfield
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Harriett M. Lothrop called her 1881 book "Five Little Peppers and How They" did this |
Grew
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He produced the Oscar-winning "Grand Hotel" & a special award was named for him after he died in 1936 |
Irving Thalberg
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John the Pious succeeded his father, Manuel the Fortunate, as king of this country in 1521 |
(Mack: What is Spain?)
Portugal
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She had a one-woman show at MoMA in 1946, the year her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, passed away |
Georgia O'Keeffe
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In 1787, at the age of 81, he was elected a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention |
(Noel: Oh boy... I'm gonna guess; who is [*]?) (Alex: That's a good guess.) [Audience applause and happy reaction from Noel] (Alex: Think of old guys at the Convention and he's the one that comes to mind; he's a snappy dresser, too.)
Ben Franklin
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5 brothers of this Waterloo, Iowa family died when the cruiser Juneau was sunk in 1942 |
the Sullivan brothers (the Sullivans)
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Published in 1915, "The Lost Prince" was the last children's book by this author of "The Secret Garden" |
(Frances Hodgson) Burnett
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Rachel Roberts & this actor, her husband at the time, were both nominated for 1963 Oscars; neither won |
Rex Harrison
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The 2 monarchs who ruled England during Shakespeare's lifetime |
(Will: Who are William & Mary?) (Mack: Who are Elizabeth I and... Mary I?)
Elizabeth I & James I
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His "Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2" was first shown at a Cubist exhibition in Barcelona |
(Marcel) Duchamp
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He was 87 when he retired as Chancellor of West Germany in 1963 |
Konrad Adenauer
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