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In North America the Scotch species of this tree is widely used as a Christmas tree |
(Geoff: What is a [**]?)[Geoff was ruled incorrect and the decision was reversed after the break.]
*a pine (**a fir)
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Most of this Ivy League's school's 380-acre campus lies just across the Charles River from Boston |
(Julee: What is... Yale?)
Harvard
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The first important product from his Menlo Park, N.J. lab was the carbon telephone transmitter |
(Talisha: Who is, uh, Alexander Graham Bell?)
Thomas Edison
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In 1995 this 43-year-old actor played Bond, James Bond |
Pierce Brosnan
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This island just 2 miles off Italy's mainland is that country's largest administrative region |
Sicily
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Declaration of Independence signer who proved lightning is electricity |
Benjamin Franklin
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The juice or gel in the leaves of this succulent perennial is used on insect bites & burns |
aloe
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From 1905 to 1947, this coeducational state University in Tallahassee was a college for women |
Florida State
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This American's first steamboat was successfully tested in France on the Seine River in 1803 |
Fulton
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Odd Couple Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau were bickering again in this 1995 sequel to "Grumpy Old Men" |
Grumpier Old Men
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The smallest of New York City's 5 boroughs shares its name with this island |
(Julee: What is Staten Island?)
Manhattan
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In 27 B.C. Caesar Octavianus was given this title meaning "holy" or "consecrated" by the Roman Senate |
Augustus
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The winged pairs of seeds this tree bears often resemble an airplane propeller |
maple
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This school's athletic teams are known as the Buckeyes |
Ohio State
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This man for whom a temperature scale is named established Britain's first physics lab |
(Geoff: Who is Celsius?)
Lord Kelvin
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He starred in the 1995 film that featured the prop seen here: |
(Alex: The movie was Jumanji.)
Robin Williams
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St. John's, the easternmost city in North America, lies on this Canadian island |
(Talisha: What is Prince Edward Island?)
Newfoundland
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This Macedonian named about 10 cities for himself & one for his horse Bucephalus |
Alexander the Great
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Species of this fiber-producing plant include American upland & Egyptian |
(Geoff: What is papyrus?)
cotton
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Schools in this state include Clemson & the Citadel |
South Carolina
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In 1861, 9 years after creating an automatic safety elevator, he invented a steam-driven elevator |
Otis
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Tom Hanks told Premiere magazine he took home a jar of Tang as a souvenir from this movie |
Apollo 13
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Large lakes in this nation include Lake Lanao on Mindanao Island & Laguna de Bay on Luzon |
the Philippines
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Between 1976 & 1989, this country's official name was Kampuchea |
Cambodia
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The western sword species of this spore-bearing plant grows in the forest of the Pacific coast |
a fern
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Undergraduates at this school near Palo Alto, Calif use the Green & Meyer Libraries |
Stanford
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He based his pin-tumbler cylinder lock on a mechanism developed by ancient Egyptians |
(Alex: Less than a minute to go.)
Yale
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He's the voice of Buzz Lightyear |
Tim Allen
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A string of small islands known as Adam's Bridge stretches from India to this nearby island nation |
Sri Lanka
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From 1278 to 1918, this dynasty ruled Austria |
the Hapsburg Dynasty
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