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In 1981 Francois Mitterand became the first socialist president of this country's Fifth Republic |
France
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One word "quoth" by "The Raven" |
Nevermore
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A constitutional amendment regarding the pay of members of these 2 bodies has been pending since 1789 |
the Senate & the House of Representatives
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It's the chemical symbol for ice |
(Alex: Yes, frozen water.)
H2O
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Unmarried religious brother whose name comes from "monos", Greek for single |
a monk
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In old schoolhouses these tails were dipped in the inkwells by nasty boys |
pigtails (ponytails)
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This dictator has been in power since 1959, the longest of any current leader in the Western Hemisphere |
Fidel Castro
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He was fired as a clerk in the Interior Dept. after the secretary heard he'd written "Leaves of Grass" |
Walt Whitman
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This state entered the Union in 1817 with Washington, near Natchez, as its capital |
Mississippi
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Treat glycerol with a mixture of concentrated nitric & sulfuric acids & you get this substance |
nitroglycerin
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A work of art applied to a wall, it comes from Latin for "wall" |
(Cori: What is a frieze?)
a mural
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It can have a plasma tail made of ionized gas or a dust tail or both |
a comet
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Chancellor of the Exchequer who succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Britain's PM in November 1990 |
(John) Major
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3 who "one night sailed off in a wooden shoe— sailed on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew" |
Wynken, Blynken & Nod
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The George Washington was the first of these ships able to launch ballistic missiles |
the nuclear submarines
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Bittern is the liquid left after you remove this compound from sea water |
sodium chloride
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The Latin for "ninth hour" gave us this word for a time of day |
noon
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This country's king, Juan Carlos, is descended from France's Louis XIV |
Spain
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Her poem "I Heard a Fly Buzz" was a take-off from a chapter in "The House of the Seven Gables" |
Emily Dickinson
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In 1904 this bit of Central American territory was legally transferred to the U.S. |
the Panama Canal Zone
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Three types of these which link atoms to form molecules are ionic, covalent & metallic |
bonds
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Some claim this name for the South was coined from the $10 notes printed in New Orleans |
(Adrienne: What is the Confederacy?) ... (Alex: The $10 notes were written in French, they said, "Dix", and hence the word [*].)
Dixie
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Also called the bay lynx, it got this name from its stubby tail |
(Rob: What's the Manx cat?)
the bobcat
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In 1984 this descendant of Irish immigrants became Canada's prime minister |
Brian Mulroney
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He began his 1st major poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", with a quote from Dante's "Inferno" |
(T.S.) Eliot
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The Banking Act of 1933 established the FDIC, which stands for this |
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Horizontal rows on a periodic table are periods, vertical columns of related elements are these |
(Adrienne: What are families?)
groups
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This word for one who professes beliefs he doesn't hold comes from Greek for "actor" |
a hypocrite
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I don't care if you know this alternate title to "Jimmy Crack Corn" |
the "Blue Tail Fly"
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