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Sacre-Coeur, Sacred heart Church, stands atop Montmartre, this capital's highest point |
Paris
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This Verne novel's submarine was assembled on a desert island but lost off the coast of Norway |
(Pat: What is the [*]?) [NOTE: Alex acknowledged that the clue was a little misleading and accepted Pat giving the name of the submarine instead of the title of the novel.]
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (*the Nautilus)
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Cuthbert Collingwood took command of the British fleet after this man died at Trafalgar |
(Horatio) Nelson
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On July 11, 1991 parts of Hawaii were plunged into darkness by a solar one of these |
an eclipse
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The Titans Thea & Hyperion were the parents of Helios, the god of this |
the Sun
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In romantic ballets, this fluffy skirt is worn slightly shorter than ankle length |
the tutu
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This capital city's Plaza de Espana contains a statue of Cervantes |
Madrid
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This island in "Gulliver's Travels" is separated from the kingdom of Blefuscu by a narrow strait |
Lilliput
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In the 1940s she served as an aide to her father, Jawaharlal Nehru |
Indira Gandhi
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An instrument called a seismoscope indicates the occurrence & time of one of these |
an earthquake
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Salmoneus imitated Zeus by riding one of these vehicles & throwing fake thunderbolts; Zeus killed him |
a chariot
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Maya Plisetskaya of the Bolshoi Ballet was born in this city, the home of the Bolshoi |
Moscow
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It took 14 years to build this Australian city's white-shelled opera house on Bennelong Point |
Sydney
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While writing this trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien read chapters to C.S. Lewis |
The Lord of the Rings
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By 1808, a man named John Adams was the only Bounty mutineer left on this island |
Pitcairn Island
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It's the branch of biology that deals with animals |
zoology
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This famous flier stamped his hoof on Mt. Helicon & created a fountain called Hippocrene |
Pegasus
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As a rule, a ballerina shouldn't lose her slipper unless she's playing this title role |
Cinderella
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This Italian city's Uffizi Palace was commissioned by Cosimo de Medici & begun in 1560 |
Florence
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Edward Tudor & Tom Canty are the title characters in this Mark Twain work |
The Prince and the Pauper
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This queen of Egypt probably lost favor with her husband, Akhenaton, in the 12th or 14th year of his reign |
Nefertiti
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These negatively charged particles occupy almost the entire volume of an atom |
electrons
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There were 9 Muses & this many Graces |
3
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In traditional productions of "Swan Lake", Odile's costume is this color |
(Pat: What is white?)
black
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The name of this Russian port on the Pacific means "rule the east" |
Vladivostok
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"Captains Courageous" is set in the Grand Banks off the coast of this Canadian province |
Newfoundland
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Theodora, the daughter of a bearkeeper, became empress of this empire as the wife of Justinian I |
(Becky: What is the Roman Empire?)
the Byzantine Empire
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A coating of this bluish-white metal is often applied to iron or steel to prevent rusting |
(Matt: What is cobalt?)
zinc
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The Greek name for Hercules |
Heracles
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Antony Tudor choreographed a new version of this ballet in 1943 & danced the role of Tybalt himself |
(Matt: Is it [*]?) (Alex: You know, and by saying, "Is it?" he phrased it in the form of a question and he is right.)
Romeo and Juliet
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