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Swedes call this Finnish city Helsingfors |
Helsinki
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The poet who wrote, "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach" |
(Aaron: Who is Robert Browning?) ... (Alex: QUOTABLE WOMEN.) (Aaron: QUOTABLE WOMEN, right; I wasn't sure about him.) [Laughter]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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In 1926 the "bee-stung" look was in for this part of a woman's body |
the lips
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The tympanic bone is located in this organ |
the ear
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A capital offense is defined as a crime punishable by life imprisonment or this |
death
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One of Rossini's early works was a comic adaptation of this fairy tale called "La Cenerentola" |
Cinderella
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This city's Dutch name, 's-Gravenhage, means "the count's hedge" |
The Hague
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"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music", said this "Oklahoma!" choreographer |
Agnes de Mille
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In 1924 Howard Carter uncovered this man's now-famous funerary mask |
King Tut
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The Ilium, pubis & ischium make up this "girdle" |
the pelvic girdle
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Defamation includes these 2 offenses, one written, the other oral |
slander & libel
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He first realized he was going deaf in 1798; he was only 27 |
Beethoven
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This Alberta city is nicknamed the "Foothill City", but you could call it the "Stampede City" |
Calgary
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In 1923 this M.P. wrote, "The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman" |
Lady Astor
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A flapper was a girl & a flivver was one of these |
a car
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It runs down the center of the chest & your true ribs branch off of it |
the sternum
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Under former laws, it was a person who settled on public land to acquire its title |
a squatter
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His "Suite Bergamasque", in several movements, includes the celebrated "Clair De Lune" |
Debussy
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Legend says Ulysses founded this Portuguese city, hence its ancient name, Olisipo |
Lisbon
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"Honor wears different coats to different eyes", she wrote in "The Guns of August" |
(Steve: [*].) (Alex: No.) [After a slight pause Steve says the last name correctly after having previously pronounced it as "Tukeman".] ... (Alex: You did not phrase it in the form of a question.) [Offstage sounds] (Alex: He did? Then I misheard; I'm sorry, Steve.)
Barbara Tuchman
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6-syllable word for the U.S. anniversary celebrated in 1926 |
(Aaron: What was the semisesquitennial?)
the sesquicentennial
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It runs from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite the thumb |
(Steve: What is the... radius?)
the ulna
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In this type of marriage, legal appointees substitute for the absent couple at the ceremony |
proxy
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"Armida", an opera by this Czech composer, premiered in Prague in March 1904, 5 weeks before his death |
(Susan: Who is Janáček?)
Dvořák
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There's a park named for John F. Kennedy in this Costa Rican capital |
San José
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Her novel "So Big" tells us, "Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it" |
Edna Ferber
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His well-publicized 1925 trial was really between the modernists & the fundamentalists |
(John) Scopes
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Common name for the calcaneus, the quadrangular bone at the back of the tarsus |
(Steve: What is the tailbone?)
the heel bone
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It's the legal term for a supplement or addition to a will |
a codicil
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Organ master & composer of the canon heard here: [Instrumental music plays] |
(Alex: His "Canon In D Major".)
(Johann) Pachelbel
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