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This ironclad sunk December 31, 1862 was mistaken for a sub during WWII & hit by depth charges |
the Monitor
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Pierre Puget's Milo of Crotona, sculpted for Versailles, is now in this Paris museum |
le Louvre
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Fossils of this early man were first discovered in a German valley in 1856 |
(Dave: Uh, what is the [*] Valley?) [NOTE: The valley is Neandertal.]
the Neanderthal
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This ancient Roman garment developed from the tebenna, a cloak worn by those darn Etruscans |
a toga
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The Provincetown Players staged the premieres of several of his plays, including "Desire Under the Elms" |
(Eugene) O'Neill
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Of the 1,200 men awarded this for Civil War service, about 3/4 were later found ineligible under new rules |
(Sharon: What's the Purple Heart?)
the Congressional Medal of Honor
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Bartolommeo Ammannati was responsible for the grandiose courtyard of this Italian city's Pitti Palace |
Florence
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Scientists learn about ancient plant life by studying fossilized grains of this from flowers |
pollen
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The couturier Balenciaga moved to Paris in 1937 after Civil War broke out in this, his native country |
Spain
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King John II Casimir Vasa, crowned in Krakow in 1648, abdicated this country's throne in 1668 |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Poland
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In 1643 this French playwright incorporated an acting troupe, the Illustre-Theatre, with the Bejart family |
Molière
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Though Farragut took this city's bay in 1864, the Union didn't control the city until 3 days after Lee's surrender |
Mobile
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This mobile sculptor's "Circus" is in the Whitney Museum |
Calder
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They were uncovered by a Bedouin boy exploring a cave at Qumran in 1947 |
the Dead Sea Scrolls
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The Ramillies style of this 18th c. men's accessory featured a long braid tied with ribbons |
a wig
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When this country's King Baudouin died in 1993, he was succeeded by his brother, Albert II |
Belgium
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In this Chekhov play, Irina, Masha & Olga fail in their desire to return to Moscow from the provinces |
(Diane: Um, what is The Cherry Orchard?)
the Three Sisters
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On May 30,1863 the Confederate Congress officially nicknamed Gen. Jackson's troops this "Brigade" |
(Alex: We have a minute left.)
the Stonewall Brigade
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He was inspired to create such works as "Bronco Buster" by watching sculptor Frederic Ruckstull work |
Remington
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In 1995 it was announced that a tomb believed to contain 50 of this pharaoh's sons was found in Egypt |
(Diane: Uh, who is King Tut?)
Ramses II (Ramses the Great)
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Born in 1778, this ultimate English dandy wore elegantly tailored clothes with elaborate cravats |
(Sharon: Who is Lord Fauntleroy?)
Beau Brummell
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King Edward III led England into this lengthy war in 1337; he didn't live to see it end |
the Hundred Years' War
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He played test pilot Chuck Yeager in the film "The Right Stuff" the same year his "Fool for Love" debuted |
(Sam) Shepard
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The Atlantic Monthly paid $5 for this Julia Ward Howe poem & published it in February 1862 |
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
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In the 1920s Isamu Noguchi worked as an assistant to this Romanian-born "Bird in Space" sculptor |
Constantin Brâncuși
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In the 1870s he published some of his findings in "Trojan Antiquities" & "Troy and its Ruins" |
(Heinrich) Schliemann
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This fashionable empress, the wife of Napoleon III, was nicknamed the "Queen of the Crinoline" |
Eugénie
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Rene Descartes taught philosophy to this Scandinavian country's Queen Christina |
(Sharon: What is Denmark?)
Sweden
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Robert Anderson is best known for this 1953 play about an insecure prep school boy & a kindly faculty wife |
Tea and Sympathy
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