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The stone house used by Washington as his winter 1777-78 HQ at this campsite still stands |
Valley Forge
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Common name of the Saintpaulia, a fuzzy-leafed plant originally from the Dark Continent |
the African violet
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In January she became head of a new commission to plan the reform of America's health-care system |
Hillary Clinton
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During WWI Anthony Fokker developed a gear to synchronize a machine gun with this |
the propeller
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It's the chief water supply for London & its western suburbs |
the Thames
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Anatole Kuragin is a scandalous rake in this extremely long Tolstoy work |
War and Peace
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Trained as a corset maker in England, he came to America & wrote a series of essays called "The Crisis" |
Thomas Paine
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To feature this color in your garden, plant ladybells, sage & cornflowers |
blue
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Sherry Davis became Major League Baseball's 1st full-time female p.a. announcer, for this S.F. team |
the Giants
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Man who created the following flying design |
Leonardo da Vinci
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Montana's Fort Peck Lake was formed by damming this tributary of the Mississippi |
the Missouri
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This Belgian wrote a number of novels under the rather obvious pseudonym Georges Sim |
Georges Simenon
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During the war the father of this "Damn the torpedoes" admiral served in the South Carolina navy |
Farragut
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This flowery vine was named after American physician Caspar Wistar |
Wisteria
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Masako Owada became a princess bride when she married Crown Prince Naruhito, this man's son |
(Debra: Who is the emperor of Japan?) (Alex: [Laughing] Well, we want his name, Debra.) (Debra: Nahurito?)
Emperor Akihito
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This joint product of British Aerospace & Aerospatiale has a cruise speed of Mach 2 |
the Concorde
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Plunging to 5,314 feet, this Siberian lake is the deepest continental body of water on Earth |
(Craig: What is the Caspian Sea?)
Lake Baikal
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"Zadig", his phiilosophical novel about a Babylonian king, isn't as popular as his "Candide" |
Voltaire
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In 1778 he was named American minister plenipotentiary to France |
Ben Franklin
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In the Malaysian jungle, this ficus can grow 100 feet tall; let's see an ant move that |
a rubber tree
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A South African court canceled her jail sentence, ordering her to pay a fine & compensation instead |
(Craig: Who is Mandela?) (Alex: Be more specific.)
Winnie Mandela
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This manufacturer's 1938 307 Stratoliner was the first pressurized airliner |
Boeing
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Lake Athabasca is Alberta's largest lake, though 2/3 lies in this province to the east |
Saskatchewan
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The novel known in English as "Blood and Sand" was written originally in this language |
(Craig: What is German?)
Spanish
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Until elected to the Continental Congress in 1775, Thomas Jefferson was a member of this legislative body |
the House of Burgesses
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The Calvin cycle in this process turns carbon dioxide into carbohydrates |
(Kurt: What's the Krebs cycle?)
photosynthesis
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In June she was sworn in as Canada's first female prime minister |
(Craig: I have no idea.) (Alex: She replaced Brian Mulroney and her name is [*].)
Kim Campbell
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This company manufactured the L-1011 Tristar passenger plane |
Lockheed
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Rotterdam's New Waterway Canal is the main navigational link between the North Sea & this river |
the Rhine
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This German worked on "Faust II" from 1825 to 1831 |
Goethe
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