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In 1731, he founded America's 1st circulating library |
Benjamin Franklin
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Alternating between Victorian & WWII settings, Basil Rathbone played this sleuth in 14 films |
Sherlock Holmes
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3 oz. of this pickled cabbage has only 18 calories |
sauerkraut
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Alexander Pope wrote, it "springs eternal in the human breast" |
hope
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19th c. writer Christopher North said, "The sun never sets on" it |
(Chris: What is British soil?) (Alex: More--no, that's not good enough.)
the British Empire
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The 4 basic operations with numbers |
addition, subtraction, multiplication & division
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Spanky, Alfalfa & Darla appeared in films under these 2 group names |
Our Gang & The Little Rascals
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By weight, most common mineral in the body is this, which forms teeth & bones |
calcium
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Herrick wrote "to virgins, to make much time", "gather ye" these "while ye may" |
rosebuds
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John Gunther called it "the only country deliberately founded on a good idea" |
the United States of America
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Total number of humps of 1 Bactrian camel & 2 dromedaries |
(Les: What is 5?) ... (Alex: The Bactrian has two humps; the dromedary has one.)
4
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A primary food type along with proteins & carbohydrates, they help the body prevent viral infections |
(Barbara: What are vitamins?)
fats
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Milton said this of those "who only stand & wait" |
they also serve
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Russian leader who said, "The capitalists will sell us... the rope with which we will hang them" |
(Chris: Who was uh, Stalin?) (Barbara: Who is Khrushchev?)
Lenin
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A googol is the number written as 1 followed by this many zeroes |
(Chris: What is 9?)
100
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King James I gave this title to George Calvert, founder of Maryland |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Lord Baltimore
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There are 2 types of vitamins, fat-soluble & this kind |
water-soluble
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Coleridge character who cries, "Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink" |
the Ancient Mariner
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Pres. who said the Americas "...are not to be considered as subjects for future colonization" |
(James) Monroe
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1.73 is the approximate square root of this number |
3
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The only 1 of 13 colonies established by Swedes |
Delaware
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Made 5 years before "Psycho", this French suspense film scared audiences out of the bathtub |
(Les: What is Repulsion)
Diabolique
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Starches are complex forms of these simple carbohydrates |
(Les: Amino acids. What are amino acids?) ... (Alex: With about a minute to go in the game.)
sugars
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Concludes this Browning verse, "The larks's on the wing; the snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven--" |
(Alex: Absolutely right and you ran the category--brilliant performance.) [Applause]
All's right with the world!
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"We should keep the Panama Canal: after all, we stole it fair & square", said this Cal. senator |
(S.I.) Hayakawa
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The next number in the series of 1, 3, 6, 10, ____ |
15
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