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This continent is south of the island of New Guinea, across the Torres Strait |
Australia
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St. Genevieve, patroness of this city, ran a Frankish blockade up the Seine to bring its people food |
Paris
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Before the war this Confederate general led a party of Marines that captured John Brown at Harper's Ferry |
(Robert) Lee
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Established about 1910, these schools usually cover the 7th. 8th & 9th grades |
junior high schools
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A play called "The Man Who Shot Lincoln" is told from the viewpoint of this man's brother Edwin |
(Linda: Who is Booth?) (Alex: Be more specific.)
John Wilkes Booth
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The narrator of his story "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a victim of the Spanish Inquisition |
(Edgar Allan) Poe
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This German town has a house built in 1602 named for der rattenfanger of the city |
Hamelin
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He is the patron of Boy Scouts as well as of England |
St. George
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The First & Second Battles of Manassas were known by this name in the North |
Bull Run
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In 1874 this state's supreme court ruled that the city of Kalamazoo could pay for public high schools |
Michigan
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In April 1992 Jessica Lange made her Broadway debut as Blanche DuBois in this play |
A Streetcar Named Desire
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In Gustave Flaubert's story "Herodias", this woman dances at Antipas' table to get a "head" |
Salomé
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First settled by Scottish immigrants, the city of New Glasgow is in this Canadian province |
Nova Scotia
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After Pope Leo XIII directed her to "Go west", St. Frances Cabrini settled in this country |
the United States
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6 Union soldiers who helped capture this Rebel locomotive became the 1st Medal of Honor winners in 1863 |
(Mark: What is the Congressional Medal of Honor?)
The General
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This city's Latin School, opened in 1635, was the 1st secondary school in the colonies |
(Beth: What is Massachusetts?)
Boston
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In 1985 "Lillian", a one-woman show about this playwright, opened at the Kennedy Center |
Lillian Hellman
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It's the color in the title of the first Sherlock Holmes story |
scarlet
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The Giovi Pass in this mountain range connects Genoa & Milan |
(Linda: What are the Pennines?) (Mark: What are the Alps?) ... (Alex: The Pennines are in England.)
the Apennines
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In art the emblem of Saint Agnes is this animal, agnus in Latin |
(Beth: What is sheep?) (Mark: What is a cow?)
a lamb
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On September 17, 1862 about 22,000 men were casualties at the battle near this Maryland creek |
Antietam
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This educator opened her first nursery school in a slum district of Rome in 1907 |
(Maria) Montessori
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This play about 3 southern sisters earned Beth Henley the 1981 Pulitzer |
Crimes of the Heart
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In other words this James Joyce collection could be called' "People Who Live in Ireland's Capital" |
Dubliners
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This Caribbean island is the smallest of France's overseas departments |
(Beth: What is French Guiana?)
Martinique
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This treacherous Spanish-Italian family produced a saint, the great-grandson of Pope Alexander VI |
(Mark: Who are the Medicis?)
the Borgias
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1 of 4 states that seceded after the fall of Fort Sumter on April 13, 1861 |
(Beth: What is South Carolina?)
(1 of) North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas & Virginia
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In 1856 Mrs. Carl Schurz founded the 1st of this type of school in the U.S. in Watertown, Wisconsin |
a kindergarten
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The one-act "Waiting for Lefty" was this playwright's first theatrical success |
(Clifford) Odets
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Her short story collection "The Company she keeps" appeared in 1942, 21 years before "The Group" |
Mary McCarthy
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