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Reza Khan founded this country's Pahlavi Dynasty |
Iran
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Liszt & Borodin wrote variations on this short, quick piano tune that can be played with 2 fingers |
"Chopsticks"
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This Minnesota "Twin City" derives its name from a chapel built there in 1841 |
St. Paul
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In 1995 this organization that helps drinkers kick the habit celebrated its 60th anniversary |
Alcoholics Anonymous
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Most of this playwright's "As You Like It" is a dramatization of Thomas Lodge's novel "Rosalynde" |
Shakespeare
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During the first week of April 1896, this athletic extravaganza opened in Athens |
the Olympics
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From 1893 to 1914, this nationalist leader of India practiced law in South Africa |
Gandhi
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Corno Inglese is the Italian for this musical instrument |
the English horn
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Home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, it was settled & named by the father of a famous author |
Cooperstown
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In 1977 the American Foundation for Overseas Blind was renamed for this woman |
Helen Keller
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In this Arthur Miller play Willy Loman commits suicide for the insurance money |
Death of a Salesman
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The trading trail between the Mideast & the Far East was named this after a fabric |
the Silk Trail (Road)
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In the 1860s this French chemist showed that microbes could be killed by applying heat |
(Maria: Who is...)
(Louis) Pasteur
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This percussion instrument with tuned bars was once known as the strohfiedel, or "straw fiddle" |
the xylophone
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This Arizona city's name, Spanish for "table", refers to its location on flat land |
Mesa
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Organizations for students include the FFA, Future Farmers of America, & the FHA, which stands for this |
Future Homemakers of America
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A German actress persuaded him to write an ending to "A Doll's House" where Nora returns to her children |
Ibsen
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Ifs 1934 & 1959 Ecuador passed laws protecting wildlife on this Pacific island group |
the Galapagos Islands
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The Romans finally defeated this Carthaginian general at Zama in 202 B.C. |
Hannibal
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Donizetti said of "William Tell", "The first and last acts were written by" this composer; "the second by God!" |
Rossini
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Haakon, a county in South Dakota, was named by immigrants from this country, in honor of their king |
(Peter: What is Sweden?)
Norway
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Since 1947 this group aided by the Reserve Marines has distributed gifts to children at Christmas |
(Maria: What is the Salvation Army?)
Toys for Tots
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This author coined the word demi-monde to describe the world in his "La Dame aux Camelias" |
(Maria: Who is Molière?)
Alexandre Dumas (the son, fils)
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This Frenchman dubbed dismal areas on the Gulf of St. Lawrence "the land God gave to Cain" |
Jacques Cartier
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In 1513 this Tudor king led his army to victory over the French at the Battle of the Spurs |
Henry VIII
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"Virginia City" is a symphonic poem by this "Grand Canyon Suite" composer |
Grofé
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The name of this Iowa city refers to a meeting in 1804 between Indians & Lewis & Clark |
Council Bluffs
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Dedicated to helping "prisoners of conscience", it was awarded the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize |
Amnesty International
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John Osborne's play "The Entertainer" was written for this actor who played Archie Rice in it |
Laurence Olivier
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In this chemical process, a gas is added to an oil to change it to a solid |
(Peter: What is emulsification?)
hydrogenation
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