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On July 10, 1706 Virginia's Grace Sherwood, accused of this, was thrown into a river to see if she would float |
being a witch (practicing witchcraft)
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They clean floors, perform surgery & will go to Mars before people do |
(Girish: What are surgeons?)
robots
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This Dickens title orphan was given his name by Mr. Bumble |
Oliver Twist
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Andy Garcia was born in this island country but fled to nearby Miami with his family when he was 5 |
Cuba
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Not surprisingly, hotel administration is among the more popular fields of study at UNLV in this city |
Las Vegas
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In 1858, as a Senate hopeful in Illinois, he said, "Nobody has ever expected me to be president" |
Abraham Lincoln
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In January 1777 Baltimore's Mary Katherine Goddard was hired to print the first official copies of this |
Declaration of Independence
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Used in medicine, waste disposal & agriculture, it's the technology of manipulating organisms for human benefit |
bioengineering
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This author's "The Man Who Would Be King" has been called the perfect short story |
Rudyard Kipling
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This brother-in-law of Loretta Young was born in Mexico City, not on Fantasy Island |
(Alex: I love the way you say that!) (Arthur: Thank you!)
Ricardo Montalban
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The Prayer Tower is a landmark of this Tulsa university named for an evangelist |
Oral Roberts University
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Of Floyd Patterson he said, "I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on" |
(Girish: Who is Gene Tunney?)
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay)
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It took her a few attempts to get in to see Marat in order to kill him |
Charlotte Corday
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The "Hard-Edge" art movement of the 1960s emerged after the development of these quick-drying paints |
acrylics
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This John Bunyan work written as a dream was published in 2 parts: Part I in 1678 & Part II in 1684 |
The Pilgrim's Progress
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This Irish star of the film "Camelot" is also a writer; his thriller novel "Honor Bound" appeared in 1982 |
Richard Harris
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In 1924 Trinity College in Durham, North Carolina was renamed this, after a benefactor |
(Girish: What is Durham?)
Duke University
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"How can the 'consent of the governed' be given," she asked in 1873, "If the right to vote be denied?" |
Susan B. Anthony
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At the time Marie Antoinette lost her head, she was First Lady of the U.S. |
Martha Washington
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This company's C90 Supercomputer can perform 16 billion calculations per second |
(Girish: What is IBM?)
Cray Research Company
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Title novella of the Philip Roth collection that won the 1960 National Book Award |
(Sheri: What is Portnoy's Complaint?)
Goodbye, Columbus
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This Canadian comic appeared on "In Living Color" & in 2 Clint Eastwood films, "Pink Cadillac" & "The Dead Pool" |
Jim Carrey
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The Robert Frost Library is at this Massachusetts college co-founded by Emily Dickinson's grandfather |
Amherst
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This French revolutionary said, "Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible" |
Robespierre
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Kaga No Chiyo/ Who wrote this type of poem/ Was born in Japan |
Haiku
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The name of these 19th c. destroyers of textile machinery is applied to any technology skeptic |
Luddites
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"The 42nd Parallel" is the first novel in this John Dos Passos trilogy |
USA
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He must have been "Breathless" when he was elected president of the French Actors Union in 1963 |
(Sheri: Who is Alain Delon?) ... (Alex: Sheri, that was probably your second choice.)
Jean-Paul Belmondo
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South Carolina's Clemson University was named for the son-in-law of this VP who resigned in 1832 |
John C. Calhoun
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"There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it", said this Roman orator |
Cicero
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