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After becoming the first king of this Iberian nation in 1139, Afonso I freed it from Moorish control |
(Ken: Less than a minute to go.)
Portugal
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This feral character raised by jungle animals originally appeared in Rudyard Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" |
(Rhone: What is Tarzan?) ... (Ken: Yes, from The Jungle Book.)
Mowgli
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It's an official language in Pretoria |
Afrikaans
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In "Wild", she plays Cheryl, who deals with personal tragedy by hiking the Pacific Crest Trail |
(Reese) Witherspoon
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Hormonal influences make this headache disorder twice as common in women as in men |
migraine
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Abbeville, or "Priest's Town", is the seat of Vermilion Parish, on the Vermilion River, in this state |
Louisiana
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He's also considered the liberator of Peru |
Bolívar
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In a tale set in small-town Iowa, Peter Hedges asked, "What's eating" this guy |
Gilbert Grape
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The Arabic word suq is synonymous with this type of public market |
a bazaar
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In a 1942 film, a map shows a refugee path from Paris to Marseilles to Oran, then to this title place in North Africa |
Casablanca
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This inflammation & narrowing of airways is the most common chronic disease of children |
asthma
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Lee Kuan Yew was the first prime minister of this city-state & governed there for 30 years |
Singapore
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This "Good Earth" author wrote a very personal account of her daughter Carol in "The Child Who Never Grew" |
Pearl S. Buck
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Magnesium hydroxide & aluminum hydroxide are in this antacid |
Maalox
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As the "Stanley", Henry Stanley, in part of a 1939 movie title, Spencer Tracy explores Sub-Saharan Africa seeking this doctor |
(Carrie: What is Stanley and Livingstone?) ... (Ken: Sorry, Carrie, we were looking for the doctor, [*].)
David Livingstone
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You can reduce your risk of stroke, heart disease & this, also called high blood pressure, by limiting your salt intake |
hypertension
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A Vermilion line called sindoor in the part of a Hindu woman's hair signifies this |
(Carrie: What is caste?)
it means she's married
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Patriotic poet Ilia Chavchavadze is revered as the "Uncrowned King" & "Father of" this nation in the Caucasus Mountains |
Georgia
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Winner of a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship, Ibram X. Kendi authored "How to Be" this--you must confront inequities |
an Antiracist
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The Canaanites loved their double As, as in the name of this fertility god |
Baal
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Kirk Douglas turns up in the 1982 Aussie Western "The Man from" this river |
Snowy River
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Often found in home-canned foods, the bacterial toxins that cause this illness are among the most lethal substances known |
botulism
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A bird name that seems redundant, the vermilion this is found in the drier northern parts of Venezuela & Colombia |
the vermilion cardinal
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In 1957 Kwame Nkrumah led this West African nation to independence, one of the first to emerge from colonial control |
Ghana
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The title group discusses "Emma" in Chapter One of this novel by Karen Joy Fowler |
(Carrie: What is The Book Club?)
The Jane Austen Book Club
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In Indian cuisine, typically this is spinach & this paneer is spinach cooked with cheese |
saag
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"1492: Conquest of Paradise" starred this French actor as Christopher Columbus out to find a new route to Asia |
Gérard Depardieu
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Early supportive care & rehydration improve survival of this viral hemorrhagic fever named for a Central African river |
Ebola
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As in the work seen here, ancient artists got the pigment vermilion from cinnabar, the main ore of this metal |
mercury
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