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The principal muscle used in breathing |
the diaphragm
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The Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, & Chickasaw tribes were all moved from the S.E. to what is now this state |
Oklahoma
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Nobody wanted to be caught dead there, so area between forward & rear trenches was called this |
no man's land
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On a weather map of the Sahara, an "S" would stand for this in the air |
(Frank: What is a desert?)
sand
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Conducting only from memory, Eugene Ormandy led this city's orchestra from 1938-80 |
Philadelphia
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In 1200, troops of this country used skis at the Battle of Oslo |
(Frank: What is Sweden?)
Norway
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The top vertebra, which holds up the head, is named after this mythological Greek known for hold-ups |
(Richard: What is the cervical vertebra?)
Atlas
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"A majority of the Creek & Cherokee tribes backed this side in the Revolutionary War |
(Alex: Right, we've got less than a minute to go in the round.)
the British
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When this country declared war on Germany in April 1917, it didn't have a single combat aircraft |
the USA
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Weather phenomenon in title of song used for presidential entrances |
(Alex: Yes, "[*] To The Chief".)
hail
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E.M. Forester used the title of a Walt Whitman poem for this 1924 novel |
"A Passage to India"
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The name's the same for both of these championships, sought by soccer teams & Alpine skiers |
the World Cup
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Of more, less or about the same as on sea level, amount of blood people living in high altitudes have |
(Frank: Less.)
more
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In its heyday this tribe sent out up to 75 medicine show companies, probably pushing their "Joy Juice" |
Kickapoo
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After World War I, this empire was divided among 7 nations |
(Cliff: What is [*] or the Holy Roman Empire?) [Originally accepted as correct; reversed prior to reveal of the Final Jeopardy! clue]
Austria-Hungary
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High velocity winds occurring 4.7-7.5 miles above ground, not well known till WWII pilots flew thru them |
the jet stream
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Architectural anomaly in common to the Pompidou Center in Paris & Beverly Center in Los Angeles |
(Frank: Uh, what is a trompe l'oeil?)
escalators on the outside
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At Venice, a gondola is a boat; at Vail, it's this |
the tram which takes you up to the top of the mountain (ski lift)
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The smallest human muscle is located here, along with the tiniest bones |
(Richard: What is the finger?)
the ear
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Giving almost all their land to the gov't in 1854, they got a Nebraska city named for them "insuring" fame |
(Cliff: Oh, that's where my dad's from; if I blew that, I'd be in trouble.)
the Omahas
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In 1915, Germany 1st employed this now illegal weapon at the 2nd Battle of Ypres |
poison gas
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Gray rain cloud extending over entire sky, named from Latin for "cloud" |
(Frank: What is cirrus?)
a nimbus
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Among the 9 paintings stolen in October 1985 "theft of the century" was his "Impression: Sunrise" |
(Cliff: Who is Renoir?) (Frank: Who is Matisse?)
Claude Monet
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According to the title, Robert Redford was one in 1969 |
a downhill racer
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An offshoot of the Shoshoni, this tribe was said to be more at home on a horse than on the ground |
[The end-of-round signal sounds and Cliff raises hands triumphantly.] [Yes, Shosoni was the alternate spelling used.]
the Comanche
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The other person assassinated along with Archduke Ferdinand |
his wife the Archduchess
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Usually starting off coast of Peru, this "childish" condition may bring years of climatic change |
(Cliff: What is [*] or "the child"?)
El Niño
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