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The name of this Central American country means "savior" |
El Salvador
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With this middle name, Steve Allen should have been born on February 14th, not December 26th |
Valentine
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In the preface to "Major Barbara" he wrote, "The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty |
George Bernard Shaw
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When you multiply you get a product; when you divide you get this |
a quotient
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In 1924 this Ford auto sold for an all-time low price: $260 |
the Model T
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"Autumn Sonata" was the only film this Virgo actress made with fellow Swede, Ingmar Bergman |
Ingrid Bergman
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When founded in 1537, this capital city was named Our Lady of the Assumption |
Asunción (Paraguay)
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It's Texas billionaire Henry Perot's middle name |
Ross
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Walt Whitman described this as the babe of the vegetation |
(David: What are flowers?) (Alex: Oh, sorry. If you thought of Leaves of [*] that might have given it to you; he was referring, of course, to [*].)
grass
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A line that divides another line or angle into two equal parts is called this |
a bisector
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In April 1926, members of this literary club received their first selection |
the Book of the Month Club
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This Virgo reigned over "Your Show of Shows", not the Roman Empire |
(Adrianna: Who is... uh, Jack Paar?)
Sid Caesar
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In 1961 JFK created the Alliance for this, to aid Latin American countries financially |
the Alliance for Progress
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This educator's middle initial stood for Taliaferro |
(David: I'm sure I'll know it when you tell me, but I haven't a clue.)
Booker Taliaferro Washington
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At the end of this Poe story the Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies |
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
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It's the next number in the sequence 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 |
(Mike: What is 19?) (David: Uh... 17.) ... (Alex: It's a Fibonacci progression, apparently; you add the last two numbers together.) [David's signaling device malfunctioned making it look he had rung in when he had not intended to reply to the clue. Alex later awarded David's $600 back, and still later explained that Mike's signaling device had become internally unscrewed through mechanical wear.]
21
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2 of the 4 U.S. presidents who served during the 1920s |
(2 of) Harding, Coolidge (Wilson or Hoover)
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This Virgo created Lady Chatterley who was far from virginal |
D.H. Lawrence
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Traditionally drunk through a straw from a gourd, this is Argentina's national beverage |
mate
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Robert F. Kennedy & Darryl F. Zanuck shared this middle name |
Francis
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Washington Irving wrote they he had an "aversion to all kinds of profitable labor" |
Rip Van Winkle
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Term for the pair of numbers you need to plot a point on a graph |
coordinates
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This 1920s term described a girl who wore her boots unfastened, so they made noise when she walked |
a flapper
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Howard Hawks' wife discovered this Virgo on a magazine cover; she became a star in "To Have and Have Not" |
(Alex: Less than a minute to go.)
(Lauren) Bacall
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Rainfall is unknown in some parts of this Chilean desert |
the Atacama
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It was the middle name of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet William Williams |
Carlos
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In Owen Wister's "The Virginian" this word follows, "When you call me that" |
smile
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Term for a triangle which has no equal sides |
(Adrianna: What is isosceles?)
scalene
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After an 8-year break the Olympic games were held in this Belgian port city |
Antwerp
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The character E.K. Hornbeck in "Inherit the Wind" was inspired by this Virgo journalist from Baltimore |
H.L. Mencken
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