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After leaving the White House, she helped plan her husband's presidential library in Atlanta |
Rosalynn Carter
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It's the language of instruction at the University of Ste.-Anne in Nova Scotia |
French
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Jerome K. Jerome wrote, "It is impossible to enjoy idling... unless one has plenty of" this "to do" |
(Bill: What is nothing?)
work
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A former home of this "Roots" author in Henning, Tenn. is now a state historic site |
Alex Haley
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These officials appointed by the pope rank second to him in authority & dignity |
cardinals
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In "Il piccolo Marat", terror reigns in this capital city after the murder of Marat |
Paris
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She missed her husband's 1797 inauguration because she was nursing his sick mother in Massachusetts |
(Sally: Who is John Adams?) (Alex: No.) (Sally: Ab--) ... (Alex: Sally spoke too quickly there.)
Abigail Adams
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The Grouse Mountain Skyride takes visitors 3,700 feet above this British Columbia city |
(Alex: Less than a minute.)
Vancouver
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Francis Bacon wrote of "the wisdom of" these animals,"that shed tears when they would, devour" |
crocodiles
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In 1994 this New Jersey-born boxer, the oldest man to win the heavyweight title, died at age 80 |
Jersey Joe Walcott
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In the Sahara these Islamic houses of worship may be no more than a half circle of stones |
mosques
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Puccini set his opera "The Witches" in this dark, wooded area of Germany |
the Black Forest
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She was twice named to the list of "The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America" |
Hillary Clinton
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Old Wives Lake lies southwest of Regina in this province, & that's not an old wives' tale |
Saskatchewan
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Ralph Waldo Emerson defined it as "a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered" |
a weed
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In 1946 Judge William H. Hastie became the 1st Black governor of this U.S. possession in the Caribbean |
the Virgin Islands
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This religious movement first received its name at the Diet of Speyer in 1529 |
Protestantism
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This opera based on a Herman Melville book is set on the H.M.S. Indomitable in 1797 |
Billy Budd
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Besides Frances Cleveland, she was the only other presidential widow to remarry |
Jackie Kennedy Onassis
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A Micmac Indian legend says this small island province was the favorite island of a god named Glooscap |
Prince Edward Island
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Boswell's "Life of Johnson" quotes this American's "Man is a tool-making animal" |
Ben Franklin
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When Malcolm X joined the Black Muslims, he dropped this last name |
Little
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It's the chief form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet |
(Sally: What is Shinto?)
Lamaism
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This 1850 opera famous for its wedding march is set in the Antwerp area in the 10th century |
Lohengrin
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Although she never wrote her memoirs, she did write a book about her ancestors with son Kermit |
(Sally: Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?)
Edith (the wife of Teddy) Roosevelt
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The Royal Tyrrell Museum, the world's leading dinosaur museum, is in this westernmost prairie province |
Alberta
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In "Don Juan" Byron wrote this is sweet "especially to women" |
(Sally: What is love?) (Bill: What is success?)
revenge
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She wrote the poems read by Janet Jackson in Poetic Justice" & also appeared in the film |
Maya Angelou
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Dating from between 1500 & 500 B.C., they're the oldest & most sacred books of Hinduism |
the Vedas
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Like many other operas, including "Don Giovanni", Massenet's "Le Cid" takes place in this Spanish city |
(Sally: What is Granada?)
Seville
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