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David Farragut sailed into the Mississippi River in April 1862 & captured Natchez, Baton Rouge & this city |
New Orleans
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The brothers who produced the game Monopoly |
(Alex: Spider-Man.)
Parker
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In Euripides' home Protagoras read a controversial treatise saying these might not exist |
gods
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Of the family Trochilidae, they're the smallest variety of birds |
a hummingbird
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After seeing Verdi's "Aida" he decided opera was to be his forte & came up with "La boheme" & "Tosca" among others |
(Giacomo) Puccini
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Young lovers know it's from a middle English word for "run away" |
elope
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This 1,600-mile-long mountain system divided the Civil War's eastern & western theaters |
the Appalachians
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A nation's flag |
(Alex: Bruce Banner, the Hulk.)
Banner
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Of the sheep, the pig or the bactrian camel, the first to be domesticated |
(Dale: What is the camel?)
the sheep
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The smell given to natural gas is similar to rotting meat, so linemen look for these circling as a sign of gas line leaks |
vultures
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Arthur Sullivan in 1856 was the first person to receive the scholarship named for this "Bridal March" composer |
(Felix) Mendelssohn
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Named for the pioneer who settled the area in 1846, this city is home to the University of Oregon |
Eugene
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Widely used by both sides, this rifle shares its name with the Massachusetts city where it was made |
(Lyle: What is the Plymouth?)
Springfield
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A state university in Detroit, Michigan |
(Alex: Bruce Wayne, Batman.)
Wayne
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This early ancestor of European man was named for the French cave site where the bones were first found |
Cro-Magnon man
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This flightless bird's name may be from the Welsh for "white head" |
penguin
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For the ballet "Coppelia" Leo Delibes used "The Sandman", one of the "Tales of" this author |
E.T.A. Hoffmann
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To free from bondage, as the 13th amendment did for slaves |
emancipate
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On February 3, 1865 Lincoln met with Confederate leaders at a conference named for this Virginia site |
(Lyle: What is Appomattox?)
Hampton Roads
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An English county of 2,300 square miles |
(Alex: Clark Kent, Superman.)
Kent
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Now in white & black species, this animal had a woolly version during the last Ice Age |
(Lyle: What is a mammoth?)
rhinoceros
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There doesn't seem to be a patron saint of hawks, but David of Wales is the patron of these birds |
doves
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In 1874 Ibsen asked Edvard Grieg to compose incidental music for this play |
(Emily: What is The Doll House?) (Dale: What is A Doll's House?)
Peer Gynt
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This fencing sword has a bell-shaped guard & a triangular blade 35 inches long |
an épée
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This Confederate vice president referred to Jefferson Davis as "weak and vacillating" |
Alexander Stephens
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A suburb of Providence, Rhode Island |
(Alex: Lamont Cranston, the Shadow.)
Cranston
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Ur was a part of this ancient civilization in Mesopotamia that was the first to develop a system of writing |
Sumeria
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Bird brains know the fossils of this early bird were first found in Solnhofen, Bavaria in the 1860s |
Archaeopteryx
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Italian for "a whim", Strauss used it as an opera title, Paganini for a violin study |
a capriccio
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Abu Dhabi is one; Dubai is another |
an emirate
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