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In song, it's Chicago's "Great Street" where "they do things they don't do on Broadway" |
State Street
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With a language related to no other on Earth, they've been in the Arctic as long as Romans in Rome |
the Eskimos
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Fields said his epitaph should read, "On the whole, I'd rather be in..." this city |
Philadelphia
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Taylor Caldwell's book "The Earth is the Lord's" is a romance about this military Mongol |
Genghis Khan
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It's the closest planet to the Sun named after a Roman god |
Mercury
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In music, it means "in rapid tempo"; in magic, it precedes "chango" |
presto
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New York City's Bowery got its name from this Dutchman's farm |
Peter Stuyvesant
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Of Latin, Greek, or Sanskrit, language spoken by the most people today |
(Jeff: What is Sanskrit?)
Greek
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Proverb Fields followed up with "Then quit. There's no use being a fool about it." |
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again
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It's the closest planet to the Sun that has a natural satellite |
Earth
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It's salted ham, cured by drying & sliced paper-thin for serving |
prosciutto
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Dotted with mansions, D.C.'s Embassy Row is on this avenue named for a New England state |
(Betty: What is Vermont Avenue?)
Massachusetts Avenue
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Japanese was 1st written using the symbols of this language |
the Chinese language
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Fields began his stage career with this type of act |
a juggler
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Galileo 1st thought this planet was made up of 3 spheres, but his theory didn't ring true |
Saturn
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In this, Terry the Dog's most famous role, Miss Gulch takes him to be put to sleep |
Toto
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In 1961, part of this city's Stalinallee was renamed Karl-Marx-Allee |
(Jeff: What is Moscow?)
East Berlin
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This Romance language is the official language of Mozambique & Angola |
(Betty: What is France--French?)
Portuguese
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From 1915 to 1921, Fields was a star in several editions of this Broadway variety show |
the Ziegfeld Follies
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Evelyn Waugh's novel "Helena" tells the story of St. Helena, who was this "Great" emperor's mom |
(Betty: Who is Alexander?)
Constantine the Great
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On Mars this expands & contracts according to the season |
the polar ice cap
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This alliance, founded September 8, 1954, disbanded June 30, 1977 |
(Ron: What is NATO?) ... (Alex: NATO is still going strong.)
SEATO
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Memphis street most associated with composer W.C. Handy, "Father of the Blues" |
Beale Street
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Bahasa, a form of this language, is the official language of Indonesia |
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go.)
Malay
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It's what the "W" & "C" stand for |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
William Claude
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"Inventor of the historical novel" whose 1st novel in his famous series was called "Waverley" |
Sir Walter Scott
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Named for outer planets, these elements, atomic numbers 93 & 94, were both discovered in 1940 |
(Jeff: What are uranium & plutonium?)
neptunium & plutonium
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She's the muse of lyric or love poetry |
[Applause for Betty running the category] (Alex: Nice going, boy, look at that Betty, you got $4,700...) [Betty fans herself.]
Erato
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