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In 1977 this prime minister of India resigned |
(Brian: Who is Nehru?)
Indira Gandhi
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Every July the town of Pictou holds a carnival to honor this crustacean |
a lobster
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William Gillette's 1895 spy drama "Secret Service" is set in Richmond at the end of this war |
the Civil War
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The highest classification the State Dept. would tell us about, it's more secret than "secret" |
top secret
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From the 1850s to the 1920s, many Americans studied at l'École des Beaux-Arts in this city |
Paris
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Baroness von Suttner, a pacifist, encouraged the creation of this prize & won it herself in 1905 |
a Nobel Peace Prize
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The Manchu Dynasty in China made it a requirement that Chinese men wear this |
(Bruce: What are pigtails, [*]?)
queues
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During WWI & WWII this capital city was Canada's most important naval base |
Halifax
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MacConnachy Square is the heart of this enchanted Scottish village |
(Bruce: What is Glocca Morra?)
Brigadoon
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This branch of the armed forces falls under the Transportation Dept. in peacetime & the Navy in time of war |
the Coast Guard
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His Imperial Palace Hotel was one of the few buildings in Tokyo left undamaged after the 1923 quake |
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Derisive epithet used to describe some powerful American capitalists of the late 1800s |
robber barons
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Thutmosis was the first Egyptian ruler buried in this spot in Western Thebes |
the Valley of the Kings
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You can take a ferry ride from Nova Scotia to this U.S. state |
Maine
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This John Webster play, first produced around 1613, takes place in Rome, Milan & Malfi |
(Philip: Who is the, uh, uh, Jew of Malta?)
The Duchess of Malfi
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Term for a diplomatic official assigned to an embassy in a technical capacity |
an attaché
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The Palace of Governors in this state capital was built of adobe in 1610 |
(Bruce: What is New Mexico?)
Santa Fe
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5 sons of the founder of this banking dynasty became barons of the Austrian Empire |
the Rothschilds
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Devil's Island was the best known of many penal colonies in this territory |
French Guiana
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Dikes make it possible to farm the marshland created by the world's highest tides in this bay |
the (Bay of) Fundy
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This city is the setting for Harold Pinter's plays "The Caretaker" & "The Homecoming" |
London
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The Forest Service is an agency of this department, not the Department of the Interior |
the Department of Agriculture
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The 36 columns of the Lincoln Memorial stand for these |
(Alex: The time of Lincoln's death.)
the 36 states in 1865
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After serving with the Russians against the Turks, this German retired & became famous for his tall tales |
Baron Munchausen
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He bankrupted his country & fell from power in 1955; in 1973 he was made president again |
(Juan) Perón
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Before it was called Nova Scotia, early French settlers called it this |
Acadia
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The town in "Our Town" is in this New England state |
(Alex: Grover's Corners is in [*].)
New Hampshire
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Unemployment insurance was one of the provisions of this 1935 act |
the Social Security Act
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James Renwick built NYC's St. Patrick's Cathedral in this architectural style |
Gothic
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This poet who wrote "Idylls of the King" wasn't a king, but he was a baron |
(Alfred, Lord) Tennyson
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