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Their Capitoline Hill was the original Capitol Hill |
Rome
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N.Y. team that lost a record 120 games in its 1st season |
the Mets
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Brief story with a moral whose main characters often are animals who act & talk like people |
a fable
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Some filefish can chew in their throats, since they have these located there |
their teeth
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In 1975-77, while Raul Castro was Gov. of Ariz., another Raul Castro was #2 man in this country |
(Alex: Yes, Fidel's brother.)
Cuba
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In "Little Miss Muffet", it's what Miss Muffet was eating with her curds |
W-H-E-Y
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Chinese emperor Shih Hwang-ti of the 3rd cent. B.C. ordered works of Confucius burned & this built |
the Great Wall
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In baseball, a "doughnut" is a real sinker, since it's a weight used on this for practice |
the bat
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A play ending in disaster, or losing Final Jeopardy! by failing to write response in question form |
a tragedy
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Time-Life says only about 1 in 10 million sea creatures escapes this fate |
(Suzanne: What is [*]...) (Alex: Correct.) (Suzanne: before hatching?) (Alex: That's it--whoa!) (Suzanne: Sorry.) (Alex: What did you say?) (Suzanne: I finished it with "before hatching".) (Alex: Oh, I'm sorry, that is wrong.)
being eaten
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Since this country has the world's lowest suicide rate, its king, Hussein, must be doing something right |
Jordan
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This African anteater is 1 of the first entries in English language dictionaries |
A-A-R-D-V-A-R-K
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World's most extensive archaeological dig is still being conducted at this ancient Italian site |
Pompeii
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Even though this "Bean Town" batter hit .406 in 1941, he wasn't league MVP |
Ted Williams
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From Latin for "kidnapping", it's the stealing of another's ideas & using them as your own |
plagiarism
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Barnacles were once thought to be generated spontaneously from these parts of sea birds |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
feathers
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Jacques Chirac currently serves as both his country's prime minister & mayor of this city |
Paris
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The last name of President Reagan's chief of staff |
R-E-G-A-N
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In 323 B.C., age 32, he died of exhaustion at Babylon |
Alexander the Great
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With 208, this Cleveland pitching great holds the record for issuing most walks in a season |
Bob Feller
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An epistolary novel such as "The Color Purple", is a novel written in this form |
letters
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For 3rd time in Spanish history the Bourbons returned to the throne in 1975 with crowning of this king |
(Alex: We've less than a minute to go.)
Juan Carlos
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Spelling of the following song's title:
"Took a walk and passed your house late last night / All the shades were pulled and drawn way down tight /From within, the dim light cast..." |
"S-I-L-H-O-U-E-T-T-E-S"
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Seafaring people who passed their alphabet on to the Greeks &, eventually, to us |
the Phoenicians
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2 of 5 hall of famers consecutively struck out by Carl Hubbell in 1934 All-Star Game |
(2 of) Jimmie Foxx & Lou Gehrig (Babe Ruth, Al Simmons or Joe Cronin)
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The rhyming scheme of the Elizabethan form of this poetry style is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG |
a sonnet
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According to its constitution, this country's supreme leader is the faqih, an Islamic scholar |
Iran
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French for "outside of work", it's an appetizer served before a meal |
(Alex: We would have accepted it in the singular or plural form there.)
H-O-R-S D'-O-E-U-V-R-E(-S)
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