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As a boy this first secretary worked for a trading firm on St. Croix |
Alexander Hamilton
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His mother placed him in the reeds when he was 3 months old & too big to hide |
Moses
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The name of this temperature scale means 100 degrees |
(David: What is Celsius?) (Stephanie: What is Kelvin?) (Bob: What is Fahrenheit?) ... (Alex: Not Celsius, although they are the same.)
the centigrade scale
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This Canadian capital was originally called Bytown after Lt. Col. John By of the Royal Engineers |
Ottawa
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In 1869, due to the success of "Little Women", she wrote, "Paid up all the debts, thank, the Lord!" |
(Louisa May) Alcott
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It often precedes paint, pencil & monkey |
grease
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William Harris Crawford served under James Madison & this successor |
James Monroe
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On the 13th trip around Jericho, he told his people to add their shouting to the trumpets |
Joshua
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It's the smallest particle of a compound that has the properties of the compound |
a molecule
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From 1453 to 1922, it was the name of the capital of the Ottoman Empire |
(David: What is Byzantium?) (Bob: What is Istanbul?)
Constantinople
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She began writing about Chinese life for U.S. magazines in 1923, 7 years before her first novel |
(Alex: We've got a minute to go.)
(Pearl) Buck
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This American form of religious music combines elements of spirituals & jazz, & that's the "truth" |
gospel
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An antitrust law is named for this man who was Secretary of the Treasury from 1877 to 1881 |
Sherman
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He said, "Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell" |
Samson
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O.C. Marsh, a discoverer of Pterodactyl fossils, became the USA's first professor of this science in 1866 |
paleontology
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This British port on the Mersey River has been called "The City of Ships" |
(Alex: Yes, home of The Beatles.)
Liverpool
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Her 1986 book "Letters to Judy" was a compilation of letters sent to her from young readers |
Judy Blume
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This yellow state flower of Nebraska & Kentucky generally doesn't cause hay fever as many believe |
goldenrod
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William Pitt Fessenden, Treasury Secretary in 1864, helped found this political party in the 1850s |
(David: Who are the Whigs?) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
the Republicans
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The 57 of these marked as "mizmor" were meant to be accompanied by a string instrument |
the Psalms
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An anode is the negative electrode of a dry cell battery; this is the positive electrode |
a cathode
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This capital located almost on the equator has the oldest art school in South America |
(Alex: [*], Ecuador, yes.)
Quito
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This Ohio native won a National Book Critics Circle Award for her 1977 novel "Song of Solomon" |
Toni Morrison
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Its a lamp with a curved, flexible shaft that resembles part of a certain bird's anatomy |
a gooseneck lamp
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This son of David was trapped in the limbs of an oak tree when he was killed by Joab |
Absalom
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This lightest of all metals was discovered by Swedish chemist Johann Arfvedson in 1817 |
(Stephanie: What is aluminum?) (David: What is magnesium?) (Bob: What is titanium?) (Alex: No harm, no foul on that one.)
lithium
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In 1661 this most populous Indian city was given to England's King Charles II as part of a dowry |
Bombay
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Her 1946 work "Brewsie and Willie" was about the young U.S. soldiers who visited her in Paris |
(Alex: Stephanie?)
Gertrude Stein
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These lizards that can walk upside-down on ceilings are non-venomous |
geckos
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