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Arriving in 1947, Edith Ronne & Jennie Darlington were the 1st U.S. women to spend a year on this continent |
Antarctica
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This state's largest cities lie within its Bluegrass Region |
Kentucky
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Kerri Strug & the rest of the women from this 1996 Olympic team appeared on boxes of Wheaties cereal |
gymnastics
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The crack, chisel & sledge types of these tools are useful in the field |
hammers
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In 1942 the Selective Service Act was changed to make this the minimum draft age |
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This part of an egg contains the cholesterol |
yolk
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Introduced in 1832, the John Mason, New York City's first street car, was powered by these |
horses
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This state's Upper Peninsula has 2 land regions: the Superior Upland & the Central Lowland |
Michigan
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Some know her as "Flo Jo", others call her Dee Dee; her real name is Delorez |
Florence Griffith Joyner
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It's the canine nickname for an amateur geologist |
rockhound
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Its New York City headquarters was dedicated October 24, 1949 |
United Nations
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Tradition says an Indian monk named Bodhidharma introduced this form of Buddhism into China |
Zen
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In 1907 Anna Jarvis proposed wearing a carnation on the second Sunday in May to honor these people |
mothers
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Some ocean-going vessels can sail up the Connecticut River as far north as this capital |
Hartford
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In 1988 Golf Magazine named this Mexican-American "Woman Golfer of the Decade" |
Nancy Lopez
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Diluted in water, this chemical, HCI, can be used to dissolve calcite deposits on specimens |
hydrochloric acid
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A believer in Gandhi's nonviolence philosophy, A.J. Muste helped found C.O.R.E., this group |
Congress of Racial Equality
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Its students are nicknamed Elis, after the school's benefactor |
Yale
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He introduced his Grape-Nuts in 1897 & followed that with "Elijah's Manna", which became Toasties |
(Lyn: Who is Kellogg?)
Charles William Post
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The parishes in this state's East Gulf Coastal Plain are called the "Florida Parishes" |
Louisiana
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A top-ranked tennis star, this Argentine player called it quits at 26 in October 1996 |
Gabriela Sabatini
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This finishing process can be done by hand with silicon carbide or with a tumbling machine |
polishing
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This PM was Time Magazine's Man of the Year for the first & last years of the 1940s, 1940 & 1949 |
Winston Churchill
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In Saint-Saens' "Danse macabre", this instrument is made to sound like bones rattling |
xylophone
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The first continuous one of these in the Senate ran for over a week in March 1841 |
fillibuster
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Cadillac Mountain, the highest peak on the Eastern Seaboard, lies in this Maine national park |
Acadia National Park
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In 1993 she became the first woman jockey to win the Belmont Stakes or any of the U.S. Triple Crown races |
(Alex: We have about a minute left.)
Julie Krone
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A mineral has this property if it glows under ultraviolet light |
fluorescence
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On August 3, 1948 Whittaker Chambers testified before this committee |
HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)
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About 60 miles below this river's confluence with the Linyanti River, it forms Victoria Falls |
Zambezi River
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