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As First Lord of the Admiralty, this future British prime minister took the blame for the debacle at Gallipoli |
Churchill
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Dante's "Inferno" placed him in limbo while Cassius & Brutus dwelt in the lowest pit of Hell |
Caesar
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The United States handles its diplomatic affairs through this Cabinet department |
the State Department
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Among the sections of this Handel work are "His Yoke is Easy" & "He Shall Feed His Flock" |
"The Messiah"
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This Italian astronomer was born three days before Michelangelo died |
Galileo
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Our 12th president, Zachary Taylor, was the 7th president born in this state |
Virginia
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Billy Mitchell directed a 1918 attack against Saint-Mihiel by some 1,500 of these machines |
airplanes
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Though she has an illegitimate child & kills a man, the hearty tale about her is subtitled A Pure Woman |
Tess
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Following an appeal by this American, Syria released Navy pilot Robert O. Goodman on January 3, 1984 |
Jesse Jackson
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The Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus & Benedictus & the Agnus Dei are five parts of these compositions |
(Sheila: I have no idea.) (Alex: You want to take a guess at it? Say something. No? That's unfortunate.)
masses
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For discovering radioactivity, Antoine Becquerel shared the 1903 Nobel Physics Prize with them |
the Curies
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Poet William Blake spent most of his life in this capital city, his birthplace |
London
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On August 4, 1914, 30,000 Germans attacked Liège despite this country's neutrality |
Belgium
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According to the title of the Melville tale, Bartleby was one of these |
a scrivener
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Jefferson held this rank when he represented us in France; the U.S. didn't have ambassadors until 1893 |
minister
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An ordained priest, this "Four Seasons" composer taught at a Venetian girls' orphanage for many years |
Vivaldi
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To continue his own work, this developer of the smallpox vaccine turned down a post with Captain Cook |
(Edward) Jenner
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This stripper made her first nude appearance when she was born in Seattle in 1914 |
Gypsy Rose Lee
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The U.S. declared war on Germany April 6th, 1917, but not on this country until December 7th |
(Sheila: What is Japan?) (Burt: What is Turkey?)
Austria-Hungary
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Title hero of a 1928 Virginia Woolf novel or a tourist city in central Florida |
Orlando
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Of 2, 4, or 5 years, the length of the UN secretary general's renewable term |
[Alex read the clue as "undersecretary".] ... (Alex: I read it incorrectly. I should have said the length of the U.N. secretary general's term. I'm sorry if I confused you. Obviously, I didn't confuse Bert enough.)
5 years
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He spent 17 years in the Russian navy & the sea figures prominently in his "Sadko" & "Scheherazade" |
Rimsky-Korsakov
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In 1789, this French scientist published the first modern chemistry textbook |
(Tom: Who is Pasteur?) (Sheila: Who is Agassiz?)
Antoine Lavoisier
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The artist Sir Anthony Van Dyke was born in this Flemish city, one of the world's busiest ports, in 1599 |
(Sheila: What is Rotterdam?) ... (Alex: I thought Bert might want to ring in on this one because the correct response, & he mentioned it before, what is [*]?)
Antwerp
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In 1916, Charles succeeded this man as Habsburg emperor |
Franz Joseph
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This Dickens tale may have been inspired by the mysteries of his friend Wilkie Collins |
(Burt: What is The Moonstone?) (Alex: You selected a work by Wilkie Collins instead of the work by Charles Dickens, and [*] is what we were going for.)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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In 1985, after 28 years as Soviet foreign minister, Andrei Gromyko was replaced by him |
Eduard Shevardnadze
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Sweden's Carl Wilhelm Scheele & this 18th century Englishman are both credited with discovering oxygen |
(Burt: Who is Fleming?) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Joseph Priestley
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John James Audubon was born to a French father & Creole mother in what is now this Caribbean country |
Haiti
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