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Like their teeny-tiny ice cube cousins, these "Titanic" frozen masses are made of fresh water |
icebergs
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Guinness says the longest sculpture in this medium was an 8,498' train made at Virginia Beach |
sand
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The "Trimline" telephone of 1968 was 1st model to feature push buttons here |
the headset (the handset)
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Cockney exclamation that's derived from the much stronger expression "God blind me" |
blimey
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This war we fought was a "spinoff" of Napoleon's war with England |
the War of 1812
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This Dutch cheese is similar to Edam but contains more butterfat |
Gouda
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North of the equator, ocean currents travel in big circles, flowing around in this direction |
clockwise
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Tho unfinished, his "Athenaeum head" of Washington is basis for one on the U.S. dollar bill |
Gilbert Stuart
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"Echo", "Relay" & "Early Bird" |
telephone satellites
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Solicitors are lawyers who work mostly out of court while only these can plead cases in higher courts |
barristers
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War which resulted in the disappearance of the Austro-Hungarian Empire |
World War I
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Most widely produced Greek cheese, it's white, sharp, & marinated in brine |
feta
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Most tsunamis occur in this ocean |
the Pacific
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A "gisant" is a recumbent sculpture of a person in this condition |
(Pat: What is a nude?) (Alex: No, sorry, recumbent, of course, means reclining and the person is [*].)
dead
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The word telephone comes from 2 Greek words, "phone", meaning sound & "tele" meaning this |
far
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A Britisher who visits his "turf accountant" has gone to see him |
his bookie
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Country which won the Boer War |
England
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In America, Roman cheese is made from cow's milk; in Italy, it's always made from this |
(Mark: What is goat's milk?) ... (Alex: We've got less than a minute to go.)
sheep's milk
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A major source of iodine, they are used for making medicines, ice cream, jellies, salad dressings, & cosmetics |
(Pat: What are jellyfish?) (Bob: What are octopuses?)
seaweed
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Queen Victoria took drawing lessons from this artist & poet best known for his limericks |
Edward Lear
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Since 1983, the FCC has granted licenses for car phones based on this type of radio technology |
cellular
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In England it means "discarded furniture" as well as wood for building |
lumber
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Leader who pleaded for the League of Nations support in Italo-Ethiopian War |
Haile Selassie
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What is known in various parts of Europe as Gruyere or Emmentaler is called this in the U.S. |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Swiss cheese
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Term for the gently sloping sea floor at edge of most land masses |
the continental shelf
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Pre-Raphaelite poet & painter; appropriately, he translated Dante into English |
(Pat: Uh, is, um, Dante Gabrielli?) (Alex: Be a little more specific.)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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World's longest telephone cable, the Commonwealth Pacific, runs 9000 miles from Australia to this country |
(Bob: Uh, what is England?)
Canada
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The British refer to beets by this longer name |
beetroot
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In an 1853 dispute over Jerusalem holy sites, Russia attacked Turkey & set off this war |
(Alex: You ran the category.) [Applause]
the Crimean War
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