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In 1963 this 88-year-old former P.M. announced he'd not run for another term in Parliament |
Churchill
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Konohana-Sakuyahime is the goddess of this sacred Japanese mountain |
Fujiyama (Mt. Fuji)
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Who's WHO? This U.N. agency is |
the World Health Organization
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The Great Red Spot on this planet is so large it could cover the Earth 3 times |
Jupiter
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The name of this South American city is Spanish for "good air" |
Buenos Aires
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"Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed" is a line from this Erica Jong book |
Fear of Flying
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In 1957 hearings before the Senate, Teamster president Dave Beck "took" this more than 100 times |
the 5th Amendment
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Moses Mendelssohn was a pioneer of the Haskalah or "Enlightenment" movement within this religion |
Judaism
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This board game is governed by FIDE, the Federation Internationale des Echecs |
(Holly: What is checkers?)
chess
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This closest planet to the Sun has the shortest orbit around it, 88 days |
Mercury
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This capital lies on the Firth of Forth, an inlet of the North Sea |
Edinburgh
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In "White Rabbit" she sang, "Remember what the dormouse said: 'Feed your head'" |
Grace Slick
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This 1963 treaty prohibited exploding atomic weapons in the atmosphere, in space or under water |
the (Nuclear) Test Ban Treaty
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Nearly 1 in 5 people worldwide are followers of this Christian denomination |
(Roman) Catholicism
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In 1952 Greece & Turkey joined the original 12 members in this organization |
NATO
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In 1965 a panel of scientists asserted it was entirely possible there is life on this planet |
Mars
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This Ecuadoran capital lies on the slopes of Pichincha, an active volcano |
Quito
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In "Black Beauty" she wrote, "I am never afraid of what I know" |
Anna Sewell
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In 394 B.C. Admiral Conon of this city-state defeated a Spartan fleet at Cnidus |
Athens
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The largest grouping of this faith in the U.S. is the moderately evangelical Friends United Meeting |
the Quakers
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In 1977 these 2 organizations that provide adult companions to kids in single-parent homes merged |
Big Brothers & Big Sisters
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Pluto's name was chosen partly to honor this astronomer with the initials P.L. who predicted its existence |
Percival Lowell
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Throughout the 1800s, it was the world's largest city |
London
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This "Ethan Frome" author once wrote, "A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue" |
Edith Wharton
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From June to September 1759, Gen. Montcalm defended this city against British general James Wolfe |
Quebec
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This religion founded in Persia has 3 grades of sacred fire: Atash Bahram, Atash Adaran & Dadgah |
Zoroastrianism
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It was founded at a Congress in the Jordanian sector of Jerusalem in May 1964 |
the Palestine Liberation Organization (the Palestinian Liberation Organization accepted)
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With a diameter of 25 miles, Cordelia is the smallest known moon of this planet; Titania is the largest |
(Michael: What is Saturn?) ... (Alex: A miss by Michael? Holly or Roland, here is your chance.)
Uranus
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This Somali capital was one of the earliest Arab settlements on Africa's east coast |
Mogadishu
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This jazz singer wrote, "Mama may have, Papa may have, but God bless the child that's got his own" |
Billie Holiday
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