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Japan's Showa reign ended in 1989 with the death of this emperor |
Hirohito
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The term for regular payments you get from your employer after retiring |
a pension
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Major hotels in this city include Shepheard's & the Nile Hilton |
Cairo
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Ira Gershwin wrote, "Summertime and the livin' is" this |
easy
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One Saxon name for this month was Aefter-Yula or "after Christmas" |
January
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At Carnegie Hall in 1935, she talked about "Adventures in Flying"; she disappeared 2 years later |
(Amelia) Earhart
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On Christmas Day, 800, as he prayed at St. Peter's Church, he was crowned Emperor of the Romans |
Charlemagne
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NASDAQ deals in OTC stocks, OTC standing for this |
over the counter
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This city on the Tiete River accounts for about 40% of Brazil's industrial output |
São Paulo
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According to playwright William Congreve, "You must not" do this "and tell" |
kiss
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The name of this month might come from a Latin word meaning "to open", being a time when flowers open |
April
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Oceanus Hopkins was born on this ship while it was at sea; Peregrine White, after it got to New England |
the Mayflower
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After becoming emperor of Ethiopia in 1930, he gave the country its first written constitution |
Haile Selassie
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It provides transportation & utility stock averages as well as its famous industrial |
(the) Dow (Jones)
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The tombs of Michelangelo & Machiavelli are in the Church of Santa Croce in this Italian city |
Florence
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Milton Friedman said, "There's only one place where inflation is made: that's in" this city |
Washington (D.C.)
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The 11th of this month once marked the beginning of winter; now it commemorates the end of WWI |
(Daniel: What is December?)
November
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Milan Stefanik, a Slovakian astronomer & soldier, helped found this nation in 1918 |
Czechoslovakia
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It's uncertain whether this Aztec emperor was killed by Cortez' troops or by his own people |
Montezuma
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"Geographic" term for corporations registered in places where taxes are less, like the Caymans or Bahamas |
offshore
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Nymphenburg Palace, the summer residence of the Bavarian kings, lies on the outskirts of this German city |
Munich
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17th century poet Jean de la Fontaine said, "A hungry" one of these organs "cannot hear" |
(Daniel: What is the mouth?) (Jerome: What's an ear?)
a stomach
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The Greeks honored Demeter & the Romans honored Ceres during this harvest month |
September
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As captain of the Queen's Guard, this courtier watched the execution of his rival, Lord Essex |
(Sir Walter) Raleigh
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Maximilian, who became emperor of Mexico in 1864, was the brother of this Austrian emperor |
(Daniel: Who was Wilhelm?)
Franz Joseph
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A strike is a stoppage of work by the workers & this is a stoppage decided by management |
a lockout
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Regina, this Canadian province's capital, was originally called Pile O'Bones |
(Jerome: What's Manitoba?) (Alex: No.) (Jerome: It's the other one,...) (Alex: [Laughing] Daniel.) (Daniel: What is [*]?) (Jerome: [Simultaneously with Daniel] [*].) (Alex: [Still laughing] [*], yes, "the other one", as Jerome says.)
Saskatchewan
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In "The People, Yes" this poet wrote, "Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come" |
Carl Sandburg
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In the part of South America south of the equator, summer begins during this month |
December
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This 1st wife was legally married to Henry VIII longer than anyone else: over 23 years |
Catherine of Aragon
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