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Completes the title of Dr. Reuben's bestseller "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex" |
But Were Afraid to Ask
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In 1950, this president authorized development of the hydrogen bomb |
Truman
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The standard for this metric weight is a 2.2 lb. cylinder of platinum iridium alloy kept at the National Institute of Standards & Technology |
a kilogram
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"The Lily of Killarney" is a 19th century opera set in this country |
Ireland
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While The Hague is the seat of the Netherlands government, this city is the capital |
Amsterdam
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You can have one of these points of vulnerability even if your mother never dipped you in the River Styx |
an Achilles heel
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"Peace with God" & "How to Be Born Again" are two of several books by this evangelist |
Billy Graham
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On the 100th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, W.E.B. Dubois called for the founding of this civil rights organization |
the NAACP
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Sometimes it's 480 sheets, but most often it's 500 sheets of paper |
a ream
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In a Prokofiev opera, three princesses are hidden inside three of these citrus fruits |
oranges
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Columbus called this island in the West Indies La Isla Espanola, "the Spanish Island" |
Hispaniola
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Something that produces many unforeseen troubles is often compared to this container |
Pandora's box
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"The Wendy Dilemma" is Dr. Dan Kiley's follow-up to this 1983 bestseller |
The Peter Pan Syndrome
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He was over 50 years old when his son, future Civil War general Robert E. Lee, was born |
Light Horse Harry Lee
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For measuring, surveyors sometimes use a chain which is comprised of 100 of these units |
links
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In Tchaikovsky's opera, "The Queen of" these is a countess who knows the secret of winning at cards |
the Queen of Spades
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The Pentland Firth separates the Orkney Islands from the north coast of this country |
(John: What is the United Kingdom?) (Alex: Be more specific.)
Scotland
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The line of a shapely upper lip is sometimes compared to this object carried by Cupid |
a bow
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In "By Way of Deception", a former agent gives an inside look at this Israeli spy organization |
Mossad
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Between his retirement in the 1890s & his death in 1937, he gave away more than $500 million |
(Tobe: Who is Carnegie?)
John D. Rockefeller
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Legally, this British measurement is 14 lbs. avoirdupois |
a stone
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Rossini's opera "La donna del lago" was based on his poem "The Lady of the Lake" |
Sir Walter Scott
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2 of the 4 U.S. states that border Quebec |
(2 of) New Hampshire, Vermont (New York or Maine)
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A dangerously fascinating temptress can be called this, whether or not she turns man into swine |
Circe
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Norman Mailer won his first Pulitzer Prize for this 1968 account of the Peace March on the Pentagon |
[Tobe did not include the leading article in her response.]
Armies of the Night
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Frederick Douglass was among attendees at the 1848 Convention for Women's Rights at this New York site |
(John: What is Chautauqua?)
Seneca Falls
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Abbreviated dwt, it equals 120th of a Troy ounce |
a pennyweight
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His wife & the heroine of his opera "The Abduction from the Seraglio" were both named Constanze |
Mozart
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This Tahitian capital is the chief port of French Polynesia |
Papeete
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A shrewish person or a predatory mythological monster with a bird's body & a maiden's face |
(Alex: You ran that category, very nicely done.)
a harpy
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