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She didn't live to see her son elected president but she did see him become Monroe's Secretary of State |
Abigail Adams
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A scientist who escapes the clutches of Captain Nemo narrates this 1870 tale by Jules Verne |
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
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He was sworn in as Cuban premier on February 16th; he didn't become president until 1976 |
Castro
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The largest city in Southeast Asia is Jakarta, this country's capital |
Indonesia
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This big wooden object is dragged inside the city walls in Act I of "The Capture of Troy" |
(Alex: By Hector Berlioz.)
the Trojan Horse
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He was the founding president of France's Fifth Republic |
de Gaulle
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Mary Todd Lincoln, like her husband, was born in this state |
Kentucky
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Shortly after his "Candide" was published in Geneva, it was condemned by the city council |
Voltaire
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Earl Long, the governor of this state, got out of a mental hospital by firing a couple of officials |
Louisiana
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In Singapore, more than 75% of the population is of this ethnic group |
Chinese
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Rameau's opera about Castor & this brother has been called his masterpiece |
Pollux
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Before discovering the Mississippi, he helped Pizarro conquer the Incas |
de Soto
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Like Lucy Hayes, her immediate successor, she was the wife of a Civil War general |
Mrs. Grant
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In Jane Austen's classic novel of two sisters, Eleanor represents "Sense" & Marianne this |
Sensibility
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Baudouin I, the 28-year-old King of this country visited the United States on a good will tour |
Belgium
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Haiphong, Vietnam is the main port on this gulf |
the Gulf of Tonkin
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Written in 1600, the earliest opera that has survived is about this wife of Orpheus |
Eurydice
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Diamonds were first discovered in South Africa on this family's farm |
(Scott: What is DeGroots?)
De Beers
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Dying in 1982 at the age of 97, she had lived longer than any other first lady |
(Ellen: Who is Mamie Eisenhower?)
Bess Truman
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Language in which Oscar Wilde originally wrote "Salome" |
French
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The headline on the Times article about the Clutter family murder; Capote used it as the title of his book |
In Cold Blood
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On January 4, 1948, Burma gained its independence from this European power |
Great Britain
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Henry Purcell's opera, "Dido & Aeneas", is based on Book IV of this |
(Alex: Yes, by Virgil.)
the Aeneid
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He built the Suez Canal, but failed in an attempt at a Panama Canal |
de Lesseps
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Knowing what life with a soldier was like, she was against her daughter's marriage to Lieutenant Jefferson Davis |
Mrs. Zachary (Margaret) Taylor
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"The Legend of the Knight of the Red Cross" is the first book of this epic poem by Edmund Spencer |
The Faerie Queene
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The only New York City building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, it opened officially after his death |
the Guggenheim Museum
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It's the only nation in Southeast Asia ruled by a Sultan |
Brunei
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After the death of her father Agamemnon is avenged, this heroine dances wildly then drops dead |
Electra
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World Book says novelist Gustave Flaubert was the godfather of this short story writer |
(Guy) de Maupassant
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