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WEBSTER'S THIRD, PAGE 1282 |
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In 1997 Slobodan Milosevic left the presidency of Serbia for that of this larger country |
Yugoslavia
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The first woman to win 3 Best Actress Oscars, she was also the first to win 4 |
Katharine Hepburn
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According to the title of a 1967 Tom Stoppard play, "Rosencrantz And" this character "Are Dead" |
Guildenstern
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Socrates narrates this philosopher's "Republic" |
Plato
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The whale type of this fish can weigh as much as 2 elephants |
a shark
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Near the bottom of column 2 comes this 2-letter abbreviation for pound |
lb.
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F.W. De Klerk became president of this country in 1989, shared the Nobel Prize in 1993 & quit politics in 1997 |
South Africa
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In 1971 this tennis player became the first woman athlete to earn $100,000 in one year |
Billie Jean King
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Marion Paroo, the River City librarian, teaches piano to the town's youngsters in this show |
The Music Man
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His "Thus Spake Zarathustra" says, "The world presented itself" as a "golden apple with a... velvety skin" |
Friedrich Nietzsche
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This pit viper, also called the cottonmouth, is belligerent, so don't try to make shoes out of it |
a water moccasin
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Sluggish, indolent & slothful are synonyms for this adjective used to describe the writer of the category |
lazy
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Carlos Fuentes, author of "The Old Gringo", is one of this country's leading novelists |
Mexico
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In 1991 Sarah Williamson became the first girl mayor of this Nebraska community |
Boys Town
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In 1995 this musical won 6 Tonys including acting awards for Glenn Close & George Hearn |
Sunset Boulevard
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This woman & her New Bohemians sing, "Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box" |
Edie Brickell
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This substance is fed to all honeybees in the first 3 days of their lives, then only to future queens |
(Bill: What is queen's jelly?) (Alex: [Looks toward judges] No.)
royal jelly
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It's "a jumping one-hand shot in basketball made off the backboard" |
a lay-up
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Native country of the man seen here |
[Solidarity leader]
Poland (Lech Walesa)
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Soon after she opened the USA's first birth control clinic, the police raided it & sent her to jail |
Margaret Sanger
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Big Daddy's youngest son, he ends up in a cast after jumping hurdles while on a drunken binge |
Brick
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This Jean Jacques Rousseau work says, "Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains" |
(Paul: What is Emile?)
The Social Contract
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Of the water flea, the fish louse or the sand fly, the one that isn't a crustacean |
(Paul: What is the fish louse?)
the sand fly
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Color of the head & neck of the lazuli bunting, a finch found in the western U.S. & on page 1282 |
(Alex: Less than a minute to go.)
blue
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When King Charles II of this country died in 1700, a "War of" its "Succession" ensued |
(Anne: What is France?)
Spain
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Among the first 6 women chosen for this program in 1978 were Margaret Seddon & Kathryn D. Sullivan |
the astronaut program
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In "Six Degrees of Separation" Ouisa Kittridge is charmed by a young black man claiming to be this actor's son |
Sidney Poitier
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One of the most important philosophers, he spent his entire life, 1724-1804, in Konigsberg, East Prussia |
Immanuel Kant
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This crocodilian found in India is sometimes called the gharial |
(Paul: What is a gar?)
a gavial
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Biblical beggar whose name gives us a synonym for "leper" |
Lazarus
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