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Genes on this sex chromosome control color vision, blood clotting & muscular dystrophy |
the X chromosome
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The Rhode Island School of Design in this city has one of the nation's best college art collections |
Providence
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This aviatrix said, "The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune" |
Amelia Earhart
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In 1263 Alexander III of this country fought the Norwegians over possession of the Hebrides |
Scotland
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Native speakers of this North Germanic language call it Svensk |
Swedish
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Current Biography says she called her creation the vampire Lestat "the man I would love to be" |
Anne Rice
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An amoeba of the Endamoeba genus lives in this kitchen insect pest |
the (cock)roach
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Piano recitals are held at the Franz Liszt Museum in this Hungarian city |
(Pat: What is, uh, um, Prague?)
Budapest
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About this film director, Norman Bel Geddes said, "CB lacked a sense of humor" |
De Mille
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4 days after Iraq invaded Kuwait, this Saudi king authorized deployment of U.S. troops to his land |
(Pat: Who is Faisal?)
King Fahd
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Modern standard Chinese, also known as this language, has 4 tones |
Mandarin
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Ann Beattie called her acclaimed first novel "Chilly Scenes of" this season |
Winter
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Honeybees get their sugar from nectar & their protein & fat from this |
pollen
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George II presented the Royal Library of the Kings of England to this museum in 1757 |
the British Museum
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In 1923 this humorist said, "If you ever injected truth into politics, you have no politics" |
Will Rogers
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This king of England's nickname "The Unready" comes from Old English unraed, meaning he lacked advice |
Ethelred
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Most Haitians speak Haitian Creole, based largely on this language |
French
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This "Rebecca" author's married name was Lady Daphne Browning |
Daphne du Maurier
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The Moon has 2 main types of surfaces: highlands & these, both of which have craters |
maria (seas)
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The Frick Art Museum & Sarah Scaife Gallery are high points of this Pennsylvania city |
Pittsburgh
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Benjamin Franklin said, "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are" this |
dead
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In 1925, due to his liaison with Magda Lupescu, Carol II had to renounce rights to this country's throne |
(Bob: What is Spain?)
Romania
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Hindi is based on the Khari Boli dialect but borrowed many elements from this classical language |
Sanskrit
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Eudora Welty set her first full-length novel, "Delta Wedding", in this, her home state |
(Pat: What is Louisiana?)
Mississippi
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Gold & other precious metals are measured on this weight system that has 12 ounces to the pound |
troy
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This D.C. medical center houses the National Museum of Health & Medicine |
(Pat: What is the...)
Walter Reed
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It's said Woodrow Wilson called this Garfield V.P. & later president "a nonentity with side whiskers" |
Chester Arthur
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Mongkut & his son Chulalongkorn are generally regarded as this country's greatest kings |
Siam (or Thailand)
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Over 13 million people speak Cebuano, a native language of this country; about 39 million speak Tagalog |
The Philippines
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"Pale Horse, Pale Rider" is a collection of 3 novelettes by this author of "Ship of Fools" |
(Pat: Who is Porter? Karen Ann Porter?) (Alex: Say it again.) (Judges [Offstage]: No.)
Katherine Anne Porter
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