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The term catacomb was first applied to the Christian cemetery under San Sebastiano outside this city |
Rome
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In 1948 the centigrade temperature scale was officially named in his honor |
Celsius
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Wiener Schnitzel is a breaded & fried cutlet of this meat |
veal
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A post-election poll indicated that his being on the 1988 ticket cost Bush 4% of the vote |
Quayle
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The crater of this volcano near Naples, Italy is about 2,000' wide & 1,000' deep |
Vesuvius
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This "Master of Suspense" was knighted in 1980 |
Hitchcock
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In 1992 Robert A.M. Stern was named chief designer for the proposed renovations of this NYC square |
Times Square
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He made advances in heat & electricity, but was most famous for his discovery of X-rays |
Roentgen
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A specialty of Greece, dolmathes yalantzi are stuffed ones of these |
grape leaves
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Thomas R. Marshall is remembered for saying, "What this country needs is a really good" one of these |
a five-cent cigar
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At this mountain the Israelites entered into a covenant with God |
Mount Sinai
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This director of "The Birth of a Nation" was the son of a Confederate army officer |
(Carol Ann: Who is D.W. Griffiths?) ... (Alex: No "S" on the end of his name.)
D.W. Griffith
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Henry Bacon styled this memorial in Washington's Potomac Park after a classic Greek temple |
(Tom: What is the Jefferson Memorial?)
the Lincoln Memorial
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The results of this monk's "Experiments with Plant Hybrids" appeared in a scientific journal in 1866 |
Mendel
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This fruity Indian relish is a popular accompaniment to curried dishes |
chutney
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His second vice president, Henry Wallace, was originally a Republican |
FDR
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At 12,198', Pico de Teide in this Spanish archipelago is the highest peak in the Atlantic |
the Canary Islands
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His wife, Giulietta Masina, starred in several of his films, including "La Strada" |
Fellini
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c. 1865 Dankmar Adler moved to this city, where he formed a partnership with Louis Sullivan |
Chicago
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In 1851 he performed a famous pendulum experiment in the French Pantheon |
Foucault
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In China this classic dish is known as Bei Jing Kao Ya |
Peking duck
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John C. Calhoun resigned the vice presidency when elected one of these |
a senator
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Mountains in this range include the Three Sisters in Oregon & Glacier Peak in Washington |
the Cascades
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"Flying Padre" was one of the short films this director of "The Shining" made early in his career |
Stanley Kubrick
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Nickname of architect & landscape designer Lancelot Brown |
Capability
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A 1953 Nobel Prize was awarded to this discoverer of the citric acid cycle, now named for him |
(Hans) Krebs
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Pita bread often accompanies this Middle Eastern appetizer of pureed eggplant, garlic, lemon juice & tahini |
(Tom: What is hummus?) (Gary: What is tabouleh?)
baba ghanoush
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He accepted the resignation of Zachary Taylor's whole cabinet when he succeeded Taylor |
Millard Fillmore
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This Central American nation's highest point, Pico Mogoton, lies on its northern border with Honduras |
(Gary: What is El Salvador?)
Nicaragua
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"M", a portrait of a child murderer starring Peter Lorre, was this "Metropolis" director's first sound picture |
(Alex: And we have about a minute to go.)
Fritz Lang
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