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This river whose mouth is in Egypt has its southernmost source in Burundi in central Africa |
the Nile
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This brand of vodka is known as Stoli for short |
Stolichnaya
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Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber is the brother of this composer |
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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8 Minutemen were killed in this April 19, 1775 battle; several others died at Concord |
the Battle of Lexington
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On Dec. 17, 1948, the 45th anniv. of their first flight, their "Flyer" went on display at the Smithsonian |
the Wright Brothers
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This trilogy made hobbit a household word |
The Lord of the Rings
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This country's most populous region is Lombardy in the north |
Italy
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This preserved cabbage dish has a German name, but the Chinese invented it |
sauerkraut
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Niccolo Paganini was only 8 when he composed a sonata for this instrument on which he was a virtuoso |
The violin
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On June 14, 1846 settlers proclaimed the Bear Flag Republic in what later became this state |
California
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This device that notes air speed, altitude & cockpit conversations is kept in the tail of the plane |
the black box
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This 1941 Mary O'Hara book about a boy & his horse was the first of a trilogy |
My Friend Flicka
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Sumatra is the westernmost of this country's main islands |
Indonesia
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Pepperidge Farm makes oatmeal raisin cookies named for this capital of New Mexico |
Santa Fe
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He finished his first notable orchestra work, "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun", in 1894 |
Debussy
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On July 14, 1853 he delivered a letter from Millard Fillmore to the Japanese |
Commodore Perry
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In 1931 Mrs. Herbert Hoover christened the USS Akron, a giant dirigible built for the Navy by this company |
Goodyear
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Original language of "Molloy", "Malone Dies" & "The Unnamable", a trilogy by Samuel Beckett |
(Len: What is Irish, or Gaelic?)
French
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Alaska's westernmost mainland point is Cape Prince of Wales on this peninsula named for a politician |
(Phyllis: I don't know.)
the Seward Peninsula
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The Swiss water process is one method of doing this to coffee |
decaffeinating it
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Since his death, this jazz composer & bandleader's son Mercer has led his band |
Duke Ellington
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In 1727 this Pennsylvanian formed the Junto Debating Club |
Ben Franklin
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Though established in 1936, this Irish national airline didn't serve the U.S. until 1958 |
Aer Lingus
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This John Dos Passos trilogy is made up of "The 42nd Parallel", "1919" & "The Big Money" |
USA
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This river rises in Spain's Albarracin Mountains & enters the Atlantic at Lisbon |
the Tagus
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The Formosa or Taiwan type of this tea is more famous than the Amoy, Foochow & Canton varieties |
oolong
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After a Norwegian state funeral, this composer's remains were sealed in a cliff overlooking a fjord |
(Edvard) Grieg
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In 1967 Winthrop Rockefeller became this state's first Republican governor since Reconstruction |
Arkansas
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During WWII the 2 B-29s used by the U.S. to drop atomic bombs were Bock's Car & this one |
the Enola Gay
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This Athenian's only extant trilogy is "Oresteia" |
Aeschylus
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