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During the 1980s this country & the Gambia formed a confederation called Senegambia |
Senegal
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This best-known author of fables may have been a fable himself; his existence has never been proved |
Aesop
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In genetics the alleles, which control traits like height, are either dominant or this |
recessive
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He said to Jesus, "I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?" |
John the Baptist
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He was the Norse god of battle & hanged men |
(Robert: Who is Tyr?) (Jessamyn: Who is Thor?)
Odin
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His novel "The Prairie" is set in 1804; Natty Bumppo is in his 80s |
James Fenimore Cooper
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Among its chief ports are Taranto & Trieste |
Italy
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Georges Pompidou called France "a widow" after this statesman died in 1970 |
de Gaulle
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Ptyalin, pepsin & maltase are a few of the enzymes in this system |
the digestive system
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Shortly before the betrayal, Jesus warned, "Watch and pray, that ye enter not into" this |
temptation
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The name of these alphabet characters comes from an Old Norse word meaning "secret" |
runes
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"Drums along the Mohawk" tells the story of this war from a farmer's point of view |
(Jessamyn: What is the French-Indian War?)
the American Revolution
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Located in the Himalayas between China & India, its king is Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev |
Nepal
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He was a chairmaker & volunteer fireman before becoming "Boss" of Tammany Hall |
Boss Tweed
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Spirochetes are the spiral-shaped types of these microorganisms |
(Jessamyn: What are viruses?)
bacteria
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In the King James Bible, the Beatitudes in Matthew 5:3-11 all begin with these 2 words |
(Jessamyn: What is blessed be?) (Robert: What is Jesus said?)
Blessed are
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In 911 Charles III granted the Vikings control of this area in northern France |
Normandy
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"Adagio Dancer", a brief biography of Rudolph Valentino, appears in this John Dos Passos trilogy |
(Dan: What's the America Trilogy?)
the U.S.A. Trilogy
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In 1962 this Barbary state won its independence from France |
Algeria
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She personally supervised the Salvation Army's relief efforts after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake |
Evangeline Booth
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In "Krill", a card game, the object is to build these from plankton to krill to whale |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
food chains
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The 2 Old Test. books most often quoted in the New Testament are Psalms & this one named for a prophet |
Isaiah
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Name given by the Vikings to a region in North America that they visited around 1000 |
Vineland (Vinland)
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Bess is the heroine of this 1925 DuBose Heyward novel, but she isn't mentioned in the title |
(Robert: What is Summertime?) (Alex: No. And you're thinking along the right lines. You're thinking of the musical Porgy and Bess, and the novel is [*].)
Porgy
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A university is named for this educator who in 1817 founded the USA's 1st free school for the deaf |
Gallaudet
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This author of the final epistle identifies himself as a servant of Jesus & brother of James |
(Robert: Who is John?) ... (Alex: We have less than a minute to go.)
Jude
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This great king of Wessex stopped the Vikings' advance in England but ceded the north to them |
Alfred the Great
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He wrote "Mosses from an Old Manse" while living in a Massachusetts home called the Old Manse |
(Nathaniel) Hawthorne
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