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This future Israeli leader married Morris Myerson, a sign painter, in 1917 |
Golda Meir
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He began his autobiography, which translates as "My Struggle", in Munich's Landsberg Prison |
Hitler
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The tango is alive & well in the bars & cabarets of the San Telmo district of this Argentinian city |
Buenos Aires
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The office remained vacant for over 3 years after he moved to the presidency in 1945 |
Harry Truman
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"I never knew my heart could sing, never missed a warm embrace, till April in" this city |
Paris
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Once upon a time this Dane described life as "a fairy tale" |
(Brian: Who was Hamlet?) ... (Alex: Yes, a different kind of Dane.)
Hans Christian Andersen
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1922 Nobel Peace Prize winner Fridtjof Nansen spent 1893-96 trying to reach this point on Earth |
the North Pole
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This slayer of Lee Harvey Oswald died in 1967 while awaiting retrial |
Jack Ruby
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This Czech capital is located on the Vltava River |
Prague
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On January 6, 1961 he had to tell Congress that his opponent won the electoral vote for president |
Nixon
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The song that tells us "I got daisies in green pastures, I got my man--who could ask for anything more?" |
"I Got Rhythm"
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"Pinocchio" may be the most famous children's book ever written in this country |
Italy
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Llywelyn ap Gruffydd was the last independent prince of this country |
(Brian: What is Denmark?)
Wales
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This "lucky" New York mafia boss was deported in 1946; we guess his luck ran out |
"Lucky" Luciano
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Quezon City, once the capital, is this country's second-most populous city |
the Philippines
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He was 53 when he became vice president; later, a 53-year-old Thomas Jefferson was his VP |
(Brian: Who is Adams?--) (Alex: Yes.) (Brian: --[*].) (Alex: Yes.)
John Adams
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This singer introduced the classic torch song "The Man That Got Away" in the 1954 film "A Star Is Born" |
Garland
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Surprisingly, Ayn Rand once said her favorite popular writer was this creator of Mike Hammer |
Mickey Spillane
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In 1875 this banking family floated the Suez Canal loan |
the Rothschilds
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From about 1905-1915, Mary Mallon spread this disease to over 50 people, causing 3 deaths |
typhoid
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The name of this dynamic Asian city-state means "lion city" |
Singapore
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He was vice president between Agnew & Rockefeller |
Ford
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He wrote "Mad About The Boy" & "Mad Dogs And Englishmen" |
Noël Coward
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This English Romantic poet didn't have long to live when he wrote his "Ode on Melancholy" in 1819 |
Keats
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Pothinus, an advisor to Ptolemy XIII, had this rival of Julius Caesar killed |
(Leslie: What is Brutus?)
Pompey
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This "Red Light Bandit" wrote 4 books while on Death Row, including "Trial by Ordeal" in 1955 |
Caryl Chessman
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Punta Arenas in this country is the largest city located on the Strait of Magellan |
Chile
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2 of the 3 vice presidents who called Texas their home |
(Brian: Who were [*] and [**]?) (Alex: No--yes. [***] was the other.)
(2 of) Johnson, Garner & George Bush
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"Me And My Shadow" is one of many timeless tunes with lyrics by this showman who married Fanny Brice |
(Brian: Who is Ziegfeld?) [Brian pronounces the last syllable more like "field".]
Billy Rose
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She set "Fried Green Tomatoes..." in Alabama & "Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man" in Mississippi |
Fannie Flagg
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