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This city's Ueno Park has outstanding displays of cherry blossoms |
Tokyo
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Tchaikovsky conducted several of his own works at the 1891 opening of this New York concert hall |
Carnegie Hall
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This South American fish has been known to shock its prey with 600 volts |
(Fred: Oh, what is, uh, a stringray?) (Fiona: Uh, what's an eel?) (Alex: Be more specific?) ... (Alex: We have less than a minute to go.)
an electric eel
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By the 1559 Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis, England ceded Calais to this country |
France
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Shakespeare is a character in this "Fear of Flying" author's "Serenissima: A Novel of Venice" |
(Erica) Jong
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The 3 natural gaits of horses are the canter, the trot & this, the slowest |
the walk
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Among this city's piazzas are Spagna, Colonna & Campidoglio |
Rome
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Famous for his marching band music, he also wrote operas like "The Smugglers" & "Desiree" |
(John Philip) Sousa
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Included among the sunfish are the largemouth & smallmouth species of this |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
bass
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The 1814 Treaty of Ghent that ended this war gave the U.S. British-held territory in the Northwest |
the War of 1812
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She was a school bus driver in the Australian Outback before she wrote "The Thorn Birds" |
(Richard: Who is McCullers? Carson McCullers.)
(Colleen) McCullough
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He's probably the most sagacious human ruler in the Bible |
Solomon
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The Sonja Henie-Niels Onstad Art Center is in this capital |
Oslo
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Both Liszt & Schubert were students of this composer & reputed rival of Mozart |
Salieri
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The Treaty of Tordesillas enabled this country to claim the coast of Brazil |
Portugal
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His 1910 novel "Howards End" became a play in 1967 & a film in 1992 |
(E.M.) Forster
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In the round "Row, Row, Row Your Boat", the 3rd person begins when the 1st person sings this word |
(Fred: What is row?) (Fiona: What is boat?)
merrily
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This Paraguayan capital's original name means "Our Lady of the Assumption" |
Asuncion
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This composer of "Petrushka" was pictured on a U.S. stamp issued in 1982 |
Stravinsky
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About 500 chiefs of these New Zealand natives signed the Treaty of Waitangi with Britain in 1840 |
the Maoris
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This "I, Claudius" novelist was the son of an Irish poet |
(Robert) Graves
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This South American capital was founded in 1781 & named for the reigning British monarch |
(Fred: What is... Victoria?) (Alex: No, it is the capital of Guyana and it is [*].) (Fred: I was off by a century there.)
Georgetown
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal wrote the librettos for this German's "Elektra" & "Der Rosenkavalier" |
(Richard: Who is Wagner?) ... [Applause for Fred's run of the category]
Richard Strauss
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This European country approved the Maastricht Treaty in 1993; it had rejected it in 1992 |
(Fred: [After his correct response] Uh, could we stop the game here?) (Alex: Nope.) [Laughter]
Denmark
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In 1974 Professor Irwin Corey accepted this recluse's Nat'l Book Award for "Gravity's Rainbow" |
(Thomas) Pynchon
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1 of the 2 Russian emperors for whom Peter Carl Faberge made his jeweled Easter eggs |
(Fiona: Who is Nicholas?) (Alex: Be more specific.) (Fiona: Who is Nicholas III?)
Nicholas II (or Alexander III)
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