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Abu al-Hawl, the Arabic name for this famous recumbent statue at Giza, means "father of terror" |
the Sphinx
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In its infancy this canal was known as "Clinton's Ditch" |
(Bob: What's the old [*]?)
Erie Barge Canal
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This California mountain is the USA's 17th highest; it was No. 1 until 1959 |
(Alex: Then Alaska came in.)
Mount Whitney
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In women these tubes aren't connected directly to the ovaries; the eggs have to jump a gap |
the fallopian tubes
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In the mid-1700s this Pennsylvania city was the busiest Colonial port |
Philadelphia
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Longfellow wrote, "I heard the bells on" this "day their old, familiar carols play" |
Christmas
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Soon after the death of Cleopatra in 30 B.C., Egypt became a province of this empire |
Rome
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Swiss federal railroad trains are powered by this |
electricity
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This country's Mount Kosciusko lies in the Snowy Mountains |
Australia
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The vessels within a leaf blade, the pattern they form is used to identify plants |
the veins
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Now in West Virginia, this village was the site of an 1859 raid by abolitionist John Brown |
Harpers Ferry
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"Pemican and buffalo marrow, haunch of deer and hump of bison" were served at his wedding- feast |
Hiawatha
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2 of the most popular foods in ancient Egypt, or what the queen was eating in "Sing a Song of Sixpence" |
(David: What is rye and blackbirds?) [Laughter]
bread and honey
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Introduced in 1936, this company's DC-3 became the world's dominant transport plane |
Douglas
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This Alaskan mountain's north peak was first scaled in 1910, its south peak in 1913 |
Mount McKinley
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You have 2 different types of these, autosome & sex |
chromosomes
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In the 1950s "Operation Bootstrap" improved the economy of this U.S. commonwealth |
Puerto Rico
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This heroine is the daughter of Benedict Bellefontaine, "the wealthiest farmer of Grand-Pre" |
Evangeline
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This "book" contains spells that were supposed to help the deceased in the afterlife |
the Book of the Dead
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This American automaker owns 75% of Aston Martin & 25% of Mazda |
Ford
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The Notre Dame Mountains aren't in Indiana; they lie south of the St. Lawrence River in this province |
Quebec
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The term brachial refers to this body part or something that resembles it |
an arm
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The 1794 treaty named for this Chief Justice provided for the removal of the British from U.S. territory |
John Jay
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Italian city that Longfellow called a "White Water-Lily... whose untrodden streets are rivers" |
Venice
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Egyptians painted the area below their eyes this color with a paste made from ground malachite |
(Lisa: What is white?) (David: What is black?)
green
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The merchant fleet registered in this African nation leads the world in gross tonnage |
Liberia
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Africa's highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, is in this country |
(David: What's Kenya?)
Tanzania
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Among the lipids produced by this organ is cholesterol |
the liver
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In February 1933 gunman Joseph Zangara missed FDR but killed Anton J. Cermak, this city's mayor |
Chicago
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Longfellow may have written this poem about Pilgrims because John Alden was one of his ancestors |
(Alex: We have less than a minute to go.)
"The Courtship of Miles Standish"
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