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In 1500 Pedro Alvares Cabral became the first European to reach this large South American country |
Brazil
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Pisanello finished Gentile da Fabriano's frescoes in the Doges' Palace in this city |
Venice
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In developing countries, stray & wild dogs are the major carrier of this disease also called hydrophobia |
rabies
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While Valparaiso is the seat of Chile's parliament, this is its capital |
Santiago
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In a 1985 novel by Fred Hoyle, an alien intelligence latches onto this famous comet in 1986 |
Halley's Comet
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Charles V ruled this country as it conquered Mexico & Peru |
Spain
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After the Soviet invasion in November 1956, Janos Kadar was installed as this country's premier |
Hungary
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This "Blue Boy" painter worked for a few years under engraver Hubert Gravelot |
Gainsborough
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From the Latin for "40", this was originally a 40-day isolation period |
a quarantine
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This capital is served by Chiang Kai-Shek International Airport |
Taipei (Taiwan)
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Native country of Kazuo Ishiguro, whose novel "The Remains of the Day" is about a British butler |
Japan
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Francis I, who ruled 1745-1765, was the father of this famous French queen |
Marie Antoinette
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In an August 13, 1905 plebiscite, only 184 Norwegians voted against independence from this country |
(Steve: What is Denmark?)
Sweden
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His original David & 4 unfinished slaves are in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence |
Michelangelo
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The USA's largest HMO, which stands for this, is Kaiser Permanente |
health maintenance organization
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This city was designated the Bulgarian capital in 1879, soon after it was captured from the Turks |
Sofia
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His older brother Alec Waugh wrote the 1956 novel "Island in the Sun" |
Evelyn Waugh
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He succeeded Charles IV but remained uncrowned & shares his name with the Good King in a Carol |
Wenceslaus
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Louis-Philippe, the "Citizen King", was the only French king from this royal house |
(Kent: Who are the Bourbons?) (Steve: What is Bonaparte?)
the House of Orleans
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This Dadaist was the younger brother of sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon |
Marcel Duchamp
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A lack of phosphate, vitamin D or calcium can cause this bone disease in children |
rickets
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One of the world's largest wooden structures is the old government bldg. in this New Zealand capital |
Wellington
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Captain Singleton, the hero of a book by this Crusoe creator, is kidnapped as a child & later becomes a pirate |
Daniel Defoe
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Rudolf I, who took office in 1273, was the first member of this dynasty to rule |
the Hapsburgs
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Under the terms of this 1814-15 assembly, Denmark received the German duchy of Lauenburg |
(Bob: What is the Treaty of Ghent?)
The Congress of Vienna
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Washington's National Gallery has "Death and the Miser" by this "Garden of Earthly Delights" painter |
Hieronymus Bosch
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Around 1930 Albert Szent-Gyorgyi & Charles G. King isolated this antiscurvy substance |
vitamin C (ascorbic acid)
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This capital of Belarus also serves as the capital of the Commonwealth of Independent States |
Minsk
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This Englishman described his 1742 novel "Joseph Andrews" as "A comic epic-poem in prose" |
Henry Fielding
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Ferdinand I was forced to pay tribute to this Ottoman sultan |
Suleiman the Magnificent
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