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This regiment founded by Teddy & Leonard Wood was not on horseback at the Battle of San Juan Hill |
the Rough Riders
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This electrical discharge in the atmosphere can be between clouds or between a cloud & the earth |
lightning
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This "William Tell" composer's first wife, Isabella, had been the mistress of the King of Naples |
Rossini
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The Don is in Russia & the Dordogne is in this country |
France
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James Clavell's "Tai-Pan" is a fictional account of the founding of this British crown colony |
Hong Kong
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Title shared by Josephine, Maria Theresa & Catherine the Great |
(John: What is Empress of France?)
empress
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The 1st time he ran for president, Roosevelt was a candidate for this party; the 2nd time he was a Bull Moose |
Republican
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These waves used in cooking are produced by several devices, including the magnetron |
microwaves
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Court composer Florian Leopold Gassmann brought Antonio Salieri to this city in 1766 |
Vienna
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The Equator crosses this largest lake in Africa |
Victoria
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In a novel by this author, George Webber finds out that "You Can't Go Home Again" |
Thomas Wolfe
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Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth, also sports this royal title |
the Duke of Edinburgh
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McKinley didn't want Teddy to have the nomination for this office in 1900, but he got it anyway |
Vice President
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The 2 regions of a magnetic field where the forces appear strongest are called these, north & south |
poles
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Born in 1892, he was given the first name Ferdinand but you probably remember him as Ferde |
(Ferde) Grofe
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Oh, it's the largest city on India's Hooghly River |
Calcutta
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The title of Evelyn Waugh's novel "A Handful of Dust" comes from a line in "The Waste Land" by this poet |
(T.S.) Eliot
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This German title derived from the Latin Caesar was last used in 1918 |
kaiser
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Teddy annoyed some white Southerners by inviting this Black educator to dine at the White House in 1901 |
Booker T. Washington
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Every element has at least 1 of these nucleons; in fact, ordinary hydrogen has only 1 |
a proton
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He called one of his autobiographies "Sometimes I Wonder", which is a line from "Star Dust" |
Hoagy Carmichael
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The Erie Canal was dug along this river, but we don't have to "drum" that fact into you |
the Mohawk
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Christopher Isherwood wrote a famous 1939 novel called "Goodbye to" this city |
Berlin
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Qabus Bin Said, ruler of Oman, has this traditional Muslim title |
(Fred: What is Emir?)
sultan
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Roosevelt made Phi Beta Kappa at this university from which he graduated in 1880 |
Harvard
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This "fourth state of matter" occurs in thermonuclear reactions in the sun |
(John: What is the weak force?)
plasma
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This German wrote many of his most famous lieder in 1840, the year he married pianist Clara Wieck |
(Fred: Who is Schubert?)
(Robert) Schumann
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The Ijsselmeer is the lake left after this Dutch inlet was cut off from the North Sea |
(Fred: What is Friesland?) (Alex: No.) (Fred: Zeeland.)
the Zuider Zee
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His childhood friend Harper Lee inspired a character in his first novel, "Other Voices, Other Rooms" |
(Fred: Can I change my bet? Who is [*]?) (Alex: No, you can't change your bet, but that's the right response.)
Truman Capote
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The oldest title of English nobility, it's traditionally bestowed on retired prime ministers |
earl
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