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Dumas père's novel "The Black Tulip" is, not surprisingly, set in this country |
(Alex: We have a minute to go in this round.)
Holland
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This nautically nicknamed prince of Portugal never traveled farther than North Africa |
Prince Henry the Navigator
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Chemical compound named for the man who introduced tobacco into France, Jean Nicot |
nicotine
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6th c. Prince Shotoku called himself "emperor of the rising sun" & called the emperor of China this |
the emperor of the setting sun
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A "scryer" can supposedly divine future or distant events by gazing into one of these |
a crystal ball
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After R. Chillingworth dies, Pearl becomes "the richest heiress of her day" in this novel |
The Scarlet Letter
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This Shoshone woman was probably the most famous Indian guide of all time |
Sacagawea
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Yiddish verb & noun for snack; it derived from Old High German "nascon", to gnaw |
a nosh
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Noh plays were 1st performed in the 14th century, while these livelier dramas began in the 16th |
kabuki
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Magician's prop that's usually made of hazel wood cut from a tree at sunrise |
a magic wand
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When she worked for Mr. Rochester, this was Jane Eyre's profession |
governess
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Some say this outlaw pair was killed by soldiers during a bank robbery in Uruguay, not in Bolivia |
Butch Cassidy & Sundance
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Northern opportunists in the post-Civil-War South, named for their luggage |
[That is how the clue was rendered.]
carpetbaggers
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As a result of WWII Japan lost the southern Kurile Islands to this country, its closest neighbor |
the Soviet Union
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Magic word that's based on 1st 4 letters of the alphabet |
abracadabra
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The 1897 novel in which Lucy Westenra ends up with a stake through her heart |
Dracula
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Type of painting that John Constable & J.M.W. Turner were famous for in 19th century England |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
landscapes
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This empress of Mexico was in Europe when her husband, Maximilian, was executed in 1867 |
Carlota
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The name of this elected office is from the Latin word for old man |
(Mary: What is president?)
senator
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"The old pond a frog jumps in the sound of the water," is a translation of 1 of these |
a haiku
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This 5-pointed star is traditionally a powerful weapon in magic |
a pentagram
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His novel "Barnaby Rudge" contains vivid descriptions of the anti-Catholics riots of 1780 |
Charles Dickens
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Surrealist painter of the following whose French title means "This is Not a Pipe": |
(Mark: Who was Salvador Dali?)
René Magritte
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His son Richard ruled England from 1658-9 but later fled to Paris where he went by the name "John Clarke" |
Oliver Cromwell
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Term for the buying of church positions, from Simon Magus who tried to do so in the Bible |
simony
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The world's largest active volcanic crater, Mount Aso, is on this southernmost of the main islands |
Kyushu
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This root used in potions is said to resemble a human form & scream when pulled from the earth |
the mandrake root
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