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This Mongol emperor, Genghis Khan's grandson, was the first foreigner to rule all of China |
Kublai Khan
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An anonymous wit called this biblical figure "Madam Adam" |
Eve
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In the equation x-4=19, x is equal to this |
23
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Christopher Newport College is located in this Southern city that's also named for Christopher Newport |
Newport News
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His friend Edward Bulwer Lytton convinced him to change the original ending of "Great Expectations" |
Charles Dickens
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You'll find the National Museum of Peruvian Culture in this capital city |
Lima
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In 891, after seizing the Italian throne, Guy of Spoleto forced the Pope to crown him this |
(Jerry: Holy Roman Empire? What is Holy Roman Empire?) (Alex: Nnn--) (Jerry: Emperor?) (Alex: --no.)
Holy Roman Emperor
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Avril Phaedra Campbell, Canada's 1st female prime minister, is better known by this nickname |
Kim
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Topology is a branch of this mathematical field concerned with the general properties of shapes |
geometry
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The 1st student union was established in 1896 at this oldest university in the Keystone State |
the University of Pennsylvania
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The poet who wrote, "Ye flowery banks o' bonie Doon, How can ye blume sae fair?" |
Robert Burns
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In ancient times this French city was the capital of the Cenomani people; we'll race you there |
Le Mans
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Though he'd been killed in Mexico, Carlota was still awaiting this emperor's return when she died in 1927 |
Maximilian
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This environmentalist's 1951 book "The Sea Around Us" won the National Book Award |
Rachel Carson
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The perimeter of a circle also has this other name |
the circumference
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This Houston university is named for a cotton merchant, not a "grain" merchant |
Rice University
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John Bunyan said this book "will direct thee to the Holy Land, if thou wilt its directions understand" |
Pilgrim's Progress
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Livonian is a Uralic language spoken in the Livonia district of this country |
(Bill: What is Lithuania?)
Latvia
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Brazil's only 2 emperors, father & son, shared this name |
Dom Pedro
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In 1975 this UPI reporter became the 1st female president of the White House Correspondents' Association |
Helen Thomas
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Type of diagram seen here where the proportions are illustrated as sectors of a circle |
[Diagram had title "The World's Water"-- Pacific Ocean 46.1% Atlantic Ocean 23.9% Indian Ocean 20.3% Arctic 3.7% Other 6.1%]
a pie chart
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With some 22,000 students, Gajah Mada University in Jogjakarta is this country's largest university |
Indonesia
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He wrote his 1742 novel "Joseph Andrews" "In imitation of the manner of Cervantes" |
Henry Fielding
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Much of what is now this country was once the kingdom of Lan Xang, or "Land of a Million Elephants" |
Laos
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He was ruler of Austria-Hungary at the start of World War I |
Franz Joseph
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Fashion designer Anna Sui owns a life-sized mannequin of this late, great Vogue editor |
Diana Vreeland
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A location in space or in a coordinate system, one of these has no dimensions |
a point
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In 1256 Thomas Aquinas began teaching theology at the University of this city |
Paris
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Her novel "Northanger Abbey" is the story of a Gothic novel fan who has a wild imagination |
(Jack: Who is... uh--) (Alex: Sorry, you took too long.)
Jane Austen
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Chief Moshoeshoe I, who united the Basotho People, was one of this country's greatest leaders |
Lesotho
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