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One of the tourist sites in this capital is the arch of Janus near the Tiber River |
Rome
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In Judaism the ten days of repentance end on this holy day |
Yom Kippur
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This Democrat is the third youngest man inaugurated as president |
Bill Clinton
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These gems are classified as "Oriental" if they come from saltwater mollusks |
pearls
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He wrote a novel about the selfish Dorian Gray & a fairy tale about "The Selfish Giant" |
Oscar Wilde
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Sir Sagramore, Pellinore, Mordred |
Camelot
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This capital is served by Indira Gandhi International Airport |
New Delhi
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70% of the adherents of this religion are Vaishnavites |
Hinduism
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In 1973 the Manned Spacecraft Center at Houston was renamed in his memory |
Lyndon Johnson
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Turquoise has been mined for thousands of years on this peninsula east of the Gulf of Suez |
the Sinai
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Chapter 28 of this Dickens novel is entitled "Mr. Micawber's Gauntlet" |
David Copperfield
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Rabbi, Tzeitel, Lazar Wolf |
Fiddler on the Roof
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This city's Constitution Plaza was the site of the Aztecs' governmental & religious center |
Mexico City
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It's the belief in many gods |
polytheism
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His presidential library is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan |
Gerald Ford
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An Arizona ruby isn't a real ruby, it's a ruby-colored one of these January birthstones |
a garnet
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As children, these sisters & their brother Branwell wrote about imaginary places called Angria & Gondal |
the Brontes
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Caesar Rodney, Richard Henry Lee, Benjamin Franklin |
1776
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This Finnish capital was under Russian rule from 1809 to 1917 |
Helsinki
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On his deathbed this leader of the Methodists said, "Best of all, God is with us" |
(John) Wesley
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Herbert Hoover's oath of office was administered by this former president |
(William Howard) Taft
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The Cairngorm Mountains in this country are famous for their topaz |
(Kevin: What is Australia?)
Scotland
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Emma interferes with the romances of her vapid friend Harriet in this woman's novel "Emma" |
(Jane) Austen
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Fiona MacLaren, sword dancers, bagpipers |
Brigadoon
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The ruins of ancient Carthage overlook this North African capital |
Tunis
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Hegira is the term for Muhammad's journey from Mecca to this city |
Medina
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He was president during "The Era of Good Feelings", which lasted from about 1817-1825 |
Monroe
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The 530-carat Star of Africa was cut from this 3,106-carat diamond, the largest ever found |
(Joe: What is the Hope Diamond?)
the Cullinan
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Gudrun, a character in his book "Women in Love", was based on the writer Katherine Mansfield |
D.H. Lawrence
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Ermengarde, Minnie Fay, Cornelius Hackl |
(Kevin: What is Li'l Abner?)
Hello, Dolly!
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