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One of North Dakota's major rivers, the Souris, begins & ends in this country |
Canada
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Aristotle referred to it as "liquid silver" |
mercury
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Priscilla of this Massachusetts capital is a popular wedding gown designer |
(Wayne: What is Springfield?)
Boston
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The procedures are based on the rules of this country's parliament |
Great Britain
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In November 1955 rear admiral Richard E. Byrd was named to head the program concerning this continent |
Antarctica
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In 1853 she wrote "A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" to defend the accuracy of the earlier book |
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Table Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic, forms this South African city's harbor |
Cape Town
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This radioactive element was discovered in & named for the "Golden State" |
californium
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Oleg Cassini is best known for the elegant fashions he created for this First Lady |
Jacqueline Kennedy
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After a meeting is called to order, these are read & approved or corrected |
the minutes (of the last meeting)
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This state added the 99th & 100th members to the U.S. Senate |
Hawaii
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In this Hemingway novelette, Santiago was once an arm wrestler called "El Campeon" |
The Old Man and the Sea
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The tomb of Babar, founder of India's Mogul Empire, is in this capital of Afghanistan |
Kabul
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This pair discovered polonium; francium was discovered by someone else |
the Curies (Pierre & Marie)
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No matter what country you live in, you can wear the French, Cuban or Spanish style of this shoe part |
a heel
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The essential officers are the president & this person; if money is collected, a treasurer is added |
the secretary
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On Sept. 8, 1954 the U.S., Australia & 6 other countries formed this mutual defense alliance |
SEATO
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Background for Dr. Kennicott in his 1920 novel "Main Street" was supplied by his father, a country doctor |
Sinclair Lewis
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When it was this country's capital, Trondheim was known as Nidaros |
(Wayne: What is Albania?)
Norway
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In the universe, it's second only to hydrogen in abundance & lightness |
(John: What is nitrogen?)
helium
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A sleeve style that's fitted at the bottom & puffed on top is named for this Shakespearean heroine |
Juliet
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To raise a question about an apparent violation of procedure, use this phrase |
point of order
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In 1953 Senator McCarthy charged this gov't radio network with sabotaging Eisenhower's foreign policy |
(Wayne: What is CBS?)
The Voice of America
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His "The Great Stone Face" appeared in the 1851 collection "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales" |
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Large oceangoing vessels can navigate this river as far as Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela |
(Wayne: What is the Amazon?)
the Orinoco
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The name of this noble gas is from a Greek word for "hidden" |
(Wayne: What is helium?) (Alex: If you were Superman, you would know this. What is [*]? [*].)
krypton
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The name of these long, wide pants implies that they're perfect for lounging in an Italian "palace" |
palazzo (pants)
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These regulations describe how an organization is set up & operated |
bylaws
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Truman was living here, not in the White House, when an attempt was made on his life November 1, 1950 |
Blair House
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This book by Sherwood Anderson tells 21 tales about the "grotesque" inhabitants of an Ohio town |
Winesburg, Ohio
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