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Frankish king whose 1-word name meant "Charles the Great" |
Charlemagne
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Breezy name for the trachea |
the windpipe
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Completes the advice of Wilson Meisner "Be nice to people on your way up because..." |
(Ron: [*].) (Alex: Remember to phrase it.)
"you'll meet them again on your way down"
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1st governor of the Commonwealth, he lived 24 years after asking for "liberty or death" |
Patrick Henry
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Ancient Mediterranean civilization where most theater performers were slaves |
(Patrick: What is Greece?) (Barbara: What is Egypt?) ... (Alex: The Greeks used professionally paid performers.)
Rome
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Species of them are rufus & lupus |
wolves
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Tradition says only 1 of some 30,000 French children returned from this 1212 misadventure |
the Children's Crusade
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If you have hydrocephalus, you've got water in it, not on it |
the brain
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"I love fools' experiments; I'm always making them," said this author of "The Origin of Species" |
Charles Darwin
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The 1st capital, it was also the 1st real city |
(Patrick: What is Norfolk?) (Ron: What is Richmond?)
Jamestown
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Used to replace candles & oil lamps around 1850, now it means being the center of attention |
in the limelight
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Of "who", "what", "when", "where", "why" & "how", the one that's a United Nations agency |
who
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Position held by Thomas a Becket when he was murdered by agents of King Henry II |
Archbishop of Canterbury
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This thin plate of flexible cartilage protects the glottis during swallowing |
the epiglottis
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The 1st line of Ann & Jane Taylor's 1806 poem "The Star" |
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star"
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Their Langley Research Center & Wallops Station are in Va., though installations in Fla. & Tex. are better known |
NASA
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On Broadway in 1950, you could have called her "Madam" |
Ethel Merman
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Borough of Greater London, this "city" contains number 10 Downing Street & a famous abbey |
(Alex: One minute to go in the round.)
Westminster
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Dynasty which ruled Austria from 1278-1918, also ruling Spain & the Holy Roman Empire for 100s of years |
the Hapsburgs
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If you're in a state of ketosis, your body burns this instead of glucose |
(Ron: What are...) (Alex: Hurry.) (Ron: ...ketones?)
fat
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Before the fight with him, June 28, 1939, "Two-Ton" Tony Galento bragged, "I'll moider de bum" |
(Alex: Well, he didn't succeed in murdering [*]. As a matter of fact, [*] defeated a lot of opponents who became known as the bum of the month.)
Joe Louis
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Warm Springs, Hot Springs, & Healing Springs are in this aptly named county |
Bath
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"The Drunkard", called by W.C. Fields "The Greatest Show on Earth", was presented by this showman in 1843 |
P.T. Barnum
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Pope Victor I replaced this with Latin for the official Roman Catholic Church language |
Greek
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At the Battle of Hastings, this last Anglo-Saxon king died, it's said, from an arrow in his eye |
Harold
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Diabetes & hypoglycemia are both disorders of this system |
the endocrine system
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Around 500 B.C., Heraclitus said, "Nothing endures but..." this |
change
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New city founded in 1961, 18 miles west of Washington, D.C., it's not "takin' it easy" |
Reston, Virginia
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2 types are teasers & tormentors |
(Patrick: What are coming attractions?)
curtains
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Common name for a rhyme scheme of 5 feet of alternating unaccented & accented syllables |
iambic pentameter
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