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On March 25, 1994, the U.S. withdrew the last of its peace-keeping forces from this African country |
Somalia
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A lieutenant-general to Octavius in "Antony and Cleopatra", or a "bullish" sign of the zodiac |
Taurus
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This city lies on the Amstel River & its name means "dam of the Amstel" |
Amsterdam
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As of 1994 this governor had served over 11 years, longer than any other Democrat in the state's history |
Cuomo
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Ian Fleming devised his story about this evil doctor after visiting a flamingo colony in the Bahamas |
Doctor No
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The northern terminus of the canal is Port Said on this sea |
the Mediterranean
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In 1512 this king seized Navarre, bringing all of what is now Spain under his control |
Ferdinand
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Cinna shouts, "Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!" after this man is stabbed to death |
Julius Caesar
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Some of this city's finest museums are in Chapultepec Park |
Mexico City
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In 1795 this Supreme Court justice became the first & only Federalist governor of New York |
John Jay
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In "Disclosure" this "Rising Sun" author deals with sexual harassment |
(Pat: Who is Tom Clancy?)
Michael Crichton
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Unlike the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal has none of these raising or lowering devices |
locks
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After WWI this Polish port became a free city supervised by the League of Nations |
Danzig
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In Shakespeare's "Henry IV" plays, this future king is known as Prince Hal |
Henry V
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In 1364 King Albert added 3 little crowns to this Scandinavian country's coat of arms |
Sweden
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Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, he was one of the founders of the Whig Party in the 1830s |
(William Henry) Seward
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Some of the characters from "Scruples" are featured in her 1994 bestseller "Lovers" |
(Judith) Krantz
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The canal separates most of Egypt from this peninsula on its east bank |
the Sinai Peninsula
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He succeeded his mother, Queen Victoria, as the British monarch when she died Jan. 22, 1901 |
Edward VII
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One of his last lines is "I bear a charmed life, which must not yield to one of woman born" |
Macbeth
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German Crusaders founded this city in 1201; it's now the capital of Latvia |
Riga
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This "Happy Warrior" used "The Sidewalks of New York" as his 1928 presidential campaign theme |
(Tom: Uh, who is Franklin Roosevelt?)
Al Smith
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"The Silmarillion", sort of a prequel to his famous fantasy series, was published posthumously in 1977 |
Tolkien
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In 1956 the government of this Egyptian president nationalized the canal |
Nasser
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This largest city of Laos became an independent kingdom in the 1700s & part of French Laos in 1893 |
(Tom: What is "VEE-uh-tane"?) (Alex: I'm gonna get a ruling on that one. Try it again.) (Tom: Uh, what is, uh, "VEE-uh-tine"?) (Pat: What is "VEE-en-tane"?)
Vientiane
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Escalus, prince of this city, says, "For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo" |
Verona
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It's the only country in Central America whose official language is English |
(Jack: What is Panama?)
Belize
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In 1937 this future GOP governor was elected District Attorney in New York County |
Thomas Dewey
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His "Eye of the Needle" was published in England under the title "Storm Island" |
(Ken) Follett
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In the 1850s this Frenchman obtained rights to build the canal from the khedive of Egypt |
(Pat: Who is Napoleon?)
Ferdinand de Lesseps
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