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BEAUTY QUEENS & PAGEANT WINNERS |
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At age 7 he was a captain's servant; at age 33, he commanded the Bounty |
(Lt. William) Bligh
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When she was Miss S.D., this "Entertainment Tonight" co-host was known as Mary Johanna Harum |
Mary Hart
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This noble gas, symbol Xe, was discovered by William Ramsay & Morris Travers in 1898 |
xenon
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The fastest marsupial recorded was a female eastern grey one of these, clocked at 40 mph |
a kangaroo
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This Lexington Avenue landmark is affectionately known as Bloomie's |
Bloomingdale's
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Ferocious fish (7) |
piranha
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This U.S. president was nicknamed the "Sword of the Revolution" |
Washington
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This "Alfie" star's wife Shakira is a former Miss Guyana |
Michael Caine
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For a person who's fainted, preparations of this nitrogen compound are used as smelling salts |
ammonia
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The earliest map, dating to c. 2250 B.C., depicts this river flowing through northern Mesopotamia |
(Mike: What is the Tigris?)
the Euphrates
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The Gotham Miniature Golf Course in this famous park features scale models of NYC landmarks |
Central Park
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Silent performance (9) |
pantomime
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As a young man Shah Jahan rebelled against his father Jahangir, the 4th Mogul emperor of this country |
India
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Donny & Marie's niece Amy Osmond, America's Junior Miss 1994, represented this state in the pageant |
Utah
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To prevent nitrogen narcosis, divers sometimes breathe a mixture of oxygen & this second-lightest gas |
helium
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Other than Antarctica, this Danish possession is the world's most sparsely populated territory |
Greenland
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Bill Clinton's daughter may know that much of this district was once owned by poet Clement Clarke Moore |
Chelsea
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Police hangout (8) |
precinct
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Lord Roberts, also known as "Bobs", made his famous march to Pretoria during this war |
the boer War
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This actress who played Phyllis on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" was a runner-up for Miss America in 1946 |
Cloris Leachman
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Because of its very hot flame, this gas, C2H2, is used in metal cutting & welding |
acetylene
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The largest brass instrument, a tuba, was built for a tour by this American band leader & composer |
(John Philip) Sousa
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He agreed to finance construction of a concert hall while on his honeymoon cruise in 1887 |
Carnegie
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Luggage carrier (6) |
porter
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In October 1483 he was appointed Grand Inquisitor for Aragon, Catalonia & Valencia |
Torquemada
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This blonde co-host of "CBS This Morning" was a finalist in the 1973 Miss American Teenager Pageant |
Paula Zahn
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Because it's found around stagnant water & swamps, this gas is sometimes called "marsh gas" |
methane
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This language has the largest vocabulary: about 616,500 words plus some 400,000 technical terms |
English
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The name of this chic restaurant in the Seagram Building reminds us of Vivaldi |
The Four Seasons
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Rice region (5) |
(Alex: Well done in this category.) [Applause]
paddy
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