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A big wheel at the fair, usually the biggest wheel there |
A Ferris wheel
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After he flew to Paris, he flew another 22,350 miles to campaign for air mail & more airports |
Charles Lindbergh
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A recent study indicates 22-40% of lightning flashes occur without this being heard |
thunder
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In 1986, 10 years after Polaroid filed suit, this company got out of the instant camera business |
Kodak
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Calvados is a brandy made of this fruit |
apples
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It's a flute without keys that's played in military bands |
a fife
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A long narrow inlet of the sea in Norway, have you driven one lately? |
a fjord
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This university at Chapel Hill was established as the 1st state university in the U.S. |
the University of North Carolina
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A slippery mixture of falling rain & snow |
sleet
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On the standard scale of shutter speeds, the number 250 stands for this length of time |
a 250th of a second
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This term refers to the year in which the wine's grapes were grown & harvested |
the vintage
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The machine that grinds grain, or the building in which its contained |
(Jeff: What is [**]?)
a mill (a gristmill)
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A fancy name for it would be the violinist crab |
a fiddler crab
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The 1st German settlers in America settled in this Mid-Atlantic colony |
Pennsylvania
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This term for a tropical cyclone is the Far East equivalent of a "hurricane" |
a typhoon
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Anthony Suau of the Denver Post won a 1984 Pulitzer for his photos of mass starvation in this nation |
Ethiopia
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This grain makes up 51% of the mash from which bourbon is distilled |
corn
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In Greece, 100 lepta equal 1 of these |
a drachma
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Canadian John McCrae wrote a poem about this American cemetery in Belgium |
Flanders Fields
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When the transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, this Calif. city was the western terminus |
(Jeff: What is San Francisco?)
Sacramento
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High wet winds from the tropics mixing with dry ground air help create these Arizona "black blizzards" |
sand storms (dust storms)
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In taking a photo, the depth of field can be controlled by adjusting the size of this |
(Christopher: What is f-stop?)
the size of the lens opening (the aperture)
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Trader Vic's recommends a skull mug for this liquor when served hot & buttered |
rum
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The marimba originated on this continent & later became a popular folk instrument in Central America |
Africa
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Hamlet moaned, "O! that this too too solid" stuff "would melt" |
flesh
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This school, the oldest public school in America, opened February 13,1635 in Boston |
(Christopher: What is Harvard?)
(the) Boston Latin (School)
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Reason that Atlantic hurricanes usually last longer than Pacific hurricanes |
(Catherine: What is... the fact that there's more land mass?)
warmer water in the Atlantic
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In 1984 the Supreme Court upheld a law forbidding the printing of realistic photos of this |
U.S currency
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1 layer each of grenadine, green creme de menthe, maraschino liqueur, brandy, Chartreuse, creme de violette |
a pousse-café
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Peas can improve soil by taking this gaseous element from the air binding it to their roots |
(Jeff: What is carbon dioxide?)
nitrogen
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