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This largest planet is also the fastest-spinning |
Jupiter
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In 1993 this New York school's Press celebrated its 100th anniversary & the 5th edition of its encyclopedia |
Columbia
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In 1979 it was the site of the worst nuclear accident in the history of the U.S. |
Three Mile Island
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It's the flavor of the ice cream known as glace au cafe |
coffee
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This European capital's Brandenburg Gate was completed in 1791 |
Berlin
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She thought she'd ruined her novel "The Hollow" by putting in Poirot, so she cut him out of the play |
Agatha Christie
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This planet has 2 "hot poles" that can reach 800° F. |
Mercury
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Founded in 1865, this Ithaca university is the newest member of the Ivy League |
Cornell
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In 1917 James Montgomery Flagg designed a famous recruitment poster depicting this U.S. symbol |
Uncle Sam
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These cloves are an essential ingredient in beurre de Provence |
garlic
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1 of the 10 largest cities in the world is this one in South Korea's Han Basin |
Seoul
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Ann Radcliffe was famous for novels in this "architectural" genre, such as "The Mysteries of Udolpho" |
Gothic novels
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Radar maps of this planet, from the Magellan probe, show a tortured volcanic surface |
Venus
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This Baltimore university maintains a campus for international studies in Bologna, Italy |
Johns Hopkins
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In 1958 this company produced its one millionth electric typewriter |
(Paul: What is Remington?)
IBM
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Used as a garnish, oeufs files are these, poached to make them form long threads |
eggs
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Hamilton, the largest city on this Atlantic island, is located at the head of great sound |
Bermuda
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Dorothy Parker wrote some of the lyrics for this Leonard Bernstein musical based on a Voltaire novel |
Candide
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Charon does not orbit this planet; they both orbit a point between them |
(Joanne: What is Saturn?)
Pluto
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In 1795 this school at Chapel Hill became the first state university to open |
the University of North Carolina
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His 11th child, Rory Elizabeth Katherine, was born December 12, 1968, 6 months after his death |
Robert Kennedy
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Fontainebleau, a soft, cow's-milk type of this dairy product, is often served with sugar for dessert |
cheese
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This peninsula juts southward between Algeciras Bay & the open Mediterranean |
Gibraltar
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This creator of Hans Brinker was the daughter of scientist & inventor James Jay Mapes |
Mary Mapes Dodge
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Atmospheric methane makes this planet discovered in 1846 look blue |
(Paul: What's Uranus?) (Joanne: What is Pluto?) ... (Alex: We have less than a minute to go.)
Neptune
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Opened in 1697, the oldest building on this U.S. campus is named for Sir Christopher Wren |
(Paul: What is Harvard?)
the College of William & Mary
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In 1925 this explorer who claimed to have reached the North Pole was imprisoned for mail fraud |
(Pete: Who is Peary?)
Frederick Cook
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Escoffier's veloute aux grenouilles is a buttery soup made with 15 or 20 of these amphibian parts |
frogs' legs
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This capital of the country of Georgia was formerly called Tiflis, its name in Russian |
Tbilisi
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She dedicated "La Force de l'Age", the 2nd volume of her autobiography, to Jean-Paul Sartre |
Simone de Beauvoir
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