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In 1795 he defended the Tuileries with cannon fire that became known as the "Whiff of Grapeshot" |
Napoleon
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This U.S. agency assigns call letters to radio & TV stations |
the FCC
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This canal is approached from the Atlantic side via Limon Bay |
the Panama Canal
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This tree is sometimes called the Douglas spruce |
the Douglas fir
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This George Orwell work includes an appendix on "The Principles of Newspeak" |
1984
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The Pope heads the Roman Catholic Church, followed by the cardinals, then these clergymen |
(arch)bishops
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In 1769 & 1770 he surveyed the coast of New Zealand, proving it wasn't part of a southern continent |
(Mark: Who is Tasman?)
Capt. Cook
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Rank of the top officer in the Salvation Army |
general
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Principal Indian ports of this bay include Calcutta & Madras |
(Charlie: What is Madras--um?)
the Bay of Bengal
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Socrates died after he drank a potion made from this poisonous plant |
hemlock
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He set his story "The Gold-Bug" on South Carolina's Sullivans Island |
Poe
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Moving from the inside of the Earth outward, it's the core, the mantle & this |
the crust
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At his death in 1775, Prithvi Narayan Shah had conquered most of what is now this Himalayan kingdom |
Nepal
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A club devoted to this TV series includes chapters named for Barney & the Mayberry Sheriff's Dept. |
The Andy Griffith Show
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The Poles call this river the Wisla |
the Vistula
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Winterberry is a variety of this shrub that's popular at Christmas |
(Mark: What is mistletoe?)
holly
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This book about the patients of a psychiatric ward was Ken Kesey's first novel |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Moving up the line of winning poker hands, it's one pair, two pair, three of a kind, then this |
(Mark: What's a full house?) (Susan: What is four of a kind?) ... (Alex: [*], flush, then a full house.)
a straight
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In 1745 her husband Francis Stephen, became Holy Roman Emperor as Francis I |
(Charlie: Who is Marie Antoinette?)
Maria Teresa
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The 2 branches of advanced masonry are the York Rite & this rite |
the Scottish Rite
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The Gulf of Trieste is a northern extension of this arm of the Mediterranean |
the Adriatic
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The gebang palm, whose large leaves are used for thatching, is native to this Se Asian peninsula |
the Malay Peninsula
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Katherine Anne Porter's last book, "The Never- Ending Wrong" deals with the 1920s legal case of this pair |
Sacco & Vanzetti
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Seen on ascending U.S. currency, it's Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Hamilton, this man |
(Andrew) Jackson
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The American Thoracic Society is the medical arm of this organization founded in 1904 |
(Charlie: What is the Red Cross?)
the American Lung Association
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The Lukuga River is the only outlet of this deepest African lake |
(Susan: What is Lake Victoria?)
Lake Tanganyika
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Epiphytes are popularly called these because they don't root in the ground |
(Mark: What are air ferns?) ... (Alex: We have less than a minute to go, Charlie.)
air plants
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William Kennedy turned his nonfiction study of Albany's street people into this Pulitzer-winning novel |
Ironweed
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Alben, Richard, Lyndon, Hubert,.... |
(Mark: Uh, who is Carl?) (Alex: No, these were the first names of various vice presidents of the Unites States--Alben Barkley, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey and [*] Agnew.) [The clue ended with four dots.] ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Spiro
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