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Shot for hides, 3,500 tons of their bones were hauled by the Santa Fe railroad in 1874 |
buffalo
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Oak Park, a Chicago suburb, has been called a museum of his Prairie School style of architecture |
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Return of the Killer tomatoes", 1988 sequel to this "classic", grossed a whopping $20,000 |
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
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Sappho of Lesbos was considered the best lyric poet of this ancient civilization |
the Greek civilization
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On T\/'s "Get Smart", this was the number of the agent who gave birth to twins |
99
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She was tried under procedures of this tribunal, often associated with Spain |
the Inquisition
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In the old West if an outlaw died of "hemp fever", he died in this way |
hanging
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The Romans used colored stone or glass backed by gold foil to make these intricate art works |
mosaics
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When Gene Kelly broke an ankle, he came out of retirement to stroll down the avenue in "Easter Parade" |
Fred Astaire
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Lady Sei Shonagon wrote "Pillow Book", gossipy stories considered a classic in this country |
Japan
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Amazingly on July 8, 1987 the Dodgers lost this many baseball games in St. Louis |
3
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Joan's executioner said afterwards he found this intact amid her ashes |
(Cathy: What is her crucifix?) ... (Alex: Not fast enough, Suzi.)
her heart
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In 1891 this was discovered in Poverty Gulch, Colorado by Robert Womack, a cowboy who died in poverty |
gold
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After the Great Fire of London, he oversaw the rebuilding of 51 churches in addition to St. Paul's |
(Cathy: Who is Christopher Marlowe?) ... (Alex: [*] was the architect; Marlowe was the author.)
Christopher Wren
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In "Beaches", 46-year-old Lanie Kazan plays the mother of this 43-year-old |
Bette Midler
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In "A Christmas Carol", it's described as a jolly giant wearing a simple green robe with white fur |
(Suzi: Who is the Ghost of Christmas Past?)
the Ghost of Christmas Present
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WWI doughboys used to say this many "Frenchmen can't be wrong", even though there weren't that many |
(Suzi: What is a million?)
50 million
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Group of California-bound settlers who made the fatal mistake of taking the "Hastings Cut-Off" in 1846 |
the Donner party
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These fantastic figures, human & animal, were so named because they were 1st found in a grotto |
(Suzi: What were the cave paintings?)
grotesques
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In 1947 he played Macy's Santa both on film & in its Thanksgiving parade |
(Cathy: Who is Gene Lockhart?)
Edmund Gwenn
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The last name of this squire who served Don Quixote means "paunch" |
(Sancho) Panza
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Number of "lords a-leaping" in the song "The Twelve Days Of Christmas" |
(Suzi: What is 11?)
10
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During the peak year, 1871, Texans drove about 600,000 cattle north to Abilene, Kansas on this route |
(Steve: What is the Wichita Trail?) ... (Alex: Less than a minute to go.)
the Chisholm Trail
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Mies van der Rohe designed a famous chair that shares its name with this Spanish city |
(Suzi: What is a Breuer chair?) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Barcelona chair
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"Hercules" & "Hercules Unchained" starring this muscleman are available, uncut, on home video |
Steve Reeves
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You can see this, the most famous of the Irish illuminated manuscripts, at Trinity College in Dublin |
the Book of Kells
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In Italian art & literature "quattrocentro refers to the style of this century |
(Steve: What is the 14th century?)
the 15th
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