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While ice cream came from the Old World, these 2 most popular flavorings came from the New |
(Alex: And we have a minute left in the round.)
chocolate & vanilla
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In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus warned of false prophets which come to you in this clothing |
sheep's clothing
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It was the only battleship permanently lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor |
the Arizona
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An archaic phrase, "alack the day", gave rise to this word meaning "lacking spirit" |
lackadaisical
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Both Robert Louis Stevenson & Sir Walter Scott were born in this Scottish capital |
Edinburgh
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He was nicknamed "The Wielder of the Big Stick" |
Theodore Roosevelt
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Both the bell & chili varieties of these were taken to Europe |
peppers
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The book of 2 Chronicles says it was on Mount Moriah that he built his temple |
Solomon
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This nation in the British Isles was the only member of the British Commonwealth to stay out of WWII |
Ireland
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This Australian mammal gets its name from the Greek for "flat-footed" |
the platypus
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Her career as a children's book writer & illustrator effectively ended with her marriage in 1913 |
Beatrix Potter
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In the 1840s, all 4 of this president's grandparents left Kentucky for what's now Kansas City, Mo. |
Truman
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Catherine the Great pushed this as an antidote to famine & vodka soon followed |
the potato
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In Exodus, it's the 10th & final plague brought upon Egypt |
the death of the first-born sons
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On June 6, 1944, the armies of Operation Overlord stormed ashore at this region in N.W. France |
Normandy
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This consomme was named for the city of Madrid |
Madrilène
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Contemptuous of "Peter Pan", he wrote "Androcles & the Lion" to show Barrie "how it's done" |
Shaw
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In his Mar. 4, 1901 inaugural address, he said that the US & Cuba must remain close friends |
William McKinley
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Columbus took back this vegetable, calling it most tasty boiled, roasted or ground into flour |
corn
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In every listing in the New Testament of Jesus' female followers, she is mentioned first |
Mary Magdalene
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On Sept. 28, 1939, Germany & this country signed a treaty dividing Poland between them |
the USSR
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The name of this muse of dancing comes from 2 Greek words for "delight" & "dance" |
Terpsichore
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In Hampstead, Britain, you can visit the garden where he heard the nightingale that inspired his ode |
Keats
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After serving as US President, he became rector of the University of Virginia in 1826 |
(Diane: Who is James Monroe?) (Jose: Who is Thomas Jefferson?)
James Madison
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Since the Ital. "pomodoro" means "golden apple", the 1st of these to reach Eur. were probably yellow |
tomatoes
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The 7th & 8th books of the New Testament are Paul's epistles to these Greek Christians |
the Corinthians
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Located 1,300 miles N.W. of Hawaii, it was the site of a major American naval victory over Japan in '42 |
Midway
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This adjective for a melancholy disposition comes from the planet which is said to cause that temperament |
(Diane: What is mercurial?) (Alex: No, sorry. What is [*]? From Saturn. Brooding Saturn.)
Saturnine
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He took the title of his novel, "The Razor's Edge", from the Katha Upanishad, a Hindu text |
(Jose: Who is Graham Greene?)
Somerset Maugham
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In 1833, this president forced removal of the federal deposits from the vaults of the Bank of the U.S. |
Andrew Jackson
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