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Between 1925 & 1961, the city of Volgograd was known as this |
Stalingrad
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In Alexandra Ripley's sequel to the story, she & Rhett Butler finally have a happy ending |
Scarlett O'Hara
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They include those of the persistent friend, the expectant steward, & the good Samaritan |
parables
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Babs is a short form of this name |
Barbara
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This instrument of execution was adopted by the government in 1792 |
the guillotine
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If you're a card-carrying member of the ACLU, you belong to this organization |
the American Civil Liberties Union
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Baron Friedrich von Steuben wintered here in 1777; in 1976, it was made a national historical park |
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
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In "Uncle Tom's Cabin", her full name is Evangeline St. Clare |
Little Eva
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It's the name of a man raised from the dead, as well as a beggar at the gate of a rich man |
Lazarus
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Trudy is a nickname of this old German name which means "spear" & "strength" |
Gertrude
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The revolution ended in November of 1799 when he seized control & became First Consul |
(Lois: Who is Robespierre?)
Napoleon
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In Wall Street lingo, the AMEX is this |
the American Stock Exchange
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Arabic for black, it's the name of both the large area south of the Sahara & the largest country in Africa |
(Agatha: What is Zaire?) ... (Alex: Zaire, I think, is the second largest country in Africa, & it's just behind [*], the [*].) [NOTE: Alex corrected himself before Final Jeopardy, stating that Algeria is the second largest.]
Sudan
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In a sequel to "Little Women", she marries Professor Fritz Bayer & helps him set up a boys school |
Jo
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Paul was in Ephesus when he wrote his first letter to these people & was in Macedonia for the second |
the Corinthians
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The Latin word for lion; it was the name of 13 popes |
Leo
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Known as "the Incorruptible", he helped institute the Reign of Terror |
Robespierre
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This island group is abbreviated AZO |
the Azores
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The Spanish founded this capital of Honduras in the 16th century as a mining center |
Tegucigalpa
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The first mystery solved by this teen detective was "The Secret of the Old Clock" |
Nancy Drew
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Mark reports that about 2,000 of these animals filled with demons drowned themselves |
swine
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The feminine form of Dennis; it means adherent of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine |
Denise
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The revolutionists called her "the Widow Capet" |
Marie Antoinette
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This fraction of a Deutsche Mark is abbreviated pf. |
a pfennig
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The Cathedral of Notre Dame in this Belgian port city contains three paintings by Rubens |
Antwerp
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After stealing a piece of silk, this Daniel Defoe heroine is convicted & sent to Virginia |
Moll Flanders
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Matthew says that besides Jesus, this disciple walked on the water until he got scared & sank |
Peter
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Winston Churchill & Charlie Chaplin shared this middle name |
Spencer
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This political group got its name from a monastery that stood in the Rue Saint-Jacques |
the Jacobins
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In computers, ROM is this |
read-only memory
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