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For her service in this war, Pennsylvania awarded Molly Pitcher a $40-a-year pension |
the Revolutionary War
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As reflected in her style, American artist Mary Cassatt studied with Impressionists in this city |
Paris
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After he wrote "Omoo" & "The Whale", he published a book of Civil War poems called "Battle-Pieces" |
Herman Melville
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Until 1949 Confucianism was this country's state religion |
China
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Bette Midler made her film debut as a ship passenger in this 1965 Michener island saga |
Hawaii
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As a Navy pilot during WWII, he named 4 of his planes this, in honor of his future wife |
Barbara
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Legend says Xilingshi, the wife of the Chinese emperor Huang-Ti, discovered this fiber |
silk
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Around 1535 Michelangelo began "The Last Judgment", a fresco on the wall of this room |
the Sistine Chapel
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"Mitla Pass" by this author of "Exodus" is a story of the 1956 Sinai war |
Leon Uris
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He's pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist church in Lynchburg, Virginia |
(Alex: And we've got one minute left in the round.)
Jerry Falwell
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This Oscar-winning 1959 film is partially set in the Valley of the Lepers |
Ben-Hur
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In 1966 Bush was elected to this, his 1st elected office |
Representative (Congressman)
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In 1972 she founded "Stop ERA" |
Phyllis Schlafly
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American folk artist whose 1st paintings were copies of Currier & Ives prints |
Grandma Moses
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He wrote 4 volumes of short stories including "Tales of the Jazz Age" & "All the Sad Young Men" |
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This religion had a marriage contract called a ketubah long before today's prenuptial pacts |
Judaism
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He played the seductive Vicomte de Valmont, whose life was full of "Dangerous Liaisons" |
John Malkovich
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In 1975 President Ford asked him to head this U.S. agency |
the CIA
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You've heard of a nine day wonder, well, she was nicknamed the "Nine Days' Queen" |
Lady Jane Grey
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It's the art of carving whalebone |
scrimshaw
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"The education of" this man is an autobiography of a grandson & greatgrandson of presidents |
Henry Adams
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Arabic for "struggle", it's an Islamic "holy war" whose primary purpose is to spread the faith |
jihad
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Elizabeth Taylor sang "Send In The Clowns" in this movie musical, & we're not clowning around |
A Little Night Music
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It took him only 3 years to earn a B.A. degree in economics at this university |
Yale
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Visiting her birthplace at 10 E. Oglethorpe in Savannah, Ga. won't get you a merit badge |
(Paul: Um, who was the woman who founded the Girl Scouts of America?) [Laughter] (Alex: We need a name.) (Paul: Um, who is, uh, Joan Collins?) [Laughter] (Alex: Close.)
Juliette Gordon Low
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Noted surrealist Rene Magritte was from this Low Country |
Belgium
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Author of "The Ambassadors", he's also known for his literary criticism such as "The Art of Fiction" |
Henry James
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Founded 7 years after the Franciscans, the Catholic order of preachers is better known by this name |
(Paul: What are the Jesuits?)
the Dominicans
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This German silent film about a vampire was remade with Klaus Kinski in 1979 |
Nosferatu
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In 1942 Mr. Bush graduated from Phillips Academy in this, his native state |
(Paul: What's Connecticut?) (Jack: What's New Hampshire?)
Massachusetts
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