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In 1961 part of this Massachusetts cape was designated a National Seashore |
Cape Cod
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In computer terminology, a printout on paper is this type of copy |
hard copy
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260 of its crew of about 350 were killed February 15, 1898 |
the Maine
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Boccaccio & Dante helped popularize the Tuscan, or Florentine, form of this language |
Italian
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King Arthur's mortally wounded body was borne away to this island |
Avalon
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Discouraged, he left politics in 1953; 5 years later he was Premier of France |
(Charles) de Gaulle
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The Catskills & Poconos are part of this mountain system |
the Appalachians
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You need one of these, a secret string of characters, to log on to many computer systems |
a password
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It's the famous nickname of Col. Leonard Wood's regiment; many of them were cowboys |
the Rough Riders
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This national language is also known as Svensk |
Swedish
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Grace Metalious populated this town with Mackenzies & Harringtons |
Peyton Place
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Leslie Halliwell quoted him as saying, "Give me any couple of pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture" |
(Diane: Who is Leonardo da Vinci?) ... [Diane laughs.] (Alex: But Diane's response is kind of fun.) [Laughter]
(Cecil B.) De Mille
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At 95 feet, Vermont's lowest elevation is along this lake |
Lake Champlain
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On current IBM keyboards, these keys are marked F1 through F12 |
the function keys
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Spain started the peace talks through Jules Cambon, this country's ambassador in Washington |
France
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Wales has 2 official languages, but most of the people in Wales speak only this one |
English
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The island of Aeaea was home to this sorceress who taught Ulysses' men pig Greek |
(Allison: Who is Medea?) (Diane: Who is Calypso?)
Circe
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He died May 21, 1542, about a year after seeing the Mississippi for the first time |
(Alex: Minute to go.)
de Soto
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This arm of the Atlantic forms most of Connecticut's southern border |
Long Island Sound
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This "happy" type of input device is useful for playing computer games |
a joystick
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Under the peace treaty, Spain had to cede one of the Marianas Islands to the U.S.; they chose this one |
Guam
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This classical language of India & many other Indic languages are written in the Devanagari script |
(Nat: What is Hindi?)
Sanskrit
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Shakespeare called an island in this play Bermoothes, perhaps after the newly discovered Bermudas |
The Tempest
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This radio pioneer called his tube the Audion; today it's known as the Triode |
de Forest
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Nicknamed the "Sunshine City", it's located on the south end of Florida's Pinellas Peninsula |
St. Petersburg
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This device allows a computer to read a printed page or picture |
a scanner
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The famous line "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" was said during this battle |
(Diane: What is the Battle of San Juan Hill?)
the Battle of Manila Bay
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This American Indian linguist was a silversmith before he invented the Cherokee syllabary |
Sequoyah
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Going to the Celestial City in this book, one crosses the Slough of Despond |
The Pilgrim's Progress
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In 1969 this artificial heart pump inventor was appointed president of Baylor's School of Medicine |
(Michael) de Bakey
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