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Built in 1763, Touro Synagogue in Newport in this state is the USA's oldest Jewish house of worship |
Rhode Island
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The main job of the large intestine is to remove this liquid from undigested food matter |
water
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Several museums in this country, including Yad Vashem, are dedicated to Holocaust victims |
Israel
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Franz Werfel took refuge at Lourdes during WWII & vowed to write about this saint; he kept his promise |
(Guy: Who is Joan of Arc?)
St. Bernadette
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The name of this short skirt worn by ballet dancers is derived from French baby talk |
a tutu
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French for "record library", it's a nightclub using recorded music |
(Guy: What is a disco or [*]?)
a discotheque
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On January 5, 1776 this "Granite State" became the first of the 13 colonies to adopt its own constitution |
New Hampshire
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Chew bread long enough & it'll taste sweet, due to an enzyme in this secretion that breaks down carbs into sugar |
(Walt: What are digestive juices?) (Alex: [Hesitating] No.) (Walt: Gastric juices.)
saliva
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Opened in 1858, the U.S. National Museum was the first of this institution's museums |
the Smithsonian
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Born Mary Rainbow, she wrote "The Crystal Cave" under this name |
Mary Stewart
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In this basic movement, a ballet dancer bends the knees with the back kept straight |
a pliƩ
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It's a type of canoe, or a ballplayer's bench site |
a dugout
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This crop used to make tafia, a type of rum, was first grown in America in 1751 |
sugar cane
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Of 10, 30 or 100 feet, the length of the average adult digestive tract if stretched out in a line |
(Guy: What is 100 feet?)
30
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This Madrid museum dates from a 1785 commission by King Charles III |
the Prado
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William Styron set his first novel, "Lie Down in Darkness", in the Tidewater Region of this, his native state |
Virginia
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In this "West Side Story" choreographer's first ballet, "Fancy Free", the women didn't wear toe shoes |
Jerome Robbins
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It's an elderly, imposing woman, or a widow with an imposing estate |
a dowager
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In 1794 15,000 state militiamen were sent to Pennsylvania to crush this rebellion |
the Whiskey Rebellion
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Large fat globules are broken up by this fluid from the liver |
bile
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Ptolemy I founded this Egyptian city's Great Museum in the 3rd century B.C. |
Alexandria
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At the beginning of this Jerzy Kosinski novel, Chance is watering flowers |
Being There
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From 1980 until his resignation in 1989, he was artistic director of the American Ballet Theatre |
(Guy: Who is George Balanchine?)
Baryshnikov
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A mechanism for stopping the vibrations of a piano string, or something to regulate a fire |
a damper
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These 1798 acts allowed the arrest & deportation of foreigners deemed dangerous |
the Alien & Sedition Acts
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To neutralize this stomach acid, the pancreas adds bicarbonate |
hydrochloric acid
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The Pio-Clementine & Gregorian Etruscan Museums are parts of this museum |
(Walt: What's the Louvre?) (Guy: What is the Metropolitan Museum of Art?)
the Vatican Museum
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Appropriately, this 1985 John Irving novel had a picture of an apple on its cover |
The Cider House Rules
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In 1907's "Le Pavillon d'Armide", Vaslav Nijinsky played a slave & she played Armide |
Anna Pavlova
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In speech it's 1 syllable made of 2 vowels that gradually glide together, like the OI in boil |
a diphthong
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