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Evidence suggests that the dinosaurs died out after one of these, 6 miles in diameter, struck the Earth |
(David: What is [*] or comet? [*].)
a meteorite
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Lyricist Paul Williams co-wrote the Oscar-winning song "Evergreen" with this actress |
Barbra Streisand
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Wallace Saunders was on this engineer's crew when the train crashed; later, he wrote a ballad about it |
(David: What is "The Old 97"?)
Casey Jones
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Gus Grissom was the first to make a second flight; James Lovell was the first to fly here twice |
to the Moon
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This Finnish capital was founded by the King of Sweden in 1550 |
Helsinki
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This TV series inspired the novel "Gin and Daggers"; Jessica Fletcher is listed as one of its authors |
Murder, She Wrote
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It's believed the continents as a single mass were surrounded by a single one of these called Panthalassa |
an ocean
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Not wanting to capitalize on his brother George's fame, he once used the pseudonym Arthur Francis |
Ira Gershwin
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Robert Russa Moton, a former houseboy, succeeded him as president of Tuskegee Institute |
(David: Who is George Washington Carver?)
Booker T. Washington
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This man who was on the Apollo 14 Moon landing was also the first American in space |
(H.: Who is John Glenn?)
Shepard
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This city stretches over 7 hills on the north shore of Portugal's Tagus River estuary |
Lisbon
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This character, not Dr. Watson, narrates "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier" |
Sherlock Holmes
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A continental collision about 250 million years ago may have created these mountains between Europe & Asia |
(David: What are the Caucasus?)
the Urals
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Musical comedies for which he wrote the lyrics include "Show Boat", "Oklahoma" & "Carousel" |
(Oscar) Hammerstein
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Robert & John Kennedy helped this man get out of a Georgia jail in 1960 |
Martin Luther King
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Its first crew of Conrad, Kerwin & Weitz had to repair this station after it had been damaged when sent aloft |
Skylab
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Much in the news in 1992, this city is the capital of Bosnia- Hercegovina |
Sarajevo
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The title of her novel "The Mirror Crack'd" is a quote from Tennyson's poem "The Lady of Shalott" |
Agatha Christie
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The Earth's crust was formed during a period called the Azoic Era, meaning "without" this |
animals (life)
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In the 1948 film biography "Words and Music", Mickey Rooney portrayed this partner of Richard Rodgers |
(Sean: Who is Hammerstein?)
(Lorenz) Hart
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This Texas congresswoman was on the committee that said Nixon should be impeached |
Barbara Jordan
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Robert Crippen has been on 4 shuttle flights: 1 on the first shuttle, Columbia, & 3 on this one |
Challenger
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The capital of this grand duchy has the same name as the country itself |
Luxembourg
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Not surprisingly, Philip Nore, the leading character in his book "Reflex", is a jockey |
(David: Who is... uh... some mystery writer, I don't know this.) ... (Alex: I think H. might know.)
Dick Francis
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The white chalk cliffs of Dover were formed during this period whose name means "chalk" |
Cretaceous
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Broadway shows written by this composer/ lyricist include "Anything Goes", "Can-Can" & "Silk Stockings" |
Cole Porter
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Matthew Henson is famous for planting a flag on this part of the world |
the North Pole
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During the October 1984 shuttle mission, Kathryn Sullivan became the first U.S. woman to do this |
walk in space
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Ostend is this country's largest city on the North Sea |
Belgium
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The 2 Raymond Chandler novels that have synonyms for "adios" in their titles |
Farewell, My Lovely & The Long Goodbye
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