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On January 21, 1977 Jimmy Carter pardoned most draft evaders of this war |
Vietnam
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This carpenter & husband of Mary was a direct descendant of King David |
Joseph
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CNN won a 1990 Peabody Award for its all hour coverage of this crisis |
Desert Storm (the Persian Gulf crisis)
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Napoleon met his on June 18, 1815 |
Waterloo
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Besides "White Fang", this author wrote science fiction works like "The Star Rover" |
Jack London
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The quotes "Iacta alea est" & "Veni, Vidi, Vici" are his |
Julius Caesar
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As of 1808 Congress prohibited the further importation of these from Africa |
slaves
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After undergoing this rite, Jesus "saw the spirit of God descending like a dove" |
baptism
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In 1980 Patti Lupone & Mandy Patinkin both won Tonys for this musical, so don't cry for them |
Evita
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This Hun's only defeat, in 451, is sometimes called the Battle of Maurica--no one is sure where it was |
Attila
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His novel "Lord of the Flies" was rejected by 21 publishers before 1 accepted it |
(William) Golding
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"Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir. Amen", he told the Diet |
(David: Uh, who is Hitler?) ... (Alex: “Here stand I. I can do no other. God help me. Amen".)
Martin Luther
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In 1900 it became an "unorganized" U.S. territory; in 1952 it became a commonwealth |
Puerto Rico
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In Revelation this archangel leads other angels in a fight against the dragon |
(Barbara: Who is Gabriel?)
Michael
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Carleton Mabee's "The American Leonardo: The Life of" this inventor & artist won a 1944 Pulitzer |
Samuel Morse
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Key battles in this turn of the century war include Kimberley, Mafeking & Pretoria |
(Alex: In South Africa.)
the Boer War
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Contemptuous of "Peter Pan", he wrote "Androcles and the Lion" to show Barrie how it's done |
George Bernard Shaw
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"Eppur si muove", he said after recanting his belief that the Earth moves around the Sun |
(David: Who is Copernicus?)
Galileo
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In 1894 Eugene Debs led the American Railway Union in boycotting this company's railway cars |
Pullman
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This discourse which appears in Matthew 5-7 contains the Beatitudes & the Lord's Prayer |
the Sermon on the Mount
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His "The New York Times International Cookbook" won a Tastemaker Award from R.T. French in 1972 |
(Jack: Who is Beard?)
Craig Claiborne
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This country's fleet won a May 27-28, 1905 battle & lost one October 25, 1944 |
(Jack: What are the Philippines?) (David: What is Russia?)
Japan
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This author of "The Man Without a Country" was a Massachusetts Unitarian minister |
(Edward Everett) Hale
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"La historia me absolvera", he said after the failed attack on the Moncada Barracks |
(Alex: History may absolve him, maybe--who is [*]?)
Fidel Castro
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The Republican Party was founded in 1854 partly as a reaction against this act named for 2 territories |
(Alex: Now fess up, Jack, did you just pull those states out of a hat?) (Jack: Did not have a clue.) [Laughter] (Alex: Well, you must've known somewhere back there.)
the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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It's the shortest of the gospels & probably the first written |
(Alex: We've got about a minute to go.)
Mark
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In 1970 Paul Samuelson became the first American to win a Nobel Prize for this |
(Alex: Barbara, fess up, you did the same thing Jack did?) [Barbara nods and laughs] (Alex: You just pulled it out of thin air.)
economics
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This Canadian city fell after a long siege & was surrendered by the French September 18, 1759 |
Quebec
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"The Marble Faun", set in Rome, was the last novel he completed |
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"We twa hae run about the braes, and pu'd the Gowans fine: but we've wander'd mony a weary fit, sin'" this |
[Alex reads "wander'd" as "meandered" and corrects himself prior to revealing the Final Jeopardy! clue.] (Alex: In [*], Rabbie Burns.)
Auld Lang Syne
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