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This style of music is featured at the Bix Beiderbecke Festival held each July in Davenport, Iowa |
(Richard: What is polka?)
jazz
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When gypsum loses most of its water, it changes into this white powder used in making casts |
plaster of Paris
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This Mongol's father, Yesugei, was the Borjigin tribe's chief |
Genghis Khan
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Thorstein Veblen applied this man's theory of evolution to the modern industrial system |
Darwin
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In "Son of the Morning Star", Evan S. Connell gives an account of this general's last stand |
Custer
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Any lad could probably tell you BSA stands for this organization |
the Boy Scouts of America
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Griffin's Wharf, the site of this 1773 Boston event, is no longer on the waterfront |
the Boston Tea Party
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This rock used in building the Lincoln Memorial was supplied by Colorado, Georgia, Tennessee & Alabama |
marble
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In May 1588 the 130-ship Spanish Armada gathered in this Portuguese port |
Lisbon
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Jeremy Bentham's utilitarianism is concerned with this, once defined as "a warm puppy" |
happiness
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This comedienne discusses her career, her marriage & the death of her husband, Edgar, in "Still Talking" |
Joan Rivers
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In the address on a letter, RFD stands for this |
rural free delivery
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When people in Los Angeles speak of "The Valley", they mean this one |
the San Fernando Valley
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This soft black mineral, a form of carbon, is the primary raw material for synthetic diamonds |
graphite
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In December 1989 Guillermo Endara was instated as president of this Central American country |
(Dave: What is... Nicaragua?)
Panama
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David Ricardo said workers' attempts to raise these are futile; they will always stay at subsistence levels |
wages
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Cecil Woodham-Smith's 1962 book "The Great Hunger" was a study of this 1840s calamity in Europe |
the potato famine
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In chess N refers to this piece |
the knight
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Litchfield & Fairfield are 2 of only 8 counties in this state |
(Richard: What's Rhode Island?)
Connecticut
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The name of this purple variety of quartz is Greek for "not intoxicated" |
amethyst
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This Dutchman discovered the Fiji Islands & an island off Australia's southern coast |
(Abel) Tasman
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Adam Smith's 1776 book was "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of" this |
(Dave: What is Growths of Nations?)
The Wealth of Nations
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Charles Lindbergh won a 1954 Pulitzer Prize for this book about his historic solo flight |
(Dave: What is Eagle?)
The Spirit of St. Louis
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This British hereditary title is abbreviated bart. |
baronet
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The Shenandoah River empties into this river at Harpers Ferry |
the Potomac
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Famous deposits of this mineral can be found in western Kansas & Dover, England |
(Dave: What is... limestone?)
chalk
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In 1963, in Addis Ababa, delegates from 30 nations founded this association, the OAU |
the Organization of African Unity
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In 1940 he published "How to Pay for the War" & in 1942 he was made a baron |
(John Maynard) Keynes
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In 1946 this first woman cabinet member published "The Roosevelt I Knew" |
(Alex: We have less than a minute to go.)
Frances Perkins
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Acet. is this organic solvent |
acetone
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