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The Markoe flag, used during the Revolution, is believed to be the first to have had 13 stripes symbolizing these |
the original 13 colonies
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The origins of the U.S. Air Force go back to 1909, when this duo delivered the Army's first plane |
the Wright Brothers
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When it was founded in 1800, the Library of Congress was housed in this building |
the Capitol
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This element is named for the planet Uranus |
uranium
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This smallest of the world's oceans surrounds the North Pole |
the Arctic Ocean
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Brevard, Broward & Okeechobee are counties in this state |
Florida
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On their journey to the Pacific NW, this pair became the first to carry the flag across the continent |
Lewis & Clark
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On January 5, 1914 he instituted an 8-hour day & a $5 minimum daily wage at his auto plants |
Henry Ford
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One of England's oldest libraries, the Bodleian, opened at this university in 1602 |
Oxford
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This word for a dried grape comes from the Latin for a bunch of grapes, racemus |
raisin
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This current of the western N. Atlantic carries tropical water, keeping many N. European ports ice free |
the Gulf Stream
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The Hope Diamond is on display at the National Museum of Natural History, part of this institution |
the Smithsonian
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In 1963 the flag reached a high point when it was placed atop this highest mountain by James Whittaker |
Everest
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In 1930 a copy of this Joyce novel, sent from Paris to New York, was seized as obscene |
Ulysses
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The library of this state's Historical Society has the largest collection of papers of the Five Civilized Tribes |
(Eric: What's New York?)
Oklahoma
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The Greek stalassein, "to drip", gave us the names of both of these deposits found in caves |
stalagmites & stalactites
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Sailing under the Spanish flag, this Portuguese explorer named the Pacific Ocean for its peacefulness |
(Ira: Who is Balboa?)
Magellan
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It's the form of transportation on which Iowa legalized gambling in 1991 |
riverboats
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The 38-star or centennial flag was adopted after this state joined the Union in 1876 |
(Ira: What's California?)
Colorado
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At a 1976 convention in Philadelphia, 29 members of this group were felled by a flu-like disease |
(Ira: What's [*]' disease?)
Legionnaires
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Milan's Ambrosiana Library is famous for its Codex Atlanticus, a collection of his drawings & mss. |
[Alex reads "mss." as "manuscripts".]
da Vinci
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The name of this literary form comes from the Greek poiein, "to create" |
a poem
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Africa's Zambezi & Limpopo rivers empty into this ocean |
the Indian Ocean
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Romany is the native tongue of this "wandering" people |
the Gypsies
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The flag that flew for the longest time, 47 years, had this many stars |
48
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Ernest Gruening & Wayne Morse were the only senators to vote against this 1964 resolution |
the Gulf of Tonkin resolution
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The Natl. Library of Medicine in this Maryland community is the largest research library in a single scientific field |
(Linda: What is Baltimore?) (Alex: Nope, sorry. You picked the largest city in Maryland instead of [*].)
Bethesda
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You can trace the name of this type of evergreen tree back to the name Prussia |
the spruce
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The name of this island region of the Pacific means "tiny islands" |
Micronesia
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Giorgio Vasari designed what is now this famous Florentine museum around 1560 |
(Alex: Correct, for $500 more. Nicely done in that category.) (Ira: Thank you.) [No applause for Ira's run of the category]
the Uffizi
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