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He's the Dr. who wrote "Problems of Parents" & "Baby's First Year" |
Dr. Spock
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Cyrus the Great captured Babylon in 539 B.C. & this Great guy took it in 331 B.C. |
Alexander the Great
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At a mean distance of 67 million miles, it's the second planet from the sun |
Venus
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Welcoming his fourth child in November 2001, this former "Spin City" star is big on "Family Ties" |
Michael J. Fox
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In 1774 this English captain reached 71 deg., 10 min. south latitude -- the most southerly point then achieved |
Captain Cook
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The B & N in bn.com stand for these 2 names |
Barnes & Noble
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...developed a maneuver for choking victims & performed the first total organ replacement, an esophagus |
Heimlich
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Etemenanki, a ziggurat, is sometimes identified as this legendary landmark |
the Tower of Babel
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The 1990s "Good Times" one, which would erase your hard drive if you opened an e-mail, was a hoax |
a virus
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This star of "Monster's Ball" was the first runner up in the 1986 Miss USA pageant |
Halle Berry
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In 1609, while Henry Hudson was exploring the Hudson River, this man was not far north naming a lake for himself |
(Samuel de) Champlain
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Psst! Hey buddy! Check it out -- a watch from this company that made watches waterproof in 1926. Only 20 bucks |
[Alex reads the clue in the voice of a shifty streetcorner saleman.]
Rolex
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...served as U.S. Surgeon General from 1982 to 1989 & launched "Shape Up America" to fight obesity |
Koop
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This son of Nabopolassar has been called the greatest king of Babylon's Chaldean dynasty |
Nebuchadnezzar
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The early Normans were among these plunderers whose name came from a word for "creek" |
the vikings
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This actor born in London in 1972 was named for a Beatles song & an "Obscure" literary character |
Jude Law
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Beheaded Oct. 29, 1618, this voyager's last words were "So the heart be right, 'tis no matter which way the head lieth" |
(Amy: Who is Drake?)
(Sir Walter) Raleigh
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This company moved its U.S. base to the Seattle area in 1982, the year after launching Donkey Kong |
Nintendo
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...in 1817 first described the disease now named for him, as paralysis agitan, or "shaking palsy" |
Parkinson
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To read the Code of Hammurabi in its original script, you have to know how to read this |
cuneiform
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This 10-letter word is the part you look through on your camera |
a viewfinder
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In 1524 this Italian explorer sailed into Narragansett Bay & named an island for its resemblance to Rhodes |
(Connie: Who is Cabot?)
Verrazano
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In 1986 U.S. Steel changed its name to this 3-letter one |
USX
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...in 1893, became professor of clinical microscopy at the Army Medical College in Washington, D.C. |
(Amy: [No response])
Walter Reed
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The Babylonians developed a sexagesimal math system, one based on this number |
(Connie: What is 6?) (Amy: What is 16?)
60
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Born in this capital of Lithuania, violinist Jascha Heifetz was giving concerts there by age 6 |
Vilnius
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She won the Emmy for Best Actress in a TV Comedy Series for 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994 & 1995 |
Candice Bergen
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Last name of the father & son who took the bathyscaphe Trieste to a record depth off Italy in 1953 |
(Adam: Who is Cousteau?)
(Auguste) Piccard
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South Africa's vast Venetia diamond mine is operated by this company founded in 1888 |
De Beers
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