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A home that's for the birds |
a nest
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This great Macedonian died in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon |
Alexander the Great
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The Presidential candidate & the pilot who flew the campaign plane "Peanut 1" are both named this |
(Lou: What is Carter? What is [*]?)
Jimmy Carter
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Its only ingredients are raw cabbage & salt |
sauerkraut
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Long before he wrote "A Rage of Angels", he created television's "I Dream of Jeannie" |
Sidney Sheldon
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In 1843 he received $30,000 from Congress to build an experimental telegraph line |
Samuel F.B. Morse
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From Latin for "nourishing", it was work for Florence Nightingale |
nursing
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Pliny the Elder died while watching the eruption of this mountain in 79 A.D. |
Vesuvius
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When this President took ill, some referred to his wife as the "Presidentress of the U.S." |
Woodrow Wilson
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Chicken, corn, tomatoes, okra, salt, onion, rice & filé powder |
(chicken) gumbo
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Scotsman H.H. Munro wrote very short, witty stories using this pen name |
Saki
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Term for an angle that's exactly 180º |
a straight line
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A short musical composition that evokes feelings of the night |
a nocturne
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At the end of the Peloponnesian War, this city emerged as the most powerful city-state in Greece |
Sparta
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As a male model, he was the "Yale boyfriend" in a 1940 "Look" article on ski dating |
(Lou: Who is Ronald Reagan?)
Gerald Ford
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Garlic, olive oil, croutons, lemon juice, a coddled egg, anchovies, Parmesan cheese, & romaine lettuce |
Caesar salad
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The only U.S. playwright to win a Nobel Prize was this author of "Desire Under the Elms" |
Eugene O'Neill
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The wife of French-Canadian trader Toussaint Charbonneau, she aided Lewis & Clark's expedition |
Sacagawea
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Hamlet's residential recommendation to Ophelia |
(Lou: What is "Get thee to [*]"?)
a nunnery
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This domed temple of all the gods was probably the most famous building of Hadrian's reign |
the Pantheon
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Yuri Gagarin, the 1st man in space, went up during this President's administration |
John F. Kennedy
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Oysters, onion, bread crumbs, bacon, parsley, hot pepper sauce, butter, anisette, & sometimes spinach |
oysters Rockefeller
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When Warner Bros. said he could write "At Home", he went back to Oxford, Miss. |
(William) Faulkner
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"Some scarecrow eloped from a field" is how Washington Irving described this character |
Ichabod Crane
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In case you ever wondered, it's the term for the light drawn around a saint's head |
a nimbus
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Tyre was famous for the dye of this color that was extracted from snails of the genus Murex |
purple
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In 1921 this Republican became the 1st President of the 48 states |
(David: Who is Warren Harding?) (Lou: Who is Woodrow Wilson?) (Susan: Who is [*]?) ... (Alex: Before we get to our Final Jeopardy! today, I have a brief explanation. And some of you may have picked up the problem a little earlier on in the Double Jeopardy! Round. In the PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA category, the clue as I read it was correct. It stated 1912. Unfortunately, in our printout, two of the numerals were transposed and it came out 1921. So we have decided to be fair to all three contestants, we have invalidated the question completely.)
William Howard Taft
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Cheddar cheese, butter, beer, eggs, salt, mustard, red pepper, & toast points |
[Applause for Susan's run of the category]
Welsh rabbit
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The original uncut version of his "The Jungle" is now available as a book for the 1st time |
Upton Sinclair
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Specific gravity is determined by dividing the density of a substance by the density of this at 4ºC |
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go.)
water
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