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In Native American myth, Thunderbird's beating wings cause thunder & his flashing eyes create this |
Lightning
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The Iron Man Triathlon consists of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike race & this 26.2-mile run |
Marathon
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Along with its famous 500 list of U.S. companies, this magazine also ranks the 50 largest U.S. banks |
Fortune
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In the 1860s Alexis Millardet saved this French beverage industry from a plant lice plague |
Wine
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This Illinois city's lakefront on Lake Michigan is over 25 miles long |
Chicago
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This populous country is Hindio or Barato in Esperanto |
India
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The legend of these one-eyed giants may have been inspired by miners who wore lamps on their foreheads |
Cyclopses
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On August 6, 1994 Jeff Gordon won the Brickyard 400, the first stock car race on this track |
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
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From 1917 to 1929, Nikolai Bukharin was editor of this official Communist Party newspaper |
Pravda
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William Aspinwall built a railroad across this isthmus in the 1850s |
Panama
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On August 11, 1683 William Penn issued a warrant to lay out this Delaware capital |
Dover
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To touch lightly in passing, or to feed on growing grasses |
Graze
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Also called lycanthropes, they revert to human form when they are wounded |
Werewolves
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In the 1920s & 1930s Helen Wills Moody was the top-ranked women's player in this sport a record 9 times |
Tennis
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George Brown founded this Canadian city's Globe newspaper in 1844 |
Toronto
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In 1967, Adrian Kantrowitz became the first in the United States & the second in the world to perform this operation |
Heart transplant
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The Museum of Flight, south of this major city, features the Red Barn, Boeing's first plant building |
Seattle
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This word for a decorative sticker comes partly from calquer, meaning "to trace" |
Decal
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A mirage that may resemble castles in the air is called a Fata Morgana, Italian for this Arthurian sorceresses' name |
Morgan le Fay
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In 1930 this golfer became the first recipient of the AAU's Sullivan Award, as the year's top male athlete |
Bobby Jones
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This insurance organization's List is one of London's oldest papers |
Lloyd's of London
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Around 1512 Bartolome de las Casas became the first priest ordained in the New World on this island |
(Bill: What is Cuba?)
Hispaniola
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A fountain at its Point State Park symbolizes the confluence of the Ohio, Monongahela & Allegheny Rivers |
Pittsburgh
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This large African antelope's name comes from the Dutch word for an elk |
Eland
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This gigantic white bird of Arabian myth carries off elephants to its nest & devours them |
Roc
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This jockey is the only man to ride 2 Triple Crown winners: Whirlaway & Citation |
Eddie Arcaro
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From 1925 to 1987 this magazine had just 2 editors: Harold Ross & William Shawn |
The New Yorker
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In 1951, this American biologist went to Cambridge, where his life became intwined with Francis Crick's |
(Alex: It takes us to our first break; I'm sure Bill & Jeff will appreciate this break right now!)
James D. Watson
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Before a new facility was built, Love Field was this Texas city's main airport |
Dallas
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The books of the Bible accepted as holy scripture, or the works of an author considered authentic |
(Bill: What is the Codex?) (Fred: What is Torah?)
Canon
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