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    | This leader of India was assassinated in 1991, 6 1/2 years after his mother | Rajiv Gandhi 
 
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    | This Christmas flower can grow as tall as 10 feet with leaves 6 inches long | Poinsettia 
 
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    | It's the official language of Jamaica | English 
 
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    | It's believed this "Rubaiyat" author helped reform the Muslim calendar | Omar Khayyam 
 
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    | It's the unit of currency of the most populous country in North America | Dollar 
 
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    | This author of "The Fountainhead" graduated from the University of Petrograd in 1924 | Ayn Rand 
 
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    | This Egyptian president was fatally shot while attending a military parade in 1981 | Anwar Sadat 
 
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    | Its name is a corruption of the French pensee, "thought" | Pansy 
 
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    | U.S. citizens arriving at its Luis Munoz Marin International Airport don't have to clear customs | Puerto Rico 
 
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    | Using a prism, this Englishman proved that white light is a combination of the colors of the spectrum | Sir Isaac Newton 
 
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    | In 1990, about two-thirds of Americans over 65 relied on this for over half their income | Social Security 
 
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    | Elizabeth Spencer set her novel "The Light in the Piazza" in this country, where she lived in the 1950s | Italy 
 
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    | In 1923 this Mexican bandit & several of his men were ambushed while driving | Pancho Villa 
 
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    | This boutonniere flower, also known as a clove pink due to its fragrance, is No. 2 in commercial value in the United States | Carnation 
 
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    | In this group, Tortola is connected to Beef Island by the Queen Elizabeth Bridge | British Virgin Islands 
 
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    | In 1980, for her concerns over pollution, she was posthumously awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom | Rachel Carson 
 
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    | 2-word economic phrase that describes the period of U.S. history from 1929-1939 | Great Depression 
 
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    | This "Gigi" novelist wrote "Cheri" in 1920 & "The Last of Cheri" in 1926 | Colette 
 
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    | Tsarina Alexandra frequently prayed on the grave of this mystic murdered in 1916 | Rasputin 
 
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    | Bloom forms of this large hardy perennial include spoon, quill & pompon | Chrysanthemum 
 
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    | Palm Beach, one of the world's best, is on this "A" of the ABC Islands | (John: What is Antigua?) 
 Aruba
 
 
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    | In 1948 the Kaiser Wilhelm Society was renamed for this originator of the quantum theory | Max Planck 
 
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    | The high-yield, high-risk bonds of the 1980s were known by this 4-letter word | Junk bonds 
 
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    | Dorlcote Mill, in her book "The Mill on the Floss", resembles Arbury Estate, where she played as a child | George Eliot 
 
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    | This country's King Gustav III was shot at a masked ball in 1792 & died two weeks later | Sweden 
 
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    | The oil from this evening flower is high in gamma-linolenic acid, an essential fatty acid | Evening primrose 
 
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    | Over 500 offshore banks are located in Georgetown, the capital of this group | Cayman Islands 
 
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    | Though oxygen was discovered by Joseph Priestley, this 18th century French chemist gave it its name | Antoine Lavoisier 
 
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    | The formula to determine this, the CPI, is basically the Laspeyres index formula | Consumer Price Index 
 
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    | Anne Tyler is often compared to this female novelist from Mississippi, her favorite writer | Eudora Welty 
 
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