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    | The Limpopo River also has the name of this reptile that some want to make into "coil decor" | crocodile (coil decor) 
 
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    | Sergei's film about one of these labor events juxtaposed shots of workers with slaughterhouse footage | strike 
 
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    | In the 1830s Verdi studied with Vincenzo Lavigna, formerly maestro al cembalo at this Milan opera house | La Scala 
 
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    | In "An Hour Before Daylight" this former president shares memories of growing up in rural Georgia | Jimmy Carter 
 
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    | Napoleon's forces suffered about 40,000 casualties losing this June 18, 1815 battle | Waterloo 
 
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    | After the robin goes bob-bob-bobbing along, it lays an egg of this color | blue 
 
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    | Though Botswana has little or no gold, these mineral products might get the "Midas nod" | diamonds (Midas nod) 
 
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    | Sergei ran afoul of Stalin while making a film on the life & times of this brutal czar | Ivan the Terrible 
 
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    | In English "Il Trovatore" means this, a wandering minstrel | a troubadour 
 
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    | This anthropologist told about her early years in 1972's "Blackberry Winter" | Margaret Mead 
 
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    | In May 1940 Germany attacked France through this country, now home to NATO HQ; France fell by June | Belgium 
 
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    | A pound of this egg delicacy from Russia could set you back $1,200; from Iran, over $1,600 | caviar 
 
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    | In this area that covers much of Botswana, you might take "a rash ideal trek" | Kalahari Desert (a rash ideal trek) 
 
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    | Beatrice Vitoldi played "Mother with Baby Carriage" in this film | (Alex: I heard you mumbling it and I was wondering if you were going to say it out loud--well done!) 
 Battleship Potemkin
 
 
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    | The title character of this Verdi opera is a hunchbacked court jester | Rigoletto 
 
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    | Title of Billie Holiday's 1965 autobiography & of the movie it later inspired | "Lady Sings the Blues" 
 
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    | The Third Republic began after France lost the war to this Bismarck-led German state | Prussia 
 
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    | The Sauropod, a dinosaur the size of a bus, came from eggs discovered in this country's Patagonia region | (Babu: What is Spain?) 
 Argentina
 
 
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    | If you lose all your clothes in this capital, just "go on bare" | Gaborone (go on bare) 
 
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    | The title month "October" is the one in this revolutionary year | 1917 
 
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    | Egyptologist Auguste Mariette claimed his scenario was the basis for the libretto of this 1871 opera | (Tad: What is "Salome"?) 
 Aida
 
 
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    | Read up on this longtime speaker of the House in his 1987 memoir "Man of the House" | Tip O'Neill 
 
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    | The English won most of the battles in this 1337-1453 war but in the end France drove them out | Hundred Years' War 
 
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    | Chinese cooking has extremes of Egg Foo Yung & this dish of duck eggs that have been buried for a long while | thousand/hundred-year-old eggs 
 
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    | When Botswana was this British protectorate, it was perhaps more of a "can and ale hub" | Bechuanaland (can and ale hub) 
 
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    | Sponsored by Upton Sinclair, Eisenstein set out to film "Que Viva" this country | (Alex: And about a minute left.) 
 Mexico
 
 
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    | Verdi's last opera, this comic masterpiece is based in part on Shakespeare's "King Henry IV" | Falstaff 
 
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    | This TV news producer tells his own story in "Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years & 60 Minutes in Television" | Don Hewitt 
 
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    | The 1520s weren't good for France either; it lost Milan to Charles V, leader of this "empire" that began in 962 | Holy Roman Empire 
 
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    | The Franklin Mint has the eggs named for this artisan ranging from $37.50 to the eggs-pensive $6,900 | Faberge 
 
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