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| “Hell no, we won't go” was a chant often heard at rallies against this war |
Vietnam War
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oak
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| The pair's lyricist |
Hammerstein
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| They've been guarding British royalty since 1485 & gin bottles since 1820 |
Beefeaters
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| October holiday which Mexicans call Dia de la Raza is celebrated in the U.S. as this |
Columbus Day
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| A patron saint of Russia, he was probably skinny & never wore a red suit |
St. Nicholas
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| In the early 1930s Americans were told that it was “just around the corner” |
prosperity
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| Of the Tree of Life, Tree of Knowledge, or the Tree of Righteousness, the 1 forbidden to Adam |
Knowledge
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| The “Times’” Brooks Atkinson called it “an original & beautiful excursion into... the Far East |
The King and I
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| Founder of the nursing profession, she was named after the city in which she was born |
Florence Nightingale
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| Meaning “removal of meat”, it's Rio's 4-day pre-Lenten festival |
(SSGT. Paul: What is Mardi Gras?)
Carnival
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| At 5th & 50th, its Lady Chapel is the place to get married, if you're in NYC - & Catholic |
St. Patrick's Cathedral
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| He railed against the “do-nothing 80th congress” during his whistle-stop campaign |
Truman
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| The cry “sap's a runnin’” refers to this tree |
maple tree
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| Their 1st professional collaboration was this 1943 landmark musical |
Oklahoma!
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| First Roman army to invade Britain was led by this general |
Caesar
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| O. Henry called it the most “purely American” holiday |
Thanksgiving
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| “St. Elsewhere” is the nickname for this TV hospital |
St. Eligius
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| “Four more years of the full dinner pail” symbolized this president's re-election campaign in 1900 |
McKinley
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| Continent on which the densest, tallest & most valuable stand of timber is found |
North America
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| Character who is “corny as Kansas in August” |
Nellie Forbush
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| The penultimate Anglo-Saxon king, Edward was known by this pious title |
Edward the Confessor
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| Muslims fast during daylight hours for this entire month |
Ramadan
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| Chorea, as in choreographer, is a condition associated with rheumatic fever formerly called this |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
St. Vitus (Dance)
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| In 1912, this pres. candidate declared, “We stand at Armageddon, & we battle for the Lord” |
(SSGT Paul: Who is William Jennings Bryan?)
Teddy Roosevelt
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| Hindu for “trader” this unusual tree whose branches grow down can look like a mini-forest |
(SSGT Paul: What if the baobob tree?)
Banyan
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| Stuart Damon & Lesley Ann Warren starred in this only R & H musical written for TV |
Cinderella
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| Though it sounds like a grim volume, it's just William the Conqueror's survey of the British kingdom |
The Domesday Book
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| Until 1752, the 13 colonies observed Annunciation Day, the 25th of this month, as New Year's |
March
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