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| A major thoroughfare in this Egyptian capital is The Corniche, which runs along the Nile |
Cairo
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| The Met commissioned Philip Glass' "The Voyage" for the 500th anniversary of his voyage in 1992 |
Columbus
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| Time reports that in August 2126 Comet Swift-Tuttle may do this, so...heads up! |
collide with the Earth
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| This home got a new $1,000,000 roof in time for the 250th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth |
Monticello
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| As its name indicates, a fluorometer is used to measure the wavelength & intensity of this type of light |
fluorescent
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| Cleaning up a great big mess is called "Cleaning the Augean Stables" after one of his labors |
Hercules
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| John Heyward was perhaps the first to point out that it wasn't "built in one day" |
Rome
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| Like "William Tell", "The Daughter of the Regiment" is set in this country |
Switzerland
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| Imitating the president, he called the Secret Service & said, "Feel like going jogging tonight. In the nude." |
Dana Carvey
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| This style of architecture was named for the city of Byzantium |
Byzantine
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| Prospectors looking for uranium usually use this instrument because it detects radiation |
Geiger counter
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| A person who asks enigmatic questions can be compared to this monster; there's a statue of one near the Pyramids |
the Sphinx
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| One of the great shopping centers in this Venezuelan capital is the Simon Bolivar Center with its twin towers |
Caracas
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| This composer of "Aida" was once rejected by the Milan Conservatory as "insufficiently talented" |
(Mit: Who was Puccini?)
Giuseppe Verdi
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| A week after the fire at Windsor Castle, the Hofburg Palace in this city caught fire |
Vienna
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| This world-famous Romanesque tower was built on unstable subsoil, which is why it tilts |
the Leaning Tower of Pisa
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| A spectrohelioscope is used by astronauts to study this body |
the sun
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| "Argus-Eyed", meaning vigilant, refers to a monster whose many eyes were added to this bird's tail |
peacock
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| Dentsu, Asia's largest advertising agency, is located in this capital |
Tokyo
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| This famous Italian tenor was in San Francisco to perform when the 1906 earthquake struck |
Enrico Caruso
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| In 1992 this state became the first to elect 2 women to the U.S. Senate |
[Diane Feinstein & Barbara Boxer]
California
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| This "new art" style has been called "Le Style Metro" in honor of Paris' subway system |
Art Nouveau
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| Grolier's Ency. calls this pressure gauge "the single most important meteorological instrument" |
barometer
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| If you describe a spellbinding singer as "Orphie", you're comparing him to this mythical musician |
Orpheus
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| This city's 2 main districts, Karkh & Rusafah, lie on the west & east banks of the Tigris River |
Baghdad
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| Bass-baritone James Morris is widely regarded as the finest contemporary Wotan in this man's operas |
Richard Wagner
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| Whittaker Chambers said this man was a spy; Russia recently checked some files & said he wasn't |
(Alger) Hiss
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| This Chinese-American designed the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO. |
I.M. Pei
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| An "ultra" form of this device used to separate substances from mixtures can operate at up to 80,000 RPM |
centrifuge
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| The Champs-Elysees is named for these fields which became synonymous with paradise |
Elysian Fields
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