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Christmas, or a large log traditionally burned at that time |
Yule
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Speculation in these bulbs in Holland in the 17th century caused financial chaos |
tulips
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Around 1839 the Old State House Bell came to be known as this |
the Liberty Bell
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Born in Paris, this noted Chinese cellist is a real "Yo-Yo" |
Yo-Yo Ma
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Europe is a huge peninsula that extends westward from this continent |
Asia
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It can be a collection of 3 works by 1 author or 3 by different authors with a common theme |
a trilogy
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To do this involves the respiratory muscles & may be caused by watching other do it |
(Bob: [Answer unheard. Check back.]
yawn
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Called gum trees in Australia, these tall flowering trees provide oil for medicine & leaves for koalas |
eucalyptus
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Henry Cabot Lodge led the fight to keep the U.S. from joining this after WWI |
the League of Nations
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This brilliant Israeli-American violinist is a avid New York Knicks fan |
(Ouida: [Wrong answer, etc.]
Itzhak Perlman
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This country, at the outlet of the Ganges & 2 other major rivers, had severe floods in September 1988 |
Bangladesh
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This type of verse is also called unrhymed iambic pentameter |
blank verse
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The 2 four-letter weapons you can fence with |
epee & foil
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After creating the boysenberry. Rudolph Boysen gave his vines to this founder of a California amusement park |
Walter Knott
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On January 3, 1777 Gen. Washington's forces captured Nassau Hall, this college's administration building |
Princeton
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19th century composer on whose work Rachmaninoff based the following: |
(Bob: [no answer, double check wager???]
Paganini
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2 of the 4 major islands of Indonesia, together the form the Greater Sunda Islands |
(Ouida: [answer hard to hear, check back.]
Sumatra and Java (Celebes and Borneo)
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Latin for "a great work", it's a major literary work, or a writer's masterpiece |
magnum opus
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To push your wares in the streets, or a bird of prey of the order Falconiformes |
hawk
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When talking about plants it means a disease caused by certain fungi, not dirty pictures |
smut
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In 1870 David Porter became the 2nd U.S. admiral; this man, his adopted brother, was the 1st |
Farragut
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Famed for his 18-K. gold flute, this Irish flautist had a hit playing John Denver's "Annie's Song" |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Galway
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Africa's highest peak, Mt. Kilimanjaro, is in this country |
(Jim: What is Kenya?)
Tanzania
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In literature it's not artillery but a body of writings established as authentic |
a canon
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From the metaphor of the church as a ship, the term for this part of a church is from the Latin for "ship" |
nave
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For flowers, it's considered the 1st stage in the reproductive process |
pollenation
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In 1976's "Koreagate", the Justice Department investigated this South Korean businessman |
(Tongsun) Park
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The term "Banana Republic" originally referred to this Central American country |
Honduras
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Term for writings of doubtful authority that's applied to some books associated with the Bible |
the Apocrypha
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