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    | In 1385 this "Canterbury Tales" poet was appointed Justice of the Peace for County Kent | Chaucer 
 
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    | Tiny Tim died in 1996 shortly after singing this novelty song, his only hit | "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" 
 
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    | As Belize was a British colony, it makes sense that St. John's is Central America's oldest cathedral of this church | (Alicen: What is...?) 
 Anglican Church
 
 
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    | The type of place that Willy Wonka ran, or that Scharffen Berger recently opened in Berkeley | a chocolate factory 
 
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    | This famous early 20th century entertainer seen here was hard to keep under lock & key | Houdini 
 
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    | Meaning "around" or "about", it's often shortened to ca. | circa 
 
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    | Collier's calls this American lyric poet a "typographical innovator" | e.e. cummings 
 
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    | In 1974 Terry Jacks had this mournful No. 1 hit, based on a tune by Jacques Brel | "Seasons In The Sun" 
 
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    | This, the country's national tree, appears on the flag of Belize (giving Diana Ross something to sing about) | mahogany 
 
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    | At Vinterviken, Sweden, this family had a sulfuric acid as well as a dynamite factory | the Nobels 
 
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    | He's the controversial Olympian & professional athlete seen here | Jim Thorpe 
 
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    | Cum means "with", so cum grano salis means "with" this | a grain of salt 
 
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    | In "The Courtship of Miles Standish", she says, "If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning" | (Gina: Who is Elizabeth Barrett Browning?) 
 Priscilla
 
 
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    | In their only hit, this group was "too sexy for my shirt" & "too sexy for Milan, New York & Japan" | Right Said Fred 
 
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    | Though it agreed to a de facto boundary in 2000, this country periodically claims territory in southern Belize | [The end-of-round signal sounds.] 
 Guatemala
 
 
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    | In 2002 a Guangzhou sporting goods company opened a factory to make 100,000 of these tables a year | ping-pong tables 
 
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    | Jerome Kern was inspired to write "Old Man River" for this man, seen here | Paul Robeson 
 
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    | In a Bible in Latin, this line would be "Fiat lux" | (Gina: ) 
 "Let there be light"
 
 
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    | Petrarch's "Canzoniere" included 366 sonnets, one a day, to this lady with whom he was infatuated | Laura 
 
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    | Completes the title of Timbuk 3's hit "The Future's So Bright..." | "I Gotta Wear Shades" 
 
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    | You can see how your Saturn was made by touring the plant at Spring Hill in this state | (Christopher: What is Illinois?) 
 Tennessee
 
 
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    | We bet you know the name of this brotherly actor | Chico Marx 
 
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    | Meaning "of whom", it now is used for the minimum number of people required for a meeting | a quorum 
 
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    | In 1642 this English Cavalier poet was jailed for presenting a Royalist petition to Parliament | (Gina: Who is John Donne?) 
 Richard Lovelace
 
 
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    | Yes sir! He had a No. 1 hit with the tender love song "Baby Got Back" | Sir Mix-a-Lot 
 
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    | This famed Lockheed Martin plant in southern California is named for the bad smell on the original site | the Skunkworks 
 
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    | In 1930, this man became the last Emperor of his country | Haile Selassie 
 
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    | Copies of the book "Hannibal" should be marked caveat lector, meaning this | (Gina: Reader beware?) 
 Let the reader beware
 
 
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