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    | Semtex, a very dangerous type of this, was created in the Czech town of Semtin | an explosive 
 
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    | As Michelangelo in "The Agony and the Ecstasy", Charlton Heston initially resists the pope's orders to paint this room | the Sistine Chapel 
 
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    | Although hundreds of things can lead to one, rhinoviruses are the most frequent culprit | the common cold 
 
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    | In song it's "wild blue"; down home, it means over there or at a distance | yonder 
 
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    | Deposed as ruler of Granada in this country, Ibn Buluggin wrote an autobiography--no word on the size of his advance | Spain 
 
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    | Seen here is a Czech monument to the discovery of a new way to package this pantry staple in the 1840s | (Alex: Doesn't it look like a [*] cube?  A big [*] cube.) 
 sugar
 
 
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    | Salma Hayek earned a 2002 Oscar nomination in this Julie Taymor film | Frida 
 
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    | This Anglican liturgical text was first authorized in 1549 | The Book of Common Prayer 
 
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    | Clare Island (an island country itself) | Ireland 
 
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    | The word vermin got altered to this word for a troublesome wild animal | varmint 
 
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    | Scholars have identified monks with this job who wrote out the Book of Kells, but only know them as Hands A, B & C | scribes 
 
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    | In the early 20th century, Jan Jansky discovered there were 4, not 3, of these types in humans | (Alex: Less than a minute now.) 
 blood types
 
 
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    | This 1952 study of Toulouse-Lautrec bears the name of the burlesque hall where he spent a lot of time | Moulin Rouge 
 
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    | Just over 100 years old, Parkman Bandstand is one of the newer editions to this great American open space | Boston Common 
 
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    | Jupiter, Marco & Sanibel Islands | (Melissa: What is Florida?) (Alex: Florida...)
 (Melissa: What is [*]?)
 (Alex: Thank you.)
 
 the United States
 
 
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    | A Trace Adkins hit is called this type of country music bar "Badonkadonk" | a honky tonk 
 
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    | Many Chinese could; the Tang dynasty has left us about 50,000 of these, in forms such as lushi & jueju | (Tal: What are characters?) (Melissa: What is calligraphy?)
 (Lisa: What are manuscripts?)
 
 poems
 
 
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    | In 1963 Czech chemist Otto Wichterle used new HEMA plastics to make the first soft type of these | contact lenses 
 
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    | In "Big Eyes", this actress played Margaret Keane, a painter whose husband took credit for her work for years | Amy Adams 
 
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    | The author claimed that 3 months after publication in 1776, this pamphlet had sold 120,000 copies | Common Sense 
 
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    | Elba | (Tal: What is France?) ...
 [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
 
 Italy
 
 
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    | This 4-word phrase for "bad plan" could literally mean "your collie will not sniff out a quail" | that dog don't hunt (or won't hunt) 
 
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    | Despite its title, this saint's "Summa Contra Gentiles" was partly meant as an argument against Jews | St. Thomas Aquinas 
 
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    | Josef Ressel really made this simple machine work for him--he applied it to a ship's propeller & a wine-press roller | a screw 
 
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    | Lili Taylor played a militant feminist who commits the title crime against a popular pop artist in this film | I Shot Andy Warhol 
 
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    | On January 8 the Mariana Islands celebrate this day; Kentucky & Pennsylvania could do the same | Commonwealth Day 
 
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    | Part of the Interior Dept. from 1849 to 1946 to aid settlement; if you're doing this type of "business", business is good | land office 
 
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    | Around 880 Edred, archbishop of Canterbury, wrote to the pope to tell on this "Great" English king who was harassing him | Alfred (the Great) 
 
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