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He had the dynamite idea to launch a new television network known as TNT |
Ted Turner
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The potato didn't originate in Ireland but in the valleys of this South American mountain chain |
Andes
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41 years after "On The Waterfront", he played Johnny Depp's therapist in 1995's "Don Juan DeMarco" |
Marlon Brando
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This Haitian religion combines elements of Roman Catholicism & West African tribal religions |
Voodoo
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The American Weekly Mercury, founded in this Penn. city in 1719, was the first colonial paper outside Boston |
Philadelphia
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Z.Hr.; it's time to go |
Zero
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Journey Into Imagination was an original attraction at this Disney World theme park that opened in 1982 |
Epcot
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The cochineal insect, the source of a red dye, feeds on the prickly pear type of this plant |
Cactus
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James Cromwell, Farmer Hoggett in this 1995 film, is the son of John Cromwell, who directed "Algiers" in 1938 |
"Babe"
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Haiti is part of Hispaniola, a corrupted form of Espanola, the name he gave to the island |
Christopher Columbus
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The U.S. pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal was one of these Buckminster Fuller structures |
Geodesic Dome
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The Z in ZIP code is short for this |
Zone (Improvement Plan)
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At 65, Ashby Harper became the oldest to swim this body of water; Gertrude Ederle must have been impressed |
The English Channel
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The hard wood of this tree is used for knife handles & black piano keys |
Ebony
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Alan Rickman played sensible Col. Brandon in "Sense And Sensibility" & this "mad monk" in an HBO film |
Rasputin
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This South American liberator spent time as an exile in Haiti |
Simon Bolivar
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Since 1907 about 3 million fossils have been extracted from this Los Angeles site |
La Brea Tar Pits
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Book of the Bible abbreviated Zech. |
Zechariah
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More than 80 human skeletons were discovered in the ruins of this city near Pompeii |
Herculaneum
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The name of this yellow narcissus comes from the Latin juncus, meaning "rush" |
Jonquil
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A telekinetic teenager on the TV series "Misfits of Science", she now stars as Monica in "Friends" |
Courteney Cox
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This orator & abolitionist was U.S. minister to Haiti 1889-1891 |
(Ronny: Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?)
Frederick Douglass
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This Greek who supposedly sought an honest man was influenced by the less cynical Antisthenes |
(Myretta: Who is Demosthenes?) (with a minute to go in the round...)
Diogenes
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You may answer with zeal that zl is short for this currency |
Zloty
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On May 1, 1982, President Reagan officially opened the World's Fair in this Southern city |
(R: What is Atlanta?)
Knoxville, Tennessee
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Members of this "colorful" flower family include the Sweet William & the carnation |
Pinks
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Joan Allen earned an Oscar nomination for playing this famous woman in a 1995 film |
Pat Nixon
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Made governor-general for life in January 1804, he declared himself emperor in September |
(Melissa: Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?)
Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Jean Jacques I)
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The title of this opera by Pietro Mascagni means "rustic chivalry" |
Cavalleria rusticana
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The abbreviations for the 2 elements whose names begin with Z |
(R: What are Ze & Zr?)
Zn & Zr (Zinc & Zirconium)
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