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    | Among the first women selected to become these in 1978 were Anna Fisher & Shannon Lucid | astronauts 
 
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    | Lord Byron termed this 15,771-foot peak the "Monarch of Mountains" | (Anagha: What is the Matterhorn?) 
 Mont Blanc
 
 
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    | The Cotton Blossom is the title vehicle in this Broadway musical that features the song "Ol' Man River" | Show Boat 
 
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    | A reporter with a late-breaking story might beg a newspaper to "stop" these | the presses 
 
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    | Severe cases of this fever can cause jaundice, which gave the disease its name | yellow fever 
 
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    | These very brief & close-fitting shorts for women first became fashionable in the 1970s | hot pants 
 
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    | United Nations Day is observed during this month | October 
 
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    | This Austrian city has hosted the Winter Olympics twice | Innsbruck 
 
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    | Ben Brantley's 2000 review of this musical in The New York Times was headlined "Destiny and duty, Nile style" | (Sean: What is... ahh...) (Mary: What is Antony and Cleopatra?)
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 (Alex: You hate-a [*], Sean.)
 (Sean: Do I ever.)
 
 Aida
 
 
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    | Described in the first century, an early one of these machines dispensed holy water when a coin struck a lever | a vending machine 
 
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    | A condition called strawberry tongue is a symptom of this childhood disease | (Sean: What is measles?) 
 scarlet fever
 
 
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    | A direct telephone link between world leaders | a hot line 
 
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    | Contrary to its name, this manor where the Madisons lived after the White House  was burned has 6 sides, not 8 | Octagon House 
 
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    | At 62 square miles, it's the smallest Alpine country | (Mary: I'll bet $100.) (Alex: What?! $100?!
 Serious?)
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 (Alex: Anything?)
 (Mary: Nope. No idea.)
 
 Liechtenstein
 
 
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    | Vicki Lewis of "Newsradio" & "Three Sisters" spent part of 2000 & 2001 in this Bob Fosse revival set in the Midwest | Chicago 
 
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    | This large central computer may function as a server for many users | a mainframe 
 
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    | It's a form of seasonal rhinitis caused by allergy to pollens | hay fever 
 
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    | A '70s compilation by The Beach Boys & a 1994 greatest hits CD by the "Queen of Disco" share this name | Endless Summer 
 
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    | Lake Geneva, an Alpine lake between France & Switzerland, is actually a wider, deeper part of this river | (Anagha: What is the Danube?) (Sean: What is the Rhine?)
 
 the Rhone
 
 
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    | Unless you're tired of your old ABBA records you'll love this show based on ABBA's greatest hits | Mamma Mia! 
 
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    | Musical recording took hold with this 1887 version of the phonograph, invented by Emile Berliner | the Gramophone (flat disk) 
 
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    | Mary Mallon was the first known carrier of this disease in the U.S. | typhoid fever 
 
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    | It's the derogatory term that whites called the Khoikhoi of southern Africa | (Sean: Ohh...) (Alex: Nothing?)
 
 the Hottentots
 
 
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    | The body's 2 largest veins are the superior & inferior ones of these | the vena cava 
 
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    | Europe's highest railroad line ascends this mountain whose name is German for "maiden" or "virgin" | the Jungfrau 
 
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    | "By Jeeves", Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical based on this author's stories, opened on Broadway in 2001 | P.G. Wodehouse 
 
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 British industry
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    | Named for its most common symptom--inflammation of the joints--this fever also causes carditis | rheumatic fever 
 
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    | An Internet search engine that's a part of the Terra Lycos Network | (Sean: What is Hotmail?) 
 HotBot
 
 
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