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  | 19th C. AMERICAN LITERATURE |  
   
 
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    | Beep! Beep! This New Mexico state bird belongs to the cuckoo family | 
    the roadrunner
 
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    | Inscribed tablets found on this island famous for colossal stone heads have never been deciphered | 
    Easter Island
 
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    | About 60 tombs have been discovered in this valley in Western Thebes | 
    (Halla: What is the Valley of the Nile?)
  the Valley of the Kings
 
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    | The neutrino, an elementary particle of zero charge & no measurable mass, travels at this speed | 
    the speed of light
 
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    | This Ivy League institution is Connecticut's oldest school of higher education | 
    Yale
 
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    | This Washington Irving character falls asleep in the Catskills while hunting with his dog, Wolf | 
    Rip Van Winkle
 
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    | The brain of the red-headed species of this bird is subject to a force of 10 Gs when its beak hits a tree | 
    the woodpecker
 
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    | The residents of Liechtenstein speak Alemannic, a dialect of this language | 
    German
 
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    | A spot near Badwater in this valley is the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere | 
    Death Valley
 
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    | Colors are considered saturated if there is little of this "color" in them | 
    (Courtney: What is red?)
  white
 
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    | This school has campuses in Fayetteville, Little Rock, Monticello & Pine Bluff | 
    the University of Arkansas
 
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    | After the death of St. Clare, Uncle Tom is sold to this drunken planter | 
    Simon Legree
 
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    | The newly hatched young of the bee species of this smallest bird are no larger than honeybees | 
    the hummingbird
 
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    | Breton, spoken in Brittany, has borrowed a large number of words from this romance language | 
    French
 
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    | Sir James Ross named Mount Erebus on this continent after one of his ships | 
    Antarctica
 
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    | It's defined as the study of the production & properties of sounds | 
    acoustics
 
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    | This university was founded as the Arizona Territorial Normal School at Tempe in 1885 | 
    Arizona State University
 
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    | Deerslayer Natty Bumppo received this nickname because of his long deerskin leggings | 
    Leatherstocking
 
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    | Species of this bird include harpy, Ayres' & golden | 
    the eagle
 
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    | Alexander Pushkin had great influence on the development of this language | 
    Russian
 
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    | This California mountain, the tallest in the lower 48 states, was named for a geologist | 
    Mount Whitney
 
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    | The Roentgen is a unit of radiation of X-rays & these rays | 
    gamma rays
 
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    | The nation's first university hospital was founded in 1869 at this Ann Arbor school | 
    the University of Michigan
 
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    | This Hawthorne heroine has a beautiful, mischievous daughter named Pearl | 
    (Alex: You are right; from The Scarlet Letter.)
  Hester Prynne
 
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    | This largest parrot is native to Central & South America | 
    a macaw
 
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    | The 2 surviving Baltic languages are Latvian & this one | 
    Lithuanian
 
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    | They're the only 2 mountains in the world taller than Kanchenjunga | 
    Mount Everest & K2
 
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    | The attraction between molecules on top of a liquid, it explains why mercury gathers into globules | 
    (Deborah: What is adhesion?) (Halla: What is [**]?) [Halla was ruled incorrect and the decision was reversed after the break as it's the force that makes for [*].]
  *surface tension (**cohesion)
 
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    | This private NYC university had its beginning in the schoolhouse vestry of Trinity Church in 1754 | 
    Columbia
 
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    | In this essay Thoreau asserted, "that government is best which governs not at all" | 
    "Civil Disobedience"
 
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