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    | He spends 24 years on a deserted island before he meets Friday | Robinson Crusoe 
 
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    | On the same day his "Carmen" premiered, he was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor | Bizet 
 
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    | Pilots have reported seeing a rare form of this which strikes upward from a cloud rather than down | lightning 
 
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    | The cow whose milk has the highest butterfat content was developed on this isle | Jersey 
 
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    | With the Continental Army, George Washington first heard it read in this city | (Phil: Where is Philadelphia?) 
 New York City
 
 
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    | After ginning, this fiber is pressed into 480-pound bales | cotton 
 
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    | Magic transforms Tip into Princess Ozma in this author's "The Marvelous Land of Oz" | Frank Baum 
 
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    | Many of Bach's clavier concertos were modeled on the works of this "Four Seasons" composer | Vivaldi 
 
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    | Highly poisonous prussic acid is said to have the smell of these "bitter" nuts | almonds 
 
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    | Called the Isles of the Blest in ancient Roman legend, they were named after dogs, not birds | the Canary Islands 
 
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    | The National Archives has no record of it being sent to this king whose actions it condemns | George III 
 
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    | The name of this stretchy man-made fiber is an anagram of "expands" | spandex 
 
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    | This John Bunyan work follows Christian on his way to the Celestial City | The Pilgrim's Progress 
 
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    | John S. Smith is often credited with composing "To Anacreon In Heaven", the tune later used for this song | "The Star-Spangled Banner" 
 
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    | Darwinism is the idea that evolution took place by this process | natural selection 
 
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    | The Strait of Belle Isle is the northernmost entrance to this Canadian gulf | (Marc: What is Baffin?) 
 (the Gulf of) St. Lawrence
 
 
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    | The date of this historic event was August 2, 1776 | the signing of the Declaration 
 
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    | Examples of this fabric made from flax have been found in Swiss Stone Age dwellings | linen 
 
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    | Poet Delmore Schwartz was the model for Humboldt in this author's "Humboldt's Gift" | Saul Bellow 
 
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    | This composer of the "Unfinished Symphony" gave his only public concert in March of 1828 | Schubert 
 
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    | The energy a body has because of its motion is this type | kinetic 
 
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    | This capital city grew around Slotsholmen, or Castle Isle; Christiansborg Castle is there now | Copenhagen 
 
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    | This is the first self-evident truth listed | all men are created equal 
 
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    | Merino sheep the producers of the world's finest wool, were developed in this country c. 1400 | (Phil: What is Italy?) (Marc: What is San Marino?)
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    | The baron cuts off one of Belinda's curls for a keepsake in this Alexander Pope mock epic | The Rape of the Lock 
 
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    | In 1945 he won a Pulitzer Prize for "Appalachian Spring" | Aaron Copland 
 
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    | In the classification of animals, this grouping comes between kingdom & class | phylum 
 
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    | A terrier originated on this isle, the largest isle in the Inner Hebrides | Skye 
 
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    | Roger Sherman on the committee to draft the declaration also helped write this 1781 compact | the Articles of Confederation 
 
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    | The cultivation of this fiber is called sericulture | silk 
 
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