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    | In 1976 this South American country nationalized 21 of its oil companies | 
    Venezuela
 
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    | These paired bones that protect the heart & lungs rise & fall as you breathe | 
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    | This British crown colony absorbed over a million Chinese refugees between 1949 & 1962 | 
    Hong Kong
 
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    | This composer's deafness may have been caused by syphilis | 
    Beethoven
 
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    | During his term & after, the U.S. president is protected by members of this federal agency | 
    the Secret Service
 
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    | In "Klondike Annie", she said, "Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before" | 
    Mae West
 
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    | His last words, 19 years after Manila Bay, were "Gentlemen, the battle is done. The victory is ours" | 
    Admiral Dewey
 
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    | Unlike the red, the yellow type of this substance that fills the bones is mostly fat | 
    marrow
 
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    | This Caribbean island group is divided into U.S. & British parts | 
    the Virgin Islands
 
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    | He composed the happy music of "The Nutcracker" while working on his anguished "Pathetique" symphony | 
    Tchaikovsky
 
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    | In 1995 Robert Rubin replaced Lloyd Bentsen in this post | 
    Secretary of the Treasury
 
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    | This elderly artist said, "Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy" | 
    Grandma Moses
 
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    | Cardinal Mazarin was this French king's godfather | 
    Louis XIV
 
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    | Named for their shapes, they're the 2 types of light-sensitive cells in the retina of the eye | 
    (Mike: What are [*]?) (Alex: Need one more.)
  cones & rods
 
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    | Argentine forces in this South Atlantic territory surrendered June 14, 1982 | 
    the Falkland Islands
 
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    | The third movement of this Austrian's famous "Unfinished" symphony was planned to be a scherzo | 
    Schubert
 
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    | Named for its chairman, it was the commission created in 1986 to investigate the Iran-Contra Affair | 
    the (John) Tower Commission
 
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    | Round Table wit who coined the phrase "Brevity is the soul of lingerie" | 
    Dorothy Parker
 
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    | In 1795, after its third partition, this European country ceased to exist | 
    Poland
 
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    | The duodenum, the first part of the small intestine, loops around this insulin-producing organ | 
    the pancreas
 
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    | Home to the Bounty mutineers, this 1.7-square-mile island is Britain's only possession in the South Pacific | 
    Pitcairn
 
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    | This "William Tell" composer was called "The Swan of Pesaro", after his birthplace | 
    (Marty: Who is Puccini?)
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    | It's the term for the assistant to a party leader who makes sure that members are present for important votes | 
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    | "Fashions in sin change", she wrote in her 1941 play "Watch on the Rhine" | 
    Lillian Hellman
 
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    | In July 1554 Mary I of England married this Spanish ruler | 
    Philip (II) of Spain
 
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    | The hypophysis is another name for this gland at the base of the brain | 
    the pituitary
 
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    | Napoleon arrived on this island October 15, 1815 | 
    St. Helena
 
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    | This American incorporated his popular "Fanfare for the Common Man" into his third symphony | 
    Aaron Copland
 
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    | In the 20th c. only 2 military leaders have been Secretary of State: George Marshall & this 1980 appointee | 
    (Alexander) Haig
 
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    | In 1860 this suffragist wrote, "Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights" | 
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