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Under the Sherman Act his Standard Oil trust was dissolved by the Ohio Supreme Court in 1892 |
Rockefeller
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Cousteau's middle name, it's actually part of his hyphenated first name |
Yves
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It was from the Diplomatic Reception Room that this president gave his fireside chats |
Roosevelt
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Now South Carolina's senior senator, he was the state's governor from 1947 to 1951 |
Strom Thurmond
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Pope Callixtus III is said to have excommunicated this comet in 1456, calling it an agent of the devil |
Halley's Comet
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Boston Corbett, who allegedly shot and killed this actor & assassin, was later sent to a mental hospital |
John Wilkes Booth
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During the Ghost Dance uprising in 1890, this Sioux leader was shot and killed |
Sitting Bull
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His film "The Silent World" won the grand prize at this French film festival in 1956 |
the Cannes Film Festival
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Traditionally, male guests of honor stay in this "presidential" bedroom |
the Lincoln Bedroom
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Opened in 1736, this port city's Dock Street Theater was the first in the U.S. used solely for dramatic plays |
[ERRATUM: The name is spelled Dock Street Theatre.]
Charleston
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In July 1991 British scientists reported finding the first known one of these outside our solar system |
a planet
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John Nepomuk Schrank shot and wounded this Bull Moose president candidate in 1912 |
[NOTE: Schrank's middle name is most commonly given as Flammang.]
Teddy Roosevelt
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In 1899, he completed his painting "Two Tahitian Women" |
Gauguin
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For his work with this WWII group known as "Maquis", Cousteau got the Croix de Guerre with palms |
the Resistance
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This largest and most formal of the state reception rooms was once an office to Meriwether Lewis |
the East Room
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Used to make a blue dye, this plant was introduced in the 1740s & became one of S.C.'s staple crops |
(Alex: And we have less than a minute to go in the round.)
indigo
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The most luminous object in the universe, their name comes from "quasi-stellar" |
quasars
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In 1894, this French army captain was convicted of passing secrets to German agents and later acquitted |
Dreyfus
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In 1957 he was named a director of this Mediterranean principality's Musee oceanographique |
Monaco
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In 1917 this first lady set up what is now the China Room, to display the ever-growing collection |
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
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A national forest named for this "Swamp Fox" has a successful wild turkey refuge |
Francis Marion
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From analyzing red shifts, this astronomer proved in 1929 that the universe is expanding |
Edwin Hubble
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After his acquittal, this silent comedian directed some films under the name William Goodrich |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Fatty Arbuckle
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In 1893, this 79-year-old composer's last opera, "Falstaff", premiered in Milan |
(Giuseppe) Verdi
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Long before marrying Candice Bergen this film director worked as a cinematographer for Cousteau |
Louis Malle
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Most of the wooden furnishings in the library are attributed to this New York cabinet maker |
Duncan Phyfe
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This state tree appears on the state seal |
a palmetto
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For measuring distance, astronomers commonly use these 2 units, abbreviated ly & pc |
(Todd: What is a light year?) ... (Alex: The other unit: [**].)
[Alex read the first abbreviation as "One Y".]
light-years and parsecs
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Murder victim Elizabeth Short was given this flowery nickname for always dressing in black |
Black Dahlia
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