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    | In 1855 Marthinus Pretorius founded a city that's now the administrative capital of this country | South Africa 
 
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    | The Deglet Noor is the predominant type of this palm fruit grown in the U.S. | a date 
 
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    | Mark Twain said this author of "The Deerslayer" "wrote about the poorest English that exists in our language" | (James Fenimore) Cooper 
 
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    | During a one-year stay at an asylum in St.-Remy, 1889-1890, he produced over 150 paintings | Vincent van Gogh 
 
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    | Costa Rica & Colombia
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 Panama
 
 
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    | Impressed by the deductive skills of Dr. Joseph Bell, his mentor, he based a detective on him | (Paul: Um... who is...) ...
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 Arthur Conan Doyle
 
 
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    | Nursing on the Black Sea in 1855, she wrote home, "What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine" | Florence Nightingale 
 
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    | This roll whose name is French for "crescent" is made with a dough similar to puff pastry | a croissant 
 
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    | King George II reportedly said, "I cannot read" this bard, "He is such a bombast fellow" | Shakespeare 
 
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    | This 14'3" Michelangelo statue was moved to Florence's Accademia in the 19th century | David 
 
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    | France, Italy,
 Austria,
 Liechtenstein,
 Germany
 | Switzerland 
 
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    | Edgar Allen discovered this sex hormone & how it's used in the female reproductive cycle | estrogen 
 
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    | Now a historic site, the Beehive House was built in 1855 as his home | Brigham Young 
 
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    | The average plant of this tropical fruit produces 6 to 15 hands | banana 
 
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    | F. Scott Fitzgerald called this author's "Lord Jim" "a great book--the first third at least..." | (Joseph) Conrad 
 
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    | Venus appears in his "Primavera" as well as in his "Birth of Venus" | Botticelli 
 
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    | Turkey, Syria,
 Jordan,
 Saudi Arabia,
 Kuwait,
 Iran
 | Iraq 
 
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    | This form of mental deterioration is named for a turn-of-the- century German neurologist | (Alex: The man's name was Alois Alzheimer, you are correct.) [Applause]
 
 Alzheimer's disease
 
 
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    | In 1855 this British inventor developed a new steel-making process | (Sir Henry) Bessemer 
 
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    | This Viennese cake bears the name of the famed Sacher family of hoteliers | Sachertorte 
 
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    | E.M. Forster called his "Ulysses" "a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud" | James Joyce 
 
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    | This Spaniard portrayed himself as well as the king & queen of Spain in "Las Meninas" | (Mark: Who is Goya?) (Cary: Who is El Greco?)
 
 Velazquez
 
 
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    | Germany, Austria,
 Slovakia,
 Poland
 | the Czech Republic 
 
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    | The 4/25/1953 issue of Nature had a paper by these 2 men on "a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid" | Watson & Crick 
 
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    | This "Tales of Hoffmann" composer became manager of the Bouffes-Parisiens Theatre | [Applause for Mark's run of the category; no verbal acknowledgment from Alex] 
 Offenbach
 
 
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    | The young of an eel is called this | an elver 
 
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    | Henry James said this Gustave Flaubert novel "has a perfection... that makes it stand almost alone" | (Alex: We have a minute to go in the round.) 
 Madame Bovary
 
 
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    | This Belgian artist's "Golconda" shows dozens of bowler-hatted men floating through the sky | René Magritte 
 
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    | Peru, Brazil,
 Paraguay,
 Argentina,
 Chile
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 Bolivia
 
 
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