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    | In 1855 Marthinus Pretorius founded a city that's now the administrative capital of this country | 
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    | The Deglet Noor is the predominant type of this palm fruit grown in the U.S. | 
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    | Mark Twain said this author of "The Deerslayer" "wrote about the poorest English that exists in our language" | 
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    | During a one-year stay at an asylum in St.-Remy, 1889-1890, he produced over 150 paintings | 
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    Costa Rica &  Colombia | 
    (Mark: [*]. What is [*]?)
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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...) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
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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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    | King George II reportedly said, "I cannot read" this bard, "He is such a bombast fellow" | 
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    | This 14'3" Michelangelo statue was moved to Florence's Accademia in the 19th century | 
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    France,  Italy,  Austria,  Liechtenstein,  Germany | 
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    | Edgar Allen discovered this sex hormone & how it's used in the female reproductive cycle | 
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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..." | 
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    | Venus appears in his "Primavera" as well as in his "Birth of Venus" | 
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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]
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    | In 1855 this British inventor developed a new steel-making process | 
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    | This Viennese cake bears the name of the famed Sacher family of hoteliers | 
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    | E.M. Forster called his "Ulysses" "a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud" | 
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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?)
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    Germany,  Austria,  Slovakia,  Poland | 
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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" | 
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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]
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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.)
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    | This Belgian artist's "Golconda" shows dozens of bowler-hatted men floating through the sky | 
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    Peru,  Brazil,  Paraguay,  Argentina,  Chile | 
    (Alex: Well done, gentlemen, you rolled through that beautifully.)
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