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This Reform Party candidate sued to join the presidential debates & lost |
H. Ross Perot
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Known for its stampede, this largest Alberta city is called Canada's oil & gas capital |
Calgary
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Jonathan Frid of TV's "Dark Shadows" starred in this "Platoon" director's first film, "Seizure", in 1974 |
Oliver Stone
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While Stradivari was making violins, this author was fiddling with "Robinson Crusoe" |
Daniel Defoe
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Like Noah's family in the Bible, the Greeks Deucalion & his wife were the only ones to survive this |
Flood
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As a verb, the word skirl means to play this Highland instrument |
Bagpipes
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This cable network's '96 election coverage featured Tabitha Soren & the "Choose Or Lose" bus |
MTV
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General Motors Place is the home of this city's Canucks hockey team |
Vancouver
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As a child, this "Big" director performed with her mother's tap dance troupe on the "Original Amateur Hour" |
Penny Marshall
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In 1547 Hernan Cortes died & this Medici became queen of France |
Catherine
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5 rivers flow through Hades: Acheron, Cocytus, Lethe, Phlegethon & this one |
Styx
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From the Latin word for "four", it's a poem or stanza of 4 lines |
Quatrain
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At a Washington fundraiser, this Republican congressman sang his hit "The Beat Goes On" |
Sonny Bono
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In North America this city's stock exchange is second in size only to the New York Stock Exchange |
Toronto
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He earned his first Oscar nomination for his first film, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" |
Mike Nichols
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While Charles Babbage was trying to build a computer in the 1820s, this Scot invented what would be a "Mac" |
Charles McIntosh
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After killing the giant Pallas, this goddess flayed him & used his skin as armor |
Athena
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This word can mean a drop downward, or one's lineage |
Descent
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High school teacher Victor Morales challenged this incumbent Texas senator |
Phil Gramm
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Sites of interest in this city include the Old Market Square & the Manitoba legislative building |
Winnipeg
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This playwright directed the 1990 film adaptation of his own play "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead" |
Tom Stoppard
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While Abelard was wooing Heloise in Europe, this Rubaiyat author was writing in the Mideast |
Omar Khayyam
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This god of the west wind fathered 2 immortal horses: Xanthus & Balius |
(D: Who is Aeolus?)
Zephyr
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This alternate name for a werewolf is from the Greek for "wolf man" |
Lycanthrope
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The Democratic Convention's keynote address was given by Evan Bayh, the governor of this state |
(S: What is Idaho?)
Indiana
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Province House, Canada's oldest legislative building, was completed in 1818 in this Nova Scotia city |
Halifax
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This Italian, father of actress Isabella, directed the acclaimed Neorealist film "Open City" |
Roberto Rossellini
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While Gutenberg was setting his type, a duke in this family was setting his sights on Milan |
Sforza
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Calliope, one of the Muses, was the mother of this masterful lyre player |
Orpheus
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This synonym for clumsy is from an old Norse word meaning "turned the wrong way" |
Awkward
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