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"The Killer Angels", "The Red Badge of Courage" |
Civil War
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1988 was a good year for this actress; she won a best supporting acting oscar & her cousin ran for president |
Olympia Dukakis
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Snorri Sturluson, from this island, wrote a history on Norwegian kings from Odin to his own time |
Iceland
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In these organs in most fish, water flows the opposite direction to the blood, increasing oxygen transfer |
gills
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The main seaport of Israel, Haifa is on this sea |
(James: What is the Red Sea?)
Mediterranean Sea
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In one episode of this TV series, a pelican falls in love with Sister Bertrille |
The Flying Nun
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"Drums Along the Mohawk", "Rebels and Redcoats" |
Revolutionary War
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Oscar Goldman was this character's boss in a 1970s series |
Steve Austin
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William Coolidge, author of these mountains "In Nature and History", made the first winter climb of the Jungfrau |
Alps
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Sea creatures that live in the benthos, this part of the ocean, include clams & halibut |
bottom
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Haifa was a target of scud missiles from this country during the Persian Gulf War of 1991 |
Iraq
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To overwhelm or flood with water |
inundate
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"365 Days", "Born on the Fourth of July" |
Vietnam War
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One alive & one deceased, the 2 brothers who have been nominated for acting Oscars |
(Mehrun: Who are the Lincolns?)
River and Joaquin Phoenix
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Mark Bowden has written the story of this 1979 crisis, "The First Battle In America's War With Militant Islam" |
(Mehrun: What is the Iranian Revolution?)
Iran Hostage Crisis
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In 1943 this undersea explorer produced his first film, "Par Dix-huit Metres du Fond", or "18 Meters Down" |
Jacques Cousteau
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Oddly, in 1983 a skeleton of this Pleistocene hominid named for a German valley was found near Haifa |
Neanderthal
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Uttering in a clear, meticulous manner |
enunciate
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"The Great Crusade", "For Whom the Bell Tolls" |
Spanish Civil War
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This actor who died at 45 starred opposite Elizabeth Taylor in "A Place in the Sun" & "Suddenly, Last Summer" |
Montgomery Clift
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Charlotte Corday is "like a star; cruel-lovely" in Thomas Carlyle's 1837 book titled this event |
(Alex: It was [*]. A great work.)
The French Revolution
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Like jellyfish, sea anemones have stinging cells in these organs to paralyze small animals |
tentacles
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In 1191 Haifa was destroyed by the forces of this Muslim leader |
[Alex gave the alternate pronunciation when accepting James's response.]
Saladin (or Salahuddin)
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The Catholic festival in memory of the angel Gabriel telling the Virgin Mary she would soon be with child |
Annunciation
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"The Bridges at Toko-Ri", "The Ikon" |
Korean War
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In one of her first big-screen roles, this actress played Lady Jane Grey in a 1986 film |
Helena Bonham Carter
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The bestselling author of "The Johnstown Flood" & "1776" is also the narrator of the movie "Seabiscuit" |
(Pauline: Who is Gore Vidal?)
David McCullough
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This small five-letter animal seen here is the main food source of the Antarctic blue whale |
(James: What is plankton?)
krill
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Haifa is the world center of this religion founded in Persia in the mid-19th century |
(James: What is Arastrianism?)
Bahá'í Faith
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An official act of abandoning a claim to a royal throne or title |
renunciation
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