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    | In the first Punic War, Rome conquered this island to the south, making it the first Roman province | Sicily 
 
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    | In 2004 Ryoko Tani's inside leg technique brought her a second straight gold in this martial art | judo 
 
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    | The median nerve in your arm controls your pollex, better known as this digit | (Ian: What is your index finger?) 
 your thumb
 
 
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    | Marzipan, used to cover or decorate cakes, is a paste made from this nut | almonds 
 
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    | After the death of Peter the Great, this former consort took up the job of empress & wasn't great | Catherine 
 
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    | Financially well off | affluent 
 
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    | A quarter of a million people crowded into this largest hippodrome to watch the chariot races | (Ian: What is the Colosseum?) 
 the Circus Maximus
 
 
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    | This decathlete from Mount Kisco, N.Y. lit up Montreal's Olympic Stadium at the 1976 games | (Bruce) Jenner 
 
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    | The vagus nerve, from the Latin for "wandering", is the longest of these 12 sets of nerves arising in the brainstem | (Ian: What are the ganglia?) 
 cranial nerves
 
 
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    | To make edible flowers & ribbons, sugar can be pulled, spun or this, as in making glass | blown 
 
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    | Fined $100 for voting in an 1873 Rochester election, she said, "I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty" | Susan B. Anthony 
 
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    | The power to affect persons or events | influence 
 
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    | The Curia was the meeting place of this most powerful political body in the Republic | the Senate 
 
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    | This Pittsburgh Penguins great was the captain of Canada's 2002 gold-medal hockey team | (Mario) Lemieux 
 
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    | When you're talking about the C8 spinal nerves, the C stands for this | cervical 
 
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    | Good modeling chocolate has a high content of this fatty solid that comes from the seeds of the bean | cocoa butter 
 
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    | This witty woman who helped found the Screen Writers Guild left her estate to Martin Luther King Jr. | (Dorothy) Parker 
 
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    | A series of decorative grooves on an architectural column | flutes (fluting) 
 
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    | He was the first Roman emperor, & his 40-year reign marked the beginning of the Pax Romana | (Ian: Who was Julius Caesar?) 
 Augustus
 
 
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    | In both '84 & '88, Greg Louganis doubled up in diving, winning gold in platform & this | springboard 
 
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    | This decorative flourish on a cake shares its name with the ornamental band on upholstery | piping 
 
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    | After hearing a song by this poetess, the Athenian ruler Solon wanted to "learn it and die" | Sappho 
 
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    | Noisemaker seen here | a flugelhorn 
 
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    | In 330 A.D. the capital of the Roman Empire moved from Rome to this city much farther east | Byzantium 
 
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    | On a sweltering July 10, 1924 this Finn set Olympic records in the 1,500 & 5,000 meters | (Paavo) Nurmi 
 
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    | This cluster of nerves behind the stomach controls vital functions; a punch that penetrates there slows you down | the solar plexus 
 
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    | French for "melting", this pliable sugar mixture is rolled & used as an icing to cover cakes of any shape & size | fondant 
 
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    | Female name given to the fossil found by Donald Johanson in Hadar, Ethiopia in 1974 | (Ian: What is Eve?) 
 Lucy
 
 
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    | Adjective meaning serving no purpose, or more than is required | superfluous 
 
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