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This is the only one of the five Great Lakes entirely in United States. |
Lake Michigan |
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In 1939 his Hyde Park, New York presidential library became 1st to be separate from Library of Congress. |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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Boston's Green Monster is in this baseball stadium. |
Fenway Park |
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18th Century English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft was the mother of this Frankenstein author. |
Mary Shelley |
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In part, it states I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment. |
Hippocratic Oath |
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While serving in the '60s and '70s as this city's last censor, Richard J. Sinnott banned fewer than 10 things. |
Boston |
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This moose body part, shed every winter, can be 6 feet wide and weigh 85 pounds. |
Antlers |
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This vegetable fat used in cosmetics and soap is a by-product of the chocolate industry. |
Cocoa butter |
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The gargoyles on this New York City skyscraper were designed to look like auto radiator caps. |
Chrysler Building |
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John O'Sullivan coined this term for the United State's right to cover the continent. |
Manifest Destiny |
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The Swedish island of Gotland is the largest in this sea. |
Baltic Sea |
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Led by Nicholas, a German boy, the Children's Crusade of 1212 may have been the inspiration for this character. |
The Pied Piper (of Hamelin) |
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The Hotel Yak and Yeti in this Nepalese capital houses the 2-story Casino Royale. |
Kathmandu |
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In 1964 a Shakespeare center was opened on Henley Street in this English city. |
Stratford-upon-Avon |
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From the Latin for to rule, this is the term for 1811 to 1820, when the future George IV ruled in place of his crazy dad. |
The Regency |
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He spoke out for the rights of Eskimos and Indians when he became the first reigning pope to visit Canada. |
Pope John Paul II |
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Laura Scudder invented a way to bag this taste treat so they could be a snack food staple. |
Potato chips |
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In 2002 Japanese scientists discovered it contains the enzyme Lachrymatory-Factor Synthase. |
Onions |
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In 1923 Fanny Brice made news by having this procedure, later rejected by a woman portraying her. |
A nose job |
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In 1968 Lee Radziwill, this woman's sister, starred in a TV remake of the classic film noir Laura. |
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
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In old philosophy this 12-letter word referred to a fifth substance, superior to earth, air, fire or water. |
Quintessence |
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This river enters Idaho through the Palisades Reservoir on the Wyoming border. |
Snake River |
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A famous musical had this Belgian-born singer-songwriter Alive And Well And Living In Paris. |
Jacques Brel |
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This is the alternate name for the gray wolf. |
Timber wolf |
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Unlike Luke, Acts specifies that this event took place 40 days after Jesus' resurrection. |
Ascension |
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After getting lost crossing a California desert and suffering intensely, emigrants gave the area this name. |
Death Valley |
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The river god Cephissus was the father of this youth who fell in love with his own reflection in the water. |
Narcissus |
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Smee, a sidekick of this captain, had a cutlass named Johnny Corkscrew. |
Captain Hook |
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In a 2012 film Anthony Hopkins portrayed this rotund director at the height of his scary powers. |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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For most of his life, this saint of Loyola was known by his given name, Inigo. |
Ignatius |
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This is the overall name for three pairs of glands: parotid, sublingual and submandibular. |
Salivary glands |
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This streak of silver made Virginia City one of the most famous western mining towns. |
Comstock Lode |
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In 1984, he became 1st baseball manager to win over 100 games with teams in both Major Leagues. |
Sparky Anderson |
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This composer moved to Vienna in 1766; in 1778 he presented his native Italy with the first opera staged at La Scala. |
Antonio Salieri |
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The Life of Moses by Botticelli is on the south wall of this Italian room but the ceiling gets more publicity. |
Sistine Chapel |
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Declared a traitor by the Jacobins, this hero of the American Revolution fled to Flanders |
Marquis de Lafayette |
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The air flowing through a 767's engine on takeoff could inflate this Ohio-based dirigible in less than 10 seconds. |
Goodyear Blimp |
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After a Senate investigation into the scandal, the Mammoth Oil Co. lost its lease on this Wyoming site. |
Teapot Dome |
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In the movie Vacation, this actor defends putting deceased Aunt Edna on the car roof: You want me to strap her to the hood?. |
Chevy Chase |
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She wrote her first novel, The House of the Spirits, in exile soon after her uncle's assassination. |
Isabel Allende |
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Kyrgyzstan was the first former Soviet republic to join the WTO, short for this. |
World Trade Organization |
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He exposed questionable design practices in the auto industry in Unsafe at Any Speed. |
Ralph Nader |
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Aeolic, spoken in ancient times, was a dialect of this. |
Ancient Greek |
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These are the only two Italian cities mentioned in Shakespeare titles, they both begin with V" |
Venice and Verona |
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This Baltimore hospital named for its benefactor opened in 1889. |
Johns Hopkins |
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Early leadership of a World War I all-black regiment earned him nickname Black Jack. |
John J. Pershing |
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In 1983 Yitzhak Shamir replaced this man as prime minister of Israel. |
Menachim Begin |
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After Slovakia's parliament declared sovereignty in 1992, he quit as president of Czechoslovakia. |
Vaclav Havel |
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Founded by Cyrus the Great, this empire conquered parts of Asia, Africa and Europe. |
Persian Empire |
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In a February 22, 1936 reenactment, retired star pitcher Walter Johnson threw this across the Rappahannock. |
A silver dollar |
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This is the name for a group of spiders that live in the ground and cover their burrows with a lid. |
Trap-door spiders |
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In the 1950s this New Zealand mountaineer blazed a trail for Sir Vivian Fuchs, the first to cross Antarctica. |
Sir Edmund Hillary |
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In 1898 he wrote, As for the persons I have accused... they are... embodiments of social malfeasance. |
Emile Zola |
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In 1946 this was described as having descended from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic. |
An Iron Curtain |
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The deepest-diving sea turtle is this one whose name suggests the flexibility that lets it survive 1,700 lbs./square inch pressure. |
Leatherback turtle |
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Emily Post recommends thirty-nine and holding as an acceptable answer when asked this rude question. |
How old are you? |
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He's the only U.S. president to serve in the Senate after leaving the White House. |
Andrew Johnson |
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This is the first sentence in The Fountainhead, a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand. |
Howard Roark laughed. |
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The name of this equestrian event means taming or training in French. |
Dressage |
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Jesus said to him, Betrayest thou the Son of Man with a kiss? |
Judas Iscariot |
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At the 1984 Los Angeles games, she won a silver in the heptathlon, and her brother Al, a gold in the triple jump. |
Jackie Joiner-Kersey |
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In May 1980 Washington State University was closed for four days due to its proximity to this natural disaster. |
Eruption of Mount Saint Helens |
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Though collectors of pollen and nectar, these nonsocial bees don't build hives but bore in wood to nest. |
Carpenter bees |
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Sworn in following an assassination, he's the only U.S. president who was not sworn in on a Bible. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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Robert Jordan's big mission in Ernest Hemingway's 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is to blow up one of these structures. |
Bridge |
see also corresponding 'Bell Tolls Mission' Sudoku puzzle
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This U.S. First Lady's April 14th, 1964 diary entry revealed she asked King Hussein of Jordan for his autograph at a state dinner. |
Lady Bird Johnson |
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This magazine title, launched in early 1930, seemed at odds with The Great Depression in subject and $1 cover price. |
Fortune |
see also corresponding 'Great Depression Magazine' Sudoku puzzle
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This river joins the Columbia near Pasco, Washington, a little more than 1,000 miles from its source in Wyoming. |
Snake River |
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Tourists pass through this gate on their way up the Athenian Acropolis hill on the way to the Parthenon. |
Beule Gate |
see also corresponding 'Acropolis Gate' Sudoku puzzle
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Descartes called this gland the seat of the rational soul. |
Pineal gland |
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The Portuguese were the first Europeans to reach this island (now called Taiwan) off the southern coast of China in 1544. |
Formosa |
see also corresponding 'Portuguese Taiwan' Sudoku puzzle
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Michael Blake wrote this novel, and he recorded it on tape for 7 Wolves Publishing. |
Dances With Wolves |
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National parks in the south of this U.S. state include Glacier Bay and Sitka. |
Alaska |
see also corresponding 'Glacier Bay Sitka Parks' Sudoku puzzle
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Mount Adams, Mount Jefferson, and Mount Madison are in this New England state. |
New Hampshire |
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In 1865 this amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery in the U.S. |
13th Amendment |
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Yemen's Socotra Island has a tree that produces red sap called this mythic creature's blood. |
Dragon |
see also corresponding 'Socotra Island Yemen' Sudoku puzzle
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She was awarded her 1986 Female Pop Vocal Grammy Award by her cousin Dionne. |
Whitney Houston |
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Merriam-Webster's New Words of 2007 included this one for a soap opera south of the border. |
Telenovela |
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From the Arabic for to make known, this is a tax nations impose to restrict trade on imports and exports. |
Tariff |
see also corresponding 'Arabic Known Tax' Sudoku puzzle
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This ancient medical oath begins, I swear by Apollo physician... |
The Hippocratic Oath |
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Havarti cheese from Denmark is often flavoured with these seeds also found in rye bread. |
Caraway seeds |
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Soviet rejection of this 1947 plan marked end of efforts to achieve total European economic unity. |
Marshal Plan |
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Each human wrist has eight of these bones, also the name of a tunnel in the wrist. |
Carpals |
see also corresponding 'Wrist Bones' Sudoku puzzle
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This is suffered by one who goes from his/her simple society to a very complex one. |
Culture shock |
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Before you consciously process a problem, this almond-shaped brain region activates and begins to amp up the sympathetic nervous system's fight-or-flight response. |
Amygdala |
see also corresponding 'Brain Response' Sudoku puzzle
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New Zealand has two national anthems, God Defend New Zealand and this one. |
God Save the Queen |
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This Austro-Bohemian late-Romantic composer titled his Symphony No. 8, the 'Symphony of a Thousand'. |
Gustav Mahler |
see also corresponding 'Symphony Thousand' Sudoku puzzle
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This Louisiana chef was the first to make blackened fish that wasn't a mistake. |
Paul Prudhomme |
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Friedrich Serturner was the first to extract this from opium for use as a pain reliever. |
Morphine |
see also corresponding 'Serturner Opium Extract' Sudoku puzzle
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For 2012, the front of these awards shows Nike stepping out of the Parthenon, and the reverse side depicts the Thames River. |
Olympic Medals at the 2012 Summer Olympics, formally the Games of the XXX Olympiad and commonly known as London 2012. |
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This is the common term for a cerebrovascular accident. |
Stroke |
see also corresponding 'Cerebrovascular Accident' Sudoku puzzle
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In 1936 Haile Selassie asked this world body for sanctions against Italy, which had invaded Ethiopia in 1935. |
The League of Nations |
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This Kivila word means 'the truth we all know but agree not to speak of'. |
Mokita |
see also corresponding 'Kivila Speech' Sudoku puzzle
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Ownership of the islands of Tierra del Fuego is shared by these two nations. |
Argentina and Chile |
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This pointillism pioneer was only 31 when he died of a sudden illness in Paris. |
Georges Seurat |
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This resort island off the coast of South Carolina was named for a British sea captain. |
Hilton Head |
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In 1859 a sensational trial followed when a jealous husband killed Philip Barton Key, son of this man. |
Francis Scott Key |
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Vegetarians have to be careful to get enough zinc. These items, big at Halloween time, help make sure they do. |
Pumpkin seeds |
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This English word was first recorded in 1819, in a history of Brazil by the poet Robert Southey, and refers to a fictional undead being created through the reanimation of a human corpse. |
Zombie |
see also corresponding 'Undead Corpse' Sudoku puzzle
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This U.S. state nickname is The Tar Heel State. |
North Carolina |
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