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| Pancho Villa became governor of this Mexican state in December 1913; & no, he didn't live in the doghouse |
(Elizabeth: What is Texas?)
Chihuahua
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| Casa de Campo, a big park in this capital of Spain, boasts a zoo-aquarium complex with a dolphinarium |
Madrid
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| This South American river widens to about 150 miles at its mouth |
the Amazon
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| Jiskha is an online resource to help you with this, so you won't have to say your dog ate it |
homework
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| This shiny-nosed one of Santa's reindeer was made up by an adman in 1939. That's right, you heard me. Made up |
Rudolph
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| The bald type of this all-American bird does have feathers on its head, but not on its feet |
eagle
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| In December 1998 the citizens of this U.S. commonwealth voted again not to become a state |
Puerto Rico
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| Visitors once saw a mama hippo giving birth underwater in the Hippoquarium at the Toledo Zoo in this U.S. state |
Ohio
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| Mark McGwire's progress on the home run list is tracked on this team's official website |
St. Louis Cardinals
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| You can sit on Santa's lap at this kind of store named for the way it's divided into different sections |
department store
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| Ratifying this on December 7, 1787 got Delaware on the first of the new quarters |
(Sandy: What is... sorry.)
the Constitution
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| In March 2000 twin golden lion tamarins became a big attraction at this city's zoo, nicknamed the OKC Zoo |
Oklahoma City
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| This smallest of the Great Lakes shares its name with a Canadian province |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Lake Ontario
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| At Ancestry.com you can build your own one of these & find out if you're on a main branch or just a twig |
family tree
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| The name Santa Claus comes from the name of this saint who pays "a visit" in a famous poem |
Saint Nicholas
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| A common type of this tool is named for the claw it uses to pull out nails |
hammer
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| Too late to hold a Christmas show, this home to the Rockettes opened December 27, 1932 |
(Elizabeth: What is Carnegie Hall?) (Sandy: What is the New York Music Hall?)
Radio City Music Hall
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| This country is known for yodeling, cheese & the Zoologischer Garten in Basel |
Switzerland
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| Once steamboats were launched on this river in 1819, traffic flourished from St. Louis to Fort Benton, Montana |
(Billy: What is the St. Lawrence?) (Elizabeth: What is the Mississippi?)
the Missouri
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| "Space & Beyond" is a section of the kids' website of this government agency |
NASA
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| Christkindl, or "Christ Child", got changed to this other name that Santa has in some movies |
Kris Kringle
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| The nasty claws seen here belong to this type of dinosaur unveiled at Chicago's Field Museum in 2000 |
Tyrannosaurus rex
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| In December in various years Mother Teresa, Jane Addams & Martin Luther King, Jr. each won this |
the Nobel Peace Prize
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| Famous for its koala encounters, the Taronga Zoo is on the harbor in this Australian city known for its opera house |
Sydney
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| Over the centuries, this "sea", the world's largest lake, has been getting smaller due to extensive damming |
the Caspian Sea
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| The word list at Kidshealth.org runs alphabetically from allergist to these, used by the radiologist |
X-rays
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| In France Santa is Pere Noel; British people call him this, which means the same thing |
Father Christmas
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| An animal that retracts its claws pulls them back into this, which also means the holder for a sword |
sheath
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