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The name of the Montagnards, a Vietnamese minority, means "highlander" or "mountain man" in this language |
French
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Act II of this tragedy opens in Polonius' house |
Hamlet
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This Alabama institute was the major training facility for black airmen during World War II |
Tuskegee Institute
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In 1502, during his fourth voyage to the New World, he landed in what is now Honduras |
Christopher Columbus
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She starred in the high-seas thriller "Dead Calm" before she married Tom Cruise |
Nicole Kidman
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Willem Einthoven devised a way to measure & record its electrical current, thus producing the EKG |
(Wade: What is the brain?)
the heart
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The Nubians live along the Nile in the southern part of this country |
Egypt
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These families in Verona have been the cause of three civil brawls |
the Montagues & the Capulets
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The universities of Mandalay & Rangoon are the chief universities of this country |
Burma (or Myanmar)
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In 1581, a year after circumnavigating the Earth, this explorer became mayor of Plymouth, England |
(Rosemary: Who is Magellan?)
Sir Francis Drake
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Chinese-born actress Joan Chen played Pu Yi's wife in this Oscar-winning 1987 epic |
(Clark: What is Emperor of the Sun?)
The Last Emperor
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In 1032 this Venetian official gave up most of his authority but remained commander of the army & navy |
The Doge
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Albanians form the largest minority group in this Balkan republic whose capital is Belgrade |
Yugoslavia (or Serbia)
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Name shared by the heroine of "The Merchant of Venice" & Brutus' wife in "Julius Caesar" |
Portia
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The library at this Hanover, New Hampshire school has a special collection on Robert Frost |
Dartmouth
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On Nov. 29, 1929 this American flew over the South Pole in his trimotor aircraft, the Floyd Bennett |
(Clark: Who was Peary?)
Admiral Richard Byrd
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This Norwegian known for her enigmatic "Persona" directed her 1st film, "Sofie", in 1992 |
Liv Ullmann
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This is Mississippi's state tree -- its flower is the state flower |
Magnolia
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A small German-speaking minority lives on the eastern edge of this country's region of Wallonia |
Belgium
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Bertram, the Count of Rousillon, is the hero of this comedy whose title foretells its happy ending |
All's Well That Ends Well
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In the 1850s this Massachusetts educator founded Antioch College & became its first president |
Horace Mann
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In 1481 this sailor landed in present-day Ghana; 6 years later he rounded the Cape of Good Hope |
(Wade: Who was Vasco da Gama?) (Clark: Who was Magellan?) ... (Alex: We have less than a minute to go in the round.)
Bartolomeo Diaz
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When Liam Neeson married Natasha Richardson, he became this British actress' son-in-law |
(Alex: [To Rosemary, making her wager] Hurry, we don't have much time left!)
Vanessa Redgrave
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A thin sheet of fine wood applied over cheaper material for decoration |
Veneer
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In 1988 thousands of Kurds were killed by the armed forces of this country -- some by poison gas |
Iraq
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Play containing the line "There is among the Greeks a lord of Trojan blood, nephew to Hector; they call him Ajax" |
Troilus & Cressida
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In 1898 DePaul University was founded in this city & named for St. Vincent De Paul |
(Rosemary: What is Milwaukee?) (Clark: What is Detroit?)
Chicago
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This French discoverer of the St. Lawrence River may have been with Verrazano on his 1524 trip to North America |
Jacques Cartier
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Some historians consider this first "Dark Horse" the best president between Jackson & Lincoln |
James K. Polk
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