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A political scandal forced this country's premier, Noboru Takeshita, to resign in 1989 |
Japan
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He was created Prince of Wales at age 9 but wasn't invested officially until age 20 |
(Prince) Charles
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It's the term for a polygon that has 3 sides |
a triangle
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Over 30 million items are housed in this city's Russian state library |
Moscow
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To assist him in the Battle of New Orleans, this general recruited 2 battalions of free blacks |
Andrew Jackson
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Tom Sawyer drew her as "an hour-glass with a full moon and straw limbs to it" |
Becky Thatcher
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The 19 counties of this Scandinavian country include Hedmark, Finnmark & Oslo |
Norway
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In 1991 this red-haired duchess was installed as Chancellor of Salford University |
Fergie
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Merak & Dubhe are the 2 pointer stars that point to this star |
the North Star
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The Bibliotheque nationale in this European capital has about 400,000 coins among its collections |
Paris
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On July 4, 1845 this republic voted to give up its independence & become a U.S. state |
Texas
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In Kipling's , "The Spring Running", this boy reaches manhood & goes to live with humans |
Mowgli
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This country leads Europe in the production of automobiles with almost 5 million a year |
Germany
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This prince served as a helicopter pilot during the Falklands War in 1982 |
Prince Andrew
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This digestive juice contains hydrochloric acid |
gastric juice
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This Canadian province's first subscription library opened in 1800 at Niagara-on-the-Lake |
Ontario
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In 1795 this "Mad" general made a treaty with the Indians in which they gave up half of what became Ohio |
"Mad" Anthony Wayne
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Century in which "The Scarlet Letter" is set |
(Chuck: What is the 18th century?) (Jim: What is the 19th?)
the 17th century (the 1600s)
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This country's senate is called the Seanad Eireann |
Ireland
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This 12-year-old is second in the line of succession to the British throne |
Prince William
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Symbolized Sr, its radioactive 90 isotope is found in fallout |
strontium
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This New Orleans university is the home of the Amistad collection of materials on black culture |
Tulane
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This 1854 act was named for 2 territories, which were allowed to decide the slavery issue for themselves |
the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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A volcano in Iceland provides the entryway in this Jules Verne classic |
Journey to the Center of the Earth
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This South American country is named for its liberator |
Bolivia
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This princess was 13 when her youngest brother, Prince Edward, was born in 1964 |
(Princess) Anne
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Found at the top of a plant's pistil, it has a sticky surface to hold pollen grains |
(Erika: What is the stamen?)
the stigma
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Baker Library at this Hanover, N.N. school is noted for its Stefansson Polar Exploration Collection |
Dartmouth College
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In October 1780 this British general was defeated by patriot troops at Kings Mountain, South Carolina |
(Erika: Who is Gates?)
Cornwallis
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"Of Time and the River" was Thomas Wolfe's sequel to this book |
(Erika: What is the Red, The Web and the Rock?
Look Homeward, Angel
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