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This Civil War general admired for his side-whiskers served as governor of Rhode Island from 1866-69 |
Ambrose Burnside
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The "marriage" of this character to Susanna takes place in Count Almaviva's chateau |
Figaro
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This Arizona capital lies in the Salt River Valley & is bordered by mountains & the Sonoran desert |
Phoenix
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An estimated record crowd of 800,000 attended a 1986 classical music concert in this NYC park |
Central Park
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In 447 he & his band of Huns devastated the area between the Mediterranean & Black Seas |
Attila
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Shakespeare lived for awhile with the Mountjoys, a Huguenot family, in this capital city |
(M: What is Paris?)
London
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Robert Gray discovered this river that forms much of the border between Washington & Oregon |
Columbia
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This opera's best-known aria is Cio-Cio-San's "Un Bel Di Vedremo" |
Madame Butterfly
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This state's largest desert basins are Jornada del Muerto & Tularosa, where White Sands is |
New Mexico
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The lowest settlement in the world is Israel's Ein Bokek on the shore of this sea |
Dead Sea
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In 1971 this country's constitution set up 3 cultural regions: Flanders, Wallonia, & Brussels |
Belgium
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In the last scene of a tragedy, Malcolm speaks of "This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen" |
Macbeth
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He painted the first 5 men to succeed Washington as president but is more famous for his 3 of George |
Gilbert Stuart
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Act I of this 1875 opera takes place in a Seville square near a cigarette factory |
"Carmen"
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Chappaquiddick Island & this larger island are separated by Katama Bay |
Martha's Vineyard
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This French leader was the target of a record 31 unsuccessful assassination plots |
Charles De Gaulle
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In 1910 this British scholar & army officer explored Syria on foot |
Lawrence
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"Diana", a story in Spanish by Jorge de Montemayer, is a source for this comedy about a Veronese duo |
"Two Gentlemen of Verona"
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The play "LIttle Johnny Jones" introduced his "Give My Regards to Broadway" |
George M. Cohan
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The title character in this Verdi opera is a hunchbacked jester |
"Rigoletto"
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The easternmost point of this state's Outer Banks is on Cape Hatteras National Seashore |
North Carolina
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The world's largest known invertebrate is the giant species of this cephalopod |
Giant Squid
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From 1849 to 1861, he ruled the kingdom of Sardinia |
Victor Emmanuel
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It's believed Shakespeare wrote part of a 1595 play about this "Utopia" author |
St. Thomas More
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Leonard Woodcock, who succeeded Walter Reuther as head of this union, was born in Providence |
(R: What were the Teamsters?)
United Auto Workers
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Beethoven wrote 4 overtures for this opera |
"Fidelio"
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Rising 33,480 feet from its underwater base makes this Hawaiian volcano the world's tallest peak |
(Michael: What is Mauna Loa?) (Ann: What is Kilauea?) (Ron: What is Mauna Loa?)
Mauna Kea
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The shortest-reigning king was Dom Luis III, king of this country for about 20 minutes in 1908 |
Portugal
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Mungo Park disappeared in 1806 while exploring this west African river |
Niger
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Shakespeare's theatrical company became known as The King's Men in honor of this king's patronage |
(M: Who is Henry VIII?)
James I
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