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In 1687, the Parthenon was badly damaged when the Venetians tried to conquer this city |
Athens
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On this holiday, the flag flies at half-staff from sunrise to noon, & at full-staff from noon to sunset |
Memorial Day
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In 1948 Aaron Copland wrote a clarinet concerto for this swing band leader & clarinetist |
Benny Goodman
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A basic indicator of a nation's economic strength is the GNP, which stands for this |
Gross National Product
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For his mural "The Last Supper", he used oils instead of the watercolors of normal frescoes |
Leonardo da Vinci
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The Geneva Bible of 1560 was the first English Bible in which the chapters were divided into these |
Verses
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In 1610 Cosimo de Medici made this astronomer his court mathematician |
Galileo
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The U.S. flag first flew on this continent in 1840 during the Charles Wilkes expedition |
Antarctica
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Based on the tune "O Mama Mia", Paganini's "Carnival of Venice" is written for piano & this instrument |
Violin
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It's the term for an often speculative security that typically sells for less than a dollar |
Penny stock
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The floor type of this art form originated with pebble floors laid in late-Neolithic Crete |
Mosaics
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London printers of a 1631 Bible were fined 300 pounds for leaving the word "not" out of this fidelity commandment |
Seventh ("Thou shalt not commit adultery")
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In 1610 this Dutch firm shipped tea from China to Europe for the first time |
Dutch East India Company
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According to the Pledge of Allegiance, the American flag stands for this type of government |
(B: What is indivisible?)
Republic
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His great 1798 oratorio "The Creation" is known in German as "Die Schopfung" |
(J: Who is Handel?)
Franz Joseph Haydn
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In 1994 the maximum employees could contribute to this pension plan was $9,240 |
(D: What is an IRA?)
401K plan
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In 1892 this French artist portrayed dancer La Goulue entering the Moulin Rouge |
Toulouse-Lautrec
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The Septuagint is the oldest translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew to this language |
Greek
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This Jamaican city was founded around 1693 after an earthquake destroyed Port Royal across the harbor |
Kingston
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Mary Pickersgill of Baltimore, Maryland made the flag that flew on this site in September of 1814 |
Fort McHenry
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In 1992 this Finnish conductor became director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic |
(J: Who is...[time]?) (Alex: You rang in before it got to your brain.)
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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According to Engel's Law, when the income of a household rises, the percentage spent on this decreases |
Food
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This "American Gothic" painter operated the Stone City Art Colony to help younger artists |
Grant Wood
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The Cranmer Bible of 1540 featured a Holbein woodcut of this king watching copies being passed out |
(D: Would that be...who is King James?)
Henry VIII
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The 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk fixed China's border with this country along the Amur River valley |
Russia
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By custom, the U.S. flag flies over his tomb in Paris |
Marquis de Lafayette
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Born in 1903, this Spaniard was the first flamenco guitarist to perform as a soloist without dancers |
(B: Who is Andres Segovia?)
Carlos Montoya
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This 1968 act gave consumers the right to know the total costs & conditions before borrowing money |
Truth in Lending Act
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In 1543 this Venetian traveled to Bologna to paint the portrait "Pope Paul III Without Cap" |
Titian
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It's the name given to the Latin version of the Bible authorized by the Roman Catholic Church |
Vulgate
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