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Martin Behaim made a globe based on the writings of Ptolemy & this Italian traveler among others |
Marco Polo
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His younger brother Josef composed waltzes too |
Johann Strauss
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This party fruit drink may take its name from the Hindi word for five, for its 5 original ingredients |
Punch
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He rescues Friday from cannibals & later rescues Friday's father as well |
Robinson Crusoe
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Due to the great falls on this river, large ships can't go past Washington, D.C. |
Potomac
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John Wayne won his Oscar for playing marshall Rooster Cogburn in this 1969 film |
"True Grit"
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On April 9 this "magnificent" Florentine died at Careggi |
(Paul: What is de' Medici?) (Alex: Which one?) (Paul: Cosimo.) ... (Paul: Ended in "O"!)
Lorenzo de' Medici
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Composer of the opera that included the following; it premiered in Vienna, May 1, 1786: |
(Alex: Feeling very confident, are we?) ... (Kim: I have no idea.)
W.A. Mozart
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Squab is generally used to refer to one of these birds under 4 weeks old |
Pigeon
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Dickens novel containing the line "It is a far, far better thing that I do, that I have ever done" |
"A Tale of Two Cities"
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More than 30 bridges in Paris pass over this river |
Seine
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Role played by Wayne in "The Alamo" |
Davy Crockett
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Ajaccio, capital of this French Mediterranean island, was settled by Genoese colonists |
(V: What is Sardinia?) (P: The other one.)
Corsica
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Born in Bergen in 1843, he's been called "The most distinguished Norwegian composer of the 19th century" |
(P: Who is Ibsen?)
Edward Grieg
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This Japanese "rice wine" is traditionally served hot in an earthenware bottle called a tokkuri |
sake
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The Houyhnhnms in this 1726 satire have the forms of horses |
"Gulliver's Travels"
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The world's largest delta is formed by the Brahmaputra & this sacred river |
Ganges
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Mervyn LeRoy assisted Wayne in directing this 1968 film about the special forces in Vietnam |
"The Green Berets"
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Casimir IV was succeeded as king of this country by his son John Albert |
Poland
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This "Babes in Toyland" composer helped found the organization known as ASCAP |
Victor Herbert
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Peach Melba was one of the creations of this famous French chef |
Escoffier
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This Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel is set in 79 A.D. |
"The Last Days of Pompeii"
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Canals connect this 2200-mile long river to the Baltic, Black & White Seas & to Moscow |
Volga
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It's said this 1939 John Ford western was the first movie filmed at Monument Valley in Utah & Arizona |
"Stagecoach"
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This last Moorish stronghold in Spain fell to the Spaniards in January |
Granada
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His "Pomp And Circumstance" is actually a set of 5 marches |
Edward Elgar
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Named for an Austrian city, it's a buttery pastry with raspberry jam & a lattice-top crust |
Linzer Torte
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The title of this 1910 E.M. Forster novel refers to the home of Henry & Margaret Wilcox |
(P: What is "A Room With a View?") (A minute to go in the round....)
"Howards End"
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It flows 626 miles across the Iberian peninsula before entering the Atlantic near Lisbon |
Tagus
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Maureen O' Hara & her brother appeared in this 1952 film made in Ireland |
"The Quiet Man"
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