THE DECLARATION OF INDEPEDENCE |
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He swore he used "neither book nor pamphlet" in preparing the draft |
Jefferson
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Maurice Utrillo was famous for his paintings of this city, especially of Montmartre |
Paris
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Amritsar, the religious center of the Sikhs, is located in this country's Punjab state |
India
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In a 1994 film she played Wilma Flintstone's mother Pearl Slaghoople |
Elizabeth Taylor
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In England, paper bills of this monetary unit come in denominations of 5, 10, 20 & 50 |
pounds
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At the beginning of the last act of this Thornton Wilder play, Emily has died in childbirth |
Our Town
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Most of the members of the Continental Congress did this on Aug. 2, 1776, not on July 4 |
signed
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One of Andy Warhol's favorite subjects was this founder of the People's Republic of China |
Mao Tse-tung
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A Benedictine monk named Augustine became England's first Archbishop of this c. 600 |
Canterbury
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Jane Taylor wrote the rhyme about a scintillating heavenly body that begins with these words |
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"
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In 1961 the rand became legal tender in this country |
South Africa
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In "A Streetcar Named Desire", she's Stella Kowalski's sister |
Blanche DuBois
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The rough draft read, "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable"; it was changed to this |
self-evident
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In 1961 the Met purchased his "Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer" for $2.3 million |
(Cherie: Who is Picasso?)
Rembrandt
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The name of Durga, a fierce & beautiful goddess of this religion, is Sanskrit for "the inaccessible" |
Hindu
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This "A Woman of Substance" author married producer Robert Bradford in 1963 |
(Alex: Sold a lot of books!)
Barbara Taylor Bradford
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In 1993 Turkmenistan replaced this unit of currency with the manat |
(Alex: That's right. It was part of the Soviet Union, and it became independent.)
the ruble
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It completes the title of the play "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet..." |
and I'm Feeling So Sad
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One of the "facts" "presented" was England's "imposing" these "on us without our consent" |
taxes
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In 1978 3 of his bronzes, including "The Clenched Hand", were stolen from the St. Louis Art Museum |
Rodin
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Poland's patron saint is St. Stanislaus of this city, the former capital of Poland |
Krakow
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He was exhumed in 1991 to determine whether he had been poisoned in 1850 |
Zachary Taylor
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In 1980 Israel adopted this currency that shares its name with a biblical unit of weight |
a shekel
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In a 1922 Anne Nichols play, he marries an Irish girl named Rose Mary Murphy, starting a family feud |
(Ryan: What is [*]'s Irish Rose?) (Alex: Yeah. [*] is the guy's name.)
Abie
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Congress ordered a copy for each state Jan. 18, 1777, when it met in this city, not Philadelphia |
(Cherie: What is New York?)
Baltimore
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His son Jamie is the day-dreaming boy with the coonskin hat in his 1952 watercolor "Faraway" |
(Ryan: Who is Wyeth?) (Alex: Be more specific.)
Andrew Wyeth
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It's the religion of nearly all the Malays in Malaysia |
(Steve: What is, uh, Christianity?)
Islam
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She gave us the generational saga of "Captains and the Kings" |
(Janet) Taylor Caldwell
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Divided into 100 groschen, it's the main unit of Austria |
shilling
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In February 1949 this actor originated the role of Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman" |
(Alex: And the actor was the late [*].)
Lee J. Cobb
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