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| The 2 times of year, in June & December, when the sun is farthest from the equator |
solstice
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| Japanese poet Matsuo Basho sings the praises of this "flower of the east" |
(Steve: What's the lotus?)
chrysanthemum
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| This guitarist gave his first concert in Granada, Spain in 1909 |
(Michele: Who is Casals?) ... (Alex: [*], yes. Casals was the cellist.)
Andrés Segovia
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| The stars--&--stripes design she's believed to have sewn was adopted by Congress in 1777 |
Betsy Ross
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| In 1975, 35 nations pledged to respect human rights in "Accords" signed in this Finnish capital |
Helsinki
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| Colley Cibber said that this "is eleven points in the law" |
possession
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| It's the common table sugar extracted from sugar cane & sugar beets |
sucrose
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| "In Flanders Fields" these flowers "blow" |
poppies
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| Mozart was a mason, & this opera of his revealed some of the rites of freemasonry |
The Magic Flute
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| New York City held this event for the first time on March 17, 1762 |
St. Patrick's Day parade
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| Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki raft is preserved in a museum in this capital of his native land |
Oslo
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| Polaris is an example of this largest type of star |
supergiant
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| As Wordsworth "wandered" lonely as a cloud," he saw "a crowd, a host" of these flowers |
daffodils
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| Many date the birth of modern music to the riotous 1913 premiere of this composer's "The Rite of Spring" |
Stravinsky
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| As early as 1771 a reward was offered for the capture of this leader of the Green Mountain Boys |
Ethan Allen
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| The European Parliament meets in these 2 places both ending in "bourg" |
Strasbourg & Luxembourg
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| This author's Mr. Bumble declared "The law is a ass, a idiot" |
... [time's up signal] (Alex: I guess Mr. Bumble said, "a ass, a idiot and I made it sound better.) [Laughter.]
Dickens
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| The ozone layer is part of this layer of the atmosphere |
stratosphere
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| This author called Elaine "the lily maid of Astolat" in his "Idylls of the King" |
Tennyson
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| In 1875 he was named president of the Academy of Music in Budapest |
Liszt
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| Pioneers began to move west in this type of covered wagon introduced by the Pennsylvania Dutch |
Conestoga
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| Tallinn, capital of this Baltic republic, was known as Revel until 1918 |
(Steve: What is Latvia?)
Estonia
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| Rudyard Kipling called the law of this place "as old and as true as the sky" |
(Michele: What is the law of the west?)
the jungle
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| It's the transformation of a substance directly from a solid to a vapor state |
(Steve: What is evaporation?) ... (Alex: We have a minute to go, Danny.)
sublimate (sublimation)
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| Belphoebe, representing Queen Elizabeth I, bathed with "roses red & violets blue" in this Spenser poem |
The Faerie Queene
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| After years of near blindness, his sight was supposedly restored 10 days before he died in 1750 |
(Steve: Who is Haydn?)
Johann Sebastian Bach
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| From 1784-88 the state of Franklin existed in what is now this southern state |
Tennessee
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| A 1954 agreement between Italy & Yugoslavia gave Italy this Adriatic seaport |
Trieste
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| "Great cases like hard cases make bad law," said this Supreme Court justice, appointed in 1902 |
(Oliver Wendell) Holmes
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