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CANADIAN PROVINCIAL CAPITALS |
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Accepting the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in 1858, he said "A house divided against itself cannot stand" |
Abraham Lincoln
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This duo dedicated a 1984 song to "All the girls who shared my life who are now someone else's wives" |
Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias
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By dropping 2 letters in Osiris' name, you get this Greek goddess who shares her name with a flower |
Iris
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In "Through the Looking Glass" he tells Alice there's no chance he'd ever fall off his wall |
Humpty Dumpty
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In the mid-1880s, it was the capital of the Crown colony of Vancouver Island |
Victoria
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Surrealist, Spanish, died in 1989, hello... |
(Salvador) DalĂ
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Completed in June 1854, the lighthouse on this island in San Francisco Bay was the West Coast's first active one |
Alcatraz
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This 1980 No. 1 hit was the theme from the movie "American Gigolo" |
"Call Me"
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I can't recall the last time that I saw one of these hyphenated perennials, from the Old French "Ne m'oubliez mie" |
forget-me-not
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In "Through the Looking Glass" he tells Alice his horse has anklets to guard against shark bites |
the White Knight
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It's the only provincial capital that lies on the shore of one of the Great Lakes |
Toronto
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Finnish composer, "Valse triste", died in 1957 |
Sibelius
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In April 1824 the U.S. & this country agreed to 54 deg. 40 min. N. latitude as the southern limit of its west coast claims |
(Ken: What is Great Britain?) (Robert: What is Canada?) (Kate: What is France?)
Russia
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The video for this song, Toni Basil's only hit, featured cheerleaders |
(Ken: What is "Hey, [*]"?) ... (Alex: [*]. No "Hey".)
"Mickey"
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This computing term for a series of peripherals connected to a computer sounds like a school day flower bracelet |
daisy chain
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Lying about 175 miles north of Calgary, it's known as the "Gateway to the North" |
Edmonton
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"Lion of Judah", Ethiopian, died in 1975 |
Haile Selassie
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This 19th C. glass was named for the Massachusetts village where it was made, not for a club or a dagwood |
Sandwich glass
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This Pat Benatar song says, "You come on like a flame, then you turn a cold shoulder" |
(Kate: What is "Barracuda"?)
"Fire And Ice"
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This flower that Shakespeare wrote about several times was also the name of a theatre he once worked at |
a rose
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Nickname of Irwin Allen, who produced "The Towering Inferno" & "The Poseidon Adventure" |
the Master of Disaster
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This capital's harbor is spanned by the Angus L. MacDonald & A. Murray MacKay suspension bridges |
(Alex: What? $4,000 even?) (Ken: Just shakin' it up a little.) (Alex: Okay... I was looking for at least a $400 in there to give you an even total at the end...)
Halifax
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2-time Pulitzer winner, Mississippian, died in 1962 |
William Faulkner
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On July 4, 1828 President John Quincy Adams broke ground for this canal, known as the C&O |
the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal
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A Belgian DJ created this studio group that had hits with "Pump Up The Jam" and "Move This" |
(Ken: Oh. What is C+C Music Factory?)
Technotronic
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Type of "wine" mentioned in the title of a 1957 Ray Bradbury novel |
dandelion wine
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Ronald Reagan often accused pessimistic critics of peddling this rhyming pair |
[Kate buzzed in as the time expiry signal sounded.]
gloom & doom
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It's the provincial capital closest to Europe |
St. John's
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Monk, "Ecclesiastical History", born around 673 |
the Venerable Bede
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