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In 1980 the island of Tobago was given considerable autonomy from this larger neighbor |
Trinidad
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Since 1962 this Massachusetts senator's lowest winning percentage was 61% in 1982 |
Edward Kennedy
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A hygrometer is any of various instruments for measuring this in the air |
moisture (humidity)
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2 years in a row, this comedian topped the bestseller list with "Fatherhood" & "Time Flies" |
Bill Cosby
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Bobby Seale, co-founder of this militant group later wrote a cookbook, "Barbeque'n with Bobby" |
the Black Panthers
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The folklore of this religion inspired Jerome Robbins' ballet "Dybbuk Variations" |
Judaism
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This U.S. commonwealth is the easternmost of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean |
Puerto Rico
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This famous showman served 2 terms in the Connecticut legislature in the 1800s |
P.T. Barnum
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The anaconda is considered this type of snake because it kills its prey by squeezing |
a constrictor
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"The Origin" by Irving Stone is a biographical novel of this naturalist |
Charles Darwin
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In 1964 he quit the Nation of Islam & founded the Organization for Afro-American Unity |
Malcolm X
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Calliope, Polyhymnia & Terpsichore, who are 3 of these goddesses, appear in the ballet "Apollo" |
the Muses
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Add an X to the end of this English isle's name & you get a language spoken there |
the Isle of Man
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In 1991 Lynn Martin replaced this woman as Secretary of Labor |
Elizabeth Dole
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Meaning "glowing with heat", it's the type of light given off by a light bulb |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
incandescent
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"Of Time and the River" was Thomas Wolfe's 1935 sequel to this novel |
(Abraham: What is You Can't Go Home Again?)
Look Homeward Angel
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Hubert Gerold Brown was better known as this |
H. Rap Brown
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Choreographer Auguste Bournonville has been called the father of this Scandinavian country's ballet |
Denmark
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In the 1942 battle for this atoll, the Japanese lost 4 aircraft carriers & a heavy cruiser to the U.S. |
Midway
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In 1896 this Ohio governor became the first presidential candidate to campaign by telephone |
(Abraham: Who is William Howard Taft?) ... (Alex: Don, you knew that right? But, you didn't get the Daily Double.)
McKinley
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Formed by hundreds of single light receptors, it's the type of eye found in insects & crustaceans |
a compound eye
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E.M. Forster set this novel in the city of Chandrapore, on the banks of the Ganges |
(Don: What is A Passage of India?)
A Passage to India
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In 1954 he was named an undersecretary of the United Nations |
(Susan: Who is Andrew Young?)
Dr. Ralph Bunche
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This ballerina who originated the role of the Coquette in "La Sonnambula" in 1946 is part Osage Indian |
Maria Tallchief
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He founded the New York Tribune as a Whig daily, helped form the GOP & was the Democrats' 1872 pres. candidate |
Horace Greeley
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Named for a Russian, these Alaskan islands are famous for their fur seal breeding grounds |
(Susan: What are the Kamchatka Islands?) (Don: What are the Bering Islands?)
the Pribilof Islands
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His last novel "The Winter of Our Discontent", was published in 1961 |
(Susan: Who is Maugham?)
John Steinbeck
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It lasted from December 5, 1955 to December 21, 1956 |
the Montgomery bus boycott
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The Moor in the ballet "Petrouchka" is one of these playthings, like Petrouchka himself |
a marionette (a puppet)
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