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| 12 avenues radiate from Place Charles de Gaulle in this city |
Paris
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| This Florida-born women's great who retired in 1989 wrote the World Book Encyclopedia article on tennis |
Chris Evert
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| Probably the biggest big game the Clovis culture went after 11,200 years ago, it was woolly |
mammoth
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| 3M's Richard Drew invented it in 1930 to have something to seal the cellophane of food products |
Scotch tape
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| Long, flat-bottomed & painted a somber black, they're the traditional taxis of Venice |
gondolas
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| In the familiar jokes, it precedes "Who's there?" |
knock knock
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| Bridges crossing the Nile River in this capital include El Gama'a & El Giza |
Cairo
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| In 1984 this quarterback became the first Boston College player to win the Heisman Trophy |
Doug Flutie
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| The Folsom culture about 10,900 years ago had a fluted type of this weapon & a "thrower" for it |
a spear
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| Newsweek reports Westinghouse made one in 1952 that played "How Dry I Am" at the end of each cycle |
a clothes dryer
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| In 1980 the U.S. government loaned this auto company $1.5 billion; the loans were repaid within 3 years |
Chrysler
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| It's a sailor's way of saying to a superior "I understand & will obey" |
aye-aye
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| Haiphong near the Gulf of Tonkin serves as this city's main port |
(Susan: What is Saigon?)
Hanoi
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| Babe Ruth's father once operated a saloon on what is now center field in this Baltimore ballpark |
Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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| The Anasazi, a word from this Indian language for "ancient ones", lived in what's now the 4 Corners area |
Navajo
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| In 1939 the Hydra-Matic system made this automatic in the Oldsmobile |
a transmission
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| This U.S. city has more miles of subway than any other subway system in the Western Hemisphere |
New York City
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| This full, loose women's garment with a bright print is traditional attire in Hawaii |
a muumuu
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| The ancient Greeks called this Jordanian capital Philadelphia |
Amman
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| In the 1997 Belmont Stakes, Touch Gold dashed this "charmed" horse's Triple Crown bid |
(William: What is Cigar?)
Silver Charm
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| The Adena-Hopewell culture in the Ohio area was known for building these, both the burial & effigy types |
mounds
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| In 1983 the first U.S. commercial call on one of these was from Chicago to a descendant of Bell in Germany |
(William: What is a video phone?)
a cellular phone
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| In Britain, it's a kitchen on a ship's deck; in the U.S., it's traditionally the last car on a freight train |
(Susan: What is a galley?)
a caboose
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| It's a hand-beaten drum used by American Indians |
a tom-tom
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| In 1809 one of the first revolts for independence in Latin America broke out in this Ecuadoran capital |
Quito
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| National Hockey League team whose logo is seen here: |
[Knife through a "B"]
the Buffalo Sabres
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| Warriors of this Yucatan civilization battle in the computer-enhanced mural seen here: |
(William: Who are the Aztecs?)
the Mayans
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| They were invented in 1947 & by the 1990s millions were being placed on a single chip |
(Blaine: What is an integrated circuit?) (William: What is a microprocessor?)
transistors
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| When it opened, it cut the distance from London to Bombay by 5,100 miles |
the Suez Canal
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| He's Barney & Betty Rubble's noisy son |
(Alex: We have about a minute to go.)
Bamm-Bamm
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