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| This canal's official opening was on July 12, 1920 |
(Dan: What is the Suez?)
the Panama Canal
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| Verdi fans always want "moor" of this Shakespearean hero |
Othello
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| Buffalo-skin covered homes of Plains Indians |
a teepee
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| Maryland's state bird & state baseball team |
the orioles
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| Britain's 4 PM "coffee break" |
(Dan: What is tea? ... What is tea...)
tea time
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| Basic material used to make casts |
plaster
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| Africa's northernmost country, it was once site of ancient Carthaginian empire |
(Dan: What is, uh, Egypt?) (Nicholas: What is Libya?)
Tunisia
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| He wrote Brunhilde's immolation, opera's longest aria of nearly 15 minutes |
(Dan: Who is Verdi?) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Wagner
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| Continent from which Indians' ancestors came to America |
Asia
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| Collective name for domesticated birds raised for meat & eggs |
(Nicholas: What is fowl? [pause] [*].) (Alex: [looks to judges] All right, we'll give it to you. [*].)
poultry
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| Though he never slew any dragons there, he's England's patron saint |
St. George
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| What R.N. stands for |
registered nurse
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| Country that's larger than U.S. but smaller than Canada |
(Dan: What is Brazil?) (Nicholas: What is Australia?)
(People's Republic of) China
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| The real Hiawatha united Mohawks & 4 other tribes into this confederation |
the Iroquois Confederation
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| The most common bird on world flags |
the eagle
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| English barons forced this royal enemy of Robin Hood to sign the Magna Carta |
King John I
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| Any abnormal tissue mass with no physiologic function |
(Nicholas: What is placebo?)
a tumor
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| To evade French defenses, the Germans attacked France through this country in both World Wars |
(Nicholas: What is Poland?)
Belgium
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| Though few of them ever did it, the name "Nez-Perce" means this |
(Nicholas: What is, um, wear eyeglasses? Nose.)
pierce(d) nose
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| Woodcocks' eyes are so far back on their heads, they have this unusual field of sight |
360 degrees
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| Nickname for London's financial district |
(Dan: What is Bond Street?) (Nicholas: What is Fleet Street?) (Alex: You're thinking of the newspaper area.)
the City
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| The Blue & White Niles meet at this city where Gen. "Chinese" Gordon met death |
(Nicholas: What is Appomattox?)
Khartoum
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| President whose only military service was in Illinois' Blackhawk War in 1830 |
Abraham Lincoln
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| This "crazy" North American diving bird has been found at depths of 160 feet |
the (common) loon
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| He's also known as the primate of all England |
the Archbishop of Canterbury
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