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    | Get out the blue ink for this sea immediately north of Poland | the Baltic 
 
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    | 1988: "Need You Tonight/Meditate"
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    | Maria Tallchief played the Sugarplum Fairy in a 1954 New York City ballet performance of this classic | The Nutcracker 
 
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    | 16 short tons minus 13 short tons leaves you this many pounds | 6,000 (3 tons, 2,000 per) 
 
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    | In 1949 Canada joined the United States & 10 other nations to form this military alliance | NATO 
 
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    | Proverbially, "he who" does this "is lost" | hesitates 
 
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    | However you draw the border between Nicaragua & this 2-named country, somebody gets mad, huh? | (Tom: What is El Salvador?) 
 Costa Rica
 
 
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    | 2009: "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
 | Beyoncé 
 
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    | This wooden rail attached to the wall of a ballet studio is used by the dancers for support during exercises | a barre 
 
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    | Fahrenheit boiling point of water times Celsius freezing point of water | 0 
 
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    | Between 1913 & 1932 Canada dug a new & deeper version of the Welland Canal that connects these 2 Great Lakes | (Tom: What is... Huron and Erie?) 
 Erie & Ontario
 
 
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    | A house of shelter for pilgrims, or a homelike facility that provides care for the terminally ill | a hospice 
 
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    | A study says it's the most misspelled city in the U.S., but you got it right, with the final "H" | (Tom: What is Savannah, Georgia?) 
 Pittsburgh
 
 
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    | 1984: "You Might Think"
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    | Born Margaret Hookham in England, she made her professional debut in 1934 at the age of 15 | (Alex: And that was the great [*].) 
 Margot Fonteyn
 
 
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    | Number of quarts in 2 gallons divided by the number of pints in 2 quarts | (Tom: What is 4?) 
 2 (8 divided by 4)
 
 
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    | On July 3, 1608 this Frenchman landed at what would become the City of Quebec | (John: Who is... Cartier?) ...
 (Alex: Cartier was 1500s, not 16.)
 
 (Samuel de) Champlain
 
 
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    | From 1823 to 1838 it was one of the 5 countries that made up the United Provinces of Central America | Honduras 
 
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    | Mark all of these--really more than 1,500--including Wolfe on the Canadian side of the river & Wells on the U.S. side | the Thousand Islands 
 
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    | Onstage this late Soviet defector often partnered Maya Plisetskaya; offstage, Jacqueline Bisset | (Joon: Who is... Nijinsky?) (John: Who is Baryshnikov?)
 
 Alexander Godunov
 
 
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    | Square inches in a square foot plus square feet in a square yard | 153 
 
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    | The 1947 discovery of oil in a field at Leduc in this prairie province launched a Canadian oil boom | Alberta 
 
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    | In Egyptian myth this deity & son of Osiris is usually depicted as having the head of a falcon | Horus 
 
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    | Wite-Out please!  Kinshasa hasn't been named this, after an abusive Belgian, since 1966 | Léopoldville 
 
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    | When "Le Pavillon d'Armide" premiered in 1907, Vaslav Nijinsky played the Slave & she played Armide | (Alex: And that was the great [*].) 
 Anna Pavlova
 
 
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    | Feet in a fathom plus feet in a mile | 5,286 
 
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    | The Dominion of Canada was formed in 1867; this transplanted Scot became the country's first prime minister | (Joon: Who is... King?) 
 (John A.) Macdonald
 
 
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    | Anglers & crafters, not just surgeons, use this instrument, whose name means "blood stop" | (Alex: Pulled that one out of thin air, didn't you?  Well done, go again.) 
 a hemostat
 
 
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