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| To keep Charleston, S.C. clean, these animals who pull the carriage tours wear diapers |
Horses
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| "I was chokin' mad w/thirst, an' the man that spied me 1st was our good old grinnin' gruntin' Gunga Din." he wrote |
Rudyard Kipling
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| In 1963, 8 years after he resigned as British p.m., he was made an honorary U.S. citizen |
Winston Churchill
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| In this fairy tale ballet, the heroine loses one of her slippers |
"Cinderella"
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| This soft drink co. introduced its new formula drink & then brought back the classic version |
Coca-Cola
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| Your old school, literally "Fostering Mother" |
Alma Mater
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| The official emblem of this city's police department is a witch on a broomstick |
(R: What is Salem?) (Alex: Be more specific...) (R: Salem, MA)
Salem, Massachusetts
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| This author of "Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard" refused an offer to be poet laureate |
Thomas Gray
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| Anwar Sadat was assassinated in this city |
Cairo
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| This ballet includes a ball at the house of the Capulets |
"Romeo And Juliet"
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| He became engaged to Madonna in June & married her in August |
Sean Penn
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| The abbreviation R.I.P., Requiescat In Pace, is translated as this |
Rest in Peace
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| Enterprise, Ala. boasts a statue of this pest, which inspired it to plant peanuts instead of cotton |
Boll Weevil
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| The last line of her poem "The New Colossus" is "I lift my lamp beside the golden door" |
(J: Who is Edna St. Vincent Millay?)
Emma Lazarus
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| This Austrian president is of Czech descent & his family name was originally Waclawik |
Kurt Waldheim
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| In a Tchaikovsky ballet, Prince Siegfried goes hunting for these animals & falls in love with 1 of them |
Swan
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| At age 17 he became the youngest man to win at Wimbledon |
Boris Becker
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| Used for dates in the last 1,990 years, the abbreviation A.D. is short for this Latin expression |
Anno Domini
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| Pennsylvania has more of these picturesque bridges than any other state |
Covered Bridges
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| He called "The Chambered Nautilus" "The Ship of Pearl" |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| In 1921 he became the first Japanese crown prince to travel abroad |
Hirohito
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| 1 of the 2 leading ballet companies in the Soviet Union |
Bolshoi & Kirov
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| The entire 1985 World Series was played in this Midwestern state |
Missouri (St. Louis vs. Kansas City)
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| Id Est, often abbreviated i.e. in papers, translates to this in English |
That Is
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| The only university in this state is in Laramie |
Wyoming
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| "Queen Mab", "Ozymandias" & "To A Skylark" are 3 of the poems written by this Englishman |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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| Mehmed VI, the last sultan of this empire, was forced to abdicate in 1922 |
Ottoman Empire
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| Nijinsky's ballet "The Afternoon Of" one of these animals premiered in 1912 |
A Faun
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| This famous volcano on Sicily exploded on Christmas & set off several earthquakes |
(A: What is Mt. Vesuvius?)
Mount Etna
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| When Caesar crossed the Rubicon, he quoted the proverb "Iacta Alea Est" which means this |
"The Die is Cast"
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