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    | The term "Fennoscandia" refers to Scandinavia & this nearby country | 
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    | The Liberator, North Star & National Era newspapers were started in the mid 1800s to oppose this | 
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    | It's also known as "Mary's gold", from which it gets its name | 
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    | Isabella II's accession to the throne of this country in 1833 provoked the First Carlist War | 
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    | The National Teacher of the Year is awarded a crystal version of this fruit | 
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    (Jim: What is a frog?) (Peter: What is a turtle?)
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    | The world's largest sand & rock desert, its name is Arabic for "desert" | 
    Sahara
 
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    | This state capital's 2 main newspapers are the Post & the Rocky Mountain News | 
    Denver
 
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    | According to Guinness, the tallest tree ever measured was one of these in Australia | 
    (Peter: What is a billabong?)
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    | This French queen was implicated in a 1785 scandal involving a cardinal & a diamond necklace | 
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    Red Cross
 
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    | This Kipling story features a fight between a mongoose & a snake | 
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    | Cowboys called gauchos as well as most other Argentines live on this huge plain | 
    Pampas
 
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    | This newspaper's articles about Boss Tweed's theft of public funds led to his arrest & conviction | 
    (Peter: What is Harper's Weekly?
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    | Called a plane tree in Scotland & a sycamore in England, 2 U.S. examples are "bird's-eye" & "sugar" | 
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    | Henry VIII's first 2 wives, they died in the same year, 1536, but only 1 died of natural causes | 
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    | Jessica Tandy's first of 3 Tony Awards came in 1948 for her performance as Blanche DuBois in this play | 
    A Streetcar Named Desire
 
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    | The longest river entirely within this country is the Lena | 
    Soviet Union
 
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    Chicago Tribune
 
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    | A type of oak, or the material obtained from its inner bark | 
    cork
 
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    | It's believed that this 17th century Queen of Sweden was the lover of Cardinal Decio Azzolino | 
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    | To celebrate its 300th anniversary in 1968, Riksbank, a Swedish bank, established this Nobel Prize category | 
    (Alex: Well done, a minute to go.)
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    | 1 of 3 plays by Chekhov with an animal other than man in the title | 
    (1 of) The Seagull (Swansong or The Bear)
 
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    | On Paris' west side, this forest, or "bois", comprises nearly 2,200 acres of trees, grass & lakes | 
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    | After graduating from high school, Ernest Hemingway worked as a reporter of this Kansas City newspaper | 
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    | Cutting forsythias to make them bloom indoors in the winter is an example of this | 
    forcing
 
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    | Empress Carlotta of Mexico was the only daughter of this country's first king, Leopold I | 
    Belgium
 
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    | This poet's "John Brown's Body" won him a Pulitzer in 1929 | 
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    | Skipperdee, a turtle who wore sneakers, lived with this little girl at the Plaza Hotel | 
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