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    | The term "Fennoscandia" refers to Scandinavia & this nearby country | Finland 
 
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    | The Liberator, North Star & National Era newspapers were started in the mid 1800s to oppose this | slavery 
 
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    | It's also known as "Mary's gold", from which it gets its name | marigold 
 
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    | Isabella II's accession to the throne of this country in 1833 provoked the First Carlist War | Spain 
 
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    | The National Teacher of the Year is awarded a crystal version of this fruit | apple 
 
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    | The Beatrix Potter character, Sir Isaac Newton, was one of these amphibians | (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?) 
 eucalyptus
 
 
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    | This French queen was implicated in a 1785 scandal involving a cardinal & a diamond necklace | Marie Antoinette 
 
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    | This organization's Florence Nightingale Medal is given to nurses & voluntary aides | Red Cross 
 
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    | This Kipling story features a fight between a mongoose & a snake | Rikki-Tikki-Tavi 
 
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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? 
 New York Times
 
 
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    | Called a plane tree in Scotland & a sycamore in England, 2 U.S. examples are "bird's-eye" & "sugar" | maple 
 
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    | Henry VIII's first 2 wives, they died in the same year, 1536, but only 1 died of natural causes | Catherine of Aragon & Anne Boleyn 
 
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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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    | Pyewacket is a cat & witch's familiar in this John van Druten play | Bell, Book and Candle 
 
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    | The longest river entirely within this country is the Lena | Soviet Union 
 
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    | 75% of this biggest Chicago newspaper's circulation is outside the city proper | 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 | Queen Christina 
 
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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.) 
 Economics
 
 
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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 | Bois de Boulogne 
 
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    | After graduating from high school, Ernest Hemingway worked as a reporter of this Kansas City newspaper | Kansas City Star 
 
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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 | Stephen Vincent Benét 
 
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    | Skipperdee, a turtle who wore sneakers, lived with this little girl at the Plaza Hotel | Eloise 
 
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