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    | "Ali Cross", a book for young mystery fans, features the son of Alex Cross from novels by this author | 
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    | On June 12, 1817 Baron von Drais went several miles demonstrating his 2-wheeled "running machine", an early version of this | 
    bicycle
 
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    | Edward VII called this official London residence of the royal family "a sepulchre" | 
    Buckingham Palace
 
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    | Sirhan Sirhan, for the 1968 assassination of this man: the death sentence, commuted to life in prison | 
    RFK (Robert Kennedy)
 
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    | One side in the Cold War was often called the "Eastern" this group | 
    the bloc
 
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    | His yearbook mentions he did varsity wrestling and varsity soccer, and his original last name was Mapother | 
    Tom Cruise
 
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    | Larry McMurtry won high praise for this 1985 novel about an 1800s cattle drive from Texas to Montana | 
    Lonesome Dove
 
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    | In 1714 physicist Daniel Fahrenheit invented the first thermometer to use this liquid | 
    mercury
 
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    | A major royal residence until a 1512 fire, the Palace of Westminster is now home to these "Houses" | 
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    | In 2009 for securities fraud, investment adviser fraud, false filings with the SEC & other crimes: 150 years in prison for him | 
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    barometric
 
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    | This future Oscar winner was valedictorian of her graduating class at the Lycée Français in Los Angeles | 
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    | In 1998 Iran declared it no longer sought Salman Rushdie's death over this novel | 
    The Satanic Verses
 
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    | In 1986 Dr. Patricia Bath invented a device that safely uses one of these beams to remove cataracts in the eye | 
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    | Caernarfon Castle was used by Edward I in the 13th century when subduing this country, now part of the United Kingdom | 
    (Mary: What is Scotland?)
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    | Nathuram Godse, who murdered this man in 1948 as he headed to a prayer meeting: death by hanging | 
    Gandhi
 
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    | This variety of pear is crisp & in season from September to April | 
    (John: What is Bosch? What is [*]?)
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    | She was on the fast track her senior year, winning the AAU Junior Olympics Pentathlon; in 1988 she would win the Olympics Heptathlon | 
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    | E.M. Forster saw his first major success in 1910 with this novel named for a country estate | 
    (Alex: Hurry. Nothing coming?)
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    | Laszlo & Gyorgy Biro of Hungary used a novel tip when making this easy-to-use implement in the 1930s | 
    (John: What is a pen?) (Alex: Be more specific.)
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    | Originally a Saxon castle, this edifice overlooks the Thames River and is where several English monarchs are entombed | 
    Windsor
 
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    | 30-year CIA veteran Aldrich Ames, in 1994, for tax evasion & this more serious crime: life without parole | 
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    | At her Connecticut high school most of this lawyer and conservative media pundit's jabs were as a member of the fencing team | 
    Ann Coulter
 
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    | This Donna Tartt bestseller begins, "While I was still in Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years" | 
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    | Inspired as a boy by H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds", he launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926 | 
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    | This castle on the River Dee where the royal family spends summers is lovingly called "The Highland Barn" | 
    Balmoral
 
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    | This Attorney General for his role in the Watergate scandal: ultimately 19 months in prison | 
    John Mitchell
 
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    | A legal opinion by all the judges of an appeals court, not just a smaller panel, is given "en" this, French for "bench" | 
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