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| After writing "Moby Dick", he wrote to Nathaniel Hawthorne, "I have written a wicked book" |
Herman Melville
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| Once the capital of the Spanish Netherlands, today it's the capital of Belgium |
Brussels
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| In addition to carrying nutrients, this fluid transports oxygen to your body's cells |
(Lisa: What is plasma?) [Initially ruled incorrect; reversed before Final Jeopardy! because "plasma does carry minute amounts of oxygen."]
blood
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| Jill Barad, this company's president, has posed with Barbie in ads for Forbes magazine |
Mattel
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| 1941 film in which Bogart tells Mary Astor, "Don't be too sure I'm as crooked as I'm supposed to be" |
The Maltese Falcon
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| This "great" Russian empress seemed to loathe her son Paul & he lived in fear that she would kill him |
Catherine The Great
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| In 1871 this author of "Les Miserables" was elected to the French National Assembly, but soon resigned |
(Doug: [*].) (Alex: No.) ... (Alex: Sorry about that, Doug!)
Victor Hugo
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| It's the capital of Taiwan |
Taipei
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| Running, cycling & swimming are examples of this type of exercise that improves the body's use of oxygen |
aerobic exercise
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| Ian Schrager & Steve Rubell established this NYC club, the most famous of the disco era |
Studio 54
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| George Reeves, later TV's Superman, appears as one of the Tarleton Twins in this 1939 classic |
Gone with the Wind
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| Henry II kept this woman of Aquitaine locked up for years after she & his sons rebelled against him |
Eleanor
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| Around 1889 this Scotsman purchased an estate in Samoa, which he called Valima, or "Five Streams" |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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| It's home to the Hofburg, the former imperial palace of the Hapsburgs |
Vienna
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| Henry Cavendish said it's made of dephlogisticated air (oxygen) united with phlogiston (hydrogen) |
water
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| Ingevar Kamprad, a Swedish farmer's son, founded & put his initials in the name of this furniture store |
IKEA
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| Kirk Douglas & James Mason dine on preserves made from sea cucumbers in this Disney film |
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
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| Fed up with his in-laws, this "confessor" banished them in 1051 & sent his wife to a nunnery |
Edward
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| Prior to writing "King Solomon's Mines", he was master of the high court in Transvaal |
H. Rider Haggard
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| One of this city's top attractions is the masuoleum of Kemal Ataturk |
(Alex: Oh, no... Yes! They're jumping in saying yes!) (Doug: You gave me a heart attack there!)
Ankara
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| Name given the triatomic form of oxygen |
ozone
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| This Mirage & Treasure Island mogul is credited with giving gambling resorts a family image |
Steve Wynn
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| Emmett Kelly & John Ringling North played themselves in this DeMille epic, the Best Picture of 1952 |
The Greatest Show on Earth
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| When this Tudor queen was a princess, her half-sister Mary imprisoned her in the Tower of London |
Elizabeth I
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| In 1826 this future British prime minister published his first novel, "Vivian Grey" |
Benjamin Disraeli
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| It's the city where the Althing, the world's oldest parliament, is located |
Reykjavik, Iceland
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| This British chemist discovered oxygen in 1774, years after Carl Wilhelm Scheele, a Swedish chemist |
Joseph Priestley
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| Stock expertise has gained this Berkshire Hathaway chairman a $15 billion fortune |
Warren Buffett
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| Peter Lorre played Raskolnikov in this 1935 film based on a Dostoyevsky novel |
(Doug: What is The Brothers Karamazov?)
Crime and Punishment
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| King Haakon III of this Scandinavian country may have been poisoned by his Swedish stepmother |
Norway
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