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This structure spanning New York's East River opened May 24, 1883 |
the Brooklyn Bridge
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The final scene of this ballet takes place in the Capulets' burial vault |
Romeo and Juliet
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In 1767 this NYC university founded its school of medicine |
[Mike selected the first clue.]
Columbia
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In 1993 this king celebrated 40 years on Jordan's throne |
King Hussein
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In 1880 this photography pioneer founded a dry plate company in Rochester |
(Rosa: Who is Kodak?)
(George) Eastman
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Frost wrote they're "lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep" |
the woods
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In 1882 she became president of the American Red Cross, a job she held until 1904 |
Clara Barton
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French for "thrown", it's a small or "grand" leap from one foot to the other |
a jeté
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This state university was founded in 1831 in Tuscaloosa |
the University of Alabama
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At President Carter's urging, these 2 world leaders met for peace talks at Camp David in 1978 |
Sadat & Begin
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Color film contains 3 emulsions sensitized to red, blue & this color |
green
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Completes David Everett's "Large streams from little fountains flow, tall oaks..." |
(Rosa: What is grow?)
from little acorns grow
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He became emperor of Germany in June 1888 |
Kaiser Wilhelm
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This ballet choreographed by Agnes De Mille is subtitled "The Courting at Burnt Ranch" |
Rodeo
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Of Bates, Bard or Beloit College, the one located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York |
Bard College
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Alberto Fujimori, the 1st person of Japanese descent to lead a Latin American nation, leads this one |
(Alex: And guess what, we have a three-way tie for the lead. Each of you has $5,200.)
Peru
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As the aperture gets smaller, this figure gets higher |
the F-stop
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Alexander Pope said, "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be" this |
disappointed
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In 1885 followers of the Mahdi killed General Gordon at this Sudanese city |
Khartoum
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Jerome Robbins' ballet "The Goldberg Variations" is set to the music of this composer |
(Johann Sebastian) Bach
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A Tacoma, Wash. university is named for this inland waterway |
Puget Sound
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In 1991 Carl Bildt became this Scandinavian country's youngest PM in over 150 years |
Sweden
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The name of this earliest, crude type of camera is Latin for "dark chamber" |
(Jack: [Shakes head] Camera...)
camera obscura
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It's said Martin Luther wrote, "Who loves not" these 3 things "remains a fool his whole life long" |
(Alex: Martin Luther was kind of sharp.)
wine, women & song
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In 1884 Edward L. Trudeau opened the USA's first sanitarium for this disease in Saranac Lake, New York |
tuberculosis
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George Balanchine created many roles for this ballerina to whom he was married 1946-1952 |
Maria Tallchief
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This New Orleans university has an important school of tropical medicine |
Tulane
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In March 1993 he was elected to a sixth consecutive term as president of Indonesia |
Suharto
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In 1930 the first issue of Fortune magazine featured her photographs |
Margaret Bourke-White
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"'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have lost at all", he wrote in "The Way of All Flesh" |
(Alex: A variation on another famous quotation.)
Samuel Butler
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