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In 1903 Giuseppe Sarto assumed this office as Pius X |
Pope
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A 1946 winner for "The Picture of Dorian Gray", she won again 39 years later for "Murder, She Wrote" |
Angela Lansbury
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This Utah city's Tribune is the state's only morning newspaper |
(Roger: What is the Deseret News?)
Salt Lake City
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On average, it weighs about 3 pounds, with the cerebrum making up most of that weight |
the brain
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The only bird that provides leather commercially, its skin is pink |
an ostrich
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Chang Heng said, "Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like" this part "of the egg" |
the yolk
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In 1908 an earthquake completely destroyed the city of Messina on this Italian island |
Sicily
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She won a "Most Promising Newcomer" Golden Globe, her first award, before "Bye Bye Birdie" was released |
Ann-Margret
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In 1903 the London Daily Mirror became the first of these half-sized sensationalist newspapers |
tabloids
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This tendon at the back of the ankle helps you stand on tiptoe |
the Achilles tendon
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Roman rituals were overseen by an augur, which gave us this word for inducting an official |
an inauguration
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Common translation of the Latin saying "errare humanum est" |
to err is human
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In 1904 George Hale founded one of these on California's Mt. Wilson |
an observatory
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This entertainer was so "divine" in "For The Boys" that she won a 1992 "Best Actress" award |
Bette Midler
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Florida's largest newspaper, it's also the largest in the Deep South |
the Miami Herald
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It's the medical name for the voice box |
the larynx
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This early presidential home sits on the site of a Powhatan Indian village called Tauxenent |
Mount Vernon
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"Be content... one cannot be first in everything" was fabulous advice from this fabulist |
Aesop
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Norway's union with this other Scandinavian country was dissolved in 1905 |
Sweden
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When she won for "Working Girl" in 1989 she said, "The last time I was up here I was Miss Golden Globe" |
Melanie Griffith
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In 1752 the Halifax Gazette became the 1st English newspaper published in what's now this country |
Canada
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Resembling a small horseshoe, the hyoid or lingual bone supports this body part |
the tongue
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From the Latin fluere, meaning "to flow", it means to vary irregularly or to shift back & forth |
fluctuate
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Ovid said this form of literature "comes fine-spun from a mind at peace" |
(Ann: What is epic poetry?) (Alex: I don't think we can give you a correct on that. He said it just about [*], not epic poetry. And there is, as you know, a distinction between the two. So we're going to have to charge you on that.)
poetry
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In 1905 Sinn Fein was organized as a political party dedicated to independence for this country |
Ireland
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A special award is named in honor of this director of biblical epics, its first recipient |
[Applause for Roger's run of the category]
De Mille
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Newspapers in Des Moines, Iowa & Orange County, California share this name |
the Register
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While the knee is considered a hinge joint, the hip is classified as this type |
ball-and-socket
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The name of this region of farm country in southern Africa is from Dutch for "field" |
veldt
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Theophrastus said this "is the most valuable thing a man can spend" |
time
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