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Born in Lisbon in 1455, King John II of this country was known as "The Perfect Prince" |
Portugal
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Sandy Duncan appeared in a 1969 musical based on this Chaucer work |
The Canterbury Tales
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This sea was named for an ancient Roman seaport called Adria |
the Adriatic Sea
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5-word phrase following, "Mid pleasures & palaces, though we may roam, be it ever so humble" |
"there's no place like home"
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In 1953, a footbridge over Boston's Storrow Drive was named for this Boston Pops conductor |
Arthur Fiedler
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In the late 1840s Benito Juarez was elected governor of the state of Oaxaca in this country |
Mexico
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Friedrich von Schiller & Maxwell Anderson both wrote plays about this Queen of Scotland |
Mary, Queen of Scots
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This bay at Luzon Island in the Philippines is bordered on the west by the Bataan Peninsula |
(David: What is Leyte Bay?) (Linda: What is Guantanamo Bay?)
Manila Bay
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In the U.S., these insects fall into three main groups: subterranean, damp wood & dry wood |
termites
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In Xanadu, did he, a stately pleasure dome decree |
Kublai Khan
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It was the nickname of baseball great Jay Hanna Dean |
Dizzy
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Centuries ago, the historian Manito divided this country's rulers into 30 dynasties, still accepted today |
(David: What is China?)
Egypt
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"Long Day's Journey Into Night" had its world premiere in this country; King Gustav VI Adolf attended |
Sweden
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This sea is entered from the Gulf of Aden via the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb |
the Red Sea
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Known for causing crop damage, these beetles are also called billbugs |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
boll weevils
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This Scot was known as the Ayrshire Ploughman |
Robert Burns
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Robie House is among the structures built by this man, a major force in the Prairie School of Architecture |
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Empress Eugenie & this French emperor, her husband, are buried in Farnborough, England |
Napoleon III
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Floral skin decoration in the title of a 1951 play by Tennessee Williams |
The Rose Tattoo
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This longest river in Southwest Asia rises in Turkey & empties into the Persian Gulf |
(Teresa: What is the Ganges?) (Alex: No, sorry. You're in the wrong part of the world. What is [*]? Southwest Asia.)
the Euphrates
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In 1973, this poet's Cambridge, Mass. home, Craigie House, was made a National Historic Site |
(David: Who is Robert Frost?) (Linda: Who is Emily Dickinson?)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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In the 1940s, this photographer set out to photograph all the national parks in the U.S. |
Ansel Adams
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He prohibited the wearing of the traditional fez soon after he became president of Turkey in 1923 |
Ataturk
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Miss Hardcastle poses as a barmaid to conquer Mr. Marlow in this Oliver Goldsmith comedy |
She Stoops to Conquer
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Southeast Asia's longest river, it flows from the Tibetan highlands to the South China Sea |
(David: What is the Ganges?) (Teresa: What is the Yangtze?) ... (Alex: And we have a minute to go.)
the Mekong
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This Emerson poem begins, "By the rude bridge that arched the flood, their flag to April's breeze unfurled" |
(David: What is "The Shot Heard Round The World"?) (Linda: What is "Concord Bridge"?)
"The Concord Hymn"
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This Philadelphia-born department store founder served as Postmaster General from 1889-93 |
(John) Wanamaker
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