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    | Death of his son led him to write a "History of Spiritualism" before his last Sherlock Holmes book | 
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    | This teenage Egyptian ruler gave birth to a son she claimed was Julius Caesar's | 
    Cleopatra
 
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    | Ben Franklin said, "There was never a good war or a bad" 1 of these | 
    (Curt: What is a woman?) [Laughter] (Alex: No, sorry.  I like your thinking, though.)
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    | Sacher Torte originated in this Austrian capital | 
    Vienna
 
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    | "A Christmas Carol" character who tells Scrooge, "I wear the chain I forged in life" | 
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    | Of about 10, 30, or 50%, percentage of Earth's surface covered by land | 
    30%
 
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    | Teen-aged Mary, Queen of Scots, also became queen of this country, because she'd married the Dauphin | 
    France
 
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    | It was way back in 1696 that Mary Manley wrote there's "no time like" this | 
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    | "Shrove Tuesday", the day before Lent starts, is commonly called this in New Orleans | 
    (Dawn: What is Fat Tuesday?) [originally ruled incorrect] ... (Alex: [*], yes, that's what we were going for.)
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    | Like lemon pie, "Baked Alaska" is covered with this, then put in an oven to brown | 
    meringue
 
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    | Narrator of classic tales translated by Sir Richard Burton, or title of this "suite" music | 
    (Dawn: No answer.) (Alex: Oh, that's too bad.)
  Scheherezade
 
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    | All of the peoples of the world belong to this single species | 
    Homo sapiens
 
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    | At 15, she became the future Louis XVI's bride; at 18, she became queen | 
    Marie Antoinette
 
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    | Penguin's Modern Quotes lists "Supercalifragilistic- expialidocious" under his name | 
    Disney
 
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    | Supposedly a union president suggested date of this holiday to fill gap between July 4th & Thanksgiving | 
    Labor Day
 
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    | It's thought Saladin offered this fruity dessert, cousin to ice cream, to Richard I during Crusades | 
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    | 19th c. feminist Catharine Beecher wrote "The American Woman's Home" with this more famous sister | 
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
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    | Guinness says more people emigrate from this Latin country than any other in the world | 
    Mexico
 
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    | British monarch crowned in 1837, when she was barely 18 | 
    Victoria
 
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    | 17th century English diarist known for the phrase "and so to bed" | 
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    | Until June 1, 1954, this was officially called "Armistice Day" | 
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    cobbler
 
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    | Subtitled "A Tale of Acadie", this Longfellow poem describes the tragic romance of an Acadian woman | 
    Evangeline
 
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    | The term "second world" refers to this nation & its nearby allies | 
    the Soviet Union
 
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    | Many claim that before Bloody Mary grabbed the throne, this "Lady" was Queen of England for 9 days | 
    Lady Jane Grey
 
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    | Bartlett's says she "coined" the phrase "equal pay for equal work" on March 18, 1869 | 
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    | This memorialized president's birthday, April 13, was a legal holiday in Virginia from 1943 to 1967 | 
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