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He built Babylon's Ishtar Gate as well as the Hanging Gardens |
Nebuchadnezzar (II)
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In the 1940s the University of Chicago came to be recognized as the birthplace of this type of energy |
atomic (or nuclear)
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The written notes for all the instruments and voices of a particular work, or Tigers 5 Yankees 3 |
score
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Due to the number of climbers, the Park Service may put an outhouse at the 17,000' level of this Alaskan peak |
Mount McKinley
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President Mitterand is this country's head of state |
France
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Shaw character who thinks she's descended from a sacred cat and that her blood is made with Nile water |
Cleopatra
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The place in Egypt where Jacob settled was known to the Hebrews as the Land o' ...this |
Goshen
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In 1779 this Virginia institution became the first U.S. college to establish a law department |
William & Mary
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A concertino is a short concerto, and a concertina is a simple one of these instruments |
an accordion
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The third highest peak in North America is in this third largest country in North America |
Mexico
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Prime Minister Mulroney |
Canada
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The first line of this Strindberg play tells us that the title "miss" is "absolutely wild!" |
Miss Julie
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Byzantine emperor who built the Hagia Sophia Church and collected Roman laws into one code |
Justinian (I)
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It ends its cheer, "Cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159; integral, radical, u dv; slipstick, slide rule..." |
(Michael: What is pi?)
MIT
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Before he composed the "London" Symphony in 1795, he had written the six Paris symphonies |
Franz Joseph Haydn
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Mountain ranges on this continent include the Queen Elizabeth, Queen Alexandra, and Queen Maud |
Antarctica
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In Euripides' tragedy, Jason's new wife is burned alive by a wedding gift from this woman |
Medea
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With the defeat of this man at Actium in 31 B.C., Octavian had full control of the Roman Empire |
Mark Antony (or Marcus Antonius)
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This Ivy League school is the land grant college of New York State |
Cornell
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Name shared by the operatic heroines of "Fidelio" and "Il Trovatore" |
Leonora
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This Englishman was the first to survey K2's peak |
(Bruce: Who was Everest?)
Henry Godwin-Austen
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Queen Margrethe II |
Denmark
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Violet Venable's son, who never appears in the play "Suddenly Last Summer" because he's been eaten |
Sebastian (Venable)
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The ancient Persian holy book, called the "Avesta", contains the writings of this man and his followers |
Zoroaster
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The University of Dublin, which has its own representative in the Irish Parliament , is also called this |
Trinity College
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The famous "Sabre Dance" is from this Soviet-Armenian composer's ballet "Gayane" |
Aram Khachaturian
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Today climbers can make it from the Chamonix city hall to the top of this mountain and back in less than 5 1/2 hours |
(Sandra: What is the Matterhorn?)
Mont Blanc
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Prime Minister Mugabe |
Zimbabwe
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At the end of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" he realizes that George and Martha's son is imaginary |
Nick
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