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| The Aqua Claudia, completed in 52 A.D., brought this to Rome from over 60 km away |
Water
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| Walter Annenberg founded this teenage girls' magazine in the '40s |
Seventeen
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| Of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, or Irving Goldberg, the composer of "The Goldberg Variations" |
J.S. Bach
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| He was known as "The Great White Chief" & "The Hero of San Juan Hill" |
Theodore Roosevelt
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| Like Washington, D.C., this city is a federal district |
Buenos Aires
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| "The Plough & the Stars" set in this capital, depicts the 1916 Easter rising against the British |
Dublin
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| Thor Heyerdahl said Polynesians may have come from South America on rafts made of this wood |
Balsa
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| Every January this magazine runs "Dubious Achievement Awards" |
Esquire
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| His biblical oratorios include "Saul", "Jephtha", "Esther" & "Belshazzar" |
G.F. Handel
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| Daughter of a prominent politician, she gave her 1st public concert at the Hollywood Bowl in 1947 |
Margaret Truman
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| The Argentine version of this dance developed from the milonga & the habanera in the 1800s |
Tango
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| It's set in the 1880s in Tuscumbia, Ala. & at the Perkins Institution for the Blind |
"The Miracle Worker"
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| In 625 B.C. the Chaldeans came to power & revived this ancient empire |
(O: What is Persian?)
Babylonian
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| When H. Ross founded this magazine, he said it "will not be edited for the old lady from Dubuque" |
The New Yorker
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| In 1840 this German romantic married Clara Wieck, an outstanding pianist & a composer, too |
(Ouida: Who is Schubert?)
Robert Schumann
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| Before he was appointed in 1937, the U.S. Supreme Court had only had 1 Brown, 2 Whites, & a Gray |
Hugo Black
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| Largest bird of the Pampas, it can be tamed & kept as a farmyard pet |
Rhea
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| This Gore Vidal play takes place in Philadelphia in 1960 at a political convention |
(O: I have no idea.)
"The Best Man"
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| 2 famous cities, one in Greece, the other a capital of ancient Egypt, were both named this |
Thebes
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| This former Secretary of Defense has been appointed publisher of Forbes Magazine |
Caspar Weinberger
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| Cesar Franck said this composer of "Symphonie Fantastique" wrote nothing but masterpieces |
Hector Berlioz
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| When given command of a Union army, this general, famed for his whiskers, said he was incompetent |
Ambrose Burnside
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| Jesuits were the 1st to cultivate this species of holly that's made into a tea-like drink |
Mate
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| The setting of this William Inge play is "a street-corner restaurant in a small Kansas town" |
"Bus Stop"
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| Abraham bought a burial site from these 1st-known people of Asia Minor, whom the Bible calls "Children of Heth" |
Hittites
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| This new magazine for women advertises it's "For the woman who wasn't born yesterday" |
Lear's
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| His family added Bartholdy to its name when they inherited property from a relative |
(less than a minute to go in the round....)
Felix Mendelssohn
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| In 1741 this famed revivalist gave his best-known sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
Jonathan Edwards
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| He has been called the "George Washington of Argentina" |
Jose de San Martin
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| The alternate title of this mystery is "Angel Street", which is also the play's setting |
"Gaslight"
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