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| After meeting this rival liberator in 1822, San Martin left South America |
Simon Bolivar
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| His son, Nanki-Poo, poses as a minstrel & later weds Yum-Yum |
The Mikado
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| A unit of wave frequency defined as 1 cycle per second, or a car rental company |
Hertz
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| A recent show of her works at the Whitney Museum included bronzes of her art made before she was Mrs. John Lennon |
Yoko Ono
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| The city's planner, Pierre L' Enfant, called this hill "A pedestal waiting for a monument" |
Capitol Hill
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| "Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die" is from this Tennyson poem |
"Charge of the Light Brigade"
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| In 1616 Dutch explorer Willem Schouten rounded this cape that he named for his home town |
Cape Horn
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| In "The Ring of the Nibelung", Siegfried braved a ring of fire to save this goddess |
Brunhilde
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| While processing pitchblende, a uranium ore, Marie & Pierre Curie & G. DeMont discovered this element |
Radium
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| Back in 1961 his "Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer" brought a record price of $2.3 million |
Rembrandt
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| This little park, named for a French nobleman, faces the White House across Pennsylvania Ave. |
Lafayette Park/Square
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| The 1956 novel "Compulsion" was based on the story of this duo defended by Darrow |
(T: Who are Sacco & Vanzetti?)
Leopold & Loeb
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| The United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland was established on the first day of this century |
19th Century
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| He was the crippled 12-year-old title character in the first opera written for television |
Amahl
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| The curved path along which a planet travels under the influence of a gravitational field |
Orbit
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| Jean Arp coined this term to describe the non-mobile works of Alexander Calder |
Stabiles
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| The National Zoological park is a unit of this |
Smithsonian Institution
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| Chingachgook became the last of the Mohicans when this man, his son, died |
Uncas
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| In 1901 the U.S. made this island a virtual protectorate |
(Mike: What is Puerto Rico?)
Cuba
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| They were the son & daughter of Peter, a poor broom maker & his wife, Gertrude |
Hansel & Gretel
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| Speaking of this device, Archimedes said, "Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth." |
Fulcrum & Lever
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| One of Goya's works depicts this father of Jupiter "devouring his children" |
(Mark: Who is Titan?) (Mike: Who is Cronus?)
Saturn
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| The basement of this building at 511 10th St. NW houses a museum of Lincoln memorabilia |
Ford's Theater
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| This Oliver Goldsmith play is subtitled "The Mistakes of the Night" |
"She Stoops to Conquer"
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| After this mutiny failed in 1858, the last Mogul emperor of India was exiled to Burma |
Sepoy Rebellion
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| At the end of "I Pagliacci", this clown stabs his wife, Nedda, & her lover, Silvio |
Canio
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| The measure of a body's inertia is technically known as this |
(Mike: What is drag?)
Mass
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| Also known as "Beaubourg", the Paris Center for the Contemporary Art is named after this French president |
(Mark: What is the Mitterrand Centre?)
Georges Pompidou
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| Massachusetts Avenue is noted for more of them than any other street |
Embassies
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| He wrote "Penrod", "Penrod and Son" & "Penrod Jashber" |
Booth Tarkington
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