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| Tradition says that around 3100 B.C., King Menes united the upper & lower parts of this country |
Egypt
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| Many of Paula Modersohn-Becker's works are in a museum named for her in Bremen in this country |
Germany
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| One thing that separates bacteria from plants is that they usually lack this green pigment |
chlorophyll
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| Luigi is the Italian form of this name that was extremely popular among French kings |
Louis
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| With 112 square miles, Queens is the largest of its 5 boroughs |
New York City
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| A dramatic version of his "Catch-22" premiered on Long Island in 1971 |
(Joseph) Heller
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| The Counter-Reformation was the Roman Catholic Church's attempt to stop the spread of this religion |
Protestantism
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| It was N.C. Wyeth's relationship to Jamie Wyeth |
(Claude: What is father?) ... (Alex: Andrew came in between.)
grandfather
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| This material that sticks to the walls of blood vessels, clogging them, is a steroid |
cholesterol
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| "The Ultimate Baby Name Book" claims the name of this Arthurian wizard is a variation of Irving |
Merlin
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| At the time of its completion, this city's 70-story Peachtree Plaza Hotel was the world's tallest |
Atlanta
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| James Tyrone Jr. appears in his "Long Day's Journey into Night" & "A Moon for the Misbegotten" |
Eugene O'Neill
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| In 1536 King Christian III made Norway a province of this Scandinavian country |
Denmark
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| Constantin Brancusi was a major influence on this Italian known for his long-necked portraits |
Modigliani
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| Term for a biological process made to happen outside the body, it literally means "in glass" |
in vitro
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| This Spanish name means "little one", though it makes us think of bananas |
Chiquita
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| Hamtramck, Mi. lies within the limits of this city whose name comes from French for "strait" |
Detroit
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| This play takes place at the summer home of the elderly Norman & Ethel Thayer |
(Ali: What is The Gin Game?)
On Golden Pond
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| In 1398 this "lame" ancestor of Babar sacked Delhi & killed about 100,000 of its citizens |
(Claude: Who is Genghis Khan?)
Tamerlane (Timur the Lame)
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| This Spaniard born in 1746 called his country home Quinta del Sordo, or "House of the Deaf Man" |
Goya
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| The thread of messenger RNA molecules forms a single one of these; the threads of DNA, a double one |
a helix
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| Sean & Shane are Irish forms of this ever-popular English name |
John
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| In 1864 James R. Mead & Jesse Chisholm founded this largest Kansas city on the site of an Indian village |
(Russell: What is Topeka?)
Wichita
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| This Thomas Heggen- Joshua Logan play concerns a naval cargo officer who wants to see active service |
Mister Roberts
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| In 1535 this Frenchman reached the site of present-day Montreal |
(Jacques) Cartier
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| This cubist was born in Argenteuil on May 13, 1882 |
(Russell: Who is Picasso?)
Braque
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| Used to move one-celled organisms, they're similar to cilia but longer & fewer in number |
flagella
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| Hebrew for "Recompense of God", it was President Harding's middle name |
Gamaliel
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| With a population of over 39,000, Burlington is this state's largest city |
Vermont
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| Former MGM production chief Dore Schary wrote this play about FDR's bout with polio |
Sunrise at Campobello
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