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| I MARRIED ELIZABETH TAYLOR |
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| THE NORTHERNMOST CAPITAL CITY |
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| In 1961 this country's P.W. Botha assumed his first cabinet position--Minister of Coloured Affairs |
South Africa
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| This actor married Ms. Taylor in 1964 (& was divorced from her in 1974) |
Richard Burton
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Cairo, Copenhagen, Canberra |
Copenhagen
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| Sho' nuff! He's the American author & cartoonist best known for "Li'l Abner" |
(Al) Capp
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| In the 1600s Basho wrote a famous hard-to-translate haiku about this creature jumping into a pond |
a frog
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| If you're schussing around on these, remember that their name comes from old Norse for "sticks" |
skis
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| Though his Fatah party lost in 2006 Palestinian elections, he remained president |
Abbas
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| This actor married Ms. Taylor in 1975 (& was divorced from her in 1976) |
(Alex: Again, yeah. Lucky guy.)
Richard Burton
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Brasilia, Bogota, Buenos Aires |
Bogota
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| He wrote the immortal words "he took his Vorpal sword in hand: long time the manxome foe he sought" |
(Alex: [*]--the "Jabberwocky".)
(Lewis) Carroll
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| The infamous Lowood School in this novel was based on a real school that Charlotte Bronte attended at age 8 |
(Lars: What is Wuthering Heights?) ... (Alex: The novel was [*]. Wuthering Heights was by her sister.)
Jane Eyre
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| The minute you walked in the joint, you knew the name of this body part was from the old English "elnboga" |
elbow
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| In 1984 Louis Gossett Jr. was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of this assassinated Egyptian leader |
Sadat
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| Paul Simon's ex-father-in-law, he co-starred with Elizabeth in "BUtterfield 8" |
(Alex: And that was [*] who also married Elizabeth Taylor.)
Eddie Fisher
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Wellington, Warsaw, Washington, D.C. |
Warsaw
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| This turn-of-the-century magician's instruction manual for witches is known as "The Book of Shadows" |
(Aleister) Crowley
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| This Jane Austen novel begins, "The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex" |
(Ed: What is Pride and Prejudice?) (Lars: What is [*]? ...Whew!)
Sense and Sensibility
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| It's no Greek myth: this big South American bird was probably named for the wife of Cronus |
(Louise: Oh. Uh... What is a quetzal?)
the rhea
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| Nana Sahib was an important leader of these rebels in 1857 India |
the Sepoys
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| He was first elected as a Virginia senator in 1978 |
John Warner
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| While in the service of Spain in 1542, this Portuguese explorer discovered California |
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
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| After Christian's death in an 1897 drama, this title character still acts as a platonic friend to the widow |
(Lars: Who... who is...) (Alex: Anything?) (Lars: Nah. I'm blanking.) (Alex: Christian was Christian De Neuvillette, and his friend was [*], and they were both in love with Roxane.)
Cyrano de Bergerac
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| This word for what one often does to red wine before serving comes from a Latin word for an iron ring |
decant
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| Indonesia's President Sukarno was the father of this woman who also became president of Indonesia |
Megawati Sukarnoputri
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| Married in 1991, this construction worker... aw heck, either you know this guy or you don't |
(Alex: Hey, you knew him! Way to go!)
Fortensky
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Bridgetown, Brussels, Belmopan |
Brussels
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| On July 18, 1938 he was questioned by police after a 28-hour, 13-minute airplane flight |
"Wrong Way" Corrigan
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| Tolstoy wrote this character's "life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible" |
(Ed: Who is Anna Karenina?)
Ivan Ilyich
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| The name of this greenish patina that forms on copper comes from Old French for "green of Greece" |
(Louise: What is heliotrope?)
verdigris
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