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| In 1667 this country gave New York to Great Britain & in exchange received what is now Suriname |
Holland (the Netherlands)
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| In "Their Finest Hour" he wrote, "No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it" |
Churchill
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| In Islam, while there are at least 100 names for God, this is the one most commonly used |
Allah
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| "Half a league, half a league, half a league onward, all in the valley of Death" they rode |
the six hundred
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| Similar to a human baby's teeth, a baby elephant grows "milk" ones of these which fall out by age 2 |
tusks
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| In 1670 King Charles II granted fur-trading rights in Alberta to this company |
the Hudson Bay Company
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| Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in 1879, he was second only to Lenin in the 1917 revolution |
Trotsky
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| The Church of England is divided into 2 provinces, York & this; each is headed by an archbishop |
Canterbury
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| They're the final 5 words of "Casey at the Bat" |
(Barbara: What is "The Mighty Casey has struck out"?) (Julie: What is "Mighty Casey had struck out"?)
Mighty Casey has struck out
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| A new species of this primate, the Maues marmoset, was recently discovered in the Amazon rain forest |
(Julie: What is the lemur?)
a monkey
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| In the 1550s this czar annexed Kazan & nAstrakhan, the 1st non-Slavic states in the Russian Empire |
(Marc: Who is Peter the Great?) (Barbara: Who is Nicholas?)
Ivan IV (the Terrible)
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| For 21 years James Boswell wrote down almost everything this man said & did |
Johnson
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| He's the only governor of New Jersey to go on to become president |
Wilson
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| In a synagogue the musical part of the service is led by this official |
a cantor
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| In these fields "the poppies blow between the crosses, row on row" |
Flanders Fields
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| Also called a paint horse, it wasn't officially recognized as a breed until 1963 |
a Pinto
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| Gen. Jose de San Martin, a native of this present country, defeated the Spanish at Chacabuco, Chile in 1817 |
Argentina
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| A 1983 book of this feminist's essays was called "Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions" |
(Alex: We've got about a minute to go in the round.)
Gloria Steinem
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| This, the state university, was founded in 1766 |
Rutgers
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| Since 1860 the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has been headed by this man's descendants |
(Barbara: Who is Brigham Young?)
(Joseph) Smith
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| In a Robert Burns poem, this river is told to "flow gently" |
the Afton
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| The Yapok of South America, a species of this mammal, is the only marsupial that can live in water |
a possum
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| The new German republic founded in 1919 became known by this name from the city where the assembly 1st met |
the Weimar Republic
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| This Greek got over his speech impediment by talking with pebbles in his mouth & shouting over the waves |
Demosthenes
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| 1 of the 2 New Jersey municipalities that have served as capital of the United States |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Trenton (or Princeton)
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| The name of this Indian religion is derived from Jina, a Sanskrit word for "conqueror" |
(Julie: What is Hinduism?)
Jainism
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| These flowers are mentioned in the Wordsworth poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud" |
daffodils
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| The Arctic species of this bird breeds in summer near the North Pole, then winters in Antarctica |
the tern
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