Season 39, 2023-03-15 | |
ART EXHIBITIONS |
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In 1898 what's been called the first blockbuster art show was devoted to him & put on for Queen Wilhelmina's coronation | REMBRANDT |
Season 39, 2023-03-14 | |
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD |
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Part of the largest contiguous land empire during the 1200s & 1300s, today it's the world's second-largest landlocked country | MONGOLIA |
Season 39, 2023-03-14 | |
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD |
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Part of the largest contiguous land empire during the 1200s & 1300s, today it's the world's second-largest landlocked country | MONGOLIA |
Season 39, 2023-03-13 | |
LITERATURE |
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A 2006 book was titled "The Poem That Changed America:" this "Fifty Years Later" | HOWL |
Season 39, 2023-03-10 | |
INVASIONS |
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Backed by 14,000 troops, he invaded England to restore, in his words, its "religion, laws, and liberties" | WILLIAM OF ORANGE |
Season 39, 2023-03-09 | |
LANDMARKS |
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After its completion in the late 19th c., it was called a "truly tragic street lamp" & a "high & skinny pyramid of iron ladders" | THE EIFFEL TOWER |
Season 39, 2023-03-08 | |
GEOGRAPHIC NAME'S THE SAME |
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The busiest passenger port in the U.K., it shares its name with a capital of one of the original 13 states | DOVER |
Season 39, 2023-03-07 | |
NAMES IN THE BOOKSTORE |
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This man made lists, perhaps to cope with depression; a set of lists he published in 1852 made his name synonymous with a type of book | PETER MARK ROGET |
Season 39, 2023-03-07 | |
NAMES IN THE BOOKSTORE |
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This man made lists, perhaps to cope with depression; a set of lists he published in 1852 made his name synonymous with a type of book | PETER MARK ROGET |
Season 39, 2023-03-06 | |
U.S. HISTORY |
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An 1869 presidential pardon was granted to this man, due in part to a plea by the Medical Society of Harford County, Maryland | DR SAMUEL MUDD |
Season 39, 2023-03-03 | |
AMERICAN LITERATURE |
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Letters, pocket knives, C rations & steel helmets are among the tangible items referred to in the title of this modern war classic | THE THINGS WE CARRIED |
Season 39, 2023-03-02 | |
NONFICTION |
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It has the line, "The discovery of America... opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie" | THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO |
Season 39, 2023-03-01 | |
LAWS IN U.S. HISTORY |
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A radical Republican championed this 1875 act but the Supreme Court struck it down in 1883; a new version was passed 81 years later | THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT |
Season 39, 2023-03-01 | |
LAWS IN U.S. HISTORY |
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A radical Republican championed this 1875 act but the Supreme Court struck it down in 1883; a new version was passed 81 years later | THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT |
Season 39, 2023-02-28 | |
NAMES OF MYTH |
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Her brothers, Castor & Pollux, saved her after Theseus stole her away as a kid; a larger force would seek her later in life | HELEN OF TROY |
Season 39, 2023-02-28 | |
NAMES OF MYTH |
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Her brothers, Castor & Pollux, saved her after Theseus stole her away as a kid; a larger force would seek her later in life | HELEN OF TROY |
Season 39, 2023-02-27 | |
AFRICAN COUNTRIES |
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Once Africa's largest country in area, it dropped to third in 2011 when a portion of it declared independence | SUDAN |
Season 39, 2023-02-24 | |
THE ANCIENT WORLD |
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The ancient writer Galen said books on ships arriving to this city's port were seized, originals kept & copies returned | ALEXANDRIA |
Season 39, 2023-02-23 | |
FAMOUS NAMES |
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For a special 1970s cookbook, he provided one simple recipe--a can of Campbell's tomato soup & 2 cans of milk | ANDY WARHOL |
Season 39, 2023-02-23 | |
FAMOUS NAMES |
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For a special 1970s cookbook, he provided one simple recipe--a can of Campbell's tomato soup & 2 cans of milk | ANDY WARHOL |
Season 39, 2023-02-22 | |
PEOPLE & PLACES |
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Thought to descend from people of Southeast Asia, the Chamorro make up this U.S. territory's largest ethnic group | GUAM |
Season 39, 2023-02-21 | |
CURRENT WORLD LEADERS |
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In office from 2022, the president of this country has taken so many foreign trips a play on his name is "Ferdinand Magellan Jr." | THE PHILIPPINES |
Season 39, 2023-02-21 | |
CURRENT WORLD LEADERS |
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In office from 2022, the president of this country has taken so many foreign trips a play on his name is "Ferdinand Magellan Jr." | THE PHILIPPINES |
Season 39, 2023-02-20 | |
WRITERS & THE SOUTH |
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In 1939 he lived on Toulouse Street in the French Quarter & chose the professional name that bonded him to the South | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS |
Season 39, 2023-02-20 | |
WRITERS & THE SOUTH |
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In 1939 he lived on Toulouse Street in the French Quarter & chose the professional name that bonded him to the South | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS |
Season 39, 2023-02-17 | |
NATIONAL PARKS |
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It's named for a river indigenous people called Mi tse a-da-zi, translated by French-speaking trappers as "Pierre Jaune" | YELLOWSTONE |
Season 39, 2023-02-16 | |
SPORTS |
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In 2010 they introduced the 4-point shot, 35 feet from the basket | THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS |
Season 39, 2023-02-15 | |
THE U.S. MILITARY |
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Losses over Asia in the 1960s led to the establishment of the program known as this at a San Diego naval base in 1969 | TOP GUN |
Season 39, 2023-02-14 | |
ART & SCIENCE |
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A craft that visited it was named for Giotto, based on the story that 680 years earlier, the painter depicted it as the Star of Bethlehem | HALLEY S COMET |
Season 39, 2023-02-14 | |
ART & SCIENCE |
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A craft that visited it was named for Giotto, based on the story that 680 years earlier, the painter depicted it as the Star of Bethlehem | HALLEY S COMET |
Season 39, 2023-02-13 | |
WORDS FROM WORLD WAR I |
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"Cistern" & "reservoir" were suggested names for a secret invention, but the British preferred this less clumsy monosyllable | A TANK |
Season 39, 2023-02-10 | |
EUROPEAN HISTORY |
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Until 1806, some German nobles included among their honors the title of "Elector" for their role in selecting this personage | HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR |
Season 39, 2023-02-09 | |
THEATER HISTORY |
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In 1904, wearing a harness, actress Nina Boucicault became the first to play this character onstage | PETER PAN |
Season 39, 2023-02-09 | |
THEATER HISTORY |
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In 1904, wearing a harness, actress Nina Boucicault became the first to play this character onstage | PETER PAN |
Season 39, 2023-02-08 | |
EUROPEAN CITIES |
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Alphabetically the first German city in encyclopedias, it was also the first one taken by the Allies in World War II | AACHEN |
Season 39, 2023-02-08 | |
EUROPEAN CITIES |
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Alphabetically the first German city in encyclopedias, it was also the first one taken by the Allies in World War II | AACHEN |
Season 39, 2023-02-07 | |
WORD ORIGINS |
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This Sanskrit word referring to a spoken word or phrase comes from a word for "to think" | MANTRA |
Season 39, 2023-02-06 | |
INVENTIONS |
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1917's "Elements of Trench Warfare" said this Old West item was "difficult to destroy" & "difficult to get through" | BARBED WIRE |
Season 39, 2023-02-06 | |
INVENTIONS |
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1917's "Elements of Trench Warfare" said this Old West item was "difficult to destroy" & "difficult to get through" | BARBED WIRE |
Season 39, 2023-02-03 | |
WORLD WAR II |
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Mimi Reinhard, who never learned to type using more than 2 fingers, produced this with 1,100 names, including hers | SCHINDLER S LIST |
Season 39, 2023-02-02 | |
AUTHORS |
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Despite how he's known, he was probably actually born in Anchiano, near Florence | LEONARDO DA VINCI |
Season 39, 2023-02-02 | |
MYTHOLOGY |
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Poseidon carried off the maiden Theophane & turned her into a ewe; their offspring was the source of this mythical object | THE GOLDEN FLEECE |
Season 39, 2023-02-02 | |
AUTHORS |
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Despite how he's known, he was probably actually born in Anchiano, near Florence | LEONARDO DA VINCI |
Season 39, 2023-02-01 | |
LITERATURE |
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Published in 2011, P.D. James' final novel, "Death Comes to Pemberley", was a sequel to this novel from 200 years earlier | PRIDE AND PREJUDICE |
Season 39, 2023-01-31 | |
U.S. STATE NAMES |
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5 U.S. states have 6-letter names; only these 2 west of the Mississippi River border each other | OREGON AMP NEVADA |
Season 39, 2023-01-31 | |
U.S. STATE NAMES |
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5 U.S. states have 6-letter names; only these 2 west of the Mississippi River border each other | OREGON AMP NEVADA |
Season 39, 2023-01-30 | |
WORD ORIGINS |
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Originally relating to a story of suffering, this word now more commonly refers to strong emotion of any kind | PASSION |
Season 39, 2023-01-27 | |
WORLD CINEMA |
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The 2007 biopic called "La Mome" in France, meaning "The Kid", was released in the U.S. under this other French title | LA VIE EN ROSE |
Season 39, 2023-01-26 | |
NOVELS |
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"Breeders, Wives and Unwomen" was the headline of the New York Times' 1986 review of this novel | THE HANDMAID S TALE |
Season 39, 2023-01-26 | |
HISTORY |
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Returning home in 1493, Columbus stopped in the Azores at an island with this name, also something he'd lost off the Haiti coast | SANTA MARIA |
Season 39, 2023-01-25 | |
LANDMARKS |
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Pskov & Nizhny Novgorod are 2 of the cities that have a fortress called this | KREMLIN |
Season 39, 2023-01-24 | |
FOREIGN-BORN AUTHORS |
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In the 1950s the New York Times said this author "is writing about all lust" & his lecherous narrator "is all of us" | VLADIMIR NABOKOV |
Season 39, 2023-01-24 | |
FOREIGN-BORN AUTHORS |
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In the 1950s the New York Times said this author "is writing about all lust" & his lecherous narrator "is all of us" | VLADIMIR NABOKOV |
Season 39, 2023-01-23 | |
ASTRONOMY & GEOGRAPHY |
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At the winter solstice, the Sun is in Sagittarius; it once appeared in this constellation, giving a geographic feature its name | CAPRICORN |
Season 39, 2023-01-23 | |
ASTRONOMY & GEOGRAPHY |
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At the winter solstice, the Sun is in Sagittarius; it once appeared in this constellation, giving a geographic feature its name | CAPRICORN |
Season 39, 2023-01-20 | |
TELEVISION |
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Mike Post combined the sound of a slamming jail door, an anvil & 100 men stomping on a floor for this series that debuted in 1990 | LAW AMP ORDER |
Season 39, 2023-01-19 | |
NOTORIOUS PLACES |
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Al Capone played banjo in a band called the Rock Islanders at this notorious spot | ALCATRAZ |
Season 39, 2023-01-19 | |
NOTORIOUS PLACES |
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Al Capone played banjo in a band called the Rock Islanders at this notorious spot | ALCATRAZ |
Season 39, 2023-01-19 | |
BRITISH LANDMARKS |
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Like Sir Thomas More, 3 16th century English queens are buried at this location | THE TOWER OF LONDON |
Season 39, 2023-01-18 | |
EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY |
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In 1692 Increase Mather wrote, "It were better that ten suspected" these "escape, than that one innocent person... be condemned" | WITCHES |
Season 39, 2023-01-17 | |
GEOGRAPHY MNEMONICS |
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MIMAL, sometimes said to be the silhouette of a chef or elf, stands for Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, these 2 states | ARKANSAS AMP LOUISIANA |
Season 39, 2023-01-16 | |
BUSINESS MILESTONES |
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These were first sold in 1908, at a price equivalent to about $27,000 today | FORD MODEL T |
Season 39, 2023-01-13 | |
IN THE BOOKSTORE |
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The name of this author dead since 2013 now appears on books written by a former U.S. marshal & a former Apache helicopter pilot | TOM CLANCY |
Season 39, 2023-01-12 | |
HISTORIC ART |
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The artwork once known in France as "la tapisserie de la reine Mathilde" is better known as this | THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY |
Season 39, 2023-01-11 | |
POP STARS |
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In 2022 she became the first woman to have a Billboard Top 10 album in 5 decades starting with the 1980s | MADONNA |
Season 39, 2023-01-10 | |
CLASSIC TALE CHARACTERS |
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In one 19th century translation, she "perceived the dawn of day and ceased" speaking nearly 1,000 times | SCHEHERAZADE |
Season 39, 2023-01-09 | |
USA |
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Ironically, though this company founded in the 1860s is Moore county, Tennessee's largest employer, Moore is a dry county | JACK DANIEL S |
Season 39, 2023-01-06 | |
HISTORIC PEOPLE |
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After a 1789 event, he wrote, "My first determination was to seek a supply of... water at Tofoa, & afterwards to sail for Tongataboo" | CAPTAIN BLIGH |
Season 39, 2023-01-05 | |
20th CENTURY PEOPLE |
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Calling him "the embodiment of pure intellect", in December 1999 Time magazine named him Person of the Century | ALBERT EINSTEIN |
Season 39, 2023-01-05 | |
THE MOVIES |
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Laurence Olivier & Ernest Borgnine were considered for the lead role & Sergio Leone to direct for this film that turned 50 in 2022 | THE GODFATHER |
Season 39, 2023-01-04 | |
CONTINENTAL GEOGRAPHY |
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Until a 1903 secession, this country's contiguous territory spanned 2 continents | COLOMBIA |
Season 39, 2023-01-03 | |
FOREIGN-BORN AUTHORS |
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Early in her career she translated romance novels into Spanish, often changing the dialogue to make the heroines smarter | ISABEL ALLENDE |
Season 39, 2023-01-02 | |
HISTORIC CRIMES |
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Saying it was stolen by Napoleon, self-styled Italian patriot Vincenzo Peruggia took it in 1911 | THE MONA LISA |
Season 39, 2022-12-30 | |
U.S. BODIES OF WATER |
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Continuing a downward trend, in July 2022 it was at 27% capacity, its lowest level since 1937 when it was first being filled | LAKE MEAD |
Season 39, 2022-12-29 | |
GODS & GODDESSES |
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Each morning she began her ride in her chariot across the sky ahead of her brother Sol, or Helios | EOS AURORA |
Season 39, 2022-12-28 | |
AMERICA AT WAR |
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Until the Civil War, the January 8 date of this battle of dubious military importance but big morale value was a national holiday | THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS |
Season 39, 2022-12-27 | |
CHILDREN'S BOOKS |
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Its title character is told "By the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off... your eyes drop out & you get... shabby" | THE VELVETEEN RABBIT |
Season 39, 2022-12-26 | |
TV FINALES |
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In a reunion over 40 years in the making, Dolly Parton appeared as an angel named Agnes in the final episode of this comedy in 2022 | GRACE AND FRANKIE |
Season 39, 2022-12-23 | |
AMERICAN POEMS |
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In an 1847 poem this character sees her town of Grand-Pré burned, but finally reunites with her beau for a kiss before his death | EVANGELINE |
Season 39, 2022-12-22 | |
FAMOUS NAMES |
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In 2001 he published a book called "Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall"; in 2002, "Existencilism" | BANKSY |
Season 39, 2022-12-21 | |
CHILDREN'S LIT |
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The title object of this book "never looked more beautiful... each strand held dozens of bright drops of early morning dew" | CHARLOTTE S WEB |
Season 39, 2022-12-20 | |
CLASSIC SONGS |
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The shouts of excited children at a 1946 holiday parade are said to have inspired this perennial favorite | HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS |
Season 39, 2022-12-19 | |
BRAND NAMES |
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Unable to make these candies perfectly round, the confectioner embraced this flawed name for the product | MILK DUDS |
Season 39, 2022-12-16 | |
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD |
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It's home to 58 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, more than any other country; the sites include a volcano & a lagoon | ITALY |
Season 39, 2022-12-15 | |
ACTION MOVIES |
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Its last line is "If this is their idea of Christmas, I gotta be here for New Year's" | DIE HARD |
Season 39, 2022-12-14 | |
PRESIDENTIAL FACTS |
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Only 3 presidents have married while in office--John Tyler was the first & he was the last | WOODROW WILSON |
Season 39, 2022-12-13 | |
19th CENTURY AMERICANS |
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Demonstrating the dignity & humanity of Black Americans, he sat for 160 known photographs, the most of any American in the 19th century | FREDERICK DOUGLASS |
Season 39, 2022-12-12 | |
LATIN PHRASES |
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Originally, this 3-word phrase referred to when a doctor or apothecary substituted one medicine for another | QUID PRO QUO |
Season 39, 2022-12-09 | |
1970s MOVIES |
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A 1975 premiere of this comedy advertised free coconuts for the first thousand in the audience | MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL |
Season 39, 2022-12-08 | |
NAME'S THE SAME |
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A cocktail, an island & a WWII venture originally called "Development of Substitute Materials" all bear this name | MANHATTAN |
Season 39, 2022-12-07 | |
U.S. PRESIDENTS |
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He was sworn in twice as president within 2 years, first by his father & then later by a former U.S. President | CALVIN COOLIDGE |
Season 39, 2022-12-06 | |
PLAYS |
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A 1609 story in which an exiled king of Bulgaria creates a sea palace with his magic may have inspired the plot of this play | THE TEMPEST |
Season 39, 2022-12-05 | |
LANDMARKS |
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In 2009, during a 20th anniversary celebration, it was called "an edifice of fear. On November 9, it became a place of joy" | THE BERLIN WALL |
Season 39, 2022-12-02 | |
WORLD CAPITALS |
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Among its nicknames are the "City of Classical Music" &, possibly in honor of a famous resident from 1860 to 1938, the "City of Dreams" | VIENNA |
Season 39, 2022-12-01 | |
LANGUAGE & ITS MEANINGS |
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Now meaning someone with nocturnal habits, it catches a sleeping dove in Shakespeare's "The Rape of Lucrece" | A NIGHT OWL |
Season 39, 2022-11-30 | |
FLAGS OF OUR HEMISPHERE |
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The stars on this country's flag represent states, 26 of them; unlike the USA's, its "federal district" gets its own 27th star | BRAZIL |
Season 39, 2022-11-29 | |
NAMES IN U.S. HISTORY |
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This father was the only man among the 13 plaintiffs in a class-action case filed in 1951 | BROWN |
Season 39, 2022-11-28 | |
CHILDREN'S AUTHORS |
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Reversing the story of this heroine she created, Patricia MacLachlan was born on the prairie but spent much of her life in New England | SARAH WHEATON |
Season 39, 2022-11-25 | |
STATES & THE CENSUS |
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The 2020 Census gave Montana a second U.S. House seat; its most populous county, this one that attracts tourists, grew 11% | YELLOWSTONE |
Season 39, 2022-11-24 | |
SOUTHERN COLLEGES |
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To aid transport in poorer nations, in the 1920s grads of this college built makeshift buggies celebrated in their fight song | GEORGIA TECH |