Season 29, 2012-12-13 | |
OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS |
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Before Michael Phelps in 2008, he was the last American to win 5 individual golds in one Olympics; he did it at Lake Placid | Eric Heiden |
Season 18, 2001-11-19 | |
AMERICAN LITERATURE |
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John Steinbeck originally called this 1937 short novel "Something That Happened" | Of Mice and Men |
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 14, 1997-09-17 | |
1997 FILMS |
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At the end of this 1997 film, the dedication "For Carl" appears onscreen | "Contact" |
Season 14, 1997-12-29 | |
WOMEN IN POLITICS |
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In 1995 she became the first sitting governor to give the rebuttal to a State of the Union address | Christine Todd Whitman |
Season 13, 1997-05-27 | |
MUSICIANS |
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As a disc jockey in the 1940s, he was known as "The Blues Boy from Beale Street" | B.B. King |
Season 3, 1987-06-05 | |
20th CENTURY ELECTIONS |
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Only year in which the winner defeated not only the incumbent but the previous president, too | 1912 |
Season 20, 2004-04-20 | |
CANADIAN LITERATURE |
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This 1908 work that was followed by several sequels is the bestselling book ever written by a Canadian | Anne of Green Gables |
Season 38, 2022-03-02 | |
ART MUSEUMS |
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Before its 1959 opening, 21 artists protested its design, saying it would make paintings look tilted & askew | THE GUGGENHEIM |
Season 12, 1995-11-08 | |
VOCABULARY |
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This term for the ludicrous misuse of a word is from the name of a character in an 18th century play | malapropism |
Season 6, 1989-11-17 | |
U.S. HISTORY |
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The states admitted to the Union in the 20th century were Alaska, Hawaii & these 3 | Arizona, New Mexico & Oklahoma |
Season 19, 2003-04-22 | |
MUSICALS |
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The 2 longest-running musicals in Broadway history; Cameron Mackintosh produced both of them | Cats & Les Miserables |
Season 33, 2017-01-24 | |
MEDALS & DECORATIONS |
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Her husband won in 1927; in 1934 she was the 1st woman to win the National Geographic Society's Hubbard Medal for exploration | Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
Season 28, 2011-10-18 | |
FOREIGN-BORN INVENTORS |
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His 1922 New York Times obituary mentions that his patent No. 174,465 "has been called the most valuable patent ever issued" | Alexander Graham Bell |
Season 35, 2019-05-01 | |
THE KING JAMES BIBLE |
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Of the 4 riders mentioned in Revelation 6, only this one is explicitly named | Death |
Season 16, 1999-10-15 | |
NATIONAL HEROES |
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This country's national heroes include Juan Pablo Duarte & Sammy Sosa | Dominican Republic |
Season 24, 2008-05-12 | |
INVENTORS |
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In 1894, in his West Orange lab, Thomas Edison shot this sport, the first sporting event ever filmed | boxing |
Season 25, 2008-12-02 | |
BREAKFAST CEREALS |
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The first & middle names of this breakfast cereal "spokesman" are Horatio Magellan | Cap'n Crunch |
Season 25, 2009-06-19 | |
WORDS IN PHYSICS |
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Also found before "pack" & "team", it's defined as increase in volume resulting from increase in temperature | expansion |
Season 36, 2020-04-21 | |
CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS |
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Publishers Weekly has dubbed this former middle school English teacher turned bestselling author "Storyteller of the Gods" | Rick Riordan |
Season 36, 2019-09-24 | |
AMERICAN COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES |
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The 1862 Morrill Act gave states federal acreage to sell for school funds, leading to the creation of 69 of these | land-grant universities (land-grant colleges) |
Season 2, 1985-11-21 | |
THE SUPREME COURT |
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This president appointed more Supreme Court justices than any other | George Washington |
Season 25, 2009-02-10 | |
20th CENTURY CORRESPONDENCE |
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A telegram from these 2: "Average speed...thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds.Inform press.Home Christmas" | the Wright Brothers |
Season 13, 1997-03-24 | |
SCIENCE |
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Not long after its development, Robert Boyle renamed the Torricellian Tube this | Barometer |
Season 22, 2006-02-13 | |
THE 50 STATES |
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Since 1776, it has been the only U.S. state to be the most populous state for more than a century | New York |
Season 11, 1994-10-17 | |
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY |
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It was created in 1931 by a merger of, among others, Boeing Air Transport & National Air Transport | United Airlines |
Season 8, 1992-05-25 | |
THE 1991 EMMYS |
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This show won the Best Comedy Series, Actress & Supporting Actress awards | Cheers |
Season 34, 2018-03-14 | |
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE |
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Each state has as many electors as its total of senators & reps.; D.C. has this many, the minimum for any state | 3 |
Season 14, 1997-11-11 | |
18th CENTURY IN THE NEWS |
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On Dec. 17, 1773 342 chests of this were in the news | Tea (the Boston Tea Party took place) |
Season 4, 1988-02-19 | |
VICE PRESIDENTS |
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2 of 3 men in the 20th century who became president within a year of becoming vice president | (2 of) Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman & Gerald Ford |
Season 32, 2016-04-14 | |
NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY |
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Far from New England, it's the state that has the shortest land border with Canada, only 45 miles | Idaho |
Season 30, 2013-11-12 | |
HISTORIC OBJECTS |
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In 1802, 3 years after it was discovered, it was moved to London under the terms of the surrender of Alexandria | the Rosetta Stone |
Season 16, 1999-09-16 | |
ROCK MUSIC |
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This term for a rock genre came into popular usage from a line in Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild" | Heavy metal |
Season 1, 1984-12-18 | |
THE CALENDAR |
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Total days in a year which fall in months with 31 days | 217 |
Season 8, 1991-11-04 | |
ANCIENT LITERATURE |
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More writings of this orator survive than of any other Latin author | Cicero |
Season 21, 2005-07-12 | |
THE 50 STATES |
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Rejected earlier in its bid for statehood, it finally entered the Union in 1876 | Colorado |
Season 12, 1996-06-19 | |
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY |
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In 1948 this sportswear company was founded in Germany by Adolph Dassler | Adidas |
Season 16, 2000-02-21 | |
U.S. CITIES |
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This city's flag shows 2 rivers joining behind a fleur-de-lis | St. Louis (at the confluence of the Missouri & Mississippi Rivers) |
Season 7, 1990-09-26 | |
FRANCE |
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Its construction was begun in 1546 by Francis I, but it wasn't opened to the public until 1793 | THE LOUVRE |
Season 17, 2000-11-16 | |
HISTORIC TITLES |
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Since 1578, only 14 men have held this title, including a 1989 Nobel Prize winner | The Dalai Lama |
Season 34, 2017-10-05 | |
ACTORS & THEIR MOVIE ROLES |
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He played Shakespearean title characters 4 times, receiving Best Actor Oscar nominations each time | Laurence Olivier |
Season 27, 2010-09-17 | |
RIVERS |
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These 2 rivers, each more than 1,000 miles long, rise in the Armenian Plateau in Turkey | the Tigris & the Euphrates |
Season 13, 1996-11-26 | |
SHORT STORIES |
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Set on Christmas Eve, it begins "One dollar and 87 cents. That was all. And 60 cents of it was in pennies." | "The Gift of the Magi" |
Season 36, 2019-12-10 | |
OSCAR-WINNING FILMS |
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The first words spoken in this 1970 Best Picture Oscar winner are "Ten-hut!" "Be seated" | Patton |
Season 36, 2019-11-14 | |
OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS |
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By Hebrew word count, the longest book bears this name that led to a word for a long complaint or rant | Jeremiah |
Season 38, 2022-07-06 | |
AGRICULTURE |
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Being brought to the U.S. by a ship docking at San Francisco in 1851 helped lead to it now being a major crop in the Midwest | SOYBEANS |
Season 25, 2009-03-30 | |
ARTISTS |
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The 2 famous painters who share a March 30 birthday, one born in Spain in 1746, the other in Holland in 1853 | Goya & Van Gogh |
Season 11, 1994-12-28 | |
ETYMOLOGY |
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Until 1946, this word usually meant a mathematician; since then, it's come to mean a machine | a computer |
Season 6, 1990-08-25 | |
THE CALENDAR |
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This month was formerly called Quintilis | July |
Season 29, 2013-02-04 | |
MOUNT RUSHMORE |
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It's the only U.S. state that has more than one native-born son honored on Mount Rushmore | Virginia |
Season 38, 2022-05-04 | |
THE CIVIL WAR |
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A Union soldiers' song said General McClellan, who let a Confederate Army escape after this battle, "was too slow to beat 'em" | ANTIETAM |
Season 21, 2005-04-06 | |
FAMOUS PLACES |
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The appearance of this famous site gave England its old name of Albion | the White Cliffs of Dover |
Season 29, 2012-09-19 | |
PRESIDENTIAL CHILDREN |
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1 of his 5 sons was born in New Brunswick, Canada | FDR |
Season 11, 1995-07-17 | |
PLAYWRIGHTS |
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He was still writing plays in 1947 at age 91 when he said, "As long as I live I must write" | George Bernard Shaw |
Season 34, 2018-04-23 | |
18th CENTURY AMERICA |
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Congress met in June 1778 to sign these but found errors in the official copy; it had to reconvene with a new set in July | the Articles of Confederation |
Season 23, 2006-11-27 | |
FIRST NAMES |
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The first name of both a naval hero & a character in "Hamlet", it's from the Latin for "timekeeper" | Horatio |
Season 17, 2001-06-15 | |
NAMES IN THE NEWS |
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On December 16, 2000, the day after his graduation, LSU retired his No. 33 jersey | Shaquille O'Neal |
Season 37, 2020-09-28 | |
ON THE OLD MAP |
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On the U.N. website's map of the world in 1945, these 2 initials of a member state appear 13 times on continental Africa | U.K. |
Season 22, 2005-12-21 | |
LINES FROM LINCOLN |
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Though it's not accurate, this meaning of the word "Mississippi" appears in one of Lincoln's most famous lines | father of waters |
Season 21, 2005-07-21 | |
LITERARY FIREARMS |
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The "Polizei Pistole Kurz" model was often used very effectively by this literary character introduced in 1953 | James Bond |
Season 35, 2019-06-12 | |
POPULAR PRODUCTS |
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This product that brought virtual tourism into homes in 1939 introduced its first virtual reality device in 2015 | View-Master |
Season 11, 1994-11-23 | |
DEMOCRATS |
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When Grandma Moses was born, this man was president; at her death, JFK was president | James Buchanan |
Season 16, 1999-12-21 | |
1999 TELEVISION |
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The final episode of this sitcom was called "The Final Frontier" | Mad About You |
Season 18, 2002-03-12 | |
WORLD CAPITALS |
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Other than Washington, D.C., it's the only world capital named for an American | Monrovia, Liberia |
Season 13, 1997-07-09 | |
AMERICAN AUTHORS |
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One of the USA's greatest novelists, he lived most of his life, from 1876 to 1916, in England | Henry James |
Season 34, 2017-12-26 | |
CANADA |
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As a response to new developments there, this territory was carved out of the Northwest Territories in 1898 | the Yukon Territory |
Season 25, 2009-03-20 | |
CIVIL WAR SITES |
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Of the 6 Civil War-related national military parks, the northernmost & southernmost are in these 2 states | Pennsylvania & Mississippi |
Season 38, 2022-02-22 | |
THE PERIODIC TABLE |
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By 1890, discoveries of 3 "nationalist elements" filled table gaps: scandium in Sweden, germanium in Germany, this in France | GALLIUM |
Season 29, 2013-02-14 | |
MUSEUMS |
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Its collection includes a 16" high architects' model of its first permanent building, opened in 1939 | MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art) |
Season 38, 2022-06-22 | |
19th CENTURY LITERATURE |
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This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird "equally capable of speech" | EDGAR ALLAN POE |
Season 6, 1990-04-09 | |
AMERICAN HISTORY |
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Virginia's motto since 1776; it was shouted in another context on April 14, 1865 | "Sic Semper Tyrannis" |
Season 27, 2011-07-18 | |
WORLD GEOGRAPHY |
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Of the 4 largest Asian countries in area, it's the only one that borders the other 3 | China |
Season 13, 1997-06-09 | |
AFRICA |
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In the 1980s the U.S.-backed FNLA & UNITA battled the Cuban-backed MPLA for control of this country | Angola |
Season 28, 2011-12-21 | |
THE NFL |
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This team that joined the NFL in the mid-1970s is the only one whose name starts with the same 3 letters as its city's name | the Seattle Seahawks |
Season 30, 2013-10-14 | |
BIG COUNTRIES |
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In area, it's the largest former Soviet republic after Russia & the largest nation that doesn't border an ocean | Kazakhstan |
Season 11, 1995-07-13 | |
BALLET CHARACTERS |
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In a famous 1892 ballet, she rules over the Kingdom of Sweets | the Sugar Plum Fairy |
Season 31, 2015-03-02 | |
LITERARY FIRST LINES |
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He wrote the 1971 opener "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold" | Hunter S. Thompson (from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) |
Season 2, 1986-04-14 | |
MEDICINE |
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Accounting for 3.9 million visits last year, it's the leading reason for a hospital stay | CHILDBIRTH GIVING BIRTH |
Season 23, 2006-12-05 | |
ROYALTY |
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Originally, this woman born in 1755 had the middle names Antonia, Josepha, & Joanna | Marie Antoinette |
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 33, 2017-06-20 | |
SHAKESPEARE TITLES |
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The verse from the Sermon on the Mount following "Judge not, that ye be not judged" inspired this Bard comedy title | Measure for Measure |
Season 16, 1999-09-20 | |
POLITICIANS |
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He began his political career by defeating Jerry Voorhis in 1946 for a California house seat | Richard M. Nixon |
Season 2, 1986-03-05 | |
ART |
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The 2 geometric shapes containing da Vinci's famous "Vitruvian Man" | CIRCLE AMP SQUARE |
Season 23, 2007-02-13 | |
20th CENTURY AUTHORS |
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This author was born in 1926, the daughter of Amasa, an Alabama lawyer, & Frances, whose maiden name was Finch | Harper Lee |
Season 30, 2014-07-04 | |
FICTIONAL LOCALES |
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Featured in a 1933 novel, it may have been inspired by the 1920s Tibetan travel writings of explorer Joseph Rock | Shangri-La |
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 21, 2005-02-25 | |
WOOD |
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The remarkable elasticity of yew led to this new weapon that made history at a 1346 battle | the longbow |
Season 2, 1986-05-30 | |
GENERALS |
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Highest rank, General of the Armies of U.S., was given only to Pershing in 1919 & this deceased president in 1976 | George Washington |
Season 18, 2002-05-02 | |
2001 NEWS |
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In 2001 the zinc industry was up in arms over Rep. Jim Kolbe's bill calling for the phasing out of these | pennies |
Season 32, 2015-12-25 | |
PLAYWRIGHTS |
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He wrote the line "Our home has been nothing but a playroom" | Henrik Ibsen |
Season 22, 2006-05-24 | |
PORT CITIES |
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It was Russia's third-largest city until it became the capital of an independent republic in 1918 | Riga, Latvia |
Season 16, 2000-06-08 | |
THE BIBLE |
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According to the King James Version of the Bible, the number of people on Noah's Ark | 8 |
Season 5, 1989-04-17 | |
U.S. COINS |
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Images replaced on the front of the penny & the nickel by the presidents on them today | Indian heads |
Season 17, 2001-04-10 | |
FILMS & AUTHORS |
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"The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T" in 1953 was the 1st live-action feature film from this author's works; a 2nd was released in 2000 | Dr. Seuss |
Season 3, 1987-02-23 | |
FAMOUS QUOTES |
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It's the only mathematical formula in the current Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations" | E = mc2 |
Season 26, 2010-07-15 | |
FAMOUS TEXTS |
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Tradition says the author of this work was the sage Vatsyayana; surprisingly, he was celibate | the Kama Sutra |
Season 21, 2005-04-19 | |
THE CABINET |
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A top member of the Reagan Cabinet, he was also Labor Secretary & Treasury Secretary under Richard Nixon | George Shultz |
Season 7, 1991-06-21 | |
AMERICAN POLITICS |
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He was the only man to preside over both the House & the Senate on the same day, March 4, 1933 | JOHN NANCE GARNER |
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 33, 2016-11-15 | |
MEN OF SCIENCE |
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The symbols for 6 chemical elements spell out his name, beginning with cobalt, phosphorus & erbium | Copernicus |