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
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THE GREAT LAKES
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An 1855 poem gives us this Native American name for the 1 Great Lake not known to us today by a Native American word or a tribe's name
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HISTORIC FIGURES
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In a 1912 telegram to his wife, he said, "Am feeling fine. Have bullet in chest, but...talked for hour and half after being shot"
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LITERARY TERMS
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In medieval times it was a long tale of a hero like Gisli or Njall; today it means any story of epic length
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ARCHITECTURE
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Begun in the 1170s on former marshland, it has been called a "perfect imperfection" & a "legendary mistake"
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Gitche Gumee
Teddy Roosevelt
saga
the Leaning Tower of Pisa
The extra clues have a triple stumper, one the players got correct and a requested triple stumper.
HISTORY $2000: Her accession as ruler of Austria in 1740 touched off a war, but she stayed in power for 40 years
AMERICAN NAMES $1600: This first casualty of the Boston Massacre lay in state at Faneuil Hall
LET'S GET MEDICAL $2000: A co-founder of the brain injury research institute, he was a movie subject for identifying CTE in football players
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Crispus Attucks
Bennet Omalu