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What is 21?
This numbered card game is known for being the game that has the most instances of people getting caught cheating in casinos.
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Who is Agatha Christie?
This best-selling English novelist added to her mystique by disappearing towards the end of her life.
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Who is Glenn Miller?
This WW2 era band leader was killed by the Germans in 1942 headed to Italy to perform for the troops.
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Who is Beethoven?
Fur Elise.
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What is The Great Barrier Reef?
This patch of coral is barely still standing to this day, and many efforts are being launched to save it.
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What is Euchere?
This card game invented in midwestern saloons is played with four players, working as two pairs of partners, winning as many hands as possible.
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Who is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
Magician Harry Houdini went on a campaign against psychics taking advantage of people, resulting in a feud with the wife of this British Detective writer.
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Who is Dave Brubeck?
This late 60s band leader is renowned for his laidback, calm style, encouraging folks to just take 5.
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Who is Tchiakovsky?
Romeo and Juliet
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What are the Cliffs of Dover?
These rock faces in eastern Britain are known for their pasty white appearance.
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What is Egyptian Rat Screw?
This loud card game involves slapping cards on the table to take them for yourself.
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Who are the Hardy Boys?
These two brothers in Massachusetts, written by Franklin W. Dixon, assisted their PI father in solving the crimes that he could not.
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Who is Benny Goodman?
This bandleader, a clarinettist by trade, was famous for his bespectacled appearance and encouraging folks to Sing, Sing, Sing.
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Who is Berlioz?
Symphony Fantastique
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What is The Matterhorn?
The highest peak in the Swiss Alps is renowned in Legend for its very large, hairy, fictional denizens.
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What is Baccarat?
In this european card game, similar to blackjack, the objective is to get to 9, and not 21.
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What are Penny Dreadfuls?
This series of short novellas in Britain during the Industrial Revolution popularized the mystique of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
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Who is Duke Ellington?
This bandleader would always begin and end every song performing live with the phrase "we love you madly".
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Who is Mozart?
Don Giovanni
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What is The Pantanal?
This forest in Brazil is known as the world's largest tropical wetlands
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What is Mao?
This card name, named for a chinese communist leader, has unknown rules, yet is still played to this day.
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What is The Maltese Falcon?
Sam Spade mingles with the rich and famous of San Fransisco's elite hunting a missing bejewelled bird that everyone is after.
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Who is Jelly Roll Morton?
This New Orleans bandleader in the early days of Jazz, with a name that sounds like a condiment, brought his most famous song out in 1912, the King Porter Stomp.
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Who is Dvorak?
New World Symphony
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What is Pammukale?
These layered calcium deposits in Turkey have been renowned for their beauty, and the luxurious pools that formed around them, since the Ancient Era.
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