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What is Tudor?
England's Bloody Mary
(1553-1558) |
What is throw stones?
Completes the proverb "People who live in glass houses shouldn't..."
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What is Warsaw?
This European capital is home to Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University
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What is Band-Aid?
Johnson & Johnson has been "stuck on" this product for 85 years
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What is a free kick
It follows a foul in soccer
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What is Stuart?
Mary, Queen of Scots
(1542-1567) |
What is the guantlet?
To issue a challenge is to "throw down" this, like a medieval knight
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What is Cairo?
Population 8 million, this capital & largest city in Africa was founded by the Fatimid Dynasty around 968 A.D.
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What is Target?
In 1962 the Dayton Company hit the bull's-eye when it opened the first of these discount stores
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What is free range?
Unconfined poultry
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What is Bourbon?
France's Louis XVI
(1774-1792) |
What is a lifesaver?
Too bad when Hart Crane jumped ship his father couldn't throw him this, like the same-named candy he invented
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What is Canberra?
Settled around 1824, it replaced Melbourne as the capital in 1927
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What is Minute Maid?
The first brand of frozen orange juice concentrate undoubtedly took more than 60 seconds to develop
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What is a free agent?
A professional sports athlete no longer under contract & who can thus sign with another team
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What is Hapsburg?
Spain's Philip II
(1556-1598) |
What is ventriloquism/ventriloquize ?
From the Latin for "to speak from the belly", it's the art of throwing one's voice
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What is Stockholm?
The Nobel Museum in this capital lets visitors "see the dynamite, the mold & the books that changed the world"
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What is a Blackberry?
In 2006 Research In Motion settled its patent lawsuit with NTP over this portable wireless communications device
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What is free verse?
Robert Frost said, "I'd as soon write" this type of poetry "as play tennis with the net down"
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What is Ming?
China's Wanli
(1572-1620) |
Who is (Woodrow) Wilson?
In 1915 he became the first president to attend the World Series & to throw out the first pitch during a Series game
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What is Ottawa?
In 1857 Queen Victoria chose it as a North American national capital
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What is OshKosh B'Gosh
In 2006 Research In Motion settled its patent lawsuit with NTP over this portable wireless communications device
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What is a free-fire zone?
"Zone" on a battlefield where troops may shoot without requesting permission from a higher command
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