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Hint	Answer	% Correct
At the Montreux Jazz Festival, you might see smoke on the water of this Swiss lake’s shoreline	Lake Geneva	83%
In 2013 there were 114-degree temps in La Rioja, the wine belt of this South American country	Argentina	67%
Often called the first “war” one of these, Crimean war reporter William Howard Russell preferred “special” one	Correspondent	67%
More than 5,000 of these big deer spend winters at the Wyoming national refuge named for them	Elk	67%
Constitution Day is September 17; this related set is celebrated every December 15	The Bill of Rights	67%
In 1903 Maurice Garin was its first winner in 94 hours, 33 minutes, 14 seconds	The Tour de France	67%
You don’t need to howl during the naval watches 4-6 & 6-8, named for this animal — it’s just a figure of speech	A dog	50%
A 2016 interview with this Batman actor found him looking sad; the internet then made him the meme we deserve	Ben Affleck	50%
Frank O’Hara’s most famous poem is “The Day Lady Died,” in which he reads about this jazz singer’s death in 1959	Billie Holiday	50%
The Anthropology award went to a report on “cross-species imitation” between these apes & humans at zoos	Chimpanzees	50%
Given this new anesthetic to inhale, Queen Victoria felt little or no pain in 1853 when she delivered her eighth child	Chloroform	50%
The Boy Next Door, a 21st century novel by Meg Cabot, uses this newer form of correspondence	E-mail	50%
A 1975 N.Y. Daily News headline after this man opposed a federal bailout: him “To City: Drop Dead”	Gerald Ford	50%
Made in the Vytina region, the first type of this sweetener does not crystallize	Honey	50%
“Two hit men, a boxer, a crime boss & others meet their fates over the course of two days”	Pulp Fiction	50%
19th c. exhibitions saw fire brigades competing either using water, or in one of these, now a term for a practice effort	A dry run	33%
On July 2, 1861 the Union attacked the Confederates near a stone bridge crossing this creek in the first battle of it	Bull Run	33%
This inductee into the Video Hall of Fame sold 17 million copies of a videocassette she released in 1982	Jane Fonda	33%
A common sight was walking around Monet who worked outdoors, as in a cliff walk in this Channel-side French region	Normandy	33%
In 2018 this band “didn’t have a dime but I always had a vision, always had high, high hopes	Panic! at the Disco	33%
Stove placement of lower priority items (Category: Hey, “B.B.” for $200)	The Back burner	33%
In 1916 the great chemist Gilbert Lewis called the central part of an atom this, a word we use for the seed in an apricot pit	The kernel	33%
On June 1, 1660 Mary Dyer, one of this religious sect’s “Boston martyrs,” was hanged on Boston Common	The Quakers	33%
Permanent press is a process where fabric gets chemically treated to make it resistant to these	Wrinkles	33%
Babe had this player leadership position for only 6 days before being stripped of it for going after a fan in the stands	Captain	17%
Modern auto safety took a big step in ’66 as LBJ signed bills mandating seatbelts & rupture-resistant these	Fuel tanks	17%
Beethoven & Mozart wrote for this instrument that Ben Franklin created, which he said gave him the greatest personal satisfaction of all his inventions	Glass Harmonica	17%
It takes a full day to manage this Yosemite peak	Half Dome	17%
In 1965 John Irving entered this Midwest school’s prestigious writers workshop & worked with Kurt Vonnegut	Iowa	17%
The creators of 1943’s “Fancy Free” called each other Lenny & Jerry — Leonard Bernstein & this choreographer	Jerome Robbins	17%
You must be a necromancer! Your cacophony is doing this, a noisy idiom that refers to a man in Genesis	Raising Cain	17%
The 2018-19 season of auto racing’s World Endurance Championship concludes with the 87th running of this event	The 24 hours of Le mans	17%
This train sung of by blues artists got its name from its 12:05 A.M. departure en route to Parchman Penitentiary	The “Midnight Special”	17%
Shakespeare’s Portia says, “How far that little” this “throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world”	Candle	0%
A rugged mountain pass is a gap, & an especially rugged gap is a notch, like this one just east of Burlington	Smugglers’ Notch	0%
The portal vein brings venous blood to the liver, while this artery brings oxygenated arterial blood	The hepatic	0%

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