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It's about 85 miles northeast of San Francisco
What is Sacramento?
A misheard word may have led Charles Perrault to make this character's shoes verre, "of glass", not vair, "of fur'
What is Cinderella?
One of his labors was cleaning the stables of King Augeas
What is Hercules?
After a 3,900-mile journey, this Chinese river flows into the East China Sea
What is the Yangtze?
This 31st U.S. state is often cited in news stories as having the eighth-largest economy in the world
What is California?
6 bronze stars on South Carolina's State House in this city mark where Sherman's cannonballs hit it during the Civil War
What is Columbia?
It's the only letter that doesn't appear in the name of a U.S. state
What is Q?
This sea god was often depicted holding a trident
What is Poseidon?
The Chinese didn't invent the block & tackle types of this, but the block & moveable
What is printing?
In a 1776 work he wrote, "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"
What is Adam Smith?
Daily Double!!
What is Harrisburg?
Greek for "beyond" & "heavy" gives us this name for a chamber used to treat pressure-related conditions like the bends
What is hyperbaric?
This goddess of wisdom had an unusual parentage-- no mom, just sprang full grown out of Zeus' head
What is Athena?
Dots make up 36 of the tiles in this Chinese game; there are also cracks & winds
What is mah jong?
Ludwig Erhard is called "The Father of the Economic Miracle" for fixing this country's economy after WWII
What is West Germany?
Penacook & Rumford are previous names of this capital located on the Merrimack River
What is Concord?
This tuberous vegetable isn't named for the city in Israel but for the Italian word for "sunflower", girasole
What is a Jerusalem artichoke?
He made wax wings so he & his son Icarus could escape Crete; a great plan in theory, but...
What is Daedalus?
Wushu is the Chinese word for martial arts; this term more familiar to TV watchers means any acquired skill
What is kung fu?
From the French for "allow to do", it's the doctorine of governmental non-interference in commerce
What is laissez-faire?
Antislavery settlers from Lawrence chose the site for this city in the 1850s
What is Topeka?
Though it's the softest commercial wood, it's defined botanically as a hardwood
What is balsa wood?
She wasn't just the Greek goddess of the rainbow--she personified it, too
What is Iris?
In Chinese, Wanli Changcheng is the name of this formidable construction
What is the Great Wall of China?
This organization, abbreviated IMF, was created in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference
What is the International Monetary Fund?