Word: formentera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college president, by tackling 50 questions on such subjects as Shakespeare, baseball, chemistry, art, medicine, explorers and the American Revolution. Over the weeks, while groaning, muttering and mugging, he has managed a staggering variety of hard ones, e.g., identifying the main Balearic Islands (Majorca, Minorca, Iviza and Formentera); the only three baseball players who have amassed more than 3,500 hits (Ty Cobb, Cap Anson, Tris Speaker); the process of photosynthesis. On the six occasions when he has muffed questions, e.g., the identity of the Republican vice-presidential candidate who died before Election Day in 1912 (James S. Sherman...
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