gentlemen, you ve played so well this season you ve earned your spot in the semifinals good luck to both teams. here s your first tossup question. the madeira and rio negro are tributaries of the second longest river in the world. what is that river?. amazon river for 25: the mouth of the amazon is in which country whose cities include santarém and manaus ? brazil for 50: the amazon also goes by its city of iquitos in what country? peru this nation s authors include alice munro, robertson davies, and michael ondaatje . canada for 25: french-canadian author yann martel wrote which book about an indian boy who survives for almost a year adrift in the pacific with only a tiger for company? life of pi for 50: which other canadian author wrote alias grace and the blind assassin? margaret (eleanor) atwood of course! 50 points! molecules of this compound are found in two photosystems, each of which has a different variety of this substance. what is this green pigment that plants us
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] you are watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook. coming up next, several law professors explore the origins of the magna carta and the influence of the british document on the creation of the american bill of rights. the professors spoke at the library of congress, where 1215 copy of the magna carta is temporarily on display. king john originally signed the document under pressure from his barons. revolutionaries looked to the rights guaranteed by the magna carta as they rebelled against the british crown. this is 90 minutes. good morning. i have proposed to cover three things in my brief opening remarks this morning. why me, why now, why are you here? the relevance of the magna carta today. from an earl
shakespeare, costume and architecture and in music it i grew up with the belief that the sun never sets on the british empire. i collected stamps from all over the british empire. all americans knew then that george washington, john adams, john j, benjamin franklin, sam adams and nearly all the founding fathers were englishmen. alexander hamilton was a scott born in the caribbean. as they came, so later did settlers from germany, france and italy, austria, hungary poland, sweden swiss, russians chinese and all the countries who came to the melting pot of america over the past 400 years. since the founding of jamestown in 1607. my parents took it to the new york world s fair in 1940, just seven years old, to see many of the country s exhibitions and among them for the first time, i saw magna carta at the reddish exhibition. british exhibition. it was the 1214 version. as a serving officer in the united states army in 1957, i was returning to america to be discharged after se
that comes to mind? hasne of the highlights the that i was covering mets in 1969 when they finally won. they wouldn t let me in the press box because i was a girl as they said in those days. i had already covered the indianapolis 500 where i had been the only woman in the country. i found this interesting because it was a magic place to work. styleradley hired me for and it really transformed and revolutionized the paper business. it is not at all like it was then. you would do 2000-word pieces and people would read them. that business of not being able to go into the press box to itand file my copy struck home and read smith, the great columnist wrote aps saying, isn t it time we change some of these rules? i felt it was a bit of moving on up for women. what excuse did they give? because i was a woman. they just didn t have women in the press box. they just to say that if a woman was on a ship, it was bad news for the ship. i have no idea, but they just banned them. th
years were you there? i think it was 23 years. what is one of the highlights that comes to mind? one of the highlights has been that i was covering the mets in 1969 when they finally won. they wouldn t let me in the press box because i was a girl as they said in those days. i had already covered the indianapolis 500 where i had been the only woman in the country. i found this interesting because it was a magic place to work. ben bradley hired me for style and it really transformed and revolutionized the paper business. it is not at all like it was then. you would do 2000-word pieces and people would read them. that business of not being able to go into the press box to write and file my copy it struck home and read smith, the great columnist wrote aps saying, isn t it time we change some of these rules? i felt it was a bit of moving on up for women. what excuse did they give? because i was a woman. they just didn t have women in the press box. they used to say t