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1
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State flag features thr frigate Raleigh built in Portsmouth in 76 and the first ship to fly the US flag in a sea batttle

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New Hampshire

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State flag bears the words battle born referring to it becoming a state during the civil war

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Nevada

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USSRIP
Of thr 15 countries formed
By the collapse of thr Soviet Union in 91 this one is alphabetically last

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Uzbekistan
Not Ukraine

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The most common tye of nuclear reactor creates a reaction in north which these type of atoms are split into krypton and barium atoms

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Uranium

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This type of reactor uses a reaction in which d ewd re um and tri t um made helium

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Fusion - put atoms together ; currently takes
More energy to create energy then what comes out ; stars do it
Fission - split atoms apart

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Europes oldest continuously functioning capital

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Athens
Since Neolithic period 5K years ago

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Both parents with green eyes children can not have this color

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Brown
25 % blue
75 green

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First musician to win Nobel prize in literature

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Bob Dylan

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9
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Garbage term originally part of a trademarked business name

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Dumpsters dumpsters in Tennessee

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10
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Abbot and Costello infield

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Who’s on first
What’s on second
I don’t know 3B
SS I don’t give a darn

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In June bonfires are lit on the eve of summer Christmas celebrating north of this man who lit the way for Jesus’s

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John the Baptist

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Johannesburg first black Anglican bishop
1985

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Desmond tutu

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Freedoms Eve in 1862 found enslaved and free black Americans staying up late waiting for thr signing of this the following day

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Emancipation proclamation

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On the Eve of this Jewish holdiay thr last crumbs of sandwich bread and cheerios are hunted down and eliminated

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Passover

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Midsummer’s eve festivities might include a jaunty dance around one of these

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Maypole

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Floridas sunshine skyway bridge links this city and terra see uh

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St. Petersburg

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17
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Ferromagnetism can occur when constitutent atoms in magnetites an oxide of this element align properly

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Iron

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18
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Fermium atomic number

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100 means 100 protons

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Book thr pirates wife is the remarkable true story of Sarah who outlived this captain by 43 years dying in 1744

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Captain Kidd

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We’ll take a cup of kindedness yet for this song that makes New Year’s Eve New Year’s Eve

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Old lang ziiine

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21
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Etymologically disheveled describes messy or unkempt this

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Hair
Something your coiffeur may be able to help with
Qua four

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Last name
Of Blanche who did some time but outlived her husband buck and his crotchet Clyde by 5 decades

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Clyde barrow of Bonnie and Clyde

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23
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By 49 years Georgiana yoke outlived her husband - Americas first of these serial killers

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HH Holmes
Devil in the white city

24
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8th circuit found Farmington Missouri schools could ban this flag after blaxk students were targeted with violence

A

Confederate flag

25
Q

In 99 after 442 years Portugal gave up control Of this special administrative region on the Pearl river estuary

A

Muh cow

26
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Before gaining independence in 71 following a civil war
And an invasion by india this country wqs known by this directional name

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Bangladesh was east Pakistan

27
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Baby don’t hurt me by David guetta with an Ed Sheeran writing crew has been called a modern reimagining of what is love by him

A

Had uh way
1993

28
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EdM song scary monsters and nice sprites

A

Skrillex

29
Q

In 1500 BC Louisiana poverty point wqs he
Not just to hunter gatherers but to hunter these gatherers getting their omega 3s

A

Fisher

30
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In dettmer v Landon a clue of appeals recognized this neo-pagan faith as a religion but said no to using candales and incense in jail

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Wicca

31
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Am internet aesthetic focus on these spaces- eerie transitional places like empty hotel Hallways

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Liminal spaces
Lim in ewl

32
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I’m gonna make a 4 A to the fridge flop on the couch and be this adjective for lazy or without enthusiasm

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Lackadaisical

33
Q

Ace to five and deuce to 7 are types of this 5 card draw poker game

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Lowball

34
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She tells the backstory of Coriolanus snow in her 20 hunger games prequel the ballad of these 2 animals

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Suzanne Collins
Songbirds and snakes

35
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A book with famous sequels begins in a hole in the ground there lived one of these

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Hobbit

36
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The infernal devices is a prequel trilogy to this Cassandra Clare series that includes city of bones and city of ashes

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The mortal instruments

37
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The national park system is in charge of the Martinez California home of this father of thr national park service

A

John muir
Muh yore

38
Q

A recipe in 200
Years of new orlewns cooking says to be this with the seasoning
Starts and ends with L

A

Liberal

39
Q

Cofounder of major laser and producer on MIAs paper planes and Beyoncé’s hold up are a few of his credits

A

Diplo

40
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It precedes sea strait and the name of a national
Preserve in Alaska

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Bering (land bridge )

41
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This ex frenxh president lost an appeal in 23 against a corruption conviction and a 3 year prison sentence

A

Sarkozy

42
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Following 86 ouster of this longtime dictator she became the first elected woman president in Asia

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Corazon Aquino
Marcos ousted Philippines

43
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The Geneva agreements of 54 partitioned this country into north and south entities at this parallel

A

Vietnam
17th parallel

44
Q

After signing a 79 peace treaty with Egypt isreal withdrew from
This 23 K square mile territory linking africa and Asia

A

Sinai
Sigh nigh

45
Q

Daniel
Defoe published thr farther adventures of him in 1719 the same years as his first adventures

A

Robinson Crusoe

46
Q

In 23 more then 30 years after the firm he brought back lawyer Mitch mcdeere for a sequel
Called the exchange

A

Grisham

47
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As a verb it’s to help a baby go to sleep
As a noun it’s a pause of any kind

A

Lull

48
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In 51 thr 5th circuit found stste colleges can’t expel students without at least minimal this judicial requirement

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Due process

49
Q

A group of 5 legal appeals this case challenged this 3 word basis for racial segregation in public schools

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Separate but equal

brown v board of education

50
Q

Reptilian DJ behind hits like turn down doe ehat and taki taki

A

DJ snake

51
Q

An LCD sound system bop from 05 is titled this helmeted duo is playing at my house

A

Daft punk

52
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You can see fossils of this tucked behemoth still in the ground at a national monument named for it located here

A

Mammoth
In Waco

53
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Sen to this state as a boy with a digestive illness enos mills became the father of its Rocky Mountain national park

A

Colorado

54
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This longtime fBI director notoriously abused his power to harass MLK Charlie Chaplin and this chairman of the Chicago bLack panther party

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J Edgar hoover
Fred Hampton - trial of Chicago 7
Judas and the black messiah - Daniel cuh loo yuh Oscar for portrayal

55
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This muckracking photographer and journalist scandalized the world and kicked start the progressive with
1890 expose how the other half lives

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Jacob reese

56
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At least 3 best actress Oscars

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Frances Mcdormand-3
Katherine Hepburn -4
Meryl Streep -3 but 1 best supporting Kramer V KRAMER
Sophie’s choice Iron Lady - 2best