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It’s model S has a range of 402 miles

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Tesla

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This rather large subsidiary makes the rather large Silverado
Sub sid e err e

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Chevy

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In 1933 King Kong’s New York vacay ended abruptly after an excursion to this landmark

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Empire State building

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I’m a highly motivated seeker for a nice easy job on this alliterative level below the C suite, but above the factory floor

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Middle management

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In Genesis God warns Adam that he may eat of every tree except for this one ;you think that would’ve been enough motivation but no

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Tree of knowledge of good and evil

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I’m not neutral or in reverse. I’m motivated by this basic type of need the title of a Daniel H pink best seller.

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Drive

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Synonym for motivation it can mean a financial reward for athlete with say 10 sacks or 200 innings pitched

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Incentive

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Why to be the world’s biggest corporation of course these 2 oil companies got closer with an $81 billion merger in 1999

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Exxon mobile

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Wordsworth, wrote a sonnet about people in confined spaces including these women who fret not at their covenants narrow room

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Nuns

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The Columbia River Maritime Museum is an attraction in this city name for for tycoon

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Astoria

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This box directs data between all of your devices and the wider Internet

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Router

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Oregon states beavers are the arch rivals of these university of Oregon animals

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Ducks

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In 2019 Forbes named this Beaverton base apparel company the most valuable business brand in sports

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Nike

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Don’t ask the private eye what the empty bottle is for during this a type of surveillance outside of suspect’s house

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Stake out

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The first of his 154 sonnets begins from fairest creatures we desire increase

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Shakespeare

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This prophet, whose name became a word for an angry rant; they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me saith the Lord

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Jeremiah

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This leader of the fauvists began painting when he was recovering from appendicitis
Fo vists

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Muh teese

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In 1838 Eugene Delacroix painted a double portrait of a Chopin at the piano while this lover sat to his right
Del luh quah

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George Sand

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Publius a leader on this Mediterranean island was kind to Paul, who was shipwrecked there after Paul healed Publius father

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Malta

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This king gave his daughter Michal as a wife to David, but later married her off to another

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Saul

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In 1887 before heading to Tahiti, Paul go gan was in Central America working briefly on a French attempt to build this

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Panama Canal

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The subtitle of the young peoples nonfiction book eyes of the world includes this word for reporting news through pictures

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Photo journalism

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This noun means the relegation of someone to an unimportant position within a society or group (or piece of line paper)

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marginalization

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A synonym for metamorphosis in religion it refers to an exulting a glorifying change like that of Jesus in Matthew 17

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Transfiguration

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In this legal situation, a person or institution is designated to take over and protect the interest of one deemed unfit
Conservatorship
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“factorial is a mathematical operation that takes any whole number and multiplies it by every lesser whole number. In computer science, the most common application for factorials is figuring out how many ways you can arrange multiple items. So basically combinations. What expressive punctuation marks a factorial? So think back to your high school math classes.”
Exclamation point
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is the universal blood donor,
“O negative
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is the universal blood recipient.
AB plus
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What does the positive or negative indicator of a person's blood type symbolize?”
Reese is factor protein
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“And for bonus, what is the most common blood type? And for a double bonus, what is the least common?”
Most common O+ Least AB-
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“what punctuation mark is used to denote the derivative function in calculus?”
Apostrophe
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“According to the BIPM, which is an organization that defines the SI units and the UTC time scale. Well, I'm already lost. It's some French name. But according to them, what punctuation marks are acceptable for decimal marks in English and French versions, respectively? And for bonus, what is the only character that's acceptable for separating groups of three numbers or what you might call the thousand separator?”
“The English is a period, the French is a comma” Space - thousands separator
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Song lyrics “You missed two classes and no homework, but your teacher preaches class like you or some kind of jerk.”
“The correct answer is you gotta, in parentheses, fight for your right, and then in parentheses, to party.”
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Song lyrics “Pull me into your arms. Say I'm the one you own. If you don't, you'll be alone, and like a ghost, I'll be gone.”
“Single ladies, in parentheses, put a ring on it.”
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Song lyrics “Before the day I met you, life was so unkind, but you're the key to my peace of mind.”
“Parentheses, you make me feel like and parentheses, a natural woman.”
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“Now he's getting a tattoo. Yeah, he's getting ink done
“Pretty fly in parentheses for a white guy.” “Weird Al did a version called Pretty Fly for a Rabbi.” From Brain Ladle Trivia: The 7 Days of Karatemas-Day 5, Dec 21, 2024 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brain-ladle-trivia/id1378610256?i=1000681213029 This material may be protected by copyright.
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“Movies and TV Shows in the Style of Neil.” “So question one, again, this is this is her writing, so it's from her perspective. I was watching the sci-fi series rerun where MacGyver kept going into this pool of water. I don't know how it didn't spill, though, because the pool was on its side. And for a bonus, I dozed off and woke up to what I thought was Aquaman. But the pool was there again, and Aquaman didn't have as many tattoos. It must have been an old episode of a spinoff or something.”
“Stargate SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis.”
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Movies and TV Shows in the Style of Gina “The premise of this film franchise was so disgusting, I didn't even bother to watch it long enough to get distracted. What horror trilogy strung together its titles with the parentheticals parentheses first sequence, parentheses full sequence, and parentheses final sequence?”
The human centipede
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Movies and TV Shows in the Style of Gina “thought I was watching Crazy Rich Asians, but then the mother started doing some Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon moves. And then the funny friend wasn't blonde anymore, and she seemed to think she was Hawkeye or something.”
“Shang-Chi in The Legend of the Ten Rings” “So, Aquafina was in Crazy Rich Asians
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Movies and TV Shows in the Style of Gina “All right, question four. I was watching this comedy series with this tall guy and a bald guy that did a lot of skits together. Oh, and the season two winner of The Masked Singer was there and was pretty good at making up songs. This must have been a rerun, though, because the host of the episode is off doing some game show now.”
“Whose line is it anyway?” “It could be movies or movies. I figured out who it was because I know Wayne Brady won season two of his Masked Singer. I was stuck on the game show part because I think Wayne Brady and Drew Carey host game shows.”
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“What company tried to reduce the pay of Olympic medalist Alison Felix after the world renowned runner became pregnant? Felix, a world women's rights advocate, publicly protested against the company who ironically at the time was promoting female empowerment ads.”
Nike
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“a parody of a 1965 Neil Simon play, Sesame Street had an episode in which a certain cast member gets a visit from his friend and is shocked at how neat and orderly he has become. What is the 1965 Neil Simon play?”
“So the correct answer is the Odd Couple. What are the names of the Odd Couple? Felix Unger and Oscar Madison. Exactly. So Felix visits Oscar. Sesame Street. That's where the parody part comes in, I think. And Oscar is the Oscar is the the the messy one in the Odd Couple and Felix is the new one.”
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“What is the name of the destructive villain in the Fix-It Felix Jr. arcade game?”
Wreck it Ralph
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“What were the original names for both Sylvester the Cat and Felix the Cat?”
“The correct answer is Tom Sylvester was originally named Thomas in his first cartoon, I think. But they didn't want him to get confused with Tom and Jerry, I guess. And then Master Tom was the original name of Felix.”
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Songs Baby love
“The Supremes, who are led by Diana Ross, whom you might be familiar with as the singer of Mahogany.”
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The website for which venue sells clothing and accessories branded with the phrase “Practice Practice Practice”?
Carnegie hall
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ANYTHING GOES At a restaurant, who would you consult for Wine pairing
consult a sommelier?
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MONEY & NUMBERS In 2021 which singer sold his entire music catalog, including the songs “Born to Run” and “Thunder Road” to Sony Music Entertainment for $550 million?
Bruce Springsteen
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ANIMALS & NATURE Unlike many other lizards, which animal cannot regenerate its tail, a prehensile appendage that helps it to climb tree branches?
Chameleon
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After helping to build businesses such as Mint Mobile and Aviation gin, which actor became part owner of a fifth-tier Welsh football club? +100 correct
Ryan Reynolds
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GEOGRAPHY Which city was built on the land where Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital, once stood? +100 correct
Mexico City
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Hoovervilles were homeless encampments built during which historical era?
Great Depression
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SCIENCE & TECH Often considered the first computer programmer, which woman has a computer language named for her? +100 correct
Ada Lovelace
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The word auction comes from a Latin word meaning what?
Increase Auctus is Latin for to increase, which is what tends to happen to auction prices
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In the pilot episode of Seinfeld, what was Kramer’s name?
Kessler The pilot of Seinfeld was different from the rest of the series. Kramer was Kessler and Elaine didn’t even exist.
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What do British people call the period punctuation that marks the end of the sentence.
Full stop Though they Refer to the punctuation only as full stop British people do now use the word period to mean that’s all.
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With even one side celled creatures able to do it what sense is believed to have evolved first
Smell even though smell is the oldest of the five senses it’s still the least understood
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Despite only being about the size of Illinois, which country contains about 170 million people
Bangladesh aside from micro states like Monaco Bangladesh is the world‘s most densely populated country
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The arrest in 1307 of what group is likely the reason Friday the 13th is considered unlucky today
Knights Templar Knights were a wealthy group of warriors devoted to protecting Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem
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a Muslim object of veneration the Blackstone of Mecca is built into a wall of this small shrine within the great mosque
Kaaba Kah buh
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Hit songs by these heavy metal pioneers include Iron Man and paranoid both from 1970
Black Sabbath
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I’m not saying I’m guilty. Let’s go with this legal phrase meaning I’m not arguing with the charges.
Nolo cuh ten dare
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Heard in Ford Theatre it’s thus always to tyrants Latinized
Sic semper ty ran is
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In the Wizard of Oz book and film, the character of Glenda is mentioned by name L fff buh , however, was invented by wicked author Gregory Maguire from the initials of this oz creator
L frank baum Bowow mmmm
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Carpe diem yeah yeah we’ve heard it before now Carpe vinum meaning this, we can get behind that.
Size the wine
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According to legend, it was across the Black Sea that this guy and his Argonauts set out in search of the golden fleece
 Jason
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He plays oz the great and terrible in wicked I’m learning of l fff buhs magic potential he summons her to this colorful place where she’s accompanied by that tagalong Glinda
Jeff Goldblum Emerald city
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When Glinda first sees l fuh buh , she’s startled and says these two words
You’re green
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The motto of the University of North Dakota is the snappy Lux et this light and law
Lux et lex
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James Garfield was from this Midwest state ; years after his death His widow said to heck with winner and lived her life in South Pasadena
Ohio
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If you’ve got one of these in karate, it’s Kuro Obi in Japanese
Black belt
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Third rank of honors for a college degree this phrase means with praise
Cum lahow day Cum laude
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Often following pounds this general term for British currency comes from the name of an old silver coin
Sterling
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James Garfield middle name
Abram
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At 25 James Garfield headed Hiram College; in Congress He led the creation of the first federal department of this way before the one created in 1979.
Department of education