J-Archive Qs

Question 1

highest-ranking suit of cards in contract bridge

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Spades

Question 2

Born in Rouen in 1442, the fourth king of this name was a prominent figure in the Wars of the Roses

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Edward

Question 3

A ring projecting above gunwale of a small boat

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Oarlock

Question 4

fried sandwich that has ham, Swiss & turkey

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Monte Cristo

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Mary Martin’s son

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Larry Hagman

Question 6

my partner says nothing while I play his cards, so he’s called the ______ in bridge

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dummy

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In 1956 he published “La Chute”, or “The Fall”; the next year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature

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Camus

Question 8

form of bridge that came before contract bridge

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auction bridge

Question 9

Who played Alex P. Keaton, Republican yin to his parents’ post-hippie yang

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Michael J. Fox, Family Ties

Question 10

James Worthy, James Kennedy, James Naismith

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Basketball players

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Capital of Fiji

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Suva

Question 12

Eddie Giacomin, Herb Brooks, Conn Smythe

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Hockey players

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Resort town on the Red Sea

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Sharm el-Sheikh

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“Glen or Glenda” director

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Ed Wood

Question 15

I made the last bid, so I’m the _____ in bridge

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Declarer

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The “T” in T cells refers to this gland where they mature

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Thymus

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Played Ari Gold on Entourage

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Jeremy Piven

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longest cranial nerve, which runs from the brain through the neck & thorax to the abdomen

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Vagus nerve

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Russian capital under the czars

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St. Petersburg

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this river passes through Whitehorse & Dawson before flowing into Alaska on its route to the Bering Sea

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Yukon

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“Smoke gets in your eyes” composer

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Jerome Kern

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stream separating Cisalpine Gaul from Italy

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Rubicon

Question 23

This1934 classic was the first movie to win Oscars in the 5 major categories, including Best Actor & Actress

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It Happened One Night

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singer of Hey Soul Sister

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Train

Question 25

Author of Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer

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Henry Miller

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A sports term for an incompetent or easily defeated athlete, it usually refers to a prizefighter

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palooka

Question 27

This large curved curtain or wall is usually placed or hung at the rear of a stage

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Cyclorama

Question 28

Leads on Two and a Half Men

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Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen

Question 29

When you swallow, this flap of cartilage acts like a lid to the larynx

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Epiglotis

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Chemical that protects cells from free radicals

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Antioxidant

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Johnny Cash colorful nickname

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The Man in Black

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City of the first all-professional baseball team

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Cincinnati

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word for stamp collecting

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philately

Question 34

Don DeLillo novel about midwestern college professor

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White Hoise

Question 35

Singer of Me and Bobby McGee

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Janis Joplin

Question 36

A potter uses this wooden shovel-like tool to mix & shape clay

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pallet

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Proverbially, “a month of” them is a long long time

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Sundays

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Succeeded Tony Blair

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Gordon Brown

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The U.K. was formed with the 1801 addition of Ireland to the realm of this king

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George III

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Song on which ELO & Olivia Newtown-John collaborated

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Xanadu

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East Asian capital city on an island

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Taipei

Question 42

The influence of the title country house on the lives of the Schlegels & the Wilcoxes is at the heart of this book

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Howard’s End by EM Forster

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This white coating, usually gypsum & glue, is used to prepare a painter’s canvas

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Gesso

Question 44

Played Turtle on Entourage

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Jerry Ferrara

Question 45

Antisthenes was the founder of this “self-interest” philosophy

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Cynicism

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Played Drama on Entourage

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Kevin Dillon

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“Terms of Endearment” director

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James Brooks

Question 48

Toy company of action figures for Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Jurassic Park

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Kenner

Question 49

Novel in which Tom Wingo leaves South Carolina to help his troubled twin sister in New York & ends up confronting his own dark past

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The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy

Question 50

A paddlefish is also called this mammal name

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Duckbill

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Clint Eastwood first directed film

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Play Misty for Me

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Succeeded Mao

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Deng Xiaoping

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This outlaw & wife Zerelda, his first cousin, lie side by side at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Kearney, Missouri

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Jesse James

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Toy company that introduced the EZ Bake Oven

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Kenner

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Inventor of the Segway

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Dean Kamen

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Inventor of elevator safety brake

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Otis

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Magic word, title of No. 1 Steve Miller band hit

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Abracadabra

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After leaving office, this prez was elected a U.S. senator from Tennessee

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Andrew Johnson

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In the Bible, Isaac married this first cousin once removed

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Rebecca

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June 1, 2009:

He took over hosting duties on “The Tonight Show” (for less than a year)

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Conan O’Brien

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Raymond James Stadiumis the home of this team that started out with a winless season in 1976, but won the Super Bowl held in 2003

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers

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in bridge, the sneaky tactic of taking a trick with a lower card when an opponent holds a higher one

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delicate finesse

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Played the father on Family Ties

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Michael Gross

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Succeeded Andrew Jackson

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Martin van Buren

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In bridge, a card that’s the only one of its suit in a hand

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singleton

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Dunfermline, Scotland was this King’s birthplace in 1600; a chopping block was his final destination in 1649

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Charles I

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Italian word for eggplant

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Melanzane

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Played the mom on Family Ties

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Meredith Baxter

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Tolstoy’s “Death of” this title character

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Ivan Ilyich

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This type of “tower” is a heavily fortified pilothouse on a warship or submarine

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A conning tower

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One of the 2 sons of George H.W. Bush who were never a state governor

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Neil or Marvin

Question 72

In 1957 a whole lotta head shakin’ was going on after this singer married his 13-year-old cousin Myra

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Jerry Lee Lewis

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In 1914 the once & future St. Petersburg got this new name _____; 10 years later it became _______

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Petrograd, Leningrad

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In 1868 an enlightened emperor took over as leader of Japan from the man in this position

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Shogun

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Fortified wine named for Sicilian city

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Marsala

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Lions stadium

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Ford Field

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Born in Hanover, Germany in 1660, he was 54 when he took the English throne in 1714

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George I

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Two foreign-born First Ladies

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Melania Trump and Louisa (Quincy) Adams

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A maxim of Ayn Rand was “Man’s ego is” this “of human progress”

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The fountainhead

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John the Baptist was beheaded during this man’s birthday party

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Herod; book of Matthew

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Played E on Entourage

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Kevin Connolly

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Largest natural lake in South America, Caribbean inlet

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Maracaibo

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Bad type of cholesterol

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LDL

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Fancy British pottery

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Wedgwood

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John Quincy Adams pre-presidency

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Diplomat and Secretary of State

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First inquisitor of Spanish Inquisition

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Torquemada

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In old Japan cherry trees were felled to make the blocks on which designs were carved for this type of print

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woodcut

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Scenic spots in Palm Springs & ahumongous seton a Columbia Pictures backlot were used to create this Utopian land in 1937’s “Lost Horizon”

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Shangri-La

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“Best of My Love,” “Victim of Love,” “Heartache Tonight” band and writer

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Eagles, J.D. Souther

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This Wichita Falls author took us to the “Streets of Laredo” 8 years after creating Texas Ranger Woodrow Call

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Larry McMurtry

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Greek sea named for a nymph

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Ionian Sea

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Steelers stadium

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Heinz Field

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Inventor of basketball

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Naismith

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King Nebuchadnezzar gave Daniel many great gifts & “made him ruler over the whole province” of this

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Babylon

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Downbursts can cause this turbulent flying condition in which winds of different speeds & directions buffet planes

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wind shear

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New York strip steak is also called

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Kansas City strip

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Two types of steak cut from tenderloin

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T-bone (smaller) and porterhouse (larger, more loin)

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tenderize flank steak by marinating, then thinly slice across the grain

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London broil

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The name of the bride of Chucky from the 1998 horror film

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Tiffany Valentine

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Name of doll in The Conjuring

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Annabelle

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Antlers shaped like a hand - adjective

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palmate

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4-letter port city in Yemen

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Aden

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River through Bern

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Aare

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Rubies & sapphires are varieties of this mineral, the hardest known after diamond

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corundum

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Marvin Gaye’s first No. 1 hit

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Heard it through the Grapevine

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The Sherman brothers of Disney fame wrote this song of young love that mentions “peaches & cream” & “lips like strawberry wine”

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You’re Sixteen

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“Leaving On A Jet Plane” originally by

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Peter Paul and Mary

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From Latin for “play on words”, it’s an indirect or implied reference

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allusion

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The world’s leading seaweed extract, it’s used in chocolate milk to keep the chocolate in suspension

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carrageenan

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Buzzfeed cofounder

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Jonah Peretti

Question 111

In 1980 Buzz, a yellow jacket, became an official mascot of this Atlanta-based school’s athletic teams

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Georgia Tech

Question 112

This Rimsky-Korsakov piece was used as the theme to “The Green Hornet”

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Flight of the Bumblebee

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To escape a monster in Greek mythology, ____ and ____ jumped into a river and became fish

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Aphrodite and Eros

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Kaus Australis, or “Southern Bow”, is the brightest star in this constellation

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Sagittarius

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In a case of constellation-on-constellation violence, Scorpio stung ____ to death

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Orion

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Per the Judicial Branch of California, “to repeal or cancel an old law using another law”

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abrogate

Question 117

The Post-Intelligencer Globe is still an icon of this U.S. city, though the same-named paper is now online only

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Seattle

Question 118

This territory makes up the largest part of the Canadian Arctic

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Nunavut

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Olivia Rodrigo - first 2 albums and lead singles

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Sour, song “Drivers License”
Guts, song “Vampire”

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This British band played “Music Of The Spheres” on a concert tour with that name

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Coldplay

Question 121

President Andrew Johnson had been a senator & a representative from this state

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Tennessee

Question 122

The last former U.S. representative to become president was this man who had represented Texas’ 7th district

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George HW

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He was a rep. from New York before becoming veep & then became our 13th president with the sudden death of Zachary Taylor

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Fillmore

Question 124

original name of the “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” band

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Chicago Transit Authority

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Can’t get enough of charming but evil surgeons? Watch this true crime show on Peacock

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Dr. Death

Question 126

Krysten Ritter starred as this reluctant ex-superheroine suffering from PTSD & working as a NYC private eye

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Jessica Jones

Question 127

The title of this 1960s primetime soap opera became shorthand for a melodramatic, complicated situation

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Peyton Place

Question 128

One unit of this measure of pressure is equal to 101,325 pascals

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1 (standard) atmosphere or atm

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D (sub2) O, or heavy water, combines oxygen with this isotope that is twice as heavy as hydrogen

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deuterium

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Author of “Circe” novel

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Madeline Miller

Question 131

A lone astronaut has a lot of problems to solve in his novel “Project Hail Mary”

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Andy Weir

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The title of this 2023 James McBride novel refers to a shop run by a woman named Chona

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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

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Movie where James Caan teaches Hugh Grant how to say fuhgeddaboutit

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Mickey Blue Eyes

Question 134

Order a Coney Island at Detroit’s finer eateries & you’ll get this

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chili dog

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Lil Wayne is from

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New Orleans

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A homophone of a first name but probably derived from “joint”, it’s Philly slang for almost any person, place or thing

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jawn

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Eucalyptus tree family

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myrtle family

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Canadian-named health compound derived from maple sap

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Quebecol

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“Luv is Rage” rapper

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Lil Uzi Vert

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Jewish rapper David Burd

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Lil Dicky

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Part II of Little Women

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Good Wives

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Co authors of Good Omens

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Gaiman and Pratchett

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US Open now uses system called ____ to call in or out

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Hawk eye

Question 144

In 2007 this NL squad became the 1st team with 10,000 losses

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Phillies

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Cole Hamels

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Phillies pitcher - MVP when they won 2008 world series

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online tool for college athletes wanting to change schools

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transfer portal

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Then with Oklahoma City, this master of the triple-double became the first back to back MVP of the NBA All-Star Game since the 1950s

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Russell Westbrook

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traditional Irish dish with potatoes and cabbage

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colcannon

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early name for automobile - 4 wheels

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quadricycle

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1859:
French & Sardinian troops defeat the Austrians at this Italian town soon to give a purplish-red color its name

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Magenta

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Pacific kingdom gained its independence from Great Britain in 1970

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Tonga

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soft, cushionlike pads on the feet of insects and other arthropods

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pulvilli

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Janis Joplin’s last concert was fronting a band with this 3-word name

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Full Tilt Boogie

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Post-Impressionist known for his “Bathers” series

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Cezanne

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Main port & railway terminus in Athens

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Piraeus

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Channel through Rotterdam

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New Meuse/Nieuwe Maas

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this alliterative Argentine city is a major port of Buenos Aires province

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Bahia Blanca

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2014 film Russell Crowe as this title character sees storms on the biblical horizon

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Noah

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Bogie attests, “One Rocco more or less isn’t worth dying for” in this tempest-tossed John Huston thriller

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Key Largo

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On June 5, 1944 he issued a printed order to Allied troops to “bring about the destruction of the German war machine”

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Eisenhower

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The signers of this document pledged to “covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politick”

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Mayflower Compact

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It’s the job of one who reads the lessons during a church service

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lector

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person who studies elections

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psephologist (psephology)

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Established in 1837 & famed for a cut of steak, this N.Y. restaurant is credited as the 1st to serve eggs Benny & lobster Newburg

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Delmonico’s

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A plaque at 65th & 3rd honors this spy who was hanged by the British on September 22, 1776

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Nathan Hale

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I, in objective case

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me

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“Three Times a Lady” is by

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the Commodores

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Numerical song by Meat Loaf

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Two out of Three Ain’t Bad

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Taal Lake is in

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Philippines - has volcanoes

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The Sinai Peninsula lies between 2 gulfs, the Gulf of Suez on the west & this one on the east

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Gulf of Aqeba

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In 1968 she founded the Special Olympics

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver

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A variant of the idiom “you can’t get blood from a stone” is “you can’t get blood from” this root vegetable

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a turnip

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peacock ore - mineral

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bornite

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Rock salt is also known as

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halite

Question 175

Jessica Alba co-founded this company that sells household products with natural ingredients

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Honest

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Stephen Baldwin model daughter & her skincare brand

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Hailey Bieber - Rhode

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Kim Kardashian started this brand to create shapewear to match different skin tones

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Skims

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Colson Baker is

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Machine Gun Kelly

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Terrafugia Transition

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flying car

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Where did the Hindenburg go down

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Lakehurst, NJ

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Nickname for Lockheed SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft

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Blackbird

Question 182

An X-Men comic book character bears this name that comes from a title of Krishna

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Juggernaut

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Elite Ottoman soldier corps

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Janissaries

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In 1965 it became a criminal offense to burn, destroy or mutilate one of these

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draft card

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Timothy Leary urged his followers to “Turn on, tune in” & this

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Drop out

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George Balanchine choreographed this supernatural Shakespeare tale to the music of

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Midsummer - Felix Mendelssohn

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Two dancers in an iconic pas de deux from a 1962 performance of “Le Corsaire”

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Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev

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In “Swan Lake”, a sorcerer transforms his daughter ____ to look like this cursed heroine ____

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Odile/Odette

Question 189

Netflix series about a blind superhero

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Daredevil

Question 190

In 1975 his friends entered him into the Golden Gloves as a laugh; he’d later play a boxer on “Taxi”

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Tony Danza

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You’ve caught a pass inside your foe’s 10-yard line & have a new set of downs, so this is your new down status

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First & goal

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Highest point on Atlantic coast south of Maine

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Todt Hill in Staten Island

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Capital of Newfoundland

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St. John’s

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The first cemetery called this was located on a hill in 1867 north of Hays, Kansas, not Dodge City

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Boot Hill

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Primo Levi’s memoir of his life as a young chemist is titled this, after something developed by another chemist, Dmitri Mendeleyev

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The Periodic Table

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A 19th c. word for a psychiatrist is the title of this Caleb Carr novel in which Dr. Laszlo Kreizler investigates a murder

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The Alienist

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First chairman of the Joint Chiefs

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Omar Bradley, 1949

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British female archaeologist - excavated Jericho

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Kathleen Kenyon

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First African American Cardinal

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Wilton Gregory

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founder, chairman, and CEO of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners.

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Robert F. Smith, billionaire philanthropist

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Founder of Adidas

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Adolf Dassler

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Af-am army regiments on the frontier

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Buffalo soldiers

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“Motive” is a song by

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Ariana Grande

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Shane Lee Lindstrom, Canadian producer best known for his guest feature alongside Nicki Minaj on 6ix9ine’s 2018 single “Fefe”

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Murda Beatz

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“Tuesday” is debut single by

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iLoveMakonnen (“Club goin up on a Tuesday”)

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This Miami-based DJ begins many of his songs with “We the best music”

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DJ Khaled

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This producer’s tag “If young metro don’t trust you…” helped inspire the title of his hit 2024 album “We Don’t Trust You”

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Metro Boomin

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group named for a Mercedes car & founded by Rick Ross

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Maybach

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These elves help with household chores

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brownies

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known for the 1521 Battle of Mactan, where he and his men defeated Spanish forces led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan

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Lapulapu - first Filipino hero

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Little Rock is in what county

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Pulaski

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“WOW” counties of Wisconsin

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Washington, Ozaukee, Waukesha

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It’s the third letter in the Greek alphabet

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gamma

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The third son of Adam & Eve mentioned in the Bible, he was born after Abel was killed

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Seth

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It makes sense that rizz, meaning charmingly seductive, comes from this word

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charisma

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Kill the dog of this man, the underworld’s most feared assassin? That’ll bring out some hand cannons

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John Wick

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Evil count in Princess Bride

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Count Rugen

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David Hare play about war in Iraq

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Stuff Happens

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major river of central NJ

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Raritan River

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Consisting of many small flowers & plants, it was a popular style of background for tapestries in the 15th century

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millefleur

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English businessman in the import/export and glass making trades. He is primarily known for his work in developing clear lead crystal glass

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George Ravenscroft

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Astronomical research station in San Diego

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(Mt) Palomar Observatory

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American astrophysicist, best known for his discovery of magnetic fields in sunspots, and as the leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes

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George Ellery Hale

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“Life is a Highway” by/covered

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Tom Cochrane - Canadian country musician
Rascal Flatts

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Vampire Weekend lead singer

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Ezra Koenig

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American rapper and singer. Known for his mumble-styled vocals and prolific output, _____ is considered a pioneer of the use of Auto-Tuned melodies in trap music.

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Future

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It’s the female nickname for the German Howitzer that destroyed Fort Loncin in the Siege of Liège during World War I

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Big Bertha

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Last name of this “beautiful looking” general who commanded the attack on Fort Sumter in 1861

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Beauregard

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This Dickens title character comes from a venerable family, as “at least one _______ came over with William the Conqueror

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Martin Chuzzlewit

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Pluto’s 4 lesser-known moons are

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Nix, Styx, Hydra & Kerberos

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Rock in the Rhine River with a mythos of sailor destruction

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Lorelai

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Next up after Neil, this Moon mission grabbed a camera from the “Surveyor 3” probe that had arrived 2 1/2 years before

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Apollo 12

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He rapped, “Today I didn’t even have to use my AK, I gotta say it was a good day”

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Ice Cube

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Naughty By Nature hit the Top 10 with the musical question, “You down with” this? & also provided an answer: “Yeah, you know me”

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O.P.P.

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American Prohibition agent known for his efforts to bring down Al Capone while enforcing Prohibition in Chicago. He was leader of a team of law enforcement agents nicknamed The Untouchables

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Eliot Ness

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Speaker of the House in late 1920s, married Alice Roosevelt

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Nicholas Longworth

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Derived from the rumba, it’s a dance of Cuban origin as well as the style of music for the dance

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mambo

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Merry Widow is by

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Franz Lehar

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Plum pudding model of the atom

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Thomson

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Planetary model of the atom

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Rutherford

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Dutton Ranch tv show

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Yellowstone

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The Satin Dolls strip club on New Jersey Route 17 became this spot on an HBO series

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Bada Bing

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1980s tv series featured super-powered humans and their madcap adventures - included Courtney Cox

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Misfits of Science

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Tom Selleck is Commissioner Frank Reagan on this NYPD-centric show

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Blue Bloods

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Everything is just this, meaning pleasant & also a Bowie album

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Hunky Dory

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In politics it’s someone who firmly supports one side; in WWII history, it refers to anti-Nazi resistance fighters

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partisan

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In 346 B.C., Athens made the Peace of ________ with this northern kingdom soon to spread to empire size

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Philocrates, Macedonia

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_______was referring to Seymour, Indiana when he sang, “I was born in” this

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John Mellencamp, small town

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Positions of the two sizes of blind in poker

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small blind to the dealer’s left, big blind to the small blind’s left

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In 1939, Artem Mikoyan & Mikhail Gurevich headed a design bureau that has turned out generations of these fighter planes

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MiGs

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Last name of British major Henry, who in the late 1700s invented a shell that burst into deadly little fragments

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shrapnel

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informal target shooting done for leisure

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plinking

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second largest firearm manufacturer in the United States, specializes in .22

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Ruger

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most commonly used individual IQ test series

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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

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cognitive-ability and intelligence test that is used to diagnose developmental or intellectual deficiencies in young children

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Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale

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tool for measuring wind speed

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anemometer

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tool for measuring boiling point of liquids

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ebulliometer

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tautology

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In logic, a statement that is always true. In language, a statement that needlessly repeats.

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DFW novel about IRS agents

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The Pale King

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Coach Duncan Scott helped _________ win a gold medal when this sport joined the Olympics in Tokyo

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Carissa Moore, surfing

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First Cy Young award

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Don Newcombe in 1956

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National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) founder and award namesake

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“Wally” Parks

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The donor of this tennis team trophy later served as Secretary of War under Calvin Coolidge

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Davis

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The Ray Guy Award honors college football’s outstanding player at this position

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punter

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This “natural Alpine spring water” sounds like it’s sourced from Yellowstone but it comes from Mount Shasta, among other places

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Crystal Geyser

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Leading a Polish army, the man called the “False” this swept into Russia in 1604 to claim the throne

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Dmitry

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Located in the northwest Iberian Peninsula, it includes the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense, and Pontevedra.

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Galicia

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the study of ferns

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pteridology

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helicopter famous for its use in Vietnam, the Bell UH-1H Iroquois, nicknamed

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Huey

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A rapper; has 2 kids with Rihanna; actor in “Dope” & 2018’s “Monster”

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A$AP Rocky

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Detective Klute in “Klute”

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Donald Sutherland

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Starred in “Bio-Dome” & “Encino Man”

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Pauly Shore

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This highly flammable gas, C2H2, is employed for welding, cutting & illumination

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Acetylene

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In December 2023 she became the oldest solo artist, at 78, to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with a song she recorded in 1958

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Brenda Lee - Rockin around the Christmas Tree

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original lead singer for Van Halen

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David Lee Roth

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________is a family of unmanned aerial vehicles designed and manufactured by Turkish company _______

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Bayraktar UAV, Baykar

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2024 French Open final

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Carlos Alcaraz beats Alexander Zverev

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Colombia area formerly known as

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New Granada

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anagrams: A river that flows through Florence & a Mediterranean port city of Algeria

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Arno/Oran

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this many “Bones”, typically the amount found in adult humans

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206

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Salem, Massachusetts is the setting for this Nathaniel Hawthorne novel inspired by a curse placed on his own family

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The House of the Seven Gables

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American pianist, 1928-2024, Chopin specialist

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Byron Janis

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Lockheed single-engine, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated from the 1950s

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U-2

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American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed, in use since 50s. Main tactical airlifter for many military forces worldwide

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C-130

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large military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed, heavy intercontinental-range strategic airlift capability, one that can carry outsized and oversized loads

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C-5

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American military aerial refueling tanker aircraft, Boeing

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KC-135

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US dollar bill material

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linen and cotton

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Steve McQueen flick about a gelatinous menace

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The Blob

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First probe to get to Saturn

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Voyager

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“Rich as ______,” the last king of _____

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Croesus, Lydia

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Haley Williams took “Misery Business” out of this band’s live set for a time

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Paramore

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you’ll never unhear the cowbell in this Blue Öyster Cult tune

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(Don’t Fear) the Reaper

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In legend Merlin transforms this man into the likeness of Igraine’s hubby, the Duke of Cornwall, so he can seduce her

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Uther Pendragon - father of Arthur

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A coveted border region of Western Europe remilitarized in 1936 in a precursor to World War II

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The Rhineland

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Gregory Hines and Baryshnikov film

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White Nights

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Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal buddy cop movie

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Running Scared

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Four main actors on All in the Family

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Bunkers - Carroll O’Connor, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers, Rob Reiner

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19th c female American astronomer

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Maria Mitchell

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City in Indiana, place where Joseph told his brothers to settle

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Goshen

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Mary Shelley’s mother

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Mary Wollstonecraft - British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights.

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The National Radio Astronomy Observatory operates the VLA, short for this system of radio telescopes

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Very Large Array

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“A Human Female” & “Ritual-licious” were episodes of this Netflix show about a young man on the autism spectrum

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Atypical

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Pat Benatar musical (not on bway yet)

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Invincible

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He earned a nickname in an October 1977 World Series game, blasting 3 homers on 3 consecutive pitches

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Reggie Jackson - Mr. October

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Pittsburgh baseball stadium

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Three Rivers

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Kegling is just another name for this sport

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Bowling

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“Eatin’ good in the neighborhood”

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Applebees

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Composer Franco Alfano finished this Asia-set opera after Puccini died

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Turandot

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Before penicillin, bacterial infections were treated with these drugs that are still used for eye infections & acne

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sulfa drugs

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“mother’s little helper” drug/generic

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valium/diazepam

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In 1834 the Senate censured president Jackson for pulling all federal money out of this

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Bank of the United States

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The Santa Cruz Mountains are home to this yellow mollusk, the mascot for UC Santa Cruz

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banana slug

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Albums “School Nights,” “the rise and fall of a Midwest princess”

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Chappell Roan

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CVS stands for

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Consumer value stores

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eastern beginning city of Pony Express

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St Joseph, MO

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The Sphere is at which hotel

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Venetian

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This duo made up of Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak

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Silk Sonic

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first Secretary of Defense

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James Forrestal

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CIA Director & Secretary of Defense during Obama’s presidency

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Leon Panetta

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Also a CCR song, the title of this memoir by Vietnam vet Lewis Puller Jr. refers to having a legendary general as a dad

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Fortunate Son

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Name for series of the metallic elements, including uranium, plutonium, californium…

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actinide or actinoid

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In the KFPU (“Kung Fu Panda” Universe), Dustin Hoffman voices this role, mandarin for “master”

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Shifu

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Pennsylvania Dutch dish made with pork trimmings & cornmeal, then molded & sliced

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Scrapple

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charred tougher pieces cut from a brisket point, a staple of Kansas City BBQ

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burnt ends

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“Brave” movie heroine

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Merida

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This river of central Germany follows Frankfurt in the city’s full name

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Main

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purely defensive martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba, who hated fighting

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aikido

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debut album “Songs About Jane” in 2002

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Maroon 5