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Named as an alternate replacement, this Ravens QB made his first career Pro Bowl for his performance during the 2022 season.

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Answer: Tyler Huntley

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Alaska is the only place in the wild to find which animal

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Kodiak bears
for 12,000 years Kodiak bears have been isolated from all other bears on the Kodiak archipelago in Alaska

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Which US time zone contains the fewest people

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Mountain time contains roughly a quarter of American land, but only 7% of the people making it the least populated time zone in the US

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What company almost went under before founder Fred Smith turned 5K to 27K playing blackjack

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FedEx
after being turned down for loans Smith blackjack wins, covered necessary, fuel bills for his young business
three years later FedEx reached 75 million revenue

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Sales of Ray-Ban, Wayfair sunglasses shot up by 50% following the release of what 1983 film

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Rescue business
another cruise movie top gun also caused a huge bump in Ray-Ban aviator sunglasses in 1986

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Name the three sisters of Native American crops

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Maize squash beans
The three sisters playing strategy uses three crops that work together to help each other, thrive, maze, beans, and squash

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What countries border the Caspian Sea

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Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan

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Until the 20th century, a drugged derive from the bark of the sin cone uh tree was the only effective treatment for this tropical disease

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Malaria

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An extinct variety of this palm tree was brought back to life in 2005 from ancient seeds found at Masada

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Date palm

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Apples and cherries are a member of this family of plant’s named for a popular but less eaten flour

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Rose

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How about a cup of afternoon tea? perhaps from tetley or this brand established in London in 1706

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Twinings

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Hit slopes on a snowy afternoon and do this type of skiing named after a region in Norway

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Telemark skiing

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A good afternoon activity “T” is looking for and listening to the swan

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Trumpeter Swan

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90s movies by character
Robin Williams as Peter banning and Julia Roberts as Tinker Bell

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Hook

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90s movies by character

Competing booksellers, Joe Fox, and Kathleen Kelly

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You’ve got mail
Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan

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90s movies by character
Dan, Tyler, Jenny, Curran and Bubba blue
Cur in

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Forest gump

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90s movies by character
Matthew Broderick and Stephen Kovacs, and Jim Carrey as a technician

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The Cable guy

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A San Francisco film festival name for this type of film features live musical scores

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Silent films

Retronym

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Before the IBM selectric was a hit commercially you probably had to hunt and peck on this kind of machine

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Retronym
Manual typewriter

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90s movies by character
Agent, J and agent K

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Men in Black Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones

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Dy-die and tidee didie are companies that offer home delivery of these for your baby
Retronym

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Cloth diapers, the old-fashioned kind

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In 1513 he sailed north from Puerto Rico and searched for the island of Bimini said to have a fabled spring

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Ponce de León

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As the director of the US geological survey this Grand Canyon explorer set standards for mapping the nation

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John Wesley Powell

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Black Pathfinder Jim Beckworth found this mountain ranges lowest pass now named for him in eastern California

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Sierra Nevada’s

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In 2004 a team led by Robert Sarmast comb the ocean floor for this place described in Plato‘s timaeus and critias Tuh may is Crit e is
Atlantis
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A giant statue of bronze hands plays homage to this 2012 hit by psy and actually plays the song when you stand under it
Gangnam Style
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In 1776 this British captain set out on his last voyage in search of the northwest passage
Cook
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Meaning the art of kicking and punching this activity koreas national sport had its first world championships in Seoul
Tae kwon do
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Soul is considered a mega city, whose in environs include this port city home to South Korea’s main airport
Incheon In chan
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Just like at Buckingham Palace, you can witness this centuries old ritual at Seouls gyeongbokgung palace kwuen bock coon
Changing of the guard
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Retronym An article jokingly used this rhyming term to describe the delivery method of a 1944 letter arriving 66 years later
Snail mail
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For summer afternoon cocktail try this gin brand perhaps it’s rangpur lime
 Tanqueray Tank cuh ray Not Tanga Ray
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Coffea canephora is the species of coffee plant normally classified by this vigorous name Coffee uh can uh 4 uh 
Robusta
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After Korea gain independence from this country in 1945 gyeongseong was out and Seoul was in name wise Ghun sung
Japan
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Grab a friend and spend the afternoon getting in sync riding this bicycle built for two
Tandem
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Microscopic pores on leaves and stems called stomata allow the intake of this gas necessary for photosynthesis
Carbon dioxide
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Retronym It’s the plain old H2O that you drink from the faucet
Tapwater
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In 2005 a bridge in Pittsburgh was renamed for this artist the bridge serves as a gateway to his museum
Warhol
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Somerset moms the moon and six pence about a stock broker who heads to Tahiti to be a painter is loosely based on him
Go ghan Gaugin
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First exhibited in 1853 Rosa bonheur (bon err)masterpieces le marche of shh vough which translates to this
Horse fair or horse market
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Quick word for a group of vehicles, such as taxis or boats owned and operated as a unit
Fleet
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He wrote a poem that said my brush above my face continually makes it a splendid floor by dripping down
Michelangelo dripping because he was painting on the ceiling
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The group of British painters called this brotherhood got together in 1848 but had parted by 1854
Pre-Rafiel lights
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Firmly fixed in place you and a pal might be that kind of friends
Fast friends
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The chimney type of this bird is often called a flying cigar because of its dark, silhouette as it flies
Swift
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This two word South Dakota town is known as the gateway to Mount Rushmore
Rapid City
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Is two word cornmeal based dessert is made with molasses sugar, and spices
Hasty pudding
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In 1995 it was a Canadian invasion as her album jagged little pill hit number one on the US album chart on October 7
Alanis Morissette
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On October 1, 2000 midnight oil played their hit beds are burning at the Olympic closing ceremonies in this city
Sydney Australian named
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It’s hard to imagine David Letterman in tears, but he was when this man made his last public appearance on Dave show October 30, 2002
Warren Zevon
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In October 1988, he went on trial for plagiarizing his own CCR song run through the jungle in the old man down the road
John Fogerty
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Pearl Jam was an opening act when this band kicked off its blood sugar sex magik tour October 16, 1991
Red Hot chili peppers
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This astrophysicist and Cornell professor won a Pulitzer for the dragons of Eden, his book on the evolution of human intelligence
Carl Sagan, the Neal Degrasse Tyson off his time?
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This cosmonaut went into space only once April 12, 1961 but what a historic ride
Yuri guh gar in
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In 1960 this German American was named Director of the Marshall space flight center where he developed the Saturn five rocket
Verner Von Braun Brain ladel call back just listen to today about the space race
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Two months before retiring from the US Senate, this Ohioian became the oldest person to orbit the Earth at age 77
John Glenn
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In 2012 this entrepreneur’s dragon became the first privately owned spacecraft to dock with the international space station
Elon Musk
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A bit east of Madrid dams on this river form an artificial lake known as the sea of Castile
Tagus Tay gis
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In Ireland’s county carry lock leane , muckross Lake and upper lake are collectively known as the lakes of here
The lakes of Killarney
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In this Alpine lake, the straight of pro men 2 separates the sections of grand lock and petite lock Lac
Lake Geneva
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Bertrand Russell‘s essay why I am not this type of person does grant Jesus a very high degree of moral goodness just not divinity
Why I’m not a Christian
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A deadly Cold War battle between east and West plays out in Berlin and John lay cuh ray thriller the spy, who took this action Le carre
Who came in from the cold?
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If you’re looking for these incredible title creatures, a J. K. Rowling compendium will alert you where to find them
Fantastic beasts
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Parents to be might want to take a look at Heidi murkoff’s what to expect when this is happening
When you’re Expecting
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Until the 15th century, Pisa was on the Ligurian Sea, but silt from this principle river of Tuscany left it 6 miles from shore
Arno through Tuscany
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For about 870 years, this country’s parliament met on the northern shore of Lake Thingvalla Ting vall uh
Iceland
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Doctor Cole Hendron races to save humanity as a rogue planet hurdles towards earth in the sci-fi epic when this happens
When worlds collide