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MGM in film

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Metro Goldwyn Meyer

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Only wife of Henry 8 that did not share a name with another of his wives

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Jane Seymour 3 - died

shares name with medicine woman

3 Katherine
2 Anne’s

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Sweedish game designer Marcus “noch “personn is associated with

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Bestselling computer game Minecraft -

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The leaves of this tree form the diet of the silkworm

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Mulberry

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Singer Adele little used surname

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Adkins

Honky Tonk Badonkadonk”- trace

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This well known David Bowie song appropriately anagrams to alien forms

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Life on mars

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This speedy sounding video conferencing site is an official partner of formula 1 racing

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Zoom

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In thr New Testament this type of deed is used as a parable for the kingdom of heaven

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Mustard seed
From little beginnings come Great things

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While in his 90s this composer became the oldest nominee to computer for an Oscar

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John William Star Wars spider man
The fableman’s - collab with Spielberg
50 + noms

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This US museum houses an extensive collection of Polynesian artifacts

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Bishop museum in Honolulu
Cuh may uh may uh - king of Hawaii

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After he saw one lonely teddy bear left on a store shelf on Christmas Eve author Michale bond based this character on it

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Paddington

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This is the name of the bamboo sword used as a practice weapon in thr Japanese martial arts of kendo

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shhh nigh

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Marie curie Alfred Nobel and Albert Einstein among others have all had this named after them

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Elements on the periodic table
Nobelium
Curium
Einstein e um

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14
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Michael Douglas played the part of detective Steve Keller in this crime drama tv series

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Thr streets of San Francisco
72-76
He was in 120 episodes

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An animal that usually eats fruit is called

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Frug uh vore
frug ivorous

Frew guh vorous

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16
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Total number of dots on a six sided die

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21

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In soccer and other sports this term refers to threading thr bell between opponents legs

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Nutmeg

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2 word killing curse in Harry Potter

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Abada kedavra

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You’ll see barrel racing at this type of event

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Rodeo

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This symbol is often used to denote the site of a battleground on a ordinance survey map

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21
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Washington DC address thet Zillow lists a house with 16 beds 35 baths and 55 K square feet

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1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

22
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In 1926 cG Johnson created the first automatic opener for this type of door

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Garage

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When he had flowing red hair he his Olympic snowboarder was called the flying tomato

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Shaun white

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Featuring a green owl as its mascot this app has become the most downloaded education app

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Duo lingo
Language learning

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To compete thr first transcontinental railroad this company built eastward from Sacramento

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Central pacific

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This Ryan Murphy anthology series has installments called coven freak show and Roanoke

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American horror story

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The theory that the sun is the center of the solar system is credited to this 16th century polish astronomer

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Copernicus

28
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Long cool woman song
Plus subtitle

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Hollies
In a black dress

29
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Adia song
98

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Sarah McLachlan

30
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Ode to Billie Joe song

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Bobby gentry

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First female rapper inducted into rock and roll hall of fame

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Missy Elliot

32
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McDonald’s installed a 23 K Lb bronze sculpture of the quarter pounder here where they east thr most per capita

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South Dakota

33
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Before CDs cassettes or 8 tracks thr higheat hifi was this

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A record player offered in 50s models of Chrysler

34
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This French city is on the Mediterranean coast in the southeast of the country. Although it is only the fifth most populous city in France, it is home to the busiest airport outside of Paris.

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Nice
That’s because of all the tourists flocking to the French Riviera. Something described as “à la niçoise” is “of Nice”.

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Heavy-duty cooler brand :

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IGLOO
Igloo Products is a Texas-based manufacturer of coolers. The company started up in 1947 making metal water coolers, and introduced its first all-plastic ice chest in 1962. The Igloo name was adopted in 1971.

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is a New York City company that hosts websites. It specializes in helping users build their own websites using templates and drag-and-drop elements.

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Squarespace

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This is a metal strip embedded in the neck of a stringed instrument, a guitar perhaps. The fingers press on it, shortening a string and hence changing the note played. The note increases by one semitone as a finger shortens a string by one of it

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fret

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This has been around since the Middle Ages. It is a stringed instrument that is played by plucking, and is used most often in Hindustani classical music. In the West we have been exposed to the instrument largely through the performances of Ravi Shankar and some music by George Harrison of the Beatles, a onetime student of Shankar.

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sitar

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American actress had her first film role in 1983’ “Tender Mercies”, playing the young widow Rosa Lee opposite Robert Duvall as the washed-up country singer Mac Sledge. That first movie performance earned her a Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe nomination.
Also No Country for Old Men

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Tess Harper

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State tree of Iowa
New Jersey
Connecticut, Illinois and Maryland
Georgia

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Oak tree: Iowa
Northern red oak: New Jersey
White oak: Connecticut, Illinois and Maryland
Live oak: Georgia