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Season 36 (1001-1500) Flashcards

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PHRASE ORIGINS: The OED’s first citation for this phrase referring to a region of the U.S. is from a Durant, Oklahoma newspaper in 1936

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Dust Bowl

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HORROR MOVIES: 2017 saw the 8th film in the “Saw” franchise, & 3 additional letters were needed for this, its title

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Jigsaw

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HORROR MOVIES: This 1931 film had the tagline “A monster science created but could not destroy!"

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Frankenstein

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HORROR MOVIES: Doris tries to play on this board alone (totally against the rules) & learns the “Origin of Evil” in a 2016 movie

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a Ouija board

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HORROR MOVIES: In 1990 Christine Elise battled this homicidal doll; in 2019 it was Aubrey Plaza

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Chucky

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5-LETTER WORDS: Mr. Spock was big into this, the science behind being justified by reason

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logic

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5-LETTER WORDS: Pertaining to Benedict XVI or Boniface VIII

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papal

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5-LETTER WORDS: These were 2 types of columns in Ancient Greece

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Doric & Ionic

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5-LETTER WORDS: This word denoting being simple or guileless is from Old French for “natural”; we hope you’re not…

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naive

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A DAY ENDING IN Y: 1998’s Belfast Agreement is also named for this spring holy day

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Good Friday

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A DAY ENDING IN Y: In a commercial Chris Sullivan gives voice to “Guess what day it is!… Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike! What day is it, Mike?”–this day

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hump day (Wednesday)

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A DAY ENDING IN Y: Laissez les bons temps rouler, y’all! Mardi Gras translates to this

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Fat Tuesday

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A DAY ENDING IN Y: In a song by The Cure, “Thursday I don’t care about you, it’s…” this title

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"Friday I’m In Love"

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A DAY ENDING IN Y: During WWI the U.S. Food Administration called for this alliterative, vegetarian day

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Meatless Mondays

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BOOKS FOR YOUNGER READERS: Emily Elizabeth & this large colorful canine have many adventures in works by Norman Bridwell

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Clifford (the Big Red Dog)

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BOOKS FOR YOUNGER READERS: She wrote the classics “Ramona the Pest” & “Beezus & Ramona"

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Beverly Cleary

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BOOKS FOR YOUNGER READERS: In Kipling’s “The Jungle Book”, this mongoose faces off against 2 cobras to protect his human family

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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

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BOOKS FOR YOUNGER READERS: Mary Pope Osborne has taken kids all through history as Jack & Annie travel in this magic structure

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the magic tree house

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BOOKS FOR YOUNGER READERS: Milo learns about time from a watchdog named Tock after driving through this mysterious title object

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The Phantom Tollbooth

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GUT FEELING: The stomach is the middle man between this, AKA the gullet, & the small intestine

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the esophagus

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GUT FEELING: Originally, the formula of this tummy soother was pepsin, zinc salts, oil of wintergreen, salol & a colorant to make it pink

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Pepto-Bismol

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GUT FEELING: The stomach secretes gastrin, a hormone that in turn helps you secrete this acid that kills bacteria in your food

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hydrochloric acid

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GUT FEELING: Catch these waves, the rhythmical pumping that moves chyme toward the pylorus

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peristaltic waves

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SALUTE TO 8000: This largest seal, which can weigh 8,000 pounds, is named for another large mammal

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the elephant seal

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SALUTE TO 8000: In 2018 Diana Taurasi became the first 8,000-point scorer in the history of this league

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the WNBA

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SALUTE TO 8000: The M.I.T. Agelab estimates that this period of your life will last about 8,000 days–don’t run out of savings

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retirement

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SALUTE TO 8000: Measured at the Equator, this distance is just a bit under 8,000 miles

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the diameter of the earth

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SALUTE TO 8000: As per its name, this seat of Pitkin County, Colorado has lots of trees–they release the oxygen humans need at 8,000 feet

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Aspen

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FEAT OF (HENRY) CLAY: Henry Clay is famous for helping forge these historic deals, like the Missouri one & the one of 1850

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compromises

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FEAT OF (HENRY) CLAY: Clay was one of the founders of the American Colonization Society, which helped create this African nation

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Liberia

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FEAT OF (HENRY) CLAY: Clay held this congressional leadership post for 10 years, longer than anyone else in the 19th century

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Speaker of the House

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FEAT OF (HENRY) CLAY: According to Andrew Jackson, Clay’s “corrupt bargain” was the sec. of state job for helping make this man president

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John Quincy Adams

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FEAT OF (HENRY) CLAY: When he died in 1852, Clay became the first American to lie in state in this part of the Capitol building

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the rotunda

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'90s NO. 1 HITS: Wham! He had a No. 1 hit as he was “Praying For Time” in 1990

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George Michael

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'90s NO. 1 HITS: She was “Coming Out Of The Dark” sans Miami Sound Machine in 1991

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Gloria Estefan

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'90s NO. 1 HITS: In 1995 this female trio was chasing “Waterfalls"

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TLC

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'90s NO. 1 HITS: In 1998, she hit Number One with “Doo Wop (That Thing)” her first solo single

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Lauryn Hill

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'90s NO. 1 HITS: In 1997 this late rapper had “Mo Money Mo Problems"

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the Notorious B.I.G.

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WORDS ABOUT WORDS: As in scientific classification, a nomenclator is someone who assigns these

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names

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WORDS ABOUT WORDS: As its name suggests, a pangram uses all of these at least once in one sentence

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letters of the alphabet

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WORDS ABOUT WORDS: Paranym is another word for this, a word substituted for a more unpleasant one

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a euphemism

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WORDS ABOUT WORDS: It’s a word that tells people you’re in a group; in the Bible those who said “sib” instead of “shib” were slaughtered

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a shibboleth

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WORDS ABOUT WORDS: 2-word term for a common language for speakers of different tongues; it was once an actual language quoted by Moliere

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lingua franca

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ADAPTATIONS: This 1910 E.M. Forster work about the Schlegels & Wilcoxes was filmed in 1992 by James Ivory & adapted for TV in 2017

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Howards End

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ADAPTATIONS: To stop violence, women take a vow of abstinence in Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq”, a retelling of this Greek comedy

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Lysistrata

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SAINTS ON THE MAP: It’s where to go to groove to the Twin Cities Jazz Festival

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St. Paul

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SAINTS ON THE MAP: Napoleon lived at the Briars Pavilion & then at Longwood on this island in the South Atlantic

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Saint Helena

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SAINTS ON THE MAP: An island country in the Lesser Antilles is a package deal: this saint & the Grenadines

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Saint Vincent

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SAINTS ON THE MAP: The Pony Express went from this Missouri city to Sacramento, California

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St. Joseph

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SAINTS ON THE MAP: A church in this suburb of Paris has the tombs of 12 centuries of French kings

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Saint-Denis

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"CRO”-POURRI: The name of this miracle of modern invention is partly from the French for “hook"

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Velcro

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"CRO”-POURRI: This prying tool is so named because one end looks like a beak

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a crowbar

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"CRO”-POURRI: Remains of an early form of man were found in a French cave with this name

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Cro-Magnon

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"CRO”-POURRI: When a politician appoints his friends to positions they are unqualified for, it’s called this

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cronyism

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WORLD LITERATURE: Some parts were translated from a 15th century Syrian manuscript when this work was introduced to Europe around 1700

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One Thousand and One Nights

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I LEARNED IT FROM MENTAL FLOS: This 19th c. pres. was a champion wrestler who only lost 1 match, to another soldier in the Illinois volunteer militia

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Abraham Lincoln

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I LEARNED IT FROM MENTAL FLOS: In Sweden these people get a text message when their lifesaving donation is used, as for a trauma victim

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blood donors

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I LEARNED IT FROM MENTAL FLOS: Jack London encouraged this young cartoonist who created the “Believe It or Not!” strip, later spun off into multiple TV series

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Ripley

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PLACES OF BUSINESS: Sony is an MNC, short for this, meaning it has sites all over the world

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a multinational corporation

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PLACES OF BUSINESS: Corepower, the largest U.S. chain of studios for this activity, once touted “inner peace & flat abs in an hour"

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yoga

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PLACES OF BUSINESS: This family-friendly pizza chain with a mouse mascot has more than 600 locations

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Chuck E. Cheese

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PLACES OF BUSINESS: Despite the state found in the name of this airline, its home offices are in Seattle

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Alaska Airlines

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PLACES OF BUSINESS: With shared spaces & private offices, this alliterative company helps business get done in more than 110 cities

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WeWork

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AROUND THE USA: You may be more familiar with the La Brea ones, but there’s a sticky batch of these in Carpinteria, California as well

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tar pits

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AROUND THE USA: Eastport in this state is fittingly the easternmost city in the lower 48 states

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Maine

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AROUND THE USA: Charging one nickel, the first automated these hit Oklahoma city streets in 1935

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a parking meter

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AROUND THE USA: Historians say many residents of this 175-mile long chain of islands off North Carolina are descended from pirates

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the Outer Banks

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VIDEO GAME-POURRI: Aunt May & Norman Osborn show up in this superhero’s Marvel-ous high-flying game

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Spider-Man

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VIDEO GAME-POURRI: In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, you can choose among many avatars like Link, Donkey Kong or this fast hedgehog

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Sonic

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VIDEO GAME-POURRI: Many online games say they are “F2P” , meaning this; beware, there are usually ways to spend cash down the line

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free to play

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VIDEO GAME-POURRI: The 7 rotatable blocks used in this video game have names like Orange Ricky, Hero & Smashboy

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Tetris

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VIDEO GAME-POURRI: Of the 4 ghosts in the original English version of the Pac-Man game, the one that doesn’t rhyme with the others

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Clyde

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RANKS & TITLES: Reasonably enough, it’s a Hindi king or prince ranking above a raja

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maharaja

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RANKS & TITLES: In ancient times a tetrarch by definition ruled this much of a region or province

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a fourth

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RANKS & TITLES: A nuncio is an ambassador or representative from this person

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the pope

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RANKS & TITLES: John Fisher’s lofty British naval titles included First Sea Lord (1904) & Admiral of this (1905)

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Admiral of the Fleet

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ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER: To cast a ballot & to refuse to allow something

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vote & veto

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ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER: A “golden” lack of noise & a permit for cruising in your convertible

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silence & license

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ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER: To make a sauce more viscous & the room of the house where it might happen

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thicken & kitchen

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ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER: Place for your tootsies on a ten-speed & to beg strongly

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pedal & plead

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ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER: Hogs or pigs & a synonym for a tendon

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swine & sinew

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DESIGNING WOMEN: Portland college student Carolyn Davidson received $35 & later, stock for designing the swoosh that became this company’s logo

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Nike

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DESIGNING WOMEN: In 1921 she became the first major female fashion designer to introduce a perfume

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(Coco) Chanel

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DESIGNING WOMEN: It’s the last name of Miuccia, whose career took off in the 1980s with the introduction of her black nylon backpack

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Prada

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ESSAYS: "Lost Art” & “The Future of Faith” are 2 of the many essays John Updike wrote for this magazine

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The New Yorker

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ESSAYS: This “Infinite Jest” author used the Maine lobster festival to discuss the morality of killing lobsters for eating pleasure

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David Foster Wallace

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ESSAYS: "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself”, Emerson wrote near the end of this essay

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"Self-Reliance"

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SCIENCE BULLETIN: This event that killed more than 400 along the coast of Indonesia in 2018 was due to a collapsing volcano, not an earthquake

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a tsunami

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SCIENCE BULLETIN: A campaign to promote handwashing in Australian hospitals greatly reduced infections of this bacterium, the “S” in MRSA

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staphylococcus

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SCIENCE BULLETIN: A 2019 study reveals the negative impact of these chemicals on honeybees’ ability to fend off deadly mites

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pesticides

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SCIENCE BULLETIN: The new “wand”, or wireless artifact-free neuromodulation device, is being called a pacemaker for this body part

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a brain

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SCIENCE BULLETIN: New particles mean new compound words; CERN scientists keep discovering new pentaquarks, each consisting of 4 quarks & 1 of these

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an antiquark

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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: After secretly aiding the rebels for years, this nation openly aided the revolution in 1778

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France

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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: "Plain Truth” was James Chalmers’ Loyalist response to this 1776 pamphlet written in support of the revolution

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"Common Sense"

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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: Ethan Allen gets credit for leading this group, but in 1775 Seth Warner was elected as its leader

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the Green Mountain Boys

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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: For his elusive tactics in South Carolina marsh areas, Guerrilla leader Francis Marion was known by this nickname

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the Swamp Fox

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DROP OUT: Drop the “out” from a synonym for “budding” & you get this season when it might happen

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spring (from sprouting)

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DROP OUT: Drop “out” from a word meaning “screamed” & you get this small storage building

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shed (from shouted)

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DROP OUT: Remove the “out” from the term for financial aid to a big car company & you get this term that will set the accused free

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bail (from bailout)

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DROP OUT: Drop “out” from a French word for high-fashion clothing & you get this help for your sickness

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cure (from couture)

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DROP OUT: Get the “out” out of a seasoned stew & you’re left with this bit of cloth

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rag (from ragout)

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THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY: So how does a bill get in the registry? Or “Conjunction Junction”? ‘Cause this ’70s series of animated shorts was amazing, that’s how!

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Schoolhouse Rock!

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THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY: Robert Kennedy’s April 4, 1968 speech in Indianapolis on the shocking death of this man is now enshrined forever

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY: Her 1983 album “She’s So Unusual” was unusually good, with songs like “Time After Time"

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Cyndi Lauper

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THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY: The Blues Brothers would approve the inclusion of both “Minnie the Moocher” & this Sam & Dave classic song… play it, Steve!

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"Soul Man"

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OBSERVANCES: Washington made the very first presidential proclamation in response to a request for “a day of public” this

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Thanksgiving

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MANY HANDS: In 1964 the Beatles snagged their first U.S. No. 1 hit with this tune

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"I Want To Hold Your Hand"

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MANY HANDS: Mano nera, translated as this, was a turn-of-the-20th century Sicilian extortion ring

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black hand

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MANY HANDS: In 1950 an Allstate general sales manager came up with this classic slogan

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"You’re in good hands"

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MANY HANDS: During this 1986 event, people all around the country held hands to help the homeless

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Hands Across America

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MAKE LIGHT WORK: Around noon on some days, Germany gets close to half its power from this source

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solar power

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MAKE LIGHT WORK: The light type of this is a basic tool of cell biology, magnifying specimens hundreds of times

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a microscope

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MAKE LIGHT WORK: Take a mind-expanding journey at the live show called Paramount’s Laser Spectacular, with the music of this “Dark Side” band

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Pink Floyd

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MAKE LIGHT WORK: 10 projectors show astronomical wonders in the USA’s largest of these facilities, at a Jersey City science center

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a planetarium

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MAKE LIGHT WORK: John Alcott & Emmanuel Lubezki, people in this profession, are noted for creative use of natural light

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cinematographers

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HISTORY, THROUGH THE CENTURIES: 14th: Around 1347 the bacterium Yersinia pestis begins a European tour known by this “colorful” 2-word phrase

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black death

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HISTORY, THROUGH THE CENTURIES: 13th: This document debuts in 1215 but is reissued with changes in 1216, 1217 & 1225 under a new king

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the Magna Carta

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HISTORY, THROUGH THE CENTURIES: 19th: This feat of engineering was completed in 1825, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean

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the Erie Canal

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HISTORY, THROUGH THE CENTURIES: 17th: On this woman’s death in 1617, a London writer referred to her as “The Virginian Woman"

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Pocahontas

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HISTORY, THROUGH THE CENTURIES: 18th: In 1723 Russia captures Baku from Persia in this leader’s last great military campaign

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Peter the Great

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THE MEAT INDUSTRY HALL OF FAME: Of course, this honorary Kentucky colonel was inducted

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Colonel Sanders

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THE MEAT INDUSTRY HALL OF FAME: Frank Perdue & Donald Tyson are best known for selling this type of meat

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chicken

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THE MEAT INDUSTRY HALL OF FAME: Founder Dave Thomas appeared in more than 800 commercials for this fast food chain

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Wendy’s

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THE MEAT INDUSTRY HALL OF FAME: Nebraska’s Alan Simon made his fortune with mailable beef from this company

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Omaha Steaks

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THE MEAT INDUSTRY HALL OF FAME: Dave Theno of Jack in the Box was inducted for helping the industry improve after an outbreak of this bacterium

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E. coli

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SONG & MOVIE: SAME TITLE: Song: By Black Sabbath; movie: Tony stark weaponizes an armored suit

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"Iron Man"

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SONG & MOVIE: SAME TITLE: Song: By U2; movie: Heights make Jimmy Stewart dizzy

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"Vertigo"

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SONG & MOVIE: SAME TITLE: Song: By Styx; movie: About a sheep-herding pig

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"Babe"

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SONG & MOVIE: SAME TITLE: Song: By the cure; movie: Hilary Swank played Teena Brandon, who became Brandon Teena

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"Boys Don’t Cry"

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SONG & MOVIE: SAME TITLE: Song: By Cream; movie: About the beer-loving McKenzie brothers from “SCTV"

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"Strange Brew"

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"RA”, “RA”, “SIS”, “BOOM”, “BA": It’s a game played on a 4-walled court–hey, that bounced twice!

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racquetball

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"RA”, “RA”, “SIS”, “BOOM”, “BA": Nissin cup noodles, for example

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ramen

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"RA”, “RA”, “SIS”, “BOOM”, “BA": Michelangelo painted “The Creation of Adam” on its ceiling

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the Sistine Chapel

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"RA”, “RA”, “SIS”, “BOOM”, “BA": Jack Byham, a famous maker of these, sold thousands at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics (with a few returns)

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a boomerang

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"RA”, “RA”, “SIS”, “BOOM”, “BA": Also a bluffing board game from Mattel, this word means nonsense! Hogwash!

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Balderdash

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1890s LITERATURE: Edmond Rostand set this 1897 play about the pursuit of the lovely Roxane in 17th century Paris

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Cyrano de Bergerac

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1890s LITERATURE: A collection of this controversial German philosopher’s thoughts & essays was titled “The Anti-Christ"

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Nietzsche

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1890s LITERATURE: In “Trilby”, a young singer falls under the trance of this man whose name became a synonym for a hypnotic controller

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Svengali

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THESE TV SHOWS ARE OLD ENOUGH TO DRINK: The theme song of this show now in its 32nd season asks, “Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do?"

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Cops

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THESE TV SHOWS ARE OLD ENOUGH TO DRINK: Since 1973 audiences have tuned in to watch the tempestuous folks of Genoa City on this soap opera

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The Young and the Restless

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COMPUTER KEYBOARDS: Helping you with a soft reboot, this 3-key step was chosen as it was nigh impossible to engage using only one hand

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Control-Alt-Delete

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COMPUTER KEYBOARDS: It’s not a veggie, it’s the mark above the 6 to show where something is to be inserted

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caret

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COMPUTER KEYBOARDS: Inscript, the standard keyboard of this country, is for scripts like Gujarati, Tamil & Telugu

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India

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COMPUTER KEYBOARDS: New evidence suggests that the QWERTY keyboard design may have sprung from telegraph operators translating this

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Morse code

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COMPUTER KEYBOARDS: Invented in 1960, much later than its forward pal, this mark gained popularity when used in MS-DOS

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the backslash

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WE NEED SOME HELP: I need a boost–give me a hand or give me this body part “up"

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a leg up

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WE NEED SOME HELP: A player who passes you the puck right before you score is credited with one of these

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an assist

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WE NEED SOME HELP: This word for help can also be a performance or other event to raise funds for a charitable cause

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benefit

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WE NEED SOME HELP: A weight-bearing structure, or help & encouragement found in many book acknowledgments

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support

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WE NEED SOME HELP: "F” is for this word that means to make a thing easier, specifically to help people work together

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facilitate

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WOMEN COMPOSERS: Last name of Fanny, Felix’ beloved older sister who composed some 500 pieces of music

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Mendelssohn

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WOMEN COMPOSERS: The first symphony by an American woman was Amy Beach’s “Gaelic Symphony”, first performed in 1896 by this group, the BSO for short

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the Boston Symphony Orchestra

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WOMEN COMPOSERS: Anne Dudley won an Oscar for scoring this film in which unemployed British steelworkers take it off

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The Full Monty

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WOMEN COMPOSERS: British-born Rebecca Clarke gained notice with her 1919 sonata for this instrument spelled the same as a woman’s first name

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the viola

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WOMEN COMPOSERS: A composer in her own right, Clara (nee Wieck) also edited the collected works of this German composer, her husband

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(Robert) Schumann

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MUNICIPAL BEFORE & AFTER: E.B. White mouselike boy in a southern state capital

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Stuart Little Rock

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MUNICIPAL BEFORE & AFTER: "Small” piano that is the Michigan burial place for Gerald Ford

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Baby Grand Rapids

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MUNICIPAL BEFORE & AFTER: Wisconsin city of “clear water” that has portrayed Temple Grandin & Shakespeare’s Juliet

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Eau Claire Danes

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MUNICIPAL BEFORE & AFTER: Alliterative Virginia city that is one period of current events reporting

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Newport News cycle

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LAST WORDS: In 1876 in the Dakotas this American said, “The old duffer broke me on the last hand"

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Bill Hickock

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A WEE BIT OF KIWI HISTORY: This British captain sighted New Zealand in 1769 & accurately charted its coast

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Captain Cook

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A WEE BIT OF KIWI HISTORY: In 2011 & 2015 the New Zealand “All Blacks” became the first team to win back-to-back world cups in this sport

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rugby

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A WEE BIT OF KIWI HISTORY: This 1915 military campaign in Turkey is regarded as New Zealand’s coming of age in international affairs

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Gallipoli (the Dardanelles campaign)

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A WEE BIT OF KIWI HISTORY: In 1642 this guy with an Australian state named for him was the first European to sight New Zealand

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Abel Tasman

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A WEE BIT OF KIWI HISTORY: Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior protest ship was sunk in this most populous New Zealand city’s harbor in 1985

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Auckland

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A NUMBER BETWEEN 1 & 100: Gamblers know it’s another name for blackjack–hit me!

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21

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A NUMBER BETWEEN 1 & 100: In tennis if you have 2 points, this is your score

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30

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A NUMBER BETWEEN 1 & 100: A quinceañera is a celebration of a girl’s this number birthday

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15

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A NUMBER BETWEEN 1 & 100: This gasoline brand introduced its iconic orange ball in 1962

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76

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A NUMBER BETWEEN 1 & 100: In Judaism the word chai represents “life” & is synonymous with this number used to signify good luck & a long life

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18

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NOT THE CAPITAL: Of Australia, though it’s the country’s oldest city

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Sydney

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NOT THE CAPITAL: Of Alaska, though it has 9 times the capital’s population

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Anchorage

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NOT THE CAPITAL: Of England, though it’s home to the country’s most popular & successful pro sports team

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Manchester

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NOT THE CAPITAL: Of Germany, since 1990

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Bonn

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NOT THE CAPITAL: Of Canada, though it was incorporated in 1862 with a royal name

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Victoria (British Columbia)

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SHOUTED MOVIE QUOTES, SAID MATTER-OF-FACTLY: 1951: “Hey, Stella. Hey, Stella"

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A Streetcar Named Desire

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SHOUTED MOVIE QUOTES, SAID MATTER-OF-FACTLY: 1996: “Show me the money. Show me the money"

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Jerry Maguire

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SHOUTED MOVIE QUOTES, SAID MATTER-OF-FACTLY: 2006: “This is Sparta"

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300

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SHOUTED MOVIE QUOTES, SAID MATTER-OF-FACTLY: 1995: “What was in the box?… What’s in the box?"

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Se7en

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SHOUTED MOVIE QUOTES, SAID MATTER-OF-FACTLY: 1973: “The power of Christ compels you. The power of Christ compels you"

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The Exorcist

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WEIRD FLEX: The name for these circus performers suggests that they twist & flex themselves into all sorts of weird positions

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contortionists

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WEIRD FLEX: A knee bent beyond its normal range has been this, often seen on pro sports injury reports

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hyperextended

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BUT “OK": "A horse walks into a bar” is a typical start for one

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a joke

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BUT “OK": urbandictionary.com caustically says this is being “pretentious about how much you care about a social issue"

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woke

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BUT “OK": Olly olly, this device is made to keep your oxen from being free

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a yoke

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BUT “OK": A close-fitting necklace, or someone who gives away a big lead in a game

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a choker

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BUT “OK": It means “added fuel to a fire” or “elated, pumped up"

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stoked

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LESSER-KNOWN NAMES ON THE ROAD: Time to barrel down the Raymond Gary Expressway, named for the head of the Sooner Oil Co. & governor of this state

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Oklahoma

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LESSER-KNOWN NAMES ON THE ROAD: Julia Tuttle Causeway honors the “Mother of” this city of dolphins & deco

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Miami

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LESSER-KNOWN NAMES ON THE ROAD: Conland Highway on I-91 was named for a publisher of the Courant newspaper in this New England state capital

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Hartford

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LESSER-KNOWN NAMES ON THE ROAD: Taking you from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, the Commodore Barry Bridge celebrates a “Father of the American” this force

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the Navy

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LESSER-KNOWN NAMES ON THE ROAD: You can take a swing by Yankee Stadium on the Major this Expressway, named for a guy who helped build army bases in N.Y. during WWI

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the Major Deegan

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BUILDINGS: Named after an ancient ruler & his tomb, it’s a large building for above ground entombments

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a mausoleum

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BUILDINGS: Also a main building of an airport, it’s an installation at a harbor where oil or gas is stored

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a terminal

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BUILDINGS: This word for a certain tall structure comes from the Arabic for “lighthouse"

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a minaret

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6-LETTER CROSSWORD CLUES: King Arthur’s wizardly adviser

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Merlin

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6-LETTER CROSSWORD CLUES: Mimic mindlessly like a certain bird

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parrot

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6-LETTER CROSSWORD CLUES: The ancients could count on it

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an abacus

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6-LETTER CROSSWORD CLUES: Silver in heraldry

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argent

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LIFE ON MARS: We can train for life on Mars on this continent that best matches its temperature range

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Antarctica

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LIFE ON MARS: The Valles Marineris is a canyon system that’s almost 5 times as deep as this one carved by the Colorado

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the Grand Canyon

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LIFE ON MARS: This period right after sunset is longer on Mars because of high-altitude dust scattering the remaining sunlight

A

twilight

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LIFE ON MARS: Everyone remember where we parked–next to this NASA lander named for one who goes ahead to seek the way

A

Pathfinder

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LIFE ON MARS: Keep your water supply handy–long, straight surface lines thought to be systems of these proved to be a 19th century myth

A

canals

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LITERARY CHARACTERS: He utters the parting words “My dear, I don’t give a damn"

A

Rhett Butler

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LITERARY CHARACTERS: The title character of this Thomas Hardy novel has the last name Fawley & works as a stonemason

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Jude the Obscure

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LITERARY CHARACTERS: 12-year-old Frankie Addams wants to go with her brother & his new wife on their honeymoon in this Carson McCullers novel

A

The Member of the Wedding

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LITERARY CHARACTERS: Sydney Carton takes the place of this doomed French nobleman in “A Tale of Two Cities"

A

Charles Evrémonde (Charles Darnay)

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CLASSIC TELEVISION: The Ministry of Silly Walks was a sketch on this British troupe’s comedy show

A

Monty Python

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CLASSIC TELEVISION: The Ponderosa was the name of the Nevada ranch where Ben Cartwright & his sons lived on this western

A

Bonanza

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CLASSIC TELEVISION: 9114 South Central Avenue in L.A. was the TV home of this title father & son’s house & junkyard

A

Sanford and Son

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CLASSIC TELEVISION: Telemundo’s 1998 show “Reyes y Rey” was loosely based on this ’70s cop show starring David Soul & Paul Michael Glaser

A

Starsky and Hutch

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HIT 1980s ALBUMS: This American singer-songwriter briefly landed on the U.N.’s apartheid blacklist for his 1986 multi-platinum album

A

Paul Simon

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A JOB IN TV: In 2019 Conan O’Brien cut a half hour from his TBS show but kept this sidekick

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(Andy) Richter

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A JOB IN TV: For years, Petri Hawkins Byrd, working in this job, has handed documents to Judge Judy

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bailiff

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A JOB IN TV: The mother of this “Black-ish” actor is scorekeeper when he hosts “To Tell the Truth"

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Anthony Anderson

217
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A JOB IN TV: With this French-named front of the house job, Marino Monferrato keeps diners happy at “Hell’s Kitchen"

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maître d'

218
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DOUBLE “Z” WORDS: To silence something, like a dog

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muzzle

219
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DOUBLE “Z” WORDS: It can be a low story or balcony between 2 other floors in a building or theater

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mezzanine

220
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DOUBLE “Z” WORDS: To drink quickly & with great enthusiasm

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guzzle

221
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DOUBLE “Z” WORDS: You’ve got 2 sets of double Z’s in this 7-letter word! The exciting quality of an energetic personality

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pizzazz

222
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20th CENTURY NOVELS: A futuristic society revolves around science & efficiency in this 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley

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Brave New World

223
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20th CENTURY NOVELS: "A House Divided” completed Pearl Buck’s trilogy that began 4 years earlier with this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel

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The Good Earth

224
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20th CENTURY NOVELS: A line from this novel: “Name’s Joad, Tom Joad"

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The Grapes of Wrath

225
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20th CENTURY NOVELS: This novel by Garcia Marquez tells of the Buendia family in the mythic town of Macondo from the 1820s to the 1920s

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

226
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20th CENTURY NOVELS: Nadsat, the fictional language in this book, is from the Russian suffix that means “teen"

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A Clockwork Orange

227
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BOLD STRATEGY: Starving in this type of standoff, a Portuguese town threw the last of its bread over the walls & asked the foe, “Need more?"

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siege

228
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BOLD STRATEGY: To try to stop the American offensive in the Battle of the Leyte Gulf, the Japanese used this “divine wind” tactic

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kamikaze

229
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BOLD STRATEGY: A feigned this move–ooh, you’re too strong! We’re afraid! Let’s run!–helped William the Conqueror to victory at Hastings

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a retreat

230
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BOLD STRATEGY: An “and” is in the middle of this strategy used by the Romans to foster feuds among smaller entities they were trying to rule

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divide and conquer

231
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BOLD STRATEGY: Gen. von Manstein convinced Hitler to attack France in 1940 through this wooded area also in Belgium & Luxembourg –it worked

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the Ardennes

232
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COTTON: In 1794 he was granted a patent for his cotton gin

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Eli Whitney

233
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COTTON: This title creature from a 1922 tale with cotton fabric in his name also has thread whiskers & ears lined with pink sateen

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The Velveteen Rabbit

234
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COTTON: Weevils know that cotton comes from little pods called these

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bolls

235
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COTTON: Edison’s patent for his first light bulb mentions testing carbonized cotton threads as a possibility for this component

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a filament

236
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LET’S SEE IF IT PAYS OFF FOR ‘EM: In 1892 baking powder salesman William Wrigley began throwing in 2 packages of this with each can, which worked out okay

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chewing gum

237
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LET’S SEE IF IT PAYS OFF FOR ‘EM: In 1927, 4 years after starting a movie company with his brother, he decided to go all-cartoon

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Walt Disney

238
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LET’S SEE IF IT PAYS OFF FOR ‘EM: In 1996, one year after its founding, AuctionWeb moved more than $7 million in merchandise & in 1997 got this new name

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eBay

239
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LET’S SEE IF IT PAYS OFF FOR ‘EM: Created to show girls they could be anything they wanted to be, this toy debuted–to some skepticism–at a 1959 toy fair

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the Barbie doll

240
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LET’S SEE IF IT PAYS OFF FOR ‘EM: Last names of William & Arthur, who partnered in 1903, 2 years after William drew a blue-print of an engine on a bicycle

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Harley and Davidson

241
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THEY SAID NO!: Director Danny Boyle was offered a knighthood for his work on the London Olympics held in this year, but said no

A

2012

242
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THEY SAID NO!: American James Watson took an honorary knighthood, but this British partner turned the real thing down

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Francis Crick

243
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THEY SAID NO!: There would be no Sir Ziggy Stardust after this rocker turned down knighthood, saying, “I seriously don’t know what it’s for"

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David Bowie

244
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THEY SAID NO!: This 2013 Nobelist with a boson named for him didn’t want to be a knight, saying the whole system is too political

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(Peter) Higgs

245
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THEY SAID NO!: In 1918 this man refused a knighthood, saying King George V had betrayed the Arabs by not granting independence

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Lawrence (of Arabia)

246
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4-LETTER PLACES: This Italian island honors Napoleon with an annual mass on May 5, the anniversary of his death

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Elba

247
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4-LETTER PLACES: This capital of Hyogo Prefecture on Honshu is all the rage in beef

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Kobe

248
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4-LETTER PLACES: Founded in the 11th century, this capital lies at the head of a fjord

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Oslo

249
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4-LETTER PLACES: Niger is to the west & Sudan to the east of this African country

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Chad

250
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TECH TALK: In engineering the Rockwell test, measuring this, involves pressing a steel ball or diamond point into a surface

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hardness

251
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TECH TALK: Air traffic controllers know airmets are in-flight advisories about changes in this

A

weather

252
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TECH TALK: Aerospace experts are familiar with nanometers, these tiny fractions of a meter

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billionths of a meter

253
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TECH TALK: The “data” type of this activity is looking for patterns; it’s also what people do to get bitcoins

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mining

254
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TECH TALK: Your auto mechanic knows the PCV filter provides positive ventilation of this engine housing

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the crankcase

255
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OLD PHRASES: This Scottish phrase meaning “old long since” is used of times remembered with fondness

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auld lang syne

256
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OLD PHRASES: The “Aeneid” is the source of the phrase “Beware of” these “bearing gifts"

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Greeks

257
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OLD PHRASES: Mercutio says “a plague o’ both your houses”, but often people say this other “P” word instead of “plague"

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pox

258
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OLD PHRASES: Modification made tunics practical for work; one tweak allowed mobility & gave us this phrase meaning “to prepare for action"

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to gird your loins

259
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OLD PHRASES: This biblical prophet “come to judgment” is someone who has given some sage advice

A

Daniel

260
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THE “NIGHT” WATCH: Billy Bob Thornton played coach Gary Gaines in this film; the TV show of the same name had Kyle Chandler as coach Eric Taylor

A

Friday Night Lights

261
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THE “NIGHT” WATCH: A group of dropouts are trying to get their G.E.D.s in this film starring Tiffany Haddish & Kevin Hart

A

Night School

262
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THE “NIGHT” WATCH: 1967 film in which Sidney Poitier clarifies, “They call me Mr. Tibbs!"

A

In the Heat of the Night

263
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THE “NIGHT” WATCH: Bounty hunter Robert de Niro is escorting bail-jumping accountant Charles Grodin to L.A. in this 1988 comedy

A

Midnight Run

264
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THE “NIGHT” WATCH: This Clark Gable-Claudette Colbert screwball comedy was the great sleeper film of 1934

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It Happened One Night

265
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BOOKS GOING BACK IN TIME: Garry Wills’ 1992 “Lincoln at” this place examines an event sixscore & nine years previous

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Gettysburg

266
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BOOKS GOING BACK IN TIME: The New Orleans Advocate reported a “flood of books” for this event’s 10th anniversary, including “Cooking Up a Storm"

A

Hurricane Katrina

267
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BOOKS GOING BACK IN TIME: It’s the title town where 2 former Texas Rangers live in the 1870s in a classic novel by Larry McMurtry

A

Lonesome Dove

268
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BOOKS GOING BACK IN TIME: "I woke to the sound of a mosquito whining in my left ear”, begins 2000’s “Fever 1793”, about an epidemic of this disease

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yellow fever

269
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BOOKS GOING BACK IN TIME: His 1815 novel “Guy Mannering” begins in the year “17–” with Guy visiting some ruins in Dumfries

A

Walter Scott

270
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ENGLISH HISTORY: In 1600 a royal charter authorized it to set forth to “parts of Asia and Africa” in search of “trade and traffic"

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British East India Company

271
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KURT VONNEGUT: In Vonnegut’s novel the title “Breakfast of Champions” refers to this vermouth cocktail

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a martini

272
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KURT VONNEGUT: 2019 is the 50th anniversary of this Vonnegut novel loosely based on his experiences during the firebombing of Dresden

A

Slaughterhouse-Five

273
Q

KURT VONNEGUT: Sci-fi author Theodore Sturgeon was the inspiration for this recurring Vonnegut character who also had a fishy name

A

(Kilgore) Trout

274
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KURT VONNEGUT: Vonnegut’s “Player Piano” was inspired by his time working for this giant tech company in Schenectady, New York

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GE

275
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BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS: This cereal has used the slogan “Breakfast of Champions” since the 1930s

A

Wheaties

276
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BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS: A special maker with larger, deeper grids produces the Belgian type of these

A

waffles

277
Q

BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS: Some translate the Spanish name of this breakfast dish as “country-style eggs"

A

huevos rancheros

278
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BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS: For a classic eggs Benedict, use a dollop of this creamy sauce

A

Hollandaise

279
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BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS: This roll flavored with onion, a sort of bagel without the hole, was named for a Polish city

A

bialy

280
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PLAYER’S PIANO: What’d I say? That the Smithsonian has one of this man’s Yamaha KX88 keyboards marked with Braille stickers

A

Ray Charles

281
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PLAYER’S PIANO: The Steinway on which John Lennon wrote this 1971 plea for peace was displayed outside a Texas prison before a 2007 execution

A

"Imagine"

282
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PLAYER’S PIANO: At a 2009 “End of Decade Clearout Sale”, this band’s Chris Martin auctioned off 2 old pianos, one used on “Parachutes"

A

Coldplay

283
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PLAYER’S PIANO: The piano on which Dooley Wilson “played” this standard in “Casablanca” was a Warner Bros. prop with just 58 keys

A

"As Time Goes By"

284
Q

PLAYER’S PIANO: It took Yamaha 4 years to build the “Million Dollar Piano” this man used for more than 200 shows at Caesars Palace

A

Elton John

285
Q

WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE: Female patas monkeys are dominant; facing a predator, the male runs away, acting as this 5-letter lure

A

a decoy

286
Q

WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE: Scientists found out about all this monkey’s pieces when they mapped out its genome in 2007

A

the rhesus

287
Q

WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE: A shell-like organ in its throat gives resonance to the voice of this South American monkey, leading to its name

A

a howler monkey

288
Q

WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE: Spider monkeys lack the grasping adaptation known by this 2-word term; it would get in the way as they hook fingers over branches

A

an opposable thumb (a prehensile thumb)

289
Q

THE SIRENS OF TITIAN: Titian used the floral symbols myrtle & roses in depicting this love goddess “of Urbino"

A

Venus

290
Q

THE SIRENS OF TITIAN: Some of Titian’s sirens have too much to drink in a painting of one of these parties named for a Roman wine god

A

bacchanal

291
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THE SIRENS OF TITIAN: An avid reader of this Roman’s “Metamorphoses”, Titian translated word to brushstroke in “Rape of Europa"

A

Ovid

292
Q

THE SIRENS OF TITIAN: In later years, Titian painted the mysterious “La Bella”, which todays hangs in the Uffizi in this city

A

Florence

293
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"HO”CUS “PO”CUS: This term for a scalding tuber means a difficult issue to deal with

A

hot potato

294
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"HO”CUS “PO”CUS: Some Lamborghini engines have 750 of these “beastly” units under the hood

A

horsepower

295
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"HO”CUS “PO”CUS: Group dance performed in a circle that requires synchronized shaking of the limbs

A

the hokey pokey

296
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"HO”CUS “PO”CUS: The base harbor from which a ship originates or is registered

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home port

297
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"HO”CUS “PO”CUS: Versifier James Whitcomb Riley from Greenfield, Indiana was known as this

A

the Hoosier poet

298
Q

SOUTHERN POLITICIAN/AUTHOR: In the 2000s Doug Jones prosecuted 2 men for the 1963 church bombing in this city; he wrote “Bending Toward Justice” about it

A

Birmingham

299
Q

SOUTHERN POLITICIAN/AUTHOR: This Floridian’s memoir is “An American Son”–of Mario & Oriales from Cuba

A

Marco Rubio

300
Q

SOUTHERN POLITICIAN/AUTHOR: The first novel ever published by a U.S. president was “The Hornet’s Nest”, his saga of the Revolutionary War in the South

A

Jimmy Carter

301
Q

SOUTHERN POLITICIAN/AUTHOR: Jesse Helms’ memoir “Here’s Where I Stand” says he likes seeing others from this state succeed, like Clay Aiken on “American Idol"

A

North Carolina

302
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MED. ABBREV.: Concussions can occur with or without LOC, loss of this

A

conciousness

303
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MED. ABBREV.: In 1989 the gene that causes this disease, CF for short, was discovered

A

cystic fibrosis

304
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MED. ABBREV.: The common cold is known as a URI, or this type of infection

A

an upper respiratory infection

305
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MED. ABBREV.: Kids can thank Albert Sabin for developing this, abbreviated OPV

A

oral polio vaccine

306
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MED. ABBREV.: If you sleep with a CPAP device, you know it provides continuous positive this

A

air pressure

307
Q

MONGOL RULERS: The founder of the Mongol Empire, he was great khan from 1206 to 1227

A

Genghis Khan

308
Q

MONGOL RULERS: Hulagu Khan’s 1258 siege of this Iraqi city destroyed its standing in the Islamic world & ended the 500-year rule of the Abbasids

A

Baghdad

309
Q

MONGOL RULERS: Empress Manduhai Khatun was known for this quality, like Solomon, & used it to unite the warring Mongols in the 15th century

A

wisdom

310
Q

MONGOL RULERS: Now in ruins, Shangdu is the site of this khan’s former great capital where Marco Polo visited him

A

Kublai Khan

311
Q

MONGOL RULERS: Batu Khan was the leader of this army that sacked & conquered westward as far as Poland & the Danube Valley

A

Golden Horde

312
Q

IT TAKES A VILLAIN: He says the movie line “You don’t know the power of the dark side"

A

Darth Vader

313
Q

IT TAKES A VILLAIN: At the end of “Avengers: Infinity War”, he snaps his fingers & wipes out half the inhabitants of the universe

A

Thanos

314
Q

IT TAKES A VILLAIN: Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode has another confrontation with this crazed killer in 2018’s “Halloween"

A

Michael Myers

315
Q

IT TAKES A VILLAIN: He’s the non-human villain in “2001: A Space Odyssey"

A

HAL

316
Q

IT TAKES A VILLAIN: He’s Dudley Do-Right’s dastardly mustachioed nemesis

A

Snidely Whiplash

317
Q

NATIONAL PARKS: Development on this Florida bay spurred the campaign that helped create a national park there in 1980

A

Biscayne

318
Q

NATIONAL PARKS: Big Bend National Park is named for a big bend on this river

A

the Rio Grande

319
Q

NATIONAL PARKS: Ebenezer is the first name of the Utah settler whose last name adorns this spectacular national park

A

Bryce Canyon National Park

320
Q

ONE-WORD RHYMES: The cost of a plane ticket

A

airfare

321
Q

ONE-WORD RHYMES: Direct deposit time of the week

A

payday

322
Q

ONE-WORD RHYMES: Magical or personal power; I’ve got mine working

A

mojo

323
Q

ONE-WORD RHYMES: Write one & you might get an award from the James Beard Foundation

A

a cookbook

324
Q

ONE-WORD RHYMES: To show off, especially in the main seating area of a sports venue

A

grandstand

325
Q

AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS: In 1963 the Pulitzer Advisory Board vetoed his controversial play & gave no award; he would go on to win 3 Pulitzers

A

Edward Albee

326
Q

BAYOU TRAP-ISTRY: Armadillos, raccoons & other varmints often have to be removed from the bayou areas of this most populous Texas city

A

Houston

327
Q

BAYOU TRAP-ISTRY: The state of Louisiana says these reptiles over 4’ can be considered a nuisance & will give you the name of a hunter

A

alligators

328
Q

BAYOU TRAP-ISTRY: You can catch turtles as they’re basking on a log in the Bayou sun, a habit due to being ectothermic, also known as this

A

cold-blooded

329
Q

BAYOU TRAP-ISTRY: "Rodents of Unusual Size” is a documentary about these animals, once valued for pelts but now destroying southern wetlands

A

nutria

330
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LET’S LIVE ABROAD: Let’s turn our winter into mega-winter in this region that’s about 75% of Russia’s area; we love a brisk -80º day!

A

Siberia

331
Q

LET’S LIVE ABROAD: …But not too far abroad! This border city about 15 miles south of San Diego will keep us close to the good ol’ USA

A

Tijuana

332
Q

LET’S LIVE ABROAD: We’ll add ourselves to the 2.6 million in this most populous city in Canada; West Queen West is a happening area

A

Toronto

333
Q

LET’S LIVE ABROAD: As this city hosted the Olympics in ‘92 & Hans Christian Andersen called it the “Paris of Spain”, I say we give it a shot

A

Barcelona

334
Q

LET’S LIVE ABROAD: With salons of Armani & Versace & the super-ritzy “Golden Rectangle” of fashion in the center of this Italian city…ciao!

A

Milan

335
Q

I READ IT IN THE WORLD BOOK: Including whoopers, this is “a family of large birds with long legs and a long neck"

A

cranes

336
Q

I READ IT IN THE WORLD BOOK: This “is the only planet that cannot be seen without a telescope"

A

Neptune

337
Q

I READ IT IN THE WORLD BOOK: This “is a rough sport because the players kick and wrestle or sometimes hold an opponent’s head underwater"

A

water polo

338
Q

I READ IT IN THE WORLD BOOK: He “(1889?-1950), was the most famous male dancer of his time"

A

Nijinsky

339
Q

SPEAK SOFTLY: Double talk word for a low, constant stream of noise or speech

A

murmur

340
Q

SPEAK SOFTLY: Kids, you’re within the walls of the house, not out in the park, so stop shouting & “use your” this

A

inside voice

341
Q

SPEAK SOFTLY: These 6-letter “tones” are used when speaking softly & reverently

A

hushed

342
Q

SPEAK SOFTLY: These 5-letter “tones” are subdued colors in clothing & decor

A

muted

343
Q

SPEAK SOFTLY: In an opera score, instructions telling a singer to hold back include mezza voce & this voce

A

sotto

344
Q

& CARRIE: "Star Wars” fans were crushed by her 2016 passing, followed a day later by her mother’s

A

Carrie Fisher

345
Q

& CARRIE: Andie MacDowell played Carrie, the American girl who captures Hugh Grant’s heart, in this 1994 film

A

Four Weddings and a Funeral

346
Q

& CARRIE: In 2005 she became the first country singer to win “American Idol"

A

Carrie Underwood

347
Q

& CARRIE: In a 1976 film, she played Carrie White, whose prom night was quite memorable

A

Sissy Spacek

348
Q

A BIG STATISTIC: Drowning is the most common death for those doing this, the most dangerous job in the U.S. as per a 2019 newspaper report

A

fishing

349
Q

A BIG STATISTIC: Logitech did a survey that found that almost half the time the remote control was lost, it was found here

A

under the sofa cushion

350
Q

A BIG STATISTIC: The haze that gives it its 3-word name doesn’t keep visitors from making it our most visited national park

A

Great Smoky Mountains

351
Q

A BIG STATISTIC: BLK on the NYSE, it has more than 6 trillion dollars in assets under management, more than any other firm

A

BlackRock

352
Q

THE MANY BUILDINGS OF I.M. PEI: A cantilevered auditorium is one feature of this hall of fame designed by Pei on Lake Erie in Cleveland

A

the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

353
Q

THE MANY BUILDINGS OF I.M. PEI: 2 of I.M. Pei’s early designs to be built were at an airport & a presidential library both honoring this man

A

(John F.) Kennedy

354
Q

LOVE SONGS: She first hit the charts in 1985 with “You Give Good Love” & “Saving All My Love For You"

A

Whitney Houston

355
Q

LOVE SONGS: In “Perfect” he sings, “I’m dancing in the dark, with you between my arms, barefoot on the grass"

A

Ed Sheeran

356
Q

LOVE SONGS: In a song inspired by his future wife, he sings, “All of me loves all of you, love your curves and all your edges"

A

John Legend

357
Q

LOVE SONGS: They breathed life into songs like “All Out Of Love” & “Lost In Love"

A

Air Supply

358
Q

LOVE SONGS: The melody for this Elvis hit was borrowed from a Civil War tune called “Aura Lee"

A

"Love Me Tender"

359
Q

THE TREATY SAYS SO: The 1814 Treaty of Ghent said the U.S. is “desirous” to promote the abolition of traffic in these

A

slaves

360
Q

THE TREATY SAYS SO: The 1796 Treaty of Tripoli: “The government of the (United States) is not in any sense founded on” this “religion"

A

Christianity

361
Q

THE TREATY SAYS SO: The 1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gave the U.S. “control of a zone” of this country where Bunau-Varilla became a hated man

A

Panama

362
Q

THE TREATY SAYS SO: The Treaty of Versailles said “The construction or acquisition of any submarine… shall be forbidden in” this country

A

Germany

363
Q

THE TREATY SAYS SO: This is the only Great Lake not mentioned in the Paris Peace Treaty of 1783 with Great Britain

A

Lake Michigan

364
Q

AMERICAN POETS LAUREATE: The federal laureate position is technically called “Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry” by this library

A

the Library of Congress

365
Q

AMERICAN POETS LAUREATE: This “Chicago” poet was Illinois’ poet laureate in the last years of his life from 1962 to 1967

A

Carl Sandburg

366
Q

AMERICAN POETS LAUREATE: Colorado laureate Milford Shields must have been surprised when the governor also made this singer laureate in 1974

A

John Denver

367
Q

AMERICAN POETS LAUREATE: In 1998 Lawrence Ferlinghetti was made this city’s first poet laureate

A

San Francisco

368
Q

AMERICAN POETS LAUREATE: In 2019 Joy Harjo of the Muscogee Creek Nation of this state was named the first Native American poet laureate

A

Oklahoma

369
Q

5 DAYS IN OCTOBER: October 18, this state’s day, commemorates the 1867 transfer of territory from Russia to the United States

A

Alaska

370
Q

5 DAYS IN OCTOBER: October 16 is National Feral this animal day–remember to spay & neuter!

A

cats

371
Q

5 DAYS IN OCTOBER: In 2014, a time of increased pressure from Russia, Pres. Poroshenko made October 14 this country’s Defender Day

A

Ukraine

372
Q

5 DAYS IN OCTOBER: October 15 is El Gran Día in Ávila, Spain as it’s this saint’s feast day

A

Teresa of Avila

373
Q

5 DAYS IN OCTOBER: On October 17 people in this Caribbean country celebrate national icon Jean-Jacques Dessalines

A

Haiti

374
Q

"V”-8: Where wine grapes are grown

A

a vineyard

375
Q

"V”-8: An exceptional, highly skilled musician, Italian style

A

a virtuoso

376
Q

"V”-8: It was a 1982 Top 10 hit for the Go-Go’s

A

"Vacation"

377
Q

"V”-8: It means abnormally swollen or dilated, like certain veins

A

varicose

378
Q

"V”-8: Borrowed from German, it means “not allowed"

A

verboden or verboten

379
Q

CHEMICAL SYMBOL WORDPLAY: Fittingly, the symbols for the 4 elements in sodium citrate, which can make cheese melt easier, spell this 5-letter food

A

nacho

380
Q

EXPLORERS: In June 1503, during his fourth voyage, this man & his remaining crew members were marooned on Jamaica

A

Christopher Columbus

381
Q

EXPLORERS: A sea off Alaska is named for this Danish explorer

A

(Vitus) Bering

382
Q

EXPLORERS: Around 980 he sailed west & named the land he found Greenland

A

Erik the Red

383
Q

EXPLORERS: As part of the topographical corps of the U.S. Army, this “Pathfinder” surveyed the upper Missouri River

A

(John C.) Fremont

384
Q

EXPLORERS: In 1855 he saw the falls Africans called Mosi-oa-Tunya (“smoke that thunders”), which he renamed for his queen

A

(Dr.) Livingstone

385
Q

MINNESOTA…NICE: Though Minnesota is known as the “Land of 10,000” of these, the state’s being modest as usual–about 12,000 is more accurate

A

lakes

386
Q

MINNESOTA…NICE: At this facility you can visit the Sea Life Minnesota Aquarium & do a little shopping, too

A

the Mall of America

387
Q

MINNESOTA…NICE: Paisley Park, his home & recording studio, is in Chanhassen, a suburb of his hometown of Minneapolis

A

Prince

388
Q

MINNESOTA…NICE: The temperature falls in Minnesota, especially in these “Falls” that claim the title “Icebox of the Nation"

A

International Falls

389
Q

SOCIOLOGIST’S GLOSSARY: One definition of these trends is an “amusing mass involvement” that’s short-lived; Hula Hoops & smiley faces are 2 examples

A

a fad

390
Q

SOCIOLOGIST’S GLOSSARY: From the Latin for “absorbed”, it’s the process by which immigrants are absorbed into the majority culture

A

assimilation

391
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SOCIOLOGIST’S GLOSSARY: The counterpart of a certain ceiling, this type of floor prevents screwups born into privilege from falling too far socioeconomically

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the glass floor

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SOCIOLOGIST’S GLOSSARY: Like orders of angels, it’s the arrangement of positions in rank order, with those below reporting to those above

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hierarchy

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SOCIOLOGIST’S GLOSSARY: To us, it means a too-complex system of rules, but to Max Weber, it was an ideal type of hypothetical organization

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bureaucracy

394
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TV MORNING SHOWS: In 2005 Robin Roberts began co-anchoring this show, “GMA” for short

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Good Morning America

395
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TV MORNING SHOWS: The road in the title of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” is this one & they cover the day there from the opening bell

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Wall Street

396
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TV MORNING SHOWS: Ana Patricia Gámez helps wake up the USA’s Spanish speakers on “Despierta América” on this TV network

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Univision

397
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TV MORNING SHOWS: Groundbreaking female hosts of this morning show that premiered in 1952 include Jane Pauley & Barbara Walters

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the TODAY Show

398
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TV MORNING SHOWS: She co-hosts MSNBC’s “Morning Joe"

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Mika Brzezinski

399
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I’VE GOT 2 WORDS FOR YOU: Tarana Burke actually coined this phrase more than a decade ago as a way to help survivors of sexual abuse

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me too

400
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I’VE GOT 2 WORDS FOR YOU: In 2015 Illinois mandated that polling places pass out stickers with these 2 words on Election Day

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I voted

401
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I’VE GOT 2 WORDS FOR YOU: Got milk? Maybe you shouldn’t if you’re this & have trouble digesting the sugar that’s found in it

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lactose intolerant

402
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DRY CLEANING: Dry cleaning got its name because this is not a big part of the process; liquid chemicals are used

A

water

403
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DRY CLEANING: Back in the day, dry cleaning used chemicals including gasoline & this other petroleum product AKA lamp oil

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kerosene

404
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DRY CLEANING: Perchloroethylene is dry cleaners’ go-to as this 7-letter word that makes stains go away

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a solvent

405
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DRY CLEANING: This substance that gives wine & coffee their astringency also leads to tough stains; special detergents help

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tannins

406
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THAT CODEX MOMENT: The codex, an early form of the modern book, began replacing this less wieldy form early in the first millennium A.D.

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a scroll

407
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THAT CODEX MOMENT: The Codex Vaticanus & the codex named for this mount are the earliest known manuscripts of the Bible

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Mount Sinai

408
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THAT CODEX MOMENT: The Madrid Codex is one of a handful of this Mesoamerican culture’s hieroglyphic texts to survive 16th C. Spanish burnings

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the Maya

409
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THAT CODEX MOMENT: The 13th century Codex Regius, containing the Elder Edda, is a national treasure of this country

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Iceland

410
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THAT CODEX MOMENT: The 6th century codex of this great Byzantine Emperor was a compilation & distillation of Roman law

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Justinian

411
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POP CULTURE: This reality show returned to MTV in 2019, with Spencer & Heidi now parents

A

The Hills

412
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POP CULTURE: This alliterative MMORPG released a “Classic” version in 2019 that returns players to Azeroth prior to its many expansions

A

World of Warcraft

413
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POP CULTURE: Taylor Swift’s song “Me!” features Brendon Urie of this band that’s got an exclamation point in its name!

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Panic! at the Disco

414
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POP CULTURE: In “John Wick: Chapter 3”, Keanu kicks butt with Sofia, played by this Oscar-winning actress

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Halle Berry

415
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POP CULTURE: In the comics this town is the rural residence of Li’l Abner

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Dogpatch

416
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AUTOMATONS: Czech writer Karel Capek wrote the play “R.U.R.”. short for “Rossum’s Universal” these automata

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robots

417
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AUTOMATONS: Talos was a mythical giant automaton made of this tin/copper alloy to protect Crete

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bronze

418
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AUTOMATONS: This 2011 Martin Scorsese movie is based on a Brian Selznick book about a boy who fixes an automaton with a secret message

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Hugo

419
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AUTOMATONS: In Offenbach’s opera “Tales of” this man, the writer falls in love with an automaton named Olympia

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Hoffmann

420
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AUTOMATONS: The Hebrew name of this creature made of clay is also a word for an automaton

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a golem

421
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OH OH, 3 O’S: It describes your peepers when they’ve caught the red eye

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bloodshot

422
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OH OH, 3 O’S: The scientific field of Franz Boas & Margaret Mead

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anthropology

423
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OH OH, 3 O’S: It’s the Royal Navy rank just below Rear Admiral

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Commodore

424
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OH OH, 3 O’S: You’ll give a piece of your mind with this brain-cutting operation

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lobotomy

425
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FALL-POURRI: Circleville, Ohio is famous for its fall festival feting these gourds; the biggest one in 2018 was over 1,600 pounds

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a pumpkin

426
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FALL-POURRI: 1978’s “Autumn Sonata” was the last feature film for this actress who won her first Oscar for “Gaslight” in 1945

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Ingrid Bergman

427
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FALL-POURRI: The American Meteorological Society defines it as “a period, in mid- or late autumn, of abnormally warm weather"

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Indian summer

428
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FALL-POURRI: Don’t fear the reaper or this person, found in Keats’ “To Autumn”, who gathers the grain the reaper has left behind

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the Gleaner

429
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LONDON’S BLUE PLAQUES: A blue plaque shows the Soho location where John Logie Baird, a claimant as the inventor of this medium, first demoed it in 1926

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television

430
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LONDON’S BLUE PLAQUES: Though she fought plaque, Lilian Lindsay would have liked the one that honors her as Britain’s 1st woman in this profession

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a dentist

431
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LONDON’S BLUE PLAQUES: He could have said, “I need the 2-wheeled carriage or ‘cab’ named for me to take me home to 27 Sumner Place"

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(Joseph) Hansom

432
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LONDON’S BLUE PLAQUES: A play & 2 movies were titled “The Barretts of” this street & that’s where Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s plaque is

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Wimpole Street

433
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LONDON’S BLUE PLAQUES: This composer of “The Planets” has a plaque on St. Paul’s Girls’ School, where he taught & which is still operating

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Gustav Holst

434
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20th CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN: In her only kids’ book, she says, “There was Rose. Rose was her name & would she have been Rose if her name had not been Rose"

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Gertrude Stein

435
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WHAT PREZ PRECEDED…: James Madison–another Founding Father

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Jefferson

436
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WHAT PREZ PRECEDED…: The surprised John Tyler

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William Henry Harrison

437
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WHAT PREZ PRECEDED…: The surprised Chester Arthur

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Garfield

438
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WHAT PREZ PRECEDED…: Martin Van Buren, & you can take that to the bank

A

Andrew Jackson

439
Q

WHAT PREZ PRECEDED…: Franklin Pierce–a man whose first name is a good bet not to repeat as a presidential one in the near future

A

Millard Fillmore

440
Q

RAINY DAY GEAR: The rain version of this, a sort of blanket with a hole in the center, often comes with an attached hood

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a poncho

441
Q

RAINY DAY GEAR: This waterproof jacket named for its inventor Charles was made of a patented India rubber cloth

A

a mackintosh

442
Q

RAINY DAY GEAR: The Inuit in Greenland wore this weatherproof jacket with an Inuit name

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anorak

443
Q

RAINY DAY GEAR: This British brand known for its plaid-lined raincoats outfitted Amundsen for his 1911 South Pole expedition

A

Burberry

444
Q

HER STORY: Her tale of a boy wizard was rejected by 12 publishers before Bloomsbury picked it up

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J.K. Rowling

445
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HER STORY: From her pen: “The dirty scallawags, the lousy trashy poor whites, boasting they would live at Tara!"

A

(Margaret) Mitchell

446
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HER STORY: She wrote, “Why is this book called ‘Bossypants’? One, because the name ‘Two and a Half Men’ was already taken"

A

(Tina) Fey

447
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HER STORY: In 1969 this young adult novelist published “The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo”; soon, God heard from Margaret

A

Judy Blume

448
Q

OLD SCHOOL MOVIES: Who else but this “SNL” alum, so near & dear to my heart, would go streaking through the quad at Harrison University in “Old School”?

A

Will Ferrell

449
Q

OLD SCHOOL MOVIES: We sing the praises of Barden University & the Bellas from this 2012 film

A

Pitch Perfect

450
Q

OLD SCHOOL MOVIES: Asked incredulously in this film, “You got into Harvard law?”, Elle Woods replies, “What, like it’s hard?"

A

Legally Blonde

451
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OLD SCHOOL MOVIES: In 1998 this actor was “The Waterboy” for South Central Louisiana State until he became a tackling machine on the gridiron

A

Adam Sandler

452
Q

OLD SCHOOL MOVIES: This funnyman got some respect going “Back to School” at Grand Lakes U., I tell ya

A

Rodney Dangerfield

453
Q

IT’S CRUNCH TIME: Oh, this word! When attached to ginger, often indicates a perfectly crispy cookie

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a snap

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IT’S CRUNCH TIME: The navigator of this food brand sails the milky seas on his ship, the S.S. Guppy

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Cap’n Crunch

455
Q

IT’S CRUNCH TIME: Lay’s potato chips that are “cooked” in small batches in one of these are thicker & crunchier than the regular chips

A

kettles

456
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IT’S CRUNCH TIME: This crunchy salad containing apples, celery & mayo was named for the New York hotel where it was created

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Waldorf

457
Q

WORK THOSE “ABS": It’s to hold back from doing something like drinking or voting

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to abstain

458
Q

WORK THOSE “ABS": To pardon or forgive a sin, my son

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absolve

459
Q

WORK THOSE “ABS": According to the title of a 1960s Disney classic, Fred MacMurray was this type of professor

A

absent-minded

460
Q

WORK THOSE “ABS": Bacteria are commonly the cause of one of these painful pockets of pus that may need to be drained

A

abscess

461
Q

WORK THOSE “ABS": It’s a concise summary of an article or speech

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an abstract

462
Q

FLOWER POWER: Van Gogh captured these huge flowers in their August bloom; the yellow background makes the work almost monochromatic

A

sunflowers

463
Q

FLOWER POWER: The oil made from this purple flower is used in perfumes and cosmetics

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lavender

464
Q

FLOWER POWER: The poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” says, “All at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden” these flowers

A

daffodils

465
Q

SO LONG: Hallmark says sales of cards for this anniversary spiked in the early 1990s; Americans had rushed to marry before the boys went to WWII

A

50th anniversary wedding card

466
Q

SO LONG: The anniversary Hanoi celebrated in 2010, or a person born around 1990

A

a millennial

467
Q

SO LONG: If someone says you kept him waiting for these lengths of time, remind him there have only been 4 of them in earth’s 4.6 billion years

A

eons

468
Q

SO LONG: Fed up with economists saying things will return to balance, J.M. Keynes wrote, “In” this extended period “we are all dead"

A

the long run

469
Q

TV PETS: The standard by which all TV pets will forever be measured is this beloved Collie owned by young Timmy Martin

A

Lassie

470
Q

TV PETS: On “Sabrina the Teenage Witch”, her talking black cat had this name, also a historic New England village

A

Salem

471
Q

TV PETS: A sea snail named Gary is the pet of this title burger joint employee

A

SpongeBob SquarePants

472
Q

TV PETS: Moose was the real name of the popular pup called Eddie on this sitcom

A

Frasier

473
Q

TV PETS: Arnold, one of these animals on “Green Acres”, could change the TV channel & play the piano

A

a pig

474
Q

GEOGRAPHICAL NICKNAMES: Norway & Alaska, where there’s 24 hours of light during summer, share the nickname the “Land of” this

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Midnight Sun

475
Q

GEOGRAPHICAL NICKNAMES: After one of its national symbols, this U.K. country is “The Land of the Leek"

A

Wales

476
Q

GEOGRAPHICAL NICKNAMES: In Germany, it’s “The Town of the Pied Piper"

A

Hamelin

477
Q

GEOGRAPHICAL NICKNAMES: This country that’s famous for its cheese & butter is nicknamed “the Dairy of Northern Europe"

A

Denmark

478
Q

SHIP OF THE LINE: "The clangor of that blacksmiths’ fray” is a line by Herman Melville about this ironclad ship’s battle with the Merrimack

A

the Monitor

479
Q

SHIP OF THE LINE: "They say I got away in a boat / and humbled me at the inquiry”, begins Derek Mahon’s “After” this, about a haunted survivor

A

the Titanic

480
Q

SHIP OF THE LINE: "The ship went down like lead” in this Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem about a man haunted by a guilty act

A

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

481
Q

SHIP OF THE LINE: This ship “is unsinkable / that was Hitler’s cry”, ran a WWII-era Royal Navy poem titled “The Sinking of” it

A

the Bismarck

482
Q

SHIP OF THE LINE: "Long time ago, from Amsterdam a vessel sailed away”, begins John Boyle O’Reilly’s poem about this spooky title ship

A

the Flying Dutchman

483
Q

& SOMETIMES Y: A direction takes on a Y & rises as a single-celled fungal organism

A

east & yeast

484
Q

& SOMETIMES Y: A canvas roof extension extends further with a Y to become an action done when drowsy

A

awning & yawning

485
Q

& SOMETIMES Y: Ecclesiastical law approves the addition of a Y to be a steep-sided deep valley

A

canon & canyon

486
Q

& SOMETIMES Y: The occupation of examining accounting records adds a Y & becomes an adjective that pertains to hearing

A

auditor & auditory

487
Q

& SOMETIMES Y: A general term for a musical group adds Y to become a verb meaning to exchange words

A

band & bandy

488
Q

WORLD LEADERS: This man who ruled from 1949 to 1976 was sometimes called “the Red Sun"

A

Mao Zedong (Mao)

489
Q

LEGAL BRIEFS: Defamatory statement in a fixed medium like writing

A

libel

490
Q

LEGAL BRIEFS: President’s ex-lawyer; he lied to Congress; sentenced to 3 years in prison in 2018

A

Michael Cohen

491
Q

LEGAL BRIEFS: Exemption of ambassadors & such from local law enforcement is this 2-word term

A

diplomatic immunity

492
Q

LEGAL BRIEFS: This lawyer: pro-labor, also defended Leopold & Loeb in 1924

A

Clarence Darrow

493
Q

LEGAL BRIEFS: 3-word principle established in 1896; overturned in Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka

A

Separate but equal

494
Q

'60s POP CULTURE: Complete with combat boots & a dog tag, he made his debut at a 1964 toy fair

A

G.I. Joe

495
Q

'60s POP CULTURE: It was the dawning of a New Age in theater with this “Love-Rock Musical” & its much-publicized nudity

A

Hair

496
Q

'60s POP CULTURE: In November 1967 John Lennon appeared on the cover of this music magazine’s first issue

A

Rolling Stone

497
Q

'60s POP CULTURE: At the Oscars in 1969, there was a rare tie for Best Actress between Barbra Streisand & this other legend

A

Katharine Hepburn

498
Q

THE NONFICTION BOOK’S SUBTITLE: With a rhyming title: “The True Story of the Manson Murders"

A

Helter Skelter

499
Q

THE NONFICTION BOOK’S SUBTITLE: "A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything"

A

Freakonomics

500
Q

THE NONFICTION BOOK’S SUBTITLE: About Louis Zamperini: “A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption"

A

Unbroken

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