Season 36 (1501-2000)

Question 1

THE NONFICTION BOOK’S SUBTITLE: By Sheryl Sandberg: “Women, Work, and the Will to Lead"

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Lean In

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THE NONFICTION BOOK’S SUBTITLE: Made into a Jennifer Aniston movie, “The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys"

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He’s Just Not That Into You

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4-WORD EXCHANGE: In a proverb they “flock together"

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birds of a feather

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4-WORD EXCHANGE: In 2010 Congress passed a law ending the ban on openly gay soldiers serving in the military, repealing this 4-word policy

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Dont ask, don’t tell

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4-WORD EXCHANGE: This 4-word phrase is the ordinal equivalent of “The early bird gets the worm"

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First come, first serve

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4-WORD EXCHANGE: At the end of this Shakespeare play, Orlando & Rosalind tie the knot

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As You Like It

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4-WORD EXCHANGE: 4-word phrase that’s the title of a 2002 book about Ronco & Popeil products like the Veg-O-matic

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but wait, there’s more

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HISTORIC NAMES: On May 29, 1953 he left a crucifix on the summit of Mount Everest; his companion left a food offering

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(Edmund) Hillary

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HISTORIC NAMES: Given to 2 continents, the name of this explorer previously belonged to his grandfather

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Amerigo Vespucci

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HISTORIC NAMES: The Tribune (not a newspaper but a guy named Clodius) got this orator exiled from Rome in 58 B.C.

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Cicero

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HISTORIC NAMES: The international airport serving Jackson, Mississippi is named for this civil rights leader, assassinated in 1963

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(Medgar) Evers

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ENFANTS TERRIBLES: If young Jacques fusses in his crib, hang a musical one of these from Moulin Roty to calm him

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a mobile

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ENFANTS TERRIBLES: Noelle needs juice now–get her favorite, Blédina’s pommes raisins, made from these 2 fruits

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apples & grapes

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ENFANTS TERRIBLES: French moms use Mitosyl when cranky babies are suffering from this skin irritation named for something they wear

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diaper rash

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ENFANTS TERRIBLES: Little Antoine can think about his ways, during une mise à l’écart temporaire, what we in the States know as this

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a time-out

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MAGIC & ILLUSION: Giving a lot of bang for your buck in the 1920s, he presented magic, illusions, escapes & phony mediums exposed

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Houdini

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MAGIC & ILLUSION: On “The Big Bang Theory”, this notably silent magician played Amy’s dad & actually had a line–“Thank you!"

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Teller

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MAGIC & ILLUSION: In 1983 an onlooker said, “I have never seen a Statue of Liberty disappear the way this one did”, courtesy of this performer

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Copperfield

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MAGIC & ILLUSION: On April 5, 1999 this magician was “Buried Alive” in a plexiglass coffin under a 3-ton water tank & stayed for 7 days

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(David) Blaine

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MAGIC & ILLUSION: He said throwing 2 cards so they stick in the same spot in a watermelon was a “feat so impressive, I am forced to mention it myself"

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(Ricky) Jay

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TV-POURRI: Season 3 of this streaming show about a blind superhero featured a nearly 11-minute, single-take prison riot scene

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Daredevil

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TV-POURRI: On TruTv he’s just being truthful, but he “Ruins Everything"

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Adam

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TV-POURRI: The house that stood in for this home of the Crawleys was remodeled by Sir Charles Barry, who also built the Houses of Parliament

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Downton Abbey

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TV-POURRI: In 2018 Kaycee Clark was the ultimate head of household, winning $500,000 on this reality show

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Big Brother

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SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST: In 1986, shortly before his death, this pop artist completed 6 “Fright Wig” self-portraits in acrylic & silkscreen ink

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(Andy) Warhol

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SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST: A grandson of Sigmund, he made a self-portrait with a black eye that sold for over $4 million in 2010

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Lucian Freud

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"OB”SCURE WORDS: Greek for a pointed pillar gives us this word for a pointed pillar

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obelisk

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"OB”SCURE WORDS: To confuse or make obscure

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obfuscate

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"OB”SCURE WORDS: A sycophant is obedient as well as this servile adjective

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obsequious

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"OB”SCURE WORDS: French phrase for something of aesthetic value

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objet d’art

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"OB”SCURE WORDS: The abdominal external these muscles are used in a side bend

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obliques

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PUT THE ASTRONAUTS ON THE MISSION: Fred Haise, James Lovell, Jack Swigert handled some problems on this mission

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Apollo 13

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PUT THE ASTRONAUTS ON THE MISSION: Robert Cabana & a crew of 5 made the 1998 first docking here

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the International Space Station

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PUT THE ASTRONAUTS ON THE MISSION: Pete Conrad, Joseph Kerwin & Paul Weitz were on the 1973 first visit to this, which burned up 6 years later

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Skylab

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LANGUAGE ISOLATES: You might think this tongue of the Pyrenees would be related to French or Spanish, but not really

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Basque

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LANGUAGE ISOLATES: Written in cuneiform in Ur, this oldest written language was an isolate

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Sumerian

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LANGUAGE ISOLATES: Kutenai is an isolate spoken in the Kootenay region of this Canadian province, near its eastern border with Alberta

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British Columbia

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LANGUAGE ISOLATES: Japanese has supplanted the isolate spoken by this 4-letter indigenous people of Hokkaido

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Ainu

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MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS: The soundtrack of this 2018 film has “Material Girl” & “Money (That’s What I Want)” in Chinese & English

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Crazy Rich Asians

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AROUND THE WORLD: The 3,000-room Royal Palace in this city is the official residence of the Spanish royal family, but they don’t live there

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Madrid

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AROUND THE WORLD: These 2 colorful rivers join together just north of Khartoum, Sudan

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the Blue & White Nile

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AROUND THE WORLD: Studying the earth-moving capabilities of earthworms in 1877, Charles Darwin dug holes in Salisbury Plain at this landmark

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Stonehenge

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ENABLING COOKIES: The Facebook page of this century-old brand of sandwich cookie has more than 42 million “likes"

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Oreo

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ENABLING COOKIES: A little elf told me that this brand makes E.L. Fudge, but obviously, that elf was slacking & should get back to work

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Keebler

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ENABLING COOKIES: This Nabisco brand went cage-free on its box covers in 2018

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Animal Crackers

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ENABLING COOKIES: This Nestle cookie named for a Massachusetts inn dates to the 1930s

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a Toll House

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ENABLING COOKIES: These Girl Scout cookies are known as the “Cradle of Polynesia"

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Samoas

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WEIRD SPORTS STUFF: It’s not about hunting–these rights that get NBA teams around the salary cap are named for Larry

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Bird rights

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WEIRD SPORTS STUFF: 2 ketchup bottles top the scoreboard of “The Big Ketchup Bottle”, this home to the Pittsburgh Steelers

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Heinz Field

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WEIRD SPORTS STUFF: Bodexpress didn’t win this 2019 race, the second in the Triple Crown, but did finish–not bad for running with no jockey

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the Preakness

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WEIRD SPORTS STUFF: One letter off from a big web company, it’s a cricket ball thrown with unusual spin

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googly

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WEIRD SPORTS STUFF: Lionel Messi is diminutive & a pest to those he faces, so he is dubbed “La Pulga”, or this in English

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The Flea

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CLUE “N” RESPONSE: Joan Jett sang “I love” this

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"I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll"

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CLUE “N” RESPONSE: With this product you toss your chicken in a bag with bread crumbs before it goes in the oven

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Shake ‘n Bake

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CLUE “N” RESPONSE: Beginning in 2016, this Axl Rose band’s “Not in This Lifetime” tour played to more than 5 million fans

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Guns N’ Roses

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CLUE “N” RESPONSE: The name of this Clairol hair color brand emphasizes how simple it is

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Nice ‘N Easy

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CLUE “N” RESPONSE: This rap duo throws a pajama jammy jam in “House Party 2"

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Kid ‘n Play

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DOUBLE TALK: It weighed 50 pounds, had small, useless wings & was extinct by the end of the 17th century

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the dodo

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DOUBLE TALK: Proverbially, hindsight is said to be this designation of normal vision

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20/20

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DOUBLE TALK: A chocolate candy with a fruit, cream or nut center

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bonbon

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DOUBLE TALK: Give me the name of Ossining, New York’s correctional facility, ya mug

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Sing Sing

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LESSER-KNOWN BROTHERS: Last name of 18th century printer James, who used the pen name “Poor Robin” for some of his almanacs

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Franklin

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LESSER-KNOWN BROTHERS: Last name of Louisiana privateer Pierre, who died following a skirmish in 1821; brother Jean outlived him

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Lafitte

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LESSER-KNOWN BROTHERS: In a song beloved by 1940s Red Sox fans, this name rhymes with “better than his brother Joe"

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DiMaggio

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LESSER-KNOWN BROTHERS: Al Capone’s oldest brother, a lawman who went by “Two-Gun” Hart, was known for pursuing these prohibition violators

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bootleggers

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LESSER-KNOWN BROTHERS: With the new idea of using steel, Ludvig Nobel built the first modern one of these oil-carrying ships

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a tanker

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THIS SIDE OF PARODIES: One of many efforts at parodying this play says, “To wed, or not to wed… for in that married life what fights may come…"

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Hamlet

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THIS SIDE OF PARODIES: The “Batracho-Myomachia”, or “Battle of Frogs & Mice”, is an ancient parody of this epic

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The Iliad

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THIS SIDE OF PARODIES: We follow not a baby bird but a young woman in “Are You My Boyfriend?”, a twist on this 1960 kids’ book

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Are You My Mother?

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THIS SIDE OF PARODIES: First published anonymously, this author’s “The Rape of the Lock” from 1712 is a mock-heroic narrative poem

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(Alexander) Pope

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THIS SIDE OF PARODIES: In this novel about Catherine Morland, Jane Austen parodied Gothic tales of terror

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Northanger Abbey

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NEWSPAPERS: The latest news about Starbucks can be found in this city’s Post-Intelligencer

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Seattle

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NEWSPAPERS: In 1982 the Gannett Co. started publishing this national newspaper

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USA Today

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NEWSPAPERS: Times have changed: a 1924 New York Times opinion column called this word game “a primitive sort of mental exercise"

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a crossword

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NEWSPAPERS: Now online only, this daily still holds to Mary Baker Eddy’s rule that there be one religious article each weekday

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The Christian Science Monitor

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NEWSPAPERS: This family with its name on a spelling bee & an oceanographic institution got into publishing with the Cleveland Penny Press

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Scripps

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THE REIGN OF KING CHARLES II: Charles II’s enthronement as king in 1660 was called the Restoration–it restored this royal family

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the Stuart

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THE REIGN OF KING CHARLES II: Smoothing his return, Charles II’s Declaration of Breda granted one of these for crimes against “us or our royal father"

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a pardon

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THE REIGN OF KING CHARLES II: These 2 “Great” historic afflictions hit London in 1665 & 1666

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Great Fire & the Plague

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BIOLOGY: 4-letter word for an organism that provides sustenance to one or more parasites

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the host

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BIOLOGY: Descendants of these cells, progenitor cells have their own medical potential but are more limited in what tissue they can become

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stem cells

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BIOLOGY: In invertebrates, this outermost layer of the skin is usually only one cell thick

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the epidermis

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BIOLOGY: In most mollusks a trochophore is the animal at this juvenile stage that looks very different from the adult

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the larva stage

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BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS: Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian helped propel this 1935 film to best picture, the first remake to win the Oscar

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Mutiny on the Bounty

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BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS: It was Oscar’s kind of town for 2002

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Chicago

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BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS: Professor, author, critic & PBS host Henry Louis Gates Jr. served as a consultant on this 2013 film

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12 Years a Slave

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BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS: This recent winner began as an attempt to remake “The Creature From the Black Lagoon"

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The Shape of Water

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BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS: Johnny Hooker got the help of “the greatest con artist of them all” as this 1973 pic stole away with the Oscar

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The Sting

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WORDS IN ICELANDIC: To annul

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cancel

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WORDS IN ICELANDIC: A tribe of highlanders

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clan

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WORDS IN ICELANDIC: In the winter of 2010, a 27-foot-long one was seen hanging under a Scottish bridge

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icicle

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WORDS IN ICELANDIC: Carrying a burden

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laden

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WORDS IN ICELANDIC: This African antelope is right there in the middle

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eland

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THE POSTCOLONIAL WORLD: This African nation left the British Commonwealth in 2003 over sanctions on its undemocratic government; in 2018 it applied to rejoin

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Zimbabwe

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MUSICAL LEGENDS: On Sept. 25, 1970 she recorded “Me And Bobby McGee”; on October 4 she died

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(Janis) Joplin

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MUSICAL LEGENDS: This country crossover star’s Top 40 hits included “Rhinestone Cowboy” & “Wichita Lineman"

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Glen Campbell

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STARTS & ENDS WITH “P": It’s a person’s style of handwriting; a doctor’s is stereotypically poor

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penmanship

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STARTS & ENDS WITH “P": At the 2018 Indy 500 Scott Dixon’s crew won the challenge named for this break for service

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pit stop

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STARTS & ENDS WITH “P": Ogden Nash called this root vegetable “an anemic beet"

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a parsnip

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STARTS & ENDS WITH “P": On a Vegas-set reality series, Rick Harrison buys, sells & appraises items of historical value in this kind of establishment

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a pawn shop

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STARTS & ENDS WITH “P": The main building block of coral is this tiny organism

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a polyp

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QUOTABLE NOTABLES: Archimedes was referring to this simple machine when he said, “Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth"

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a lever

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QUOTABLE NOTABLES: F. Scott Fitzgerald warned that using this punctuation mark “is like laughing at your own joke"

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an exclamation mark

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QUOTABLE NOTABLES: From this place, George Washington wrote his soldiers were unfit for duty because they were “barefoot and otherwise naked"

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Valley Forge

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QUOTABLE NOTABLES: This French microbiologist said, “Chance favors only the prepared mind"

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Pasteur

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QUOTABLE NOTABLES: In the 1940s this British novelist said “The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world"

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George Orwell

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CANADIAN NATIONAL STUFF, EH?: If you’re having trouble remembering these 2 national colors of Canada, think of the flag

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red & white

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CANADIAN NATIONAL STUFF, EH?: Canada’s motto is “a Mari usque ad Mare”, translated as “from” this “to” this

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sea

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CANADIAN NATIONAL STUFF, EH?: Whether it’s silver or bigleaf, Canada’s national tree is this

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the maple

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CANADIAN NATIONAL STUFF, EH?: This rodent became a national symbol in 1975

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the beaver

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CANADIAN NATIONAL STUFF, EH?: The national anthem “O Canada” was first sung in 1880 here, Canada’s only walled city

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Quebec City

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OUR HOME: We like the pool, but now it’s time for some bubbly in our J-500 one of these that “defines the hot tub experience"

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a Jacuzzi

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OUR HOME: We have this directional exposure–it’s great for the solar panels & Architectural Digest says it’s best “for bright light all day"

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southern

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OUR HOME: We’ve got an extra sink & plenty of storage between the kitchen & dining room in the “pantry” named for this worker

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a butler

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OUR HOME: This French phrase meaning “following” is used to describe a bathroom that connects to a bedroom

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en suite

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& NATIVE LAND: Musician Ravi Shankar

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India

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& NATIVE LAND: President to some, not so much to others Nicolás Maduro

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Venezuela

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& NATIVE LAND: The whiskey-wanting Greta Garbo

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Sweden

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& NATIVE LAND: Painter with a pipe dream René Magritte

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Belgium

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& NATIVE LAND: Nobel Peace Prize winner F.W. de Klerk

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South Africa

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BAN THAT BOOK!: A book about George, who takes the new name Melissa, earned some bans but also one of these Greek-letter awards AKA the Lammys

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the Lambda Award

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BAN THAT BOOK!: This Stowe novel was banned in parts of the slave-holding South & in serf-holding Russia

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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BAN THAT BOOK!: Forget the love story–Pasternak’s “Dr. Zhivago” was banned in the USSR until 1987 because of its portrayal of this commie faction

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the Bolsheviks

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BAN THAT BOOK!: Due to its alleged obscenity, in 1957 U.S. Customs seized 520 copies of this Allen Ginsberg poem printed in England

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"Howl"

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BAN THAT BOOK!: The 1722 novel “Moll Flanders” by this author has been taken off shelves for lewdness

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Daniel Defoe

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ACCENTS: A 2019 survey ranked this island nation as having the sexiest accent; nearby Australia ranked fifth

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New Zealand

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ACCENTS: In Latin America, this word of thanks is pronounced with a soft “C”; in most of Spain, the “C” is said as a “th"

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gracias

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ACCENTS: Ewan McGregor called the Midwest accent he used for this TV show based on a movie the hardest one he’d ever done

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Fargo

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ACCENTS: Scouse, the accent for this port city on England’s West Coast, comes from lobscouse, a sailor’s dish

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Liverpool

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ACCENTS: It’s another word for an Irish accent

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a brogue

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GAME OF CLONES: Using cloned DNA worked out just super-duper in this 1993 film… well, for its producers, not its characters

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Jurassic Park

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GAME OF CLONES: This man returned to the “Star Wars” universe in animated form, voicing Mace Windu in “The Clone Wars"

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Samuel L. Jackson

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GAME OF CLONES: Sarah, Helena & Cosima were but some of the “Clone Club” played by this actress on “Orphan Black"

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Tatiana Maslany

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GAME OF CLONES: This author was able to revive the character Duncan Idaho when he introduced clones called ghola in “Dune Messiah"

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(Frank) Herbert

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AMERICAN HISTORY: "Insure domestic tranquility” & “secure the blessings of liberty” are lines from this historic document

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the Constitution

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AMERICAN HISTORY: In the 1760s these 2 surveyors marked the boundary between Maryland & Pennsylvania

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Mason and Dixon

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AMERICAN HISTORY: Woeful economic conditions helped reduce immigration from 4.2 million the decade before to less than 700,000 in this decade

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the 1930s

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AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1868 the House of Representatives voted 126 to 47 to impeach this man

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(Andrew) Johnson

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THE GENDER-FREE OPTION: One suggestion for this chess piece: deputy sovereign

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queen

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THE GENDER-FREE OPTION: We could call this “parental” computer component a primary circuit board

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a motherboard

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THE GENDER-FREE OPTION: You can use this 6-letter term rather than Latina or Latino

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Latinx

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THE GENDER-FREE OPTION: How about “synthetic” or “artificial” instead of this hyphenated adjective

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man-made

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THE GENDER-FREE OPTION: To describe those who came before us, these “bears” are less patriarchal than these “fathers"

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forebears

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"T” BIRDS: In 1784 Ben Franklin panned the bald eagle as a U.S. national symbol, preferring this bird instead

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the turkey

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"T” BIRDS: This small duck shares its name with a bluish-green color

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a teal duck

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"T” BIRDS: This swan is named for its low-pitched call

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a trumpeter swan

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"T” BIRDS: Scarlet is one species of this songbird

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the scarlet tanager

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U.S. CITIES: Named for the ore once mined there, this city at an altitude of 10,152 feet is home to the National Mining Hall of Fame & Museum

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Leadville

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A TREE GROWS IN BOOK LAND: The Whomping Willow does its whomping on the grounds of this castle

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Hogwarts

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A TREE GROWS IN BOOK LAND: The party tree that grew in this Middle-Earth land was the location of Bilbo’s farewell speech

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the Shire

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A TREE GROWS IN BOOK LAND: Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree” gives these fruits & more to a thoughtless boy

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an apple

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A TREE GROWS IN BOOK LAND: "It was a right motley company that gathered about the noble greenwood tree in Sherwood’s depths” in an 1883 tale of this hero

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Robin Hood

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A TREE GROWS IN BOOK LAND: After this title character accepts Rochester’s proposal, lightning splits a chestnut tree at Thornfield Hall

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Jane Eyre

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21st CENTURY TELEVISION: Fans of this show called it “The Jack Bauer Power Hour"

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24

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21st CENTURY TELEVISION: Casey Webb has taken over for Adam Richman on this travel channel show that pits humanity against digestion

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Man v. Food

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21st CENTURY TELEVISION: Justin Timberlake & Frankie Muniz were the first 2 victims on this MTV prank show

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Punk’d

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21st CENTURY TELEVISION: As Sydney Bristow on “Alias”, this actress worked for SD-6 & the CIA

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(Jennifer) Garner

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21st CENTURY TELEVISION: Amybeth McNulty stars in the series “Anne with an E”, a grittier take on this 1908 Canadian novel

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Anne of Green Gables

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BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: At the gov.uk site in the Past Prime Ministers section, there is only one listed as “Baroness”–this person

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Margaret Thatcher

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BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: Before his PM-ship Robert Peel organized the London police force & his nickname gave the cops this moniker

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Bobbies

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BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: A few months after quitting as prime minister in 2016, this Conservative gave up his seat in the House of Commons

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(David) Cameron

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BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: With the 1938 Munich Agreement, this PM granted most of Hitler’s demands & left Czechoslovakia to its fate

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(Neville) Chamberlain

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BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: A giant of 19th century politics as well as a novelist, he was the first man of Jewish ancestry to be prime minister

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Disraeli

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WHAT DO YOU LOVE?: Oenophile: Drink up!

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wine

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WHAT DO YOU LOVE?: Cinephile

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movies

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WHAT DO YOU LOVE?: Ornithophile

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birds

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WHAT DO YOU LOVE?: Theophile

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God

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WHAT DO YOU LOVE?: Heliophile

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the Sun

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COMMA, COMMA, COMMA, COMMA, COMMA: The comma as we know it came to be around 1500, not by an author, but rather by one of these putting out Greek classics

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a printing press

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COMMA, COMMA, COMMA, COMMA, COMMA: On keyboards you’ll find a comma by itself & as part of this other punctuation mark

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a semicolon

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COMMA, COMMA, COMMA, COMMA, COMMA: The comma named for this school often precedes the words “and” & “or"

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the Oxford comma

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CHAMELEON: "Karma Chameleon” was a No. 1 Hit in 1983 for this alliterative U.K. band fronted by Boy George

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Culture Club

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CHAMELEON: About half the world’s species of chameleon live on this large African island, with dozens existing nowhere else

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Madagascar

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CHAMELEON: In the 2011 animated film “Rango”, this swashbuckling actor voices the title chameleon

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(Johnny) Depp

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CHAMELEON: To catch prey, chameleons can extend this to a distance nearly twice their body length

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their tongue

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CHAMELEON: Some lizards can lose a tail & not worry much, but chameleons don’t have the ability to regrow body parts via this process

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regeneration

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BRIDGES GALORE!: In 1971 this bridge went from crossing the Thames to crossing the Colorado

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London Bridge

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BRIDGES GALORE!: Spanning 6 miles over 5 islands, the Great Seto Bridge connects Shikoku to this main Japanese island

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Honshu

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BRIDGES GALORE!: Not far from Davos, this nation’s Sunniberg Bridge is thin, so as not to obstruct the view

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Switzerland

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BRIDGES GALORE!: The Kennedy Bridge in Niamey crosses this river with the same name as the country

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Niger

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POTPOURRI: Chemists say roasting is the key factor driving bitter taste in this beverage; wake up & smell it!

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coffee

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POTPOURRI: One who appears on a document transferring the title to realty may be “a friend in” this

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deed

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POTPOURRI: You can climb the Hangayn Mountains in this country that’s sandwiched between China & Russia

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Mongolia

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POTPOURRI: This Boston store’s “Basement” was famous for its 1-day wedding gown sale dubbed the “Running of the Brides"

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Filene’s

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POTPOURRI: This little metal piece at the front of a gun barrel acts as a sight; marksmen “draw” it when they line up a target

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a bead

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MOVING THE SAINTS: Swiped from the Holy Land, the reputed head of this decapitated saint is on display on a silver plate at Amiens Cathedral

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John the Baptist

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MOVING THE SAINTS: This saint venerated in December was buried in Asia Minor but stolen & moved to Italy; reputed bits of him have turned up all over

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(Saint) Nicholas

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MOVING THE SAINTS: In 2004 bones of 2 saints taken from Constantinople to Rome were returned by the pope to this church’s patriarch

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Eastern Orthodox

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MOVING THE SAINTS: According to tradition, St. Mark’s remains were stolen from Alexandria, taken to this European city, lost & rediscovered

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Venice

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MOVING THE SAINTS: A Louisville church displays almost half of the skeleton of St. Magnus, said to be a martyred one of these Roman legionary officers

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a centurion

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ON THE “B”-LIST: Equilibrium

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balance

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ON THE “B”-LIST: It’s said to be the “soul of wit"

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brevity

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ON THE “B”-LIST: The late, great Bill Monroe was considered “The Father of” this type of music

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Bluegrass

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ON THE “B”-LIST: This 5-letter word for the verge of catastrophe also means the edge of a steep drop

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brink

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ON THE “B”-LIST: This word for troops camping outside comes from a German word for “extra watch"

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bivouac

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CLASSICAL MUSIC: In 1787 he gave us a little gem called “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"

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Mozart

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CLASSICAL MUSIC: This piece by Tchaikovsky depicts Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow

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the 1812 Overture

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CLASSICAL MUSIC: Joseph Haydn helped create this orchestral form & wrote more than 100 of them, many with nicknames like “The Hen"

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symphonies

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CLASSICAL MUSIC: In this piece, the oboe & bassoon help depict a celebration on the treeless mount Triglav

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"A Night On Bald Mountain"

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GIVING AWAY THE MOVIE’S ENDING: Jack Skellington from Halloween Town tries to take over a holiday that’s later in the year

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Christmas

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GIVING AWAY THE MOVIE’S ENDING: During WWII 2 sisters join the first professional baseball league for women

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Own

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GIVING AWAY THE MOVIE’S ENDING: From 1936, it warned how one puff of marijuana could lead to insanity & death

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Madness

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GIVING AWAY THE MOVIE’S ENDING: Professor Henry Jones is called back into action to uncover the secret of ancient craniums

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Skull

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GIVING AWAY THE MOVIE’S ENDING: Brad Pitt plays Jesse James at what turns out to be the end of his life

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Ford

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FEMALE MUSIC SUPERSTARS: With more than 30 Top 10 albums since 1963, this singer-actress ranks No. 1 among the Billboard 200’s Greatest Women Artists of All Time

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Barbra Streisand

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GOVERNMENT ABCs: Its headquarters & many of its labs are in Atlanta: CDC

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Centers for Disease Control

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GOVERNMENT ABCs: In 2017 Alexander Acosta became its new head: DOL

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the Department of Labor

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GOVERNMENT ABCs: It’s issued by the president: EO

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an executive order

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GOVERNMENT ABCs: It was established in 1934, 5 years after the big stock market crash: SEC

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the Securities and Exchange Commission

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GOVERNMENT ABCs: Much of the acreage controlled by this agency is in Alaska & the western states: BLM

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the Bureau of Land Management

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SPORTS ALL IN THE FAMILY: It’s the last name of golfing sisters Annika & Charlotta

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Sorenstam

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SPORTS ALL IN THE FAMILY: This racing dynasty includes Mario, son Michael & grandson Marco

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the Andrettis

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E BEFORE I: Mark 12:31 instructs, “Thou shalt love” this person

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your neighbor

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E BEFORE I: To pretend to an emotion; it’s often found before “indifference"

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feign

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E BEFORE I: A prized family memento passed down from one generation to another

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an heirloom

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E BEFORE I: This main protein in milk & cheese was widely used in glues & plastics

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casein

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E BEFORE I: Numbering more than 1,000, these stellar sisters are found in Taurus

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the Pleiades

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I BLESS THE RAINS: Between a primary & secondary one of these in the sky is a region called Alexander’s dark band

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a rainbow

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I BLESS THE RAINS: Chac was the Mayan god of rain; Tlaloc, whose name means “he who makes things sprout”, was rain god for these people

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the Aztec

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I BLESS THE RAINS: In 2018 this Rivers Cuomo band had Toto recall with a hit cover, singing, “I bless the rains down in Africa"

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Weezer

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I BLESS THE RAINS: Rainfall in this area covering 2 million square miles & 9 countries has topped 120 inches some years

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the Amazon (rainforest)

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I BLESS THE RAINS: Though this weather system can cause terrible flooding, as in Gujarat in 2005, people depend on its rain for their water

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the monsoons

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DOWN IN AFRICA: This capital of Kenya lies at an elevation of 5,500 feet, making it a natural sister city to Denver

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Nairobi

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DOWN IN AFRICA: Species that need protection include this animal–Africa has fewer of them than their shorter pal the elephant

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the giraffe

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DOWN IN AFRICA: This north African country belonged to France for about 130 years, until 1962

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Algeria

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DOWN IN AFRICA: The San, formerly called Bushmen, mainly in this desert, are the oldest population group of southern Africa

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the Kalahari

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THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON: The march was held in 1963 & one of the speeches mentioned the 100th anniversary of this document

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the Emancipation Proclamation

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THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON: The organizers intended the march to bring attention to this bill, eventually signed by LBJ

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the Civil Rights Act

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THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON: 10 times Martin Luther King spoke these 3 words that end the first verse of “My Country, ‘Tis Of Thee"

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Let freedom ring

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THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON: One of the few female speakers at the event was this woman famous for her performances at the Folies-Bergere

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Josephine Baker

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: In 2019 this letter-perfect Dutch airline celebrates its centenary

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KLM

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: This Swiss food & chocolate company owns brands like Purina & Gerber baby food

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Nestlé

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: In 1900 this Japanese company began producing upright pianos; motorcycles came along more than half a century later

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Yamaha

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: Originally founded as a grocery store, today this London icon boasts more than 100 departments & about 20 restaurants

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Harrods

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: State-owned & known by this 5-letter name for short, Mexico’s largest company is this oil concern

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Pemex

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ODD WORDS: A tittle is that little dot you place over these 2 lowercase letters

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"I” & “J"

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ODD WORDS: Equitation is the art of riding this

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a horse

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ODD WORDS: Drupe, the term for a fleshy fruit with a single pit, like a cherry, comes from Latin for this small, oily Mediterranean fruit

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an olive

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ODD WORDS: It sounds like a geometric figure, but this 7-letter word means resembling the walking dead

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zomboid

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A POETIC GEOGRAPHY LESSON: "Hail to thee, monarch of African mountains”, begins Bayard Taylor’s verse about this peak

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Kilimanjaro

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A POETIC GEOGRAPHY LESSON: Bessie Rayner Parkes described this Scottish region as “hills that were born of ages… like monuments to mighty gods"

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the Highlands

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A POETIC GEOGRAPHY LESSON: Longfellow’s line “On the shores of Gitche Gumee” from “The Song of Hiawatha” refers to this Great Lake

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Lake Superior

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A POETIC GEOGRAPHY LESSON: Switzerland’s “Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face”, mused this poet in “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage"

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Byron

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A POETIC GEOGRAPHY LESSON: George Prentice’s poem “Lookout Mountain” recounts the 1863 battle for this Tennessee city

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Chattanooga

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BOTANISTS: Luther Burbank developed what is known as the Burbank or Idaho type of this

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a potato

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BOTANISTS: This former slave & botany whiz turned down offers to work for Thomas Edison & Joseph Stalin

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George Washington Carver

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BOTANISTS: 1970 Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug developed a dwarf type of this grain that greatly reduced famine

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wheat

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BOTANISTS: Knott’s Berry Farm got its signature berries from this horticulturist; the berry is named for him

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(Rudolph) Boysen

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TV SHOW “ME": Time magazine’s November 23, 1970 cover called this show still popular today “TV’s gift to children"

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Sesame Street

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TV SHOW “ME": Ben Savage was the title “Boy” of this ’90s sitcom

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Boy Meets World

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TV SHOW “ME": Patricia Arquette won an Emmy as the title crime solver on this show

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Medium

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TV SHOW “ME": We found out the Almighty is on Facebook on this Brandon Micheal Hall show on CBS

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God Friended Me

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TV SHOW “ME": This 1997-2003 sitcom starring David Spade & Laura San Giacomo was set at a fashion magazine

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Just Shoot Me!

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1930s NOVEL CHARACTERS: Prior to a murder in a 1934 book, he says he hasn’t been a detective since 1927 & that his wife inherited a lumber mill

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Nick Charles

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WHAT’S YOUR ADDRESS?: 11 Wall Street, New York, New York

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the New York Stock Exchange

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WHAT’S YOUR ADDRESS?: It rises above the Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole France, Paris

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the Eiffel Tower

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WHAT’S YOUR ADDRESS?: His presidential library, museum & boyhood home: 200 SE 4th Street, Abilene, Kansas

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Eisenhower

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WHAT’S YOUR ADDRESS?: All 12 columns of it are found at Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin

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the Brandenburg Gate

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WHAT’S YOUR ADDRESS?: A famous estate: 1 Lodge Street, Asheville, North Carolina

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the Biltmore house

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VEHICULAR ACTIVITY: There’s a kind of plane in this word for traveling to exotic places & living a luxury lifestyle

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jet-setting

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VEHICULAR ACTIVITY: Bump & rob (a driver rear-ends you, you stop & get out…) is a technique in this form of auto theft

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carjacking

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VEHICULAR ACTIVITY: Nautical idiom meaning to complain when people wish you’d keep quiet & not make waves

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not rock the boat (Don’t rock the boat)

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VEHICULAR ACTIVITY: Trying to supervise every aspect of your kid’s life is this sky vehicle “parenting"

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helicopter parenting

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VEHICULAR ACTIVITY: Trying to remove every obstacle from your kid’s path is this winter vehicle “parenting"

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snowplow

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20th CENTURY NAMES: In June 1914 he was assassinated in Bosnia by Gavrilo Princip

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(Franz) Ferdinand

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20th CENTURY NAMES: Michael Collins, a hero of the Irish struggle for independence, fought in the 1916 rebellion named for this holiday

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Easter

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20th CENTURY NAMES: Reading the book “The Rocket Into Interplanetary Space” changed the life of this German who went on to be a rocket scientist

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(Wernher) von Braun

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CELEBRITY-INSPIRED PRODUCTS: This pop singer whose last name is a Starbucks drink size helped create Starbucks’ cloud macchiato

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Ariana Grande

Question 269

CELEBRITY-INSPIRED PRODUCTS: LeBron James helped develop a special mix of this lemon-lime soda, adding cherry & orange flavors

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Sprite

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CELEBRITY-INSPIRED PRODUCTS: Blake’s Smokehouse BBQ pizza from Pizza Hut was inspired by this country music star

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(Blake) Shelton

Question 271

CELEBRITY-INSPIRED PRODUCTS: Vitaminwater created the Formula 50 flavor for this rapper

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50 Cent

Question 272

CELEBRITY-INSPIRED PRODUCTS: In 2018 this colorful candy brand beloved by NFL great Marshawn Lynch put his face on its packaging

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Skittles

Question 273

DANCE AT THE WEDDING: Heading to a wedding in Epirus? Better practice the 12 steps of the kalamatianos, this country’s national dance

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Greece

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DANCE AT THE WEDDING: Beginning as a Hasidic melody, “Hava Nagila” has become a tune for this best-known Israeli folk dance

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the hora

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DANCE AT THE WEDDING: For their first dance as man & wife, Prince Harry & Meghan Markle reportedly chose this fitting 1987 Whitney Houston hit

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"I Wanna Dance With Somebody"

Question 276

DANCE AT THE WEDDING: At Mexican weddings, single women dance near the bride during the lanzar el ramo, or throw of this

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the bouquet

Question 277

HAVE AN AGUILA!: "Águila” is Spanish for one of these birds

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an eagle

Question 278

HAVE AN AGUILA!: Mr. Águila is a famed luchador, one of these entertaining athletes

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a wrestler

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HAVE AN AGUILA!: In both 1915 & 1941 British passenger ships named SS Aguila were sunk by these vessels

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submarines

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HAVE AN AGUILA!: Atlético Nacional & Independiente Medellín compete in Liga Águila, this country’s top soccer league

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Colombia

Question 281

HAVE AN AGUILA!: Population 798, Aguila, Arizona lies just northwest of Phoenix in this most-populous Arizona county

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Maricopa

Question 282

SHAKE HANDS WITH SHAKESPEARE: "First, Marcus Brutus, will I shake with you; next, Caius Cassius, do I take your hand”, says Antony in this play

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Julius Caesar

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SHAKE HANDS WITH SHAKESPEARE: "I hold it fit that we shake hands and part”, says Hamlet to this faithful buddy in act I

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Horatio

Question 284

SHAKE HANDS WITH SHAKESPEARE: In the play about this title guy, Helicanus, a lord of Tyre, says, “Then you love us, we you, and we’ll clasp hands"

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Pericles

Question 285

SHAKE HANDS WITH SHAKESPEARE: "Take me by the hand, and say ‘Harry of England, I am thine’” is how this title king proposes to Katherine

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Henry V

Question 286

SHAKE HANDS WITH SHAKESPEARE: "Time is like a fashionable host that slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand”, says Ulysses in this Troy-set play

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Troilus and Cressida

Question 287

YOUNGER THAN THE SIMPSONS: This video-sharing service premiered in 2005 & was sold to Google a year later for $1.6 billion

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YouTube

Question 288

YOUNGER THAN THE SIMPSONS: This pro sport introduced wild card teams into its playoff system in 1995

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baseball (Major League Baseball)

Question 289

YOUNGER THAN THE SIMPSONS: Rumbacise was the original name of this exercise program introduced in the 1990s by Colombian dancer Beto Pérez

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Zumba

Question 290

YOUNGER THAN THE SIMPSONS: Robert James Waller got the idea for this bestselling book when he was taking pictures in Iowa in the early 1990s

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The Bridges of Madison County

Question 291

BEHIND THE MUSICAL TITLE: This Broadway musical’s title refers to the fabulous new footwear at the Price & Sons factory in Northampton

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Kinky Boots

Question 292

BEHIND THE MUSICAL TITLE: A sham Vietnamese beauty contest gives us the title of this musical that debuted on Broadway in 1991

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Miss Saigon

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BEHIND THE MUSICAL TITLE: "Professor” Harold Hill is the title character of this 1957 show

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The Music Man

Question 294

BEHIND THE MUSICAL TITLE: This title of a musical set in Newfoundland beginning on 9/11 is a local slang term for a person not from the Maritimes

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Come From Away

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WHERE DO YOU STAN?: Reflecting its recent history, the 2 official languages of Kyrgyzstan are Kyrgyz & this one

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Russian

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WHERE DO YOU STAN?: Kazakhstan has 1,200 miles of coastline along this large inland body of water

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the Caspian Sea

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WHERE DO YOU STAN?: Mohammad Daud Khan took power in this country in a 1973 coup & lost it in a 1978 one; then the Soviets came

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Afghanistan

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WHERE DO YOU STAN?: Home to more than 14 million, this city on the Arabian Sea was once Pakistan’s capital city

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Karachi

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GODS INSIDE YOU: This colored part of your eye bears the name of the Greek personification of the rainbow

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the iris

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GODS INSIDE YOU: Named for the blacksmith god, hephaestin is a protein that’s important for metabolizing this metal in the body

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iron

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GODS INSIDE YOU: The upper lip outline with 2 peaks is known as this love god’s bow

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Cupid

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GODS INSIDE YOU: Holding up your head, the Atlas is the first of this type of vertebra

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cervical

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GODS INSIDE YOU: It’s where on the body you would find the Girdle of Venus line

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the palm (of your hand)

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SAVE “IT” FOR LATER: It’s Britspeak for “cookie"

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a biscuit

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SAVE “IT” FOR LATER: A sworn written statement

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an affidavit

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SAVE “IT” FOR LATER: A follower of St. Ignatius

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Jesuit

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SAVE “IT” FOR LATER: Illuminated by tapers

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candlelit

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THE HISTORY OF FRANCE: This modern regime that lasted 4 years changed the national motto to “Travail, Famille, Patrie”–“Work, Family, Fatherland"

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Vichy France

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SMOKEY BEAR: 75TH YEAR PREVENTING WILDFIRE: Smokey was named for Smokey Joe Martin, a member of this famed urban force for 46 years & a hero of the “Greenwich Volcano” blaze

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the New York Fire Department

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SMOKEY BEAR: 75TH YEAR PREVENTING WILDFIRE: Prior to Smokey Bear’s debut in 1944, the U.S. Forest Service used this Disney deer in ads

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Bambi

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SMOKEY BEAR: 75TH YEAR PREVENTING WILDFIRE: In 1950 Smokey got a living symbol: a bear cub that survived a forest fire in this state; his burns were treated in Santa Fe

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New Mexico

Question 312

FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES: In the original Italian, this coffee drink with steamed milk has “caffé” before it

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latte

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FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES: The name of this craft is Japanese for “folding paper"

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origami

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FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES: Oy, you’re so clumsy–in fact, you’re this Yiddish word for a clumsy person, from a word meaning “wooden beam"

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a klutz

Question 315

FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES: The name of this mythical sea monster was released from the Norwegian language

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the Kraken

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FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES: A pair of Mandarin ducks in your home are great for love luck in this harmonious Chinese living space practice

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feng shui

Question 317

LET’S TALK ABOUT FLIGHT CLUB: Now on public display in Ohio, an aircraft popularly known by this name was used by JFK starting in 1962

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Air Force One

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LET’S TALK ABOUT FLIGHT CLUB: As 100,000 waited in Paris on May 21, 1927, he saw “danger of killing people with my propeller and I quickly came to a stop"

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Lindbergh

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LET’S TALK ABOUT FLIGHT CLUB: The U.S. Army’s Sikorsky UH-60 is called this; 2 of them were at the center of a notorious incident in Mogadishu in 1993

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Black Hawks

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LET’S TALK ABOUT FLIGHT CLUB: On Nov. 2, 1947 Howard Hughes took this plane on its only flight, cruising about one mile at 70 feet for one minute

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the Spruce Goose

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DAM THAT RIVER!: Aswan High Dam

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the Nile

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DAM THAT RIVER!: Lake Winnibigoshish Reservoir Dam in Minnesota & Melvin Price Locks & Dam in Illinois

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the Mississippi

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DAM THAT RIVER!: Three Gorges Dam

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the Yangtze

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DAM THAT RIVER!: Gorky Dam at Nizhny Novgorod

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the Volga

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DAM THAT RIVER!: The Kariba Dam at the border of Zambia & Zimbabwe

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the Zambezi

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'90s NEWSMAKERS: In 1996 the fairy tale was over as Buckingham Palace announced an agreement in the divorce of this couple

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Prince Charles & Princes Diana

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'90s NEWSMAKERS: This Georgian published “To Renew America” & also became Speaker of the House

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Newt Gingrich

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'90s NEWSMAKERS: Nearly 6 months after the attack on Nancy Kerrigan, this skater was stripped of her national title & banned from the sport for life

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Tonya Harding

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'90s NEWSMAKERS: U.S. Diplomat Richard Holbrooke is best remembered for brokering the Balkan Peace Accords named for this Ohio city

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the Dayton Accords

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THE EASTERN CONFERENCE: In 1963 Jim Brown led the Eastern Conference to a 30-20 victory in this NFL all-star game

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the Pro Bowl

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THE EASTERN CONFERENCE: In 2001 this 76ers guard became the shortest NBA MVP in history & was the All-Star Game MVP in an Eastern Conference victory

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Allen Iverson

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THE EASTERN CONFERENCE: Georgetown & Villanova compete in this NCAA conference

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the Big East

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THE EASTERN CONFERENCE: The Impact, Revolution & 2 teams called United compete in the Eastern Conference of this league

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the MLS (Major League Soccer)

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THE EASTERN CONFERENCE: His move to the NBA’s Eastern Conference paid off as he led Toronto to the 2019 title & was named Finals MVP

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Leonard

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KIDD STUFF: The USS Kidd in Baton Rouge, this lethal-sounding type of ship, is named for the first U.S. Navy flag officer killed in WWII

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a destroyer

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KIDD STUFF: In 1934 journalist Ronald Kidd founded the NCCL, the British equivalent of this U.S. group that protects people’s CLs

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the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)

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ANCIENT ROME FICTION: Thornton Wilder’s novel about the time of Julius Caesar in Rome has this title, like an unlucky date for Julius

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The Ides of March

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ANCIENT ROME FICTION: "The Gladiator” & “Rebellion” are the subtitles of Ben Kane’s books about this man who led a slave army against Rome

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Spartacus

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ANCIENT ROME FICTION: When the death of a popular politician threatens to destroy the Roman Republic, Gordianus the Finder must solve “A Murder on” this famous road

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the Appian Way

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ANCIENT ROME FICTION: In “The Eagle of the Ninth”, a soldier seeks to discover what became of a legion that went missing in this faraway island

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Britain

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ANCIENT ROME FICTION: This novel by Robert Graves is written as the memoir of a reluctant 1st century Roman emperor

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I, Claudius

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ONCE UPON A TIME…: Robert Carlyle played Mr. Gold, AKA this spinner of straw, in ABC’s “Once Upon a Time"

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Rumpelstiltskin

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ONCE UPON A TIME…: Leonardo DiCaprio plays “Bounty Law” actor Rick Dalton in this director’s “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood"

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Quentin Tarantino

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ONCE UPON A TIME…: This Spanish-born star played El Mariachi for the last time in “Once Upon a Time in Mexico"

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Antonio Banderas

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ONCE UPON A TIME…: This Italian director gave us “Once Upon a Time in the West” & “Once Upon a Time in America"

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Sergio Leone

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FROM B TO A: These single-celled organisms, some causing disease, are some of the smallest life forms

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bacteria

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FROM B TO A: It’s not just any old Catholic church–it’s one with special status from the Vatican

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a basilica

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FROM B TO A: This Hindu creator god is often depicted seated on a lotus throne

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Brahma

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ANIMAL COMMUNITY: To make this home for the birth of their young, foxes enlarge burrows of other animals

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a den

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ANIMAL COMMUNITY: Shoaling fish move in the same direction but each does its own thing; fish doing this similar word use coordinated moves

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schooling fish

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ANIMAL COMMUNITY: Konrad Lorenz found that newly hatched ducklings followed him due to this “I” process, as if he were their parent

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imprinting

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ANIMAL COMMUNITY: Mud baths remove bugs from the Cape buffalo, & if that doesn’t get them all, the cattle type of this white wading bird helps

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the egret

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THE WESTERN CONFERENCE: Attended by 46 delegations, the San Francisco Conference of 1945 gave birth to this international organization

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the United Nations

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THE WESTERN CONFERENCE: At the 1822 Guayaquil Conference, José Francisco de San Martín met this other South American liberator in western Ecuador

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(Simón) Bolivar

Question 355

THE WESTERN CONFERENCE: South by Southwest is an annual festival in this Texas city

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Austin, Texas

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THE WESTERN CONFERENCE: The 1920 Conference of San Remo along Italy’s western Riviera decided the fate of this empire’s former territories

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the Ottoman Empire

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THE WESTERN CONFERENCE: The 2018 emerging Cascadia Innovation Corridor Conference featured this Washington gov. who’s trying to stop climate change

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(Jay) Inslee

Question 358

BRITISH HISTORY: In 2018 Parliament Square got its first statue of a woman, Millicent Fawcett, a founding member of the London Society for Women’s this

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Suffrage

Question 359

THE 2019 TIME 100: "When our country needed someone to untangle Russian election interference, he served again"

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Mueller

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THE 2019 TIME 100: This actress “is primed to be one of Marvel’s next big leaders at a time when women are breaking ceilings in all spaces"

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Brie Larson

Question 361

THE 2019 TIME 100: Mitch McConnell wrote of the “impartial jurisprudence” of this successor to Anthony Kennedy

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Kavanaugh

Question 362

THE 2019 TIME 100: Robert Downey Jr. called this Egyptian-American actor a “testament to hardworking immigrants raising their kids right"

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Rami Malek

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THE 2019 TIME 100: The chimpanzee research she began at age 26 in Tanzania “ended up changing behavioral science forever"

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Jane Goodall

Question 364

DELIVER THE LETTER: A 2.0 GPA

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a C

Question 365

DELIVER THE LETTER: Have a grand time with this Roman numeral for 1,000

Answer 365

M

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DELIVER THE LETTER: Friends of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll sometimes called him by this single letter

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E

Question 367

DELIVER THE LETTER: The setting of an adjustable lens aperture is a this-stop

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f-stop

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DELIVER THE LETTER: It comes before “-value” to indicate the strength of evidence in some experiments, or before “-hacking” if data are manipulated

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P

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POP & ROCK MUSIC: This “Hotel California” band first came together to back Linda Ronstadt at a concert at Disneyland

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the Eagles

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POP & ROCK MUSIC: Oddly, female rapper Megan Pete calls herself “Megan Thee” this word for a male horse

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Stallion

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POP & ROCK MUSIC: In 2019 this 5-letter rap & R&B artist had the “Juice” to be nominated for Best New Artist at the VMAs

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Lizzo

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POP & ROCK MUSIC: In 2019 Madonna performed at but did not compete in this international song competition

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Eurovision

Question 373

POP & ROCK MUSIC: This Jackson Browne album about life on the road was recorded onstage, backstage, in hotel rooms & on a tour bus

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Running On Empty

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"C”IENCE: Both the cerebrum & this, with a name meaning “little brain”, are composed of 2 hemispheres

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the cerebellum

Question 375

"C”IENCE: This term is also used to describe the tiniest lymph & bile vessels

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capillaries

Question 376

"C”IENCE: This connective tissue is largely made from collagen

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cartilage

Question 377

"C”IENCE: Larger than a pebble, this rock type used in roads tops out at 256 mm in particle size

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cobble

Question 378

HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS: A Celtic tradition of using hollowed-out turnips with candles inside led to these distinctive & larger Halloween gourds

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jack-o-lanterns

Question 379

HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS: It’s said these 2 colors trace back to the festival of Samhain, one representing death & the other the autumn harvest

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orange & black

Question 380

HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS: The first time the White House was decorated for Halloween was in 1958, when she, Ike’s better half, hung owls & goblins

Answer 380

Mamie Eisenhower

Question 381

HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS: This no-hands Halloween game may be related to the Roman celebration of the goddess Pomona

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bobbing for apples

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HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS: This 20th century performer’s museum in Scranton, Penn. features an online seance every Halloween

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Houdini

Question 383

JUST GIVE US THE CANDY!: This candy “melts in your mouth, not in your hand"

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M&M’s

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JUST GIVE US THE CANDY!: "Nobody better lay a finger on” this crispety, crunchety candy bar I’ve been saving

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Butterfinger

Question 385

JUST GIVE US THE CANDY!: These “Everlasting” jawbreakers sold under the Wonka label change colors & flavors as you eat them

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Gobstoppers

Question 386

JUST GIVE US THE CANDY!: "At work, rest or play, you get three great tastes in” this galactic goody

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Milky Way

Question 387

JUST GIVE US THE CANDY!: "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t”; better get one of each of these just to be sure

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Mounds & Almond Joy

Question 388

HISTORY ON FILM: Watergate security guard Frank Wills played himself at the beginning of this 1976 film

Answer 388

All the President’s Men

Question 389

HISTORY ON FILM: In “American Made” it’s the 1980s & Tom Cruise is flying guns to these Nicaraguans battling the Sandinistas

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the Contras

Question 390

HISTORY ON FILM: Among this 1995 Oscar-winning film’s less historically accurate moments–the Battle of Stirling Bridge is fought in a field

Answer 390

Braveheart

Question 391

HISTORY ON FILM: Luc Besson’s “The Messenger” set during the Hundred Years’ War, is subtitled, “The Story of” her

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Joan of Arc

Question 392

GREEK ISLES: Today mostly an archaeological site, Delos is the legendary birthplace of this Greek god of the sun & music

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Apollo

Question 393

GREEK ISLES: For 200 years the Knights Hospitaler ruled this island that was formerly occupied by an over 100-foot-tall colossal statue

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Rhodes

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GREEK ISLES: Skorpios was once owned by this Greek shipping magnate & it’s where he & Jackie married in 1968

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Onassis

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GREEK ISLES: The famous “Winged Victory” statue of this island was discovered in 1863

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Samothrace

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THE 20th CENTURY: This president submitted his draft of the covenant for the League of Nations on February 14, 1919

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Wilson

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THE 20th CENTURY: After Bobby Thomson’s 1951 “Shot Heard ‘Round the World”, this team won the pennant! This team won the pennant!

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the Giants

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THE 20th CENTURY: Made when she was 23, Meret Oppenheim’s 1936 furry teacup is a landmark of this art movement

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Surrealism

Question 399

THE 20th CENTURY: Kenya’s first president, Jomo Kenyatta, carried a fly whisk, a symbol of wealth, indicating you kept your horses safe from these flies

Answer 399

tsetse flies

Question 400

THE 20th CENTURY: He became king of Spain in 1975 & helped the country transition to democracy after Franco’s dictatorship

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Juan Carlos

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PEN NAMES: In England the gravestone for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson mentions this pen name in parentheses

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Lewis Carroll

Question 402

PEN NAMES: A perfect spy could tell you it’s the pen name of the British novelist born David John Moore Cornwell

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John le Carré

Question 403

PEN NAMES: Erika Leonard wrote “Twilight” fan fiction under the name Snowqueens Icedragon & the “Fifty Shades” books under this name

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(E.L.) James

Question 404

PEN NAMES: She’s from Antigua, but longtime New Yorker writer Elaine Potter Richardson uses the pen name this island Kincaid

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Jamaica

Question 405

PEN NAMES: Since 1930, titles credited to this Nancy Drew author have included “The Bungalow Mystery” & more recently “Crime at the Chat Cafe"

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Carolyn Keene

Question 406

EXERCISE: Many consider cast iron to be the original type of this gym weight that has an attached handle; now “ring” in!

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a kettlebell

Question 407

EXERCISE: Contrology is the former name of this exercise discipline created by & named for German gymnast Joseph

Answer 407

Pilates

Question 408

EXERCISE: This Chinese martial art has been called “meditation in motion”; balance is important in its series of fluid movements

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tai chi

Question 409

EXERCISE: At a CrossFit gym, AMRAP stands for this, & the higher the number, the better

Answer 409

as many reps as possible

Question 410

EXERCISE: This alphanumeric fitness regimen uses “the advanced science of muscle confusion"

Answer 410

P90X

Question 411

CROSSWORD CLUES “Y": Seinfeldian term for “etc.” (4-4-4)

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yada-yada-yada

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CROSSWORD CLUES “Y": Avian slang for a convict (8)

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a yardbird

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CROSSWORD CLUES “Y": Adjective for workmanlike service (6)

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yeoman

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CROSSWORD CLUES “Y": A real busybody (5)

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a yenta

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CROSSWORD CLUES “Y": Mighty ash tree at the center of Norse creation myths (9)

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Yggdrasil

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19th CENTURY AMERICA: Before its official opening on May 24, 1883 Emily Roebling became the first person to cross it in a carriage

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Brooklyn Bridge

Question 417

A STAR-SPANGLED BANNER LYRICAL QUIZ: They provide a “red glare” to the battle scene

Answer 417

rockets

Question 418

A STAR-SPANGLED BANNER LYRICAL QUIZ: Verse 4 says, “Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto–‘In God is our’” this

Answer 418

trust

Question 419

A STAR-SPANGLED BANNER LYRICAL QUIZ: The “towering steep” in verse 2 is this edifice that was under attack by the British

Answer 419

Fort McHenry

Question 420

A STAR-SPANGLED BANNER LYRICAL QUIZ: In a kids’ book this phrase leads Ramona Quimby to think a lamp is called a dawnzer

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dawn’s early light

Question 421

A STAR-SPANGLED BANNER LYRICAL QUIZ: This phrase about liberty in all 4 verses provides the title of a song by The Killers where it has a more ironic meaning

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the land of the free

Question 422

GARGOYLES: On rooftops grotesque statues aren’t gargoyles unless they serve as one of these for rain

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a downspout (waterspout)

Question 423

GARGOYLES: The singing gargoyles in this 1996 Disney cartoon are named Victor, Hugo & Laverne

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Question 424

GARGOYLES: Some of the earliest known gargoyles are these animals on the Temple of Zeus; maybe they’re the Nemean type

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lions

Question 425

GARGOYLES: Paisley Abbey in Scotland added a new gargoyle likely inspired by this 1979 horror film

Answer 425

Alien

Question 426

GARGOYLES: The gargoyles on this Manhattan building named for an auto executive are less earthbound–they’re eagles

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the Chrysler Building

Question 427

BOOK NUMBERS: By Bret Easton Ellis: “Less Than ____"

Answer 427

Zero

Question 428

BOOK NUMBERS: "The ____ Habits of Highly Effective People"

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7

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BOOK NUMBERS: An international bestseller: “The ____ -Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared"

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100

Question 430

BOOK NUMBERS: From “The Charge of the Light Brigade”: “All in the valley of Death rode the ___"

Answer 430

600

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BOOK NUMBERS: A Temperance Brennan novel: “___ Bones” (referring to the number of bones in the body)

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206

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TONS OF FUN: It’s estimated that some of these, literally “terrible lizards”, stood about 50 feet tall & weighed as much as 85 tons

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dinosaurs

Question 433

TONS OF FUN: Mostly copper & weighing just over a ton, it was cast for the Pennsylvania Statehouse in the 1750s

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the Liberty Bell

Question 434

TONS OF FUN: Buoys may be anchored in place with these that weigh 9 tons, a bit heavier than the same-named weight on a fishing line

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a sinker

Question 435

TONS OF FUN: 3,500 years old & weighing 220 tons, one of NYC’s oldest artifacts is the Central Park Obelisk known as her Needle

Answer 435

Cleopatra

Question 436

COASTLINES: This South American country has about 4,600 miles of Atlantic coastline

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Brazil

Question 437

COASTLINES: Cities along this U.S. state’s ocean coast include Astoria & Brookings

Answer 437

Oregon

Question 438

COASTLINES: This nation’s 2,100-mile coastline extends from the Gulf of Thailand to the Gulf of Tonkin

Answer 438

Vietnam

Question 439

COASTLINES: This nation takes its name from the Latin are erythraeum, meaning “Red Sea”, the body of water the nation borders

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Eritrea

Question 440

COASTLINES: It’s the only Central American country without a coastline on the Pacific Ocean

Answer 440

Belize

Question 441

IDIOMS DELIGHT: If you’re a little crazy or foolish, you’re “off your” this piece of furniture

Answer 441

rocker

Question 442

IDIOMS DELIGHT: To view something with skepticism is to “take it with” this bit of sodium chloride

Answer 442

a grain of salt

Question 443

IDIOMS DELIGHT: To cause trouble or a ruckus is to “raise” this biblical person

Answer 443

Cain

Question 444

ELEMENTAL ETYMOLOGY: Indium is named for this deep blue color

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indigo

Question 445

ELEMENTAL ETYMOLOGY: Palladium honors one of these space objects that’s named for Pallas Athena

Answer 445

an asteroid

Question 446

ELEMENTAL ETYMOLOGY: Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius named this element for a thunder god

Answer 446

thorium

Question 447

ELEMENTAL ETYMOLOGY: This noble gas is named for an element discovered by the Curies

Answer 447

radon

Question 448

ELEMENTAL ETYMOLOGY: Symbol Ga, this element is named from the Latin for France & maybe also the Latin for rooster (it was named by M. Lecoq)

Answer 448

gallium

Question 449

TV: This former “Daily Show” correspondent hosts his own news satire, “Last Week Tonight"

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John Oliver

Question 450

TV: Omar Little on this Baltimore-set series was a big fan of Honey Nut Cheerios

Answer 450

The Wire

Question 451

TV: On a ’90s nighttime soap, Heather Locklear was a resident of the apartment complex at 4616 this title street

Answer 451

Melrose Place

Question 452

TV: Sanchez & Smith are the last names of the title duo of this adult swim show

Answer 452

Rick and Morty

Question 453

TAKE “TEN": An apartment dweller

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a tenant

Question 454

TAKE “TEN": In the U.S., it’s the most popular form of bowling

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ten pin

Question 455

TAKE “TEN": It’s an adjective meaning pertaining to the most popular British poet of the Victorian era

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Tennysonian

Question 456

TAKE “TEN": In a state of anxiety? You’re “on” these 11-letter items

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tenterhooks

Question 457

TAKE “TEN": The khayyam in Omar Khayyam means this profession

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tent maker

Question 458

GRANT: Ulysses S. Grant said the story that this general had offered his sword & Grant had returned it was “the purest romance"

Answer 458

Lee

Question 459

GRANT: When fellow West Point cadets saw the name U.S. Grant, they mockingly called him this, after a national symbol

Answer 459

Uncle Sam

Question 460

GRANT: As a young man, Grant’s dad lived with this militant abolitionist & thought he was a man of high morals but a fanatic

Answer 460

John Brown

Question 461

GRANT: As president, Grant tried to annex this Caribbean “Republic”, but the Senate rejected his treaty

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the Dominican

Question 462

GRANT: Grant said, “I do not think there was ever a more wicked war than” this one, the first in which he fought

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the Mexican-American War

Question 463

WOOD: 1.5 by 3.5 inches is the usual size of this piece of lumber; its name comes from its unprocessed dimensions

Answer 463

a 2x4

Question 464

WOOD: For easy woodcutting, strike up this 4-letter power saw that uses a continuously looping blade

Answer 464

a band saw

Question 465

WOOD: A froe is a woodworking tool; coopers used curved froes to cut these pieces to form the sides of barrels

Answer 465

staves

Question 466

WOOD: Visit Mandalay in Burma & you may come home with a table of this wood from which the city’s U Bein Bridge is built

Answer 466

teak

Question 467

AMERICAN GOTHIC: In 1798’s “Wieland”, the 1st Amer. Gothic novel, a character seems to die from this: “In a moment, the whole was reduced to ashes"

Answer 467

spontaneous combustion

Question 468

AMERICAN GOTHIC: The style Collegiate Gothic began with Pembroke Hall & other buildings at this women’s college outside Philadelphia

Answer 468

Bryn Mawr

Question 469

AMERICAN GOTHIC: This southern Gothic O’author wrote her novel “Wise Blood” about a preacher in the church without Christ

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Flannery O’Connor

Question 470

1950s CINEMA: Objects of attention in this suspenseful film include a digging dog, a scantily clad dancer & a possible murderer

Answer 470

Rear Window

Question 471

COLLEGE TOWNS: It’s the L-V in UNLV

Answer 471

Las Vegas

Question 472

COLLEGE TOWNS: This city that’s home to the oldest University of California campus often ranks as the “most liberal city in America"

Answer 472

Berkeley

Question 473

COLLEGE TOWNS: This city that’s home to Brigham Young University was originally known as Fort Utah

Answer 473

Provo

Question 474

COLLEGE TOWNS: Ulysses would fit right in in this city at the south end of Cayuga Lake

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Ithaca

Question 475

COLLEGE TOWNS: The main campus for the University of Arkansas is located in this city nicknamed the “Athens of the Ozarks"

Answer 475

Fayetteville

Question 476

SPORTS TALK: Lepidopterans excel at this third stroke in the medley relay

Answer 476

the butterfly stroke

Question 477

SPORTS TALK: A tennis player who serves & scores the first point after deuce has this edge

Answer 477

advantage (ad-in)

Question 478

SPORTS TALK: Boxers “bob &” this to avoid getting punched in the face

Answer 478

weave

Question 479

SPORTS TALK: It’s sports talk for a scheme in which players defend an area of the court, not a particular opponent

Answer 479

zone

Question 480

A HISTORICAL RHETORICAL: European explorers, is it worth your toes & maybe your lives to go 500 mi. north of the Arctic Circle to find this path to the Pacific?

Answer 480

the Northwest Passage

Question 481

A HISTORICAL RHETORICAL: Hey you, not-so-law-abiding 1920s guy! Think the feds will indict you on 22 counts of tax evasion? You should!

Answer 481

Capone

Question 482

A HISTORICAL RHETORICAL: Visigoth princes of Spain, are you sure it’s a good idea to invite these people to help you take power? They have their own agenda

Answer 482

the Moors

Question 483

A HISTORICAL RHETORICAL: The foundation’s kinda shaky… is a 180’ tower in this Italian city a good idea? Heck, it’s 1173, we have the technology!

Answer 483

Pisa

Question 484

A HISTORICAL RHETORICAL: Yo, France… between 1930 & ‘40, will it be worth it to spend billions of francs on this “Line” of defense? (it will not)

Answer 484

the Maginot Line

Question 485

"IO”-9: Cat killer, or NASA rover

Answer 485

curiosity

Question 486

"IO”-9: To be verklempt is to be considered very this

Answer 486

emotional

Question 487

"IO”-9: In sushidom, California rolls often include fish called this type of “crab"

Answer 487

imitation

Question 488

"IO”-9: A permit to drive a taxi; one in a big city has sold for as much as $1.3 million

Answer 488

a medallion

Question 489

"IO”-9: Referring to a standard of judgment, this word comes before an important “Collection” of classic movies

Answer 489

Criterion

Question 490

ADVERTISING: In the 1960s Geoffrey the Giraffe became the mascot & spokesanimal for this store

Answer 490

Toys “R” Us

Question 491

ADVERTISING: With the introduction of the Model T & more people hitting the road, outdoor advertising on these became more popular

Answer 491

billboards

Question 492

ADVERTISING: A portmanteau word, this type of paid programming is a TV ad that typically lasts 15 to 30 minutes

Answer 492

an infomercial

Question 493

ADVERTISING: In a 2019 Super Bowl ad, Sarah Jessica Parker’s & Jeff Bridges’ characters forego their usual drinks for this fancy Belgian beer

Answer 493

Stella Artois

Question 494

CUBA LIBRO: The Gulf Stream runs close to Cuba & in this Hemingway novel Santiago fishes in it

Answer 494

The Old Man and the Sea

Question 495

CUBA LIBRO: In a Graham Greene novel, James Wormold is recruited by British Secret Service to be “Our Man in” this city

Answer 495

Havana

Question 496

CUBA LIBRO: Reinaldo Arenas’ memoir “Before Night Falls” recounts his attempts to flee Communist Cuba, even swimming to this U.S. naval station

Answer 496

Guantánamo Bay

Question 497

CUBA LIBRO: Oscar Hijuelos wrote a novel about the title “Kings” of this Cuban ballroom dance

Answer 497

mambo

Question 498

CUBA LIBRO: Joe falls for a Cuban revolutionary in “Live by Night” by this “Shutter Island” author, who normally does Massachusetts

Answer 498

Dennis Lehane

Question 499

ANIMALS & THEIR FOOD: 2 species of this blood-drinking bat, the white-winged & hairy-legged, feed primarily on birds

Answer 499

a vampire bat

Question 500

ANIMALS & THEIR FOOD: Birds called kites include one that doesn’t fly very fast; it doesn’t need to as it eats only one species of this gastropod

Answer 500

a snail