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Born in British India in 1865 he was the first British winner of Nobel prize in literature
Rudyard Kipling
Lived in Vermont for 4 years and wrote 2 jungle books captains Courageous and other poetry including gun guh din plus more
3 musketeers
Athos
porthos
R tuh miss
Dar tan gen
Business
In thr 1850s thr .925 sterling silver standard was instituted by this company thr first American one to do so
Tiffany
Site of South America’s Loa River
Chile
Fifth Roman emperor
Nero
Like I love you song
Justin Timberlake
“Good Eats” host ___
Alton. Brown
Great Mosque locale
Mecca
Jason’s wife
Medea
Kids of boomers
Gen X
Children’s toy invented by a NASA scientist who worked on heat pumps
Super soaker
Lonnie Johnson
Bread for its name from phrase that translates to the devils fart
Pumpernickel
Pumpern breaking wind
Nickel devil
Originally caused digestion
In matrix the difference blissful ignorance and harsh reality is represented by
Red and blue pills (bliss)
Hit home runs off 3 consecutive pitches in WS
Mr October Reggie Jackson
Rosetta Stone has inscriptions in these 2 languages
Egyptian
Greek
Script and hieroglyphics
is a type of laboratory tool commonly used in chemistry and biology to transport a measured volume of liquid, often as a media dispenser
A pipette (sometimes spelled as pipet)
Puh pet
In his farewell my lovely a man about 6’5” in a yellow tie is as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food
Raymond chandler
Enclosed earth like research facility in Arizona
10 squares
Biosphere 2
Birth of this university 1848 with alumni like Frank Lloyd wright and selig
University of Wisconsin
Used his mothers maiden name because double S words work for artists
Picasso
Nixon mother maiden name
Millhouse
Born in USSR he was just a little wood pusher when he adopted a Russified rain of his mother maiden name gasparyan
Ghas par e in
Kasparov
Trio with a 86 raising hell tour that saw ll cool j and beastie boys open
Run DMC
I rent in 2000 with this Vermont band as they lit the morning sky incorporating sunrise from also sprach Zarathustra in a jam
Fish
I survived the legendary deluge at Glastonbury in 97 and heard an epic version of creep by these Brit rockers
Radiohead
Maiden name of Elizabeth who got her author son James cooper to add it as a middle name so it would be preserved
Fenimore
A South American capital city founded by Pizarro and a largely desert country of Western Africa
Mali and Lima
The Houses of Parliament are located in this London borough
Westminster
Palace of
The onetime capital of new Granada and one of the southernmost Caribbean islands
Bogota and Tobago
Literature
Preserved in a single manuscript called cotton MS Vitellius A XV (15) this epic begins with the word hwaet often translated as listen
Huh wept
Beowolf
Named for shelf it was discovered
Bay o wolf
A plaque that says we came in peace for all mankind lives on this lunar location
Sea of tranquility on the moon
Under the boardwalk song
Also two paired foods they sell
Drifters
Hot dogs and French fries
One of the books of the Hebrew Bible most represented in the scrolls is this one that has 150 chapters
Psalms
A is for this gypsum mineral well-known in Milan and Florence and used metaphorically to describe any smooth white color
Alabaster
This 10 letter adjective, describing a kaleidoscope of colors can be traced to a goddess of the rainbow
Iridescent
From iris
Potatoes are part of this family
Also, sweet potatoes are part of this other family
Potatoes nightshade
Sweet potatoes morning, glory
What does the W stand for in motor oil ratings like 10 W 30?
Winter
motor oils have different viscosities at different temperatures so you might need different engine oil in the winter
Catch-22 slaughterhouse five and the English patient are all set during which war
World War II
Many World War II novels, have been turned into films, but the only one to win Best picture is the English patient.
They hit reality show was a spinoff from a Swedish show called expedition Robinson
Survivor
In 1997 Swedish show expedition Robinson debuted named for Robinson Crusoe and became the basis for survivor
Weight loss, drugs, like ozempic were developed from the venom of what animal
Gila monster
Global-1 is a human hormone that regulates insulin, but it’s quickly broken down
semaglutide drugs act similarly but last longer in the body
