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This company owns Jim bean and is first commercial distillery in Japan
Also in what movie

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Sun tore e
Also hacked by bill Murray in lost in translation
So make good gin

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Smallest state capital by area

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Annapolis < 7 sq mi

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Thr little girl who just wants to be friends who is a vampire

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Abbey played by Chloe grace moretz

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Largest state capital by area

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Juneau
Def not by pop
2nd largest city by area in USA

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Number obsessed muppet

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Count von count played by Jerry Nelson to 12 then Matt Vogel

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Title character of 72 black splotation movie

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Black luh yuh played by William Marshall

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The vampire who was interviewed

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Louie played by brad Pitt

Story was about Luh stat (Tom Cruise )

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A vampire with a soul who got his own spin-off in 99

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Angel from buffy the vampire slayer

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This avengers actor married alba baptista in a private wedding on cape cod in sept 23

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Chris evans

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Dorothy must travel to this city to meet the wizard

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Emerald
City

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The book thief author

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Markus zusak zoo sack
Main lee sul

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She is the actress who teamed up with Robin Williams to play the lead roles in the sitcom “Mork & Mindy”. Dawber is married to the actor Mark Harmon.

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Pam Dawber

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Back in the Victorian Era,this city earned a reputation for excellence in shipbuilding and was known as “Second City of the British Empire”. Its shipyards were the birthplaces of such famous vessels as the Lusitania, the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth.

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Glasgow

People from Glasgow are known as Glaswegians.

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. The Battle of the Alamo took place in 1836, a thirteen-day siege by the Mexican Army led by him . Only two people defending the Alamo Mission survived the onslaught. One month later, the Texian army got its revenge by attacking and defeating the Mexican Army in this battle

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President General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Battle of San Jacinto. During the surprise attack on Santa Anna’s camp, many of the Texian soldiers were heard to cry “Remember the Alamo!”.

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This football club (nicknamed “the Gunners”) is an English soccer team based in the Holloway district of London.

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Arsenal Football Club

The club was founded in 1886 as Dial Square by workers at the Royal Arsenal munitions factory. Dial Square was the name given to the workshops at the center of the Royal Arsenal complex. After just a few weeks in existence, the club changed its name to Royal Arsenal, which was eventually shortened to just Arsenal.

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She married celebrated Hollywood actor George Clooney in 2014. She was born in Beirut, Lebanon and moved with her family to London when she was a toddler. She is a lawyer specializing in international law, with one of her more renowned clients being the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange.

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Amal Alamuddin

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I have a dream location and date

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1963’s March on Washington was one of the largest political rallies in the history of the US, with about a quarter of a million people participating in the march itself. The rally was a call for civil and economic rights for African Americans. Famously, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech to the protesters while standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

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University of Arizona city :

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TUCSON
Tucson is the second largest city in Arizona (after Phoenix). The founding father of the city was Hugh O’Conor, yet another Irishman, but one who was raised in Spain. O’Conor was a mercenary working for Spain when he authorized the construction of a military fort called Presidio San Augustín del Tucsón in 1775, which eventually grew into the city that we know today. The Spanish name “Tucsón” comes from the local name “Cuk Ṣon”, which translates as “(at the) base of the black (hill)”.

The University of Arizona (UA, or “U of A”) was the first university founded in the state, opening its doors for students in Tucson in 1885 (which was actually 27 years before the territory was granted statehood).

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This is a unit of mechanical work or energy.

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erg
It is a small unit, with one joule comprising 10 million ergs. It has been suggested that an erg is about the amount of energy required for a mosquito to take off. The term comes from “ergon”, the Greek word for work.

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Chinese kitchen general :

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TSO
“The Search for General Tso” is a 2014 documentary about the history of Chinese food in the US. Much of the film explores the life of Zuo Zontang, the Chinese military leader who gave his name to the very American dish known as General Tso’s chicken.

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These instruments found in modern-day Germany date back 43,000 to 35,000 years, which makes it the oldest known musical instrument.

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Primitive flutes

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Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. is sometimes called this ws it runs between these two buildings

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America’s Main Street”, as it runs between the White House and the US Capitol. The exact reason why this important thoroughfare was given the name “Pennsylvania” seems to be unclear. One favored theory is that it was a gesture to the state of Pennsylvania after moving the country’s capital from Philadelphia.

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Most sinks in a home have this in the outlet pipe that empties into the sewer line. It has at its heart this type of bend that retains a small amount of water after the sink is emptied. This plug of water serves as a seal to prevent sewer gases entering into the home. By virtue of its design, the Thr bend can also capture any heavy objects (like an item of jewelry) that might fall through the plughole. But the “trapping” of fallen objects is secondary to the P-trap’s main function of “trapping” sewer gases.

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P-trap

U-bend

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2022 World Cup winner: wen location

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ARG
The 2022 FIFA World Cup tournament was held in Qatar, making it the first World Cup held in an Arab nation. As host nation, Qatar automatically qualified, marking the first time the Qatari national team had participated in the tournament. Argentina emerged victorious, beating France on penalties.

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This island state of is relatively small (122 square miles), but its large number of inhabitants makes it one of the most densely populated countries in Europe. It’s strategic location has made it a prized possession for the conquering empires of the world. Most recently it was part of the British Empire and was an important fleet headquarters. Also played a crucial role for the Allies during WWII as it was located very close to the Axis shipping lanes in the Mediterranean.

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Malta

The Siege of Malta lasted from 1940 to 1942, a prolonged attack by the Italians and Germans on the RAF and Royal Navy, and the people of Malta. When the siege was lifted, King George VI awarded the George Cross to the people of Malta collectively in recognition of their heroism and devotion to the Allied cause. The George Cross can still be seen on the Maltese flag, even though Britain granted Malta independence in 1964.

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, the longest river in Spain,

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Ebro

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was an influential American artist, one who led the introduction of American art into Europe. Famously, she was married to photographer Alfred Stieglitz who helped develop her career in the early days. Her last home was in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she had done a lot of her work during her lifetime. She died there in 1986, at the ripe old age of 98. One of her most famous paintings is from 1926, called “this ”.

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Georgia O’Keeffe

Black Iris III

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Metric speed meas. :

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KPH
Kilometers per hour (kph)

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” was the first film distributed by a streaming service to win a Best Picture Oscar.

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CODA

(Apple TV+)

CODA” is a 2021 movie, a remake of the 2014 French-Belgian film “La Famille Bélier”. The English-language version stars Emilia Jones as the only hearing member of a deaf family struggling with a fishing business in Gloucester, Massachusetts. “CODA” was the first film distributed by a streaming service (Apple TV+) to win a Best Picture Oscar. The title “CODA” is an acronym standing for “child of deaf adults”.

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is the first course of a meal in Italy. “It” translates as “before the meal”

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Antipasto (plural “antipasti”)

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was known as “The Man of a Thousand Voices”.

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Mel Blanc

We’ve all heard Mel Blanc at one time or another, I am sure. His was the voice behind such cartoon characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Woody Woodpecker, Elmer Fudd and Barney Rubble. And the words on Blanc’s tombstone are … “That’s all folks”.

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Language whose name translates to “one who hopes” :

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ESPERANTO
Esperanto is an international language specifically constructed to create some level of harmony between people from different parts of the world. It was created in the late 1800s by an ophthalmologist from modern-day Poland. Tens of thousands, and maybe even millions of people speak Esperanto, with some being taught it as a native language from birth.