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Time's up! The correct answer was Peter the Great

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ARCHITECTURE

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Gropius, Mies van der Rohe & this Swiss architect all worked for architect Peter Behrens

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Time's up! The correct answer was Le Corbusier

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JUAN

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In 1995 he was named ASCAP's Latin Songwriter of the Year & in 1996, sang a duet with Paul Anka

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Time's up! The correct answer was Juan Gabriel

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THAT'S MY LAW

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Objects with this property, meaning they can be deformed & regain their shapes, are covered by Hooke's Law

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Time's up! The correct answer was Elasticity

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KAN U SPEL BIZNESS?

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Amazing, phenomenal cleaner from SC Johnson

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Time's up! The correct answer was F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-K

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BOB DYLAN CHRONICLES

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"Come mothers and fathers throughout the land and don't criticize what you can't understand"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "The Times They Are A-Changin'"

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THE FUNNIES

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His Stars and Stripes cartoons featured the battle-weary GIs Willie & Joe

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bill Mauldin

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BICYCLES

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A German circus performer has made the Guinness record book for riding a bicycle with this distinction

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Time's up! The correct answer was the smallest

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MISCELLAN"IUM"

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The Latin name for ancient Troy, it's also a broad flat hipbone

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ilium

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YOU SHOULD BE IN A BALLET!

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Your allergy to feathers may prevent you from playing Odette, the queen of the swans in this ballet

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Time's up! The correct answer was Swan Lake

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MILITARY TELEVISION

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This oldest of the Wayans Brothers co-starred with Yaphet Kotto on the 1983 drama series "For Love and Honor"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Keenan Ivory Wayans

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KAN U SPEL BIZNESS?

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Amazing, phenomenal cleaner from SC Johnson

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Time's up! The correct answer was F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-K

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BEATLES MUSIC

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Chauffeur Alf Bicknell was the inspiration for this 1965 song

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Drive My Car"

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BEATLES MUSIC

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Chauffeur Alf Bicknell was the inspiration for this 1965 song

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Drive My Car"

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I KNOW THAT SONG

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"Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead!" is a song from this famous movie

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Wizard of Oz

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U.S. GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES

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The "Niagara of the South", this waterfall near Corbin, Kentucky shares its name with a famous "gap"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cumberland

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LIVE IN TEXAS

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Man from Sugarland, Texas known as "The Hammer" in the U.S. House of Representatives

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tom DeLay

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MYTHOLOGY

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In Australian myth, Ngunung-Ngunnut, one of these flying mammals, created the first woman

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bat

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ASTRONOMY

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Undetected murky stuff in the universe presumed to exist because of its gravitational effects

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Time's up! The correct answer was dark matter

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ALSO SOMETHING YOU WEAR

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A policy seeking to reduce pollution is referred to as this & trade

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Time's up! The correct answer was cap

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SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS

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"Il Mercante Di Venezia"

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Merchant of Venice

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AMERICANA

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On December 19 the people of this U.S. state celebrate Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop's birthday

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hawaii

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THE EVOLUTION OF "M"USIC

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1974's "Mandy" was his first Top 40 hit--& it reached No.1

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Time's up! The correct answer was Barry Manilow

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WEATHER WORLD

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In addition to helping commerce, these ocean winds bring pleasant weather to islands like Hawaii

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Time's up! The correct answer was trade winds

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"X", "Y", "Z"

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It's a kind of striped mussel as well as a striped equine

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Time's up! The correct answer was a zebra

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

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Magazine contributor Steven Chu won a Nobel Prize for slowing atoms with these light beams

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Time's up! The correct answer was lasers

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PHYSICAL SCIENCE

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On Earth, it's the major force responsible for the weight of a body

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Time's up! The correct answer was gravity

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HISPANIC HISTORY

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To supply Coronado's party, Hernando de Alarcon sailed 3 ships up this river in 1540 to where Yuma, Ariz. is now

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Colorado

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RINGING THE OPENING BELL AT THE NYSE

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Oh, come on! On Feb. 28, 2008 this TV "Kitchen Nightmares" man added a touch of bell to his resume

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gordon Ramsey

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THE PLANET URANUS

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Of 84, 184 or 284, the length in years of one orbit by Uranus around the sun

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Time's up! The correct answer was 84

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WOOD & WIND

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In this Herman Wouk tale, Pug Henry is an advisor to FDR prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Winds of War

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EAT IT!

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This Hormel product was once simply known as "spiced ham"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Spam

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I SERVED IN HIS CABINET

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Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ronald Reagan

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EUROPE

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Until recently, Slovakia was part of Czechoslovakia & Slovenia was part of this

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Time's up! The correct answer was Yugoslavia

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THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

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Cape Catoche, the northeastern tip of this large peninsula, lies a little more than 30 miles north of Cancun

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Yucatan

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I HAVEN'T READ SHAKESPEARE, BUT...

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It sounds to me like it's about the leader of lascivious oglers

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Time's up! The correct answer was King Lear

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ENGLAND, SCOTLAND OR WALES

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The largest in area of the 3

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Time's up! The correct answer was England

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PARENT & CHILD NOBEL WINNERS

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Ulf von Euler won in 1970; dad Hans von Euler-Chelpin won for his work on the role of enzymes in this process in sugar

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Time's up! The correct answer was fermentation

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WHAT TO WEAR

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Christian Lacroix popularized the pouf type of this

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Time's up! The correct answer was dress

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DIARIES

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"My Name Escapes Me" is "The Diary of A Retiring Actor" by this portrayer of Obi-Wan Kenobi

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sir Alec Guinness

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TAKE A PILL

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Antabuse is designed to make you feel really, really bad after ingesting this

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Time's up! The correct answer was alcohol

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JERSEY GIRLS

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This Algonquin wit was born in West End, N.J. in 1893 & was a drama critic for Vanity Fair by 1917

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dorothy Parker

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FLAGS OF THE WORLD

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In use from 1844 to 1905, a flag representing the union of these 2 countries was nicknamed the "herring salad"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Norway and Sweden

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AIN'T THAT AMERICA

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There are more farms in this large southwestern state than in any other

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Time's up! The correct answer was Texas

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THE PLANETS

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The 4 largest moons of this planet are called Galilean satellites after Galileo, who saw them in 1610

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jupiter

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GRAPES

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In 1962 this man organized migrant grape pickers into what became known as the United Farm Workers

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cesar Chavez

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PARTY OF "FIVE"

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This type of "discount" is slang for shoplifting

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Time's up! The correct answer was Five-finger discount

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RHYMES WITH STONEHENGE

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Statues of Ms. Baez, Ms. Collins & Ms. Didion are part of this monument

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Time's up! The correct answer was Joanhenge

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LITERATURE

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This author of "The Good Earth" based the heroine of her 1938 novel "This Proud Heart" on herself

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pearl Buck

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ROAMIN' THE WORLD

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Tea & coconuts are top products of this country, the "Pearl of the Indian Ocean"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sri Lanka

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THE CIVIL WAR

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In Sherman's famous "march to the sea", this seaport city was his goal

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Time's up! The correct answer was Savannah, Georgia

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"H" CITIES

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It served as a dynastic capital in the 1800s & continued as the royal capital of Vietnam until 1945

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hue

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THAT'S BUSINESS

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In 1927 this brand name first appeared on a Sears washing machine

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Time's up! The correct answer was Kenmore

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COMPOUND WORDS

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A student's may be 3-ring or spiral bound

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Time's up! The correct answer was a notebook

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BUSINESS LEADERS

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In 1886 he started his first successful business, the Lancaster Caramel Co.; the chocolate came later

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hershey

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ARTHUR MILLER

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Arthur Miller's marriage to her was mirrored in his play "After the Fall"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Marilyn Monroe

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APOLLO 11

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"Peaceful" site on the moon where the lunar module touched down

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Sea of Tranquility

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GAME SHOWS

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The first letter ever turned by Vanna White on this game show was a "T"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wheel of Fortune

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Y1K

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Finished around 1000 A.D., "The Pillow Book" of Sei Shonagon is one of this country's literary masterpieces

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Time's up! The correct answer was Japan

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WHY SO BLUE?

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Utah's state tree is the blue type of this evergreen

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Time's up! The correct answer was the spruce

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RENAISSANCE LITERATURE

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This book begins, "All states and dominions which hold or have held mankind are either republics or monarchies"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "The Prince"

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LITERATURE

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Nicodemus Frapp is a narrow-minded evangelist in "Tono-Bungay", a 1909 novel by this author of "The Time Machine"

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Time's up! The correct answer was H.G. Wells

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MOUNTAINS

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The Caucusus Mountains of Eastern Europe are predominantly found in this large country

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Time's up! The correct answer was Russia

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MINORITY REPORT

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In his first major case as Chief Justice, he found himself in the minority in 2006 as Oregon assisted suicide was okayed

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Roberts

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OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS BY SPORT

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1976: Nadia Comaneci; 2008: Nastia Liukin (champions all-around)

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Time's up! The correct answer was gymnastics

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NEPAL

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Told to jump from 600 feet, these tough Nepalese soldiers, not knowing they'd get chutes, said 300 feet was easier

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gurkhas

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FANTASTIC FILMS

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Marty McFly traveled back to 1955 in a souped-up DeLorean in this 1985 film

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Back To The Future"

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NAME THE POET

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"Drink to me only with thine eyes, / And I will pledge with mine"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ben Jonson

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FDR

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While attending this school, FDR was editor of its newspaper, The Crimson

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Time's up! The correct answer was Harvard

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WHEN THE SAINTS

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Santa Rosa de Lima is honored with festivals each August 30 in this country where she's patron saint

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Time's up! The correct answer was Peru

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BIBLICAL FATHERS & SONS

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Abraham was 100 years old & Sarah was 90 when this child was born to them

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Time's up! The correct answer was Isaac

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COOKING EQUIPMENT FOOD

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Made with cornmeal, it comes out of the oven so soft you have to eat it with the utensil in its name

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Time's up! The correct answer was spoon bread

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BODIES OF WATER

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In 1975 the United Kingdom began piping oil from this sea to its shores

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Time's up! The correct answer was the North Sea

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REEL MOTHERS

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According to the theme song, this cat "is a bad mother" -- shut your mouth

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Time's up! The correct answer was Shaft

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HERBS & SPICES

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Though derived from the same plant as opium, these seeds are non-narcotic

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Time's up! The correct answer was poppyseeds

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YOU HAD TO EXPECT OPERA

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Flosshilde is a Rhinemaiden in this composer's "Das Rheingold"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Richard Wagner

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APT ANAGRAMS

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He co-wrote "South Pacific": MASS ROMANTIC HERE

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Time's up! The correct answer was Oscar Hammerstein

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PARISIANS

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In the 1880s he introduced his brother & roommate, Vincent, to the Impressionists

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Time's up! The correct answer was Theo Van Gogh

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INDEPENDENCE DAYS

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This Asian island nation gained independence from the U.S. in 1946 but celebrates its 1898 freedom from Spain on June 12

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Philippines

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WORLD CAPITALS

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Founded in 1496 by Columbus's brother, this Dominican capitol is the oldest European city in the new world

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Time's up! The correct answer was Santo Domingo

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BRITISH BANDS & SINGERS

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In 1998 this group seen here reunited for a VH1 special & a concert tour ("I'll Tumble 4 Ya")

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Time's up! The correct answer was Culture Club

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WHAT'S THAT SOUND?

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Ports lying on the banks of this sound include Bremerton, Everett & Tacoma

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Time's up! The correct answer was Puget Sound

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NOW YOU'RE TALKING MY LANGUAGE

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Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala is a well-known writer in this language of the Incas

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Time's up! The correct answer was Quechua

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FILE UNDER "K"

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The Nancy Drew books are written under this pseudonym

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Time's up! The correct answer was Carolyn Keene

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THE USA

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The name of this New Mexico city where the first atomic bomb was exploded is Spanish for "big cottonwood"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alamogordo

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CONDUCTORS

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Unlike most nonmetals, this element with the symbol B is a workable conductor

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Time's up! The correct answer was boron

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THE 1990s

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On 2 votes, the House of Representatives did this to President Clinton on Dec. 19, 1998

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Time's up! The correct answer was impeached him

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NATIONS OF AFRICA

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In a song title, this country whose capital is Accra might come before "Fly Now"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ghana

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THE "A"s

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Whether for a sorcerer or a craft guild, one serves time as one of these before becoming a journeyman

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Time's up! The correct answer was apprentice

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"A" PLUS

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When he launched the comic strip "Dilbert" in 1989, this man was an engineer working for Pacific Bell

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Time's up! The correct answer was Scott Adams

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POUR ME A STIFF ONE

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This brand of liqueur made its debut in Dublin on November 26, 1974

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bailey's

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TOUGH MOVIE TRIVIA

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Kurt Russell, who later played Elvis, was in the 1963 Elvis film "It Happened" here

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Time's up! The correct answer was At the World's Fair

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GRAPES

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In an Aesop fable, this animal decides the grapes he can't reach must therefore be sour

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Time's up! The correct answer was a fox

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FILM FACTS

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"Titanic" tied this 1959 film's record of 11 Oscars but didn't overtake it

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ben-Hur

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INITIALS M.D.

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Like Neve & Denise, he was one of the "Wild Things"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Matt Dillon

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THEY ALSO RAN

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At age 31, he was Cleveland's mayor

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dennis Kucinich

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VERMONTERS

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At age 15 this future New York Tribune editor was apprenticed to a printer in East Poultney

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Time's up! The correct answer was Horace Greeley

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WORLD GEOGRAPHY

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The hot water heating of this northern European capital is drawn directly from underground springs

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Time's up! The correct answer was Reykjavik, Iceland

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CARY GRANT FILMS

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She done Cary right casting him as her co-star in "She Done Him Wrong"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mae West

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ITALIAN ART

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Gentile da Fabriano used the international Gothic style for his painting "The Adoration Of" this trio

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Magi

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A BUG'S LIFE

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This garden pest controller is the state insect of Delaware & Massachusetts

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Time's up! The correct answer was ladybug

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SHAKESPEARE

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2 of the 4 Shakespeare plays in which ghosts appear on stage

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Richard III

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EXPLORERS

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A book by Thomas James, who searched for the Northwest Passage, inspired this Coleridge poem

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Time's up! The correct answer was "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

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WHAT'S ON TV?

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In 2007 Marie Osmond blamed allergies & L.A. air quality for her waltz into unconsciousness on this show

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dancing with the Stars

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LONG GERMAN WORDS

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The Reinheitsgebot is the law of 1516 governing the purity of this 4-letter drink

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Time's up! The correct answer was beer

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RICHARD

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Either of the 2 parents of Richard the Lion-Hearted

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Time's up! The correct answer was Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine

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CREATION STORIES

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Scholars link Egyptian creation myths to the sun apparently fertilizing this river's slime

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Nile

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ACTORS WHO DIRECT

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"The Pledge" & "Into the Wild"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sean Penn

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AMERICAN HISTORY

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In 1798 Congress passed this collection of bills to control domestic dissent & conspiracy against the federal govt.

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Alien & Sedition Acts

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RHYMES WITH TEEN

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Jack Sprat's wife couldn't eat any

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lean

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BRITISH BANDS & SINGERS

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In 1998 this group seen here reunited for a VH1 special & a concert tour ("I'll Tumble 4 Ya")

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Time's up! The correct answer was Culture Club

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY

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At about 1,700 square miles, this saline lake is one of the largest lakes in the world with no outlet

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Salt Lake

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SPORTS

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In 1991, after 12 seasons at the Salt Palace, this NBA team moved its home games to the Delta Center

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Utah Jazz

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TV DRAMAS BY EPISODE

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"The Path to the Black Lodge"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Twin Peaks

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FUN WITH BALLET

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In "La Boutique Fantasque", dolls come to life & perform this high-kicking, skirt-swooshing dance

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Time's up! The correct answer was Can-can

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SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES

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"She speaks yet she says nothing", pines one character for his unattainable love in this tragedy

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Time's up! The correct answer was Romeo & Juliet

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TBA

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When the national votes are tallied, the 43rd one of these will be announced November 7, 2000

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Time's up! The correct answer was President of the United States

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CALENDAR GIRLS

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In 1963 she co-wrote "Ring of Fire" with Merle Kilgore

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Time's up! The correct answer was Carter

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"TU"

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From the Latin for "uproar", it's a confusion of voices

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tumult

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4-LETTER WORDS

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Pronounced one way, it's the top of the head; pronounced another, it's French chopped liver

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Time's up! The correct answer was pâté or pate

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THE UNIVERSE

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It wasn't until 1959 that the "far side" of this body was seen

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Moon

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NUMBERS

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In chapter 8, this tribe of Israelites is appointed to work in the tabernacle

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Time's up! The correct answer was Levites

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THE BIG 10-LETTER WORDS

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Something that's the first son's due; Esau sold his

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Time's up! The correct answer was birthright

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U.S. CITIES

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It's the only Maryland city not located within a county

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Time's up! The correct answer was Baltimore

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OPERA SINGERS

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This Spaniard starred in Franco Zeffirelli's film "La Traviata"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Domingo

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JUST DESSERTS

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A rich custard topped with caramelized sugar, its name means "burnt cream" in French

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Time's up! The correct answer was crème brûlée

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BASEBALL HISTORY

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2 of the 5 cities that had both National League & American League teams in 1903

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Time's up! The correct answer was Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis

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COUNTRY MUSIC

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In 1990 Jukebox named this Randy Travis cover of a Brook Benton hit the Country Record of the Year

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Time's up! The correct answer was "It's Just A Matter of Time"

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MR. TEA

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One of the first U.S. millionaires, this patriarch of the Astor family traded furs for tea from China

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Jacob

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THE 1980s

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Representative Jim Wright resigned this congressional office & his seat in the House

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Time's up! The correct answer was Speaker of the House

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OSCAR-WINNING ROLES

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1945: Mildred Pierce

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Time's up! The correct answer was Joan Crawford

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I READ THE NEWS TODAY

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At the time JFK was shot, Jack Ruby was placing some ads in this "morning" publication

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Dallas Morning News

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MASTER OF PUPPETS

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This evil puppet master from "Pinocchio" shared his name with a volcanic island near Sicily

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Time's up! The correct answer was Stromboli

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SHAKESPEARE

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The play in which Emilia screams, "The moor hath kill'd my mistress! Murder! Murder!"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Othello

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FEDERAL AID PROGRAMS

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The National School Lunch Program comes from this dept., also concerned with foot-and-mouth disease

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Time's up! The correct answer was Agriculture

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TITLE 9

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J.D. Salinger: "Nine ___"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Stories

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GENERAL SCIENCE

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The IRAS telescope, which revealed 5 new comets, made its observations in this part of the light spectrum

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Time's up! The correct answer was infra-red

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AROUND WASHINGTON, D.C.

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The Peacock room at the Freer Gallery shows the fun-loving side of this artist known for that dour depiction of mama

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Time's up! The correct answer was Whistler

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SYNONYMS

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In court you won't hear a lawyer say "remonstrance!" but this synonym

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Time's up! The correct answer was objection

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FINANCE HISTORY

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In the 19th c., selling stock you didn't yet own, hoping it would fall, was called selling this animal's skin

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Time's up! The correct answer was a bear

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ACTRESSES' FIRST FILMS

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"The Outlaw"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jane Russell

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KANSAS CITIES

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The Menninger Clinic founded in this capital owns a collection of Sigmund Freud's papers

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Time's up! The correct answer was Topeka

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ROCK MUSIC

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He recorded his 1982 hit album, "Nebraska", as a series of demos on a 4-track machine at home

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bruce Springsteen

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WEBSITES

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Seen here, Arfie fetches results at this metasearch engine

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dogpile

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THAT'S WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE SOUTH

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A state capital since 1849, it showed Southern hospitality in 2005 as its population grew by 50% after Katrina

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Time's up! The correct answer was Baton Rouge

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COMIC & CARTOON CRITTERS

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Heathcliff

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Time's up! The correct answer was cat

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AMERICAN EXPLORERS

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Stephen Long & Zebulon Pike have peaks named for them in this state, an area they said was uninhabitable

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Time's up! The correct answer was Colorado

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CHARACTERS IN BOOKS

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This character says, "It's Christmas Day! I haven't missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ebenezer Scrooge

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ART

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti wanted to take art back to "pre-" this Renaissance master born in 1483

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Time's up! The correct answer was Raphael

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BIRDS! BIRDS! BIRDS!

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It loves to swim, but this bird seen here is one of the few that do not fly

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Time's up! The correct answer was Penguin

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AUTHORS

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She first wrote "Ethan Frome" in French, then later translated it into English

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Time's up! The correct answer was Edith Wharton

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BEYOND .COM

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It indicates a website about employment, not about a founder of Apple

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Time's up! The correct answer was .jobs

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BEING THOREAU

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Work that says, "Under a gov't which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Civil Disobedience

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SCOTLAND

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Ben More, Ben Alder & Ben Macdui are not people but tall ones of these in Scotland

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Time's up! The correct answer was mountains

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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It was an 11-year-old girl who first suggested that Lincoln do this to improve his appearance

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Time's up! The correct answer was grow a beard

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THE MISFITS

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When these misfit brothers were "at the circus" in a 1939 film, "Lydia the tattooed lady" was there, too

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Marx Brothers

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COMPANIES YOUNGER THAN YOU

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While a student at Northeastern, Shawn Fanning started this P2P music-sharing service that now gone legit

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Time's up! The correct answer was Napster

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GOVERNMENT

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This country's National People's Congress has had up to around 3,500 members

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Time's up! The correct answer was China

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WORLD BOOK DESCRIBES THE "G" MAN

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"American poet... became known as a leader of the Beat literary movement of the 1950s"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ginsberg

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ROCK & ROLL FRONTMEN

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Anthony Kiedis

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Time's up! The correct answer was Red Hot Chili Peppers

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AFRICAN-AMERICANA

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This military man won the NAACP's Spingarn Medal for 1991

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Time's up! The correct answer was Colin Powell

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"MUM"s THE WORD

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This 2-word term for confusing language may come from a Mande phrase for "ancestor wearing a pompom"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mumbo-jumbo

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THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

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On September 23, 1779 he & his men successfully attacked a British convoy off Flamborough Head in the North Sea

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Paul Jones

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4-LETTER WORDS

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Used in linoleum & paints, linseed oil is made from the seeds of this plant

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Time's up! The correct answer was flax

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CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

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In one Grimm tale, 12 princesses dance these to pieces in an underground castle

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Time's up! The correct answer was their shoes

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SAME TITLE, DIFFERENT SONG

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Sticky-sweet title of no. 1s for Bobby Goldsboro in 1968 & Mariah Carey in 1997

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Honey"

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THE ROLLING STONES

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It was the number of the Rolling Stones' 1966 "Nervous Breakdown"

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Time's up! The correct answer was 19th

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BACKWORDS

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You know so much about policy, you qualify as this

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wonk

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FROM T TO SHINING T

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Proverbially, you can have one of these "in a teacup"

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Time's up! The correct answer was a tempest

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THE EYES HAVE IT

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A student, or a minor in Roman law

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pupil

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COMMON BONDS

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Peeling onions, watching Mel Gibson's film "Forever Young", missing Final Jeopardy!

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Time's up! The correct answer was things that make you cry

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WHERE'S MY COFFEE?

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The flavorful coffee beans from this country are grown at high altitudes near Nairobi

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Time's up! The correct answer was Kenya

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MUSICAL THEATER

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"Side Show" is based on the lives of Daisy & Violet Hilton, a famous pair of these extremely close siblings

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Time's up! The correct answer was Siamese twins

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FLOWERS

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In song, Colorado is where these bluish & white state flowers grow

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Rocky Mountain columbines

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YOUR HONOR, I OBJECT!

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Counsel is putting words in the witness' mouth with this type of question; the word also means "in first place"

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Time's up! The correct answer was a leading question

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FATHERS-IN-LAW

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Jefferson Davis' was this U.S. president

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Time's up! The correct answer was Zachary Taylor

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20th CENTURY INVENTION

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3M's Richard Drew invented it in 1930 to have something to seal the cellophane of food products

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Time's up! The correct answer was Scotch tape

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STATE FISH

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This state's official saltwater fish, the tarpon, can be found in the Gulf of Mexico & in the Mobile Estuary

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alabama

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NOT A VERB

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Paint, brush, easel

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Time's up! The correct answer was easel

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WHEREFORE "ART" THOU

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One of these might be thrown in an English pub or shot from a blowgun in Peru

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dart

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SATURDAY NIGHT ON THE TOWN

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Guacara Taina in this capital of the Dominican Republic may be the world's only disco-in-a-cave

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Time's up! The correct answer was Santo Domingo

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MOVIES

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In this film, the narrator had both, insomnia and an evil alter ego.

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Time's up! The correct answer was Fight Club

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THE NORTHERNMOST CAPITAL CITY

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Khartoum, Cairo, Kinshasa

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cairo

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CNN

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Anchored by Lou Dobbs, it was TV's first nightly business newscast

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Moneyline"

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ON THE RADIO

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The AAA format, featuring artists like the Cranberries & Tom Petty, stands for adult album this

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Time's up! The correct answer was alternative

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FIRST LADIES' RHYME TIME

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Mrs. Bush's luminous radiations

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Time's up! The correct answer was Laura's auras

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STATE BIRDS

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Ohio: This redbird

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Time's up! The correct answer was a cardinal

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GETTING TICKED ON

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A brown tick named for this pet has the rare ability to complete its life cycle indoors

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Time's up! The correct answer was dog

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GREAT DAMES

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She helped her husband survive an attempted assassination & was Nureyev's partner for over fifteen years

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dame Margot Fonteyn

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I'D RATHER BE SKIING

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In California, a premier spot for skiing is this resort area that shares its name with a prehistoric elephant

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mammoth

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CONVENTIONS

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In the film "Chasing Amy", boy meets girl at a convention for artists & fans of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was Comic books

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ARTHUR MILLER

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In June 1999 Arthur Miller received a lifetime achievement one of these awards at Radio City Music Hall

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Time's up! The correct answer was a Tony Award

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WORDS

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Someone who sees a crime is an eyewitness; someone who experiences it aurally is this similar word

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Time's up! The correct answer was an earwitness

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BRITISH ROYAL HOUSES

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James I

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Time's up! The correct answer was Stuart

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IN THE DICTIONARY

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This 5-letter word can refer to one type of work by a composer, or to several works of different types

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Time's up! The correct answer was opera

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ARTISTS' RETREATS

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The patronage of Mabel Dodge Luhan made an artists' magnet of this town 55 miles from Santa Fe

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Time's up! The correct answer was Taos, New Mexico

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TOP OF THE LIST

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Not surprisingly, this taste sensation is rocking as Ben & Jerry's top-selling ice cream flavor

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cherry Garcia

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THINGS ON NFL HELMETS

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A white arrowhead with a black outline; inside are 2 letters

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Kansas City Chiefs

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LITERARY CHARACTERS

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In "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", his character puts Hank Morgan to sleep for 1,300 years

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Time's up! The correct answer was Merlin

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NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES

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The Times made its own front page in 1971 when the Supreme Court upheld its publication of these documents

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Pentagon Papers

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POUR ME A STIFF ONE

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This brand of liqueur made its debut in Dublin on November 26, 1974

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bailey's

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MODES OF TRANSPORT

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3 types of these are rescue trucks, pumpers & ladder trucks

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Time's up! The correct answer was fire trucks

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AMERICAN EXPLORERS

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Stephen Long & Zebulon Pike have peaks named for them in this state, an area they said was uninhabitable

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Time's up! The correct answer was Colorado

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RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN

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In 1994 this show about a carnival barker won 5 Tonys, including Best Musical Revival

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AUSTRALIA

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The name of this capital city is Aboriginal for "meeting place"

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BIBLE BOOK BINDINGS

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Prime ___ Racket

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Numbers

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@vital copper guessed it! The answer was: Numbers

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HOMOPHONES

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Antagonistic, or an inexpensive lodging place for young people abroad

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WOOD & WIND

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The line "O wild west wind, thou breath of autumn's being" starts an 1819 ode by this man

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RICHARD

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In 1886 Richard Sears began selling pocket watches & in 1887 hired this man as his watch repairman

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ASIAN NATIONS

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A map of this country bears many Kualas; Kuala Dungun, Kuala Lumpur....

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4-LETTER FRIENDS

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The sport of rowing

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BRITISH FASHION

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Designer Vivienne Westwood ran a shop with Malcolm McLaren, who launched this Johnny Rotten band

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____ OF THE ____

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A Baskin-Robbins program, or an expression meaning "popular for right now"

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I'M HUNGRY!

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Let's make Craig Claiborne's recipe for an upside-down type of this fruit pie; it's a lot like tarte tatin

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WONDER DRUGS

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Adult migraine? Ease the throbbing with 200 milligrams of this

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THERE ARE SOME STRINGS ATTACHED

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This guitar family member's circular body is covered in front with tightly stretched plastic or parchment

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ONE-WORD RHYMES

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An important person, perhaps with an elaborate toupee

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LITERARY QUOTES

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"Always do right." he wrote; "This will gratify some people and astonish the rest"

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TOUGH BODIES OF WATER

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Rivers that flow into this sea include the Dnieper, Dniester & Danube

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ALWAYS REMEMBER SEPTEMBER

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French troops under Napoleon entered this capital on September 14, 1812 & found it in flames

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DECADES OF BESTSELLERS

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"The Nanny Diaries" & "Q is for Quarry"

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IT SOUNDS LIKE

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A pitcher who comes in late in the game, it sounds like a feeling trees have in the spring

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RELIGION

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This 13th century Italian theologian was born in Roccasecca near the town of Aquino

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BROADWAY LYRICS

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"All I need is one more try, gotta get that kite to fly"

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Time's up! The correct answer was You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

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CNN

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He & Robert Novak have worked together since 1963 & now co-anchor a CNN discussion program

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3-LETTER ABBREV.

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Organization founded by Carrie Chapman Catt in 1920: LWV

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Time's up! The correct answer was the League of Women Voters

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PRIME NUMBERS

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Fear of this prime number is called triskaidekaphobia

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THEY'RE ON CABLE

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He plays novelist Hank Moody, a New Yorker transplanted to L.A., on "Californication"

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THE EVOLUTION OF "M"USIC

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In the '90s it was "Enter Sandman" with this group

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PHYSICS 101

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Term for one end of a bar magnet, or for one of the discoverers of radium

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THE SECOND...

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...U.S. manned space program

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LIFE SCIENCE

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In nat. selection, a ref froggus trebekus has .5 relative fitness if it produces 1/2 as many of these as a pink one

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Time's up! The correct answer was offspring

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OF A SALESMAN

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Sick of selling dry goods from a buggy, in 1872 Montgomery Ward issued a one-page one of these

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BIG MERGERS

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In January 1999 we found out Viacom had its eye on this TV network

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DREAMY MUSIC

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It's the Aerosmith tune that encourages you to "Dream until your dream comes true"

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HEY, "U"!

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An entrepreneur who's launching a new enterprise, or a funeral director

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TO NEIL

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On board Gemini 8, he performed the first successful docking of 2 vehicles in space

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Time's up! The correct answer was Neil Armstrong

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THEY ALSO RAN

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Born in Brooklyn in 1944, he was mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2002

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EPITAPHS & TRIBUTES

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Outlaw: "Murdered by a traitor and a coward whose name is not worthy to appear here"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jesse James

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CORAL REEF LIFE

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A species of these well-armed creatures known as the crown-of-thorns feasts on coral reefs

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AROUND THE POKER TABLE WITH SLIM

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Slim's numerical term for a bluffer who doesn't have the fifth card to fill out a hand of all the same suit

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Time's up! The correct answer was Four-flusher

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PAINTERS

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His "Potato Eaters" was inspired by the time he spent as a missionary in the coal-mining region of Belgium in his mid-20s

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Time's up! The correct answer was Van Gogh

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TWO

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In fashion: Domenico Dolce &...

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Time's up! The correct answer was Stefano Gabbana

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ENGLISH LITERATURE

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The title of this E.M. Forster novel refers to the house that belonged to Henry Wilcox' first wife

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Howards End"

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MUSICALS

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This show features a concubine from Burma named Tuptim

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Time's up! The correct answer was "The King And I"

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MAYORS

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The last 2 Latinos elected mayor of this huge U.S. city are Cristobal Aguilar (1872) & Antonio Villaraigosa (2005)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Los Angeles

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WORLD UP!

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This island that gained independence from Denmark in 1944 is below the Arctic Circle

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Time's up! The correct answer was Iceland

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THE OLD WEST

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This hat maker traveled west, saw a need & returned in 1865 to make his famous hat in Philadelphia

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Stetson

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ARCHITECTS

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Canberra designer Walter Burley Griffin served as this American architect's assistant from 1901 to 1906

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Time's up! The correct answer was Frank Lloyd Wright

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NATIONAL SPELLING BEE

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A suicide pilot during WWII, it was 1993's winning word

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Time's up! The correct answer was K-A-M-I-K-A-Z-E

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LET THE GAMES BEGIN

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On a basic playing board in this matching game, the numbers range from B-1 to O-75

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Time's up! The correct answer was bingo

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A BUG'S LIFE

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The chigoe is a sand-dwelling variety of this insect

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Time's up! The correct answer was a flea

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BE FRUITFUL & MULTIPLY

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7 x 7 x 2

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Time's up! The correct answer was 98

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"IBLE"S & BITS

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Adjective for handwriting that can actually be read, unlike my doctor's

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Time's up! The correct answer was legible

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ELIZABETH TAYLOR FILMS

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James Dean, Rock Hudson & Liz formed a love triangle in this Texas-set film

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WHAT A WEEK

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In 1999 this country began 3 "golden weeks" of vacation for its vast populace, including one around May Day

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Time's up! The correct answer was China

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AMERICAN AUTHORS

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Susan & Benjamin Cheever, children of this short story master, are both authors as well

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Cheever

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IT'S A COUP D'ETAT

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In 1921 Reza Pahlavi helped with a coup that eventually brought his son to power in this country

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Time's up! The correct answer was Iran

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DANCE

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The 1786 Opera "Una Cosa Rara" featured one of the first of these Viennese dances

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Time's up! The correct answer was a waltz

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BALLET

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"The Nutcracker" often features a pas de deux bythe prince and this fairy who rules the Kingdom of Sweets

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Sugarplum Fairy

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"B" PREPARED

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This period lasted from about 3500 to 1500 B.C.

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Bronze Age

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I READ THE NEWS TODAY

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Florida's highest circulation newspaper is this Gulf Coast city's Times, with about 350,000 daily copies sold

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Time's up! The correct answer was St. Petersburg

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DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS

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[Audio DD] 1984 film which featured the following: (opening to <i> Dancing in the Sheets</i> by Shalamar)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Footloose

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MORTAL MATTERS

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In 1961 Hassan II was crowned in this country after his father died following a minor nose operation

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Time's up! The correct answer was Morocco

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THE SUMMER OLYMPICS

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In the Olympic 400-meter relay final, this many runners compete together as a team

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Time's up! The correct answer was 4

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AIRLINE TRAVEL

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In the seat pocket you'll find the catalog called "Sky" this, with must-haves like a solar-powered patio umbrella

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mall

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"ROCK"Y

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Also known as the Mosque of Omar, it was home to the Knights Templar during the Crusades

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Dome of the Rock

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BUSINESS LEADERS

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Before founding his own corp., John K. Northrop was chief engineer for this company & designed its Vega airplane

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lockheed

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A THOMAS GUIDE

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In 1952 this poet told us to "Rage, rage against the dying of the light"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dylan Thomas

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EXPLORERS

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Speke stopped speaking to Burton after their trip to find the source of this river

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nile

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LET'S HIT IT

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This word seen on doors is what a right-handed batter does when he hits the ball to left field

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Time's up! The correct answer was pull

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ARCHITECTS

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William Pereira erected his Transamerica "Pyramid" in this city

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Time's up! The correct answer was San Francisco

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THE LAST MAN

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In the 1996 book "The Presidents: A Reference History"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bill Clinton

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ABBREVIATED STATES

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The abbreviation of this state is also an abbreviation for the largest city in California

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"H" CITIES

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It served as a dynastic capital in the 1800s & continued as the royal capital of Vietnam until 1945

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hue

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THE 14th CENTURY

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The carol notwithstanding, a king with this "good" name had St. John of Nepomuk killed in 1393

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wenceslas

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HEADQUARTERS

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Since 1988 J.C. Penney has been firmly planted in Plano in this state

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Time's up! The correct answer was Texas

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HOME

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On Oct. 19, 1999 this home & life improvement guru made a bundle after her IPO hit Wall Street

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Time's up! The correct answer was Martha Stewart

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ANYTHING BUT CHEESESTEAK

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The "Kid' seen here represents these snacks

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Time's up! The correct answer was Twinkies

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MOVIE SONGS

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1969: "Everybody's Talkin'"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Midnight Cowboy

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MONEY SLANG

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Proverbially, you can "break" this food, or "take (it) out of someone's mouth"; earn some dough

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Time's up! The correct answer was bread

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CATHOLIC PRIESTS

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Served by priests, it may not exceed 18% alcohol

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Time's up! The correct answer was communion wine

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LEGENDARY LEGENDS

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Legend says if you run unto the ghost of the pirate Blackbeard, he may be hard to recognize, as he's missing this

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Time's up! The correct answer was his head

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RHYME TIME

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A cloaklike garment for a gorilla

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Time's up! The correct answer was an ape cape

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GRAVE MATTERS

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In 2000, 25 years after his death, this country's last emperor Haile Selassie was laid to rest in a crypt in Addis Ababa

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ethiopia

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THAT'S BUSINESS

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In 1851 this company started using a logo with a man in the moon & 13 stars; now it uses its initials

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Time's up! The correct answer was Proctor & Gamble

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IT'S SANDY!

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This TV "Funny Face" did a 5-minute workout video in 1990 for people without a lot of time to exercise

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sandy Duncan

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BRAND NAMES

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This athletic brand is named for the Greek goddess of victory

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nike

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NFL COACHES

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Of current head coaches, this reigning Super Bowl champ has the longest consecutive tenure with 1 team

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bill Cowher

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THAT'S SO '90s

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Joe Brown, Greg Mathis & Mills Lane joined the ranks of these on TV

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Time's up! The correct answer was TV judges

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ALSO SOMETHING YOU WEAR

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To avoid or go around the edge of

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Time's up! The correct answer was a skirt

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MANIAS

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In a 1987 hit Whitney Houston showed signs of choreomania when she wanted to do this with somebody

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dance

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SSSSSSSSNAKES!!!!!

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This highly venomous snake of the eastern U.S. has red & black bands separated by yellow ones

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Time's up! The correct answer was coral snake

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SPORTS OF THE FEMALE OLYMPIANS

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Sheryl Swoopes, Lisa Leslie & their 3 teammates on the floor

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Time's up! The correct answer was basketball

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NOVEL QUOTES

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The novel that gave us the famous phrase "Tous pour un, un pour tous"

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Three Musketeers

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ORGANIZATIONS

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Social welfare organization founded in the 19th century, whose bimonthly publication is "The War Cry"

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Salvation Army

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NEBRASKA, NEW YORK OR NORTH DAKOTA

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Its name does not have a Native American origin

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Time's up! The correct answer was New York

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY

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Lake Pontchartrain & St. Bernard Parish form part of this city's northern & southern boundaries

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Time's up! The correct answer was New Orleans

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LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS

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"10,000 Lakes"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Minnesota

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20th CENTURY QUOTES

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A minister, 1968: "I've seen the promised land...and I'm happy tonight...I'm not fearing any man"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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ART

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Someone tearing the L.A. Times into strips may be practicing this art form with a hyphenated French name

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Time's up! The correct answer was papier-mâché

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LITERATURE OF THE 1800s

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This character said, "I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ebenezer Scrooge

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1984

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98% of voters in Pakistan elected this leader killed 4 years later in a plane crash

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Time's up! The correct answer was Zia Ul-Haq

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"DON'T" YOU KNOW THIS SONG?

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Elton John saw the light of the Top 5 with this song twice, in 1974 & 1992

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me"

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A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS

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This computer language gets oxymoronic when it follows "Advanced"

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Time's up! The correct answer was BASIC

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THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION

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Philadelphia got its start as a colony for this religious group of which William Penn was a member

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Quakers

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ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

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A crash is a group of these large horned mammals

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MUSICAL THEATRE

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In January 1997 Liza Minnelli returned to Broadway, filling in for Julie Andrews in this musical

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ORDINAL NUMBER, PLEASE

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Shakespeare's "night" to remember

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Time's up! The correct answer was Twelfth

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LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER

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Daisy Miller & Natty Bumppo could have joined forces in a novel by this author

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Time's up! The correct answer was Henry James Fenimore Cooper

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BERMUDA SHORTS

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Bermuda uses this basic unit of currency

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BIOLOGY

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Renin, an enzyme that breaks down protein, is secreted by cells in this organ

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MINORITY REPORT

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Justice Holmes dissented when seditionist Jacob Abrams' conviction was upheld, saying he didn't pose this type of "danger"

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Time's up! The correct answer was clear and present

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MUSICAL THEATER

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"Side Show" is based on the lives of Daisy & Violet Hilton, a famous pair of these extremely close siblings

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IT'S OURS!

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Northern Mariana Islands

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ALWAYS REMEMBER SEPTEMBER

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The names of the 3 ships that left the Canary Islands on Sept. 6, 1492, heading west

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Nina, the Pinta & the Santa Maria

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THAT'S SO '90s

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In 1994 a flaw found in this company's new Pentium processor cost it $475 million in a recall

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DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE COMPANIES

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It has a Supercenter on South 9th St. in Salina, Kansas

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PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING DRAMAS

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In 1938 this playwright's "Our Town" had some Pulitzer with the voters

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wilder

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THE SILVER SCREEN

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Anthony Hopkins said his voice for this movie role was "a combination of Truman Capote and Katharine Hepburn"

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FIRST LADIES

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Her stepfather was Hugh Auchincloss

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BUSINESS BUDDIES

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This maker of optical products borrowed money from his good friend Henry Lomb, but it turned out okay

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NONFICTION PEOPLE

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He's called a "Rough Stone Rolling" in a 2005 "Cultural Biography of Mormonism's Founder"

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THE REDCOATS ARE COMING!

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On Sept. 5, 1781, 24 of this country's ships engaged British ships in Cheaspeake Bay & turned them back

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SWEET TREATS

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Nestle says over 125,000 tons of these chocolate chip cookies are baked in the home every year

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HEALTH & MEDICINE

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Apnea is the temporary cessation of this

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WORD ORIGINS

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This compass direction may come from the Proto-Germanic for "to the left of the rising sun"

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CREATION STORIES

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According to the King James Version, God's first words quoted in the book of Genesis

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Let there be light"

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ASIA

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It's Asia's southernmost national capital

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jakarta

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SPACE MISSIONS

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The Hinode mission showed magnetic waves are critical in driving the flow of charged particles called this wind

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Time's up! The correct answer was the solar wind

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PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING DRAMAS

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David Mamet won in 1984 for this salesman drama whose title includes 2 4-letter words

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Time's up! The correct answer was Glengarry Glen Ross

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GENERAL INFORMATION

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The tuliptree, or "yellow" this, was planted by Washington at Mt. Vernon, & Daniel Boone used its wood in his canoe

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THE SILVER SCREEN

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Schwarzenegger is a Soviet cop teamed with James Belushi's Chicago cop in this action movie

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Time's up! The correct answer was Red Heat

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ACTORS' RHYME TIME

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Torn's witticisms

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LET'S BOUNCE

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In this kid's game, you bounce a small rubber ball while picking up 6-pronged metal objects

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Time's up! The correct answer was jacks

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NEEDY NO.1 HITMAKERS

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1970: "I Want You Back"

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Jackson 5

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ALL ASHORE FOR BIRD LORE

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This bird term for pro-war politicians was popular in the period leading up to the War of 1812

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Time's up! The correct answer was hawks

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ANAGRAMMED CABINET DEPARTMENTS

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Tire iron

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BIG "STAR"

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In WWI Germany introduced this chemical weapon, C<sub>4</sub>H<sub>8</sub>Cl<sub>2</sub>S

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Time's up! The correct answer was mustard gas

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1994 FILMS

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Quentin Tarantino directed this film & also had a bit role as Jimmy of Toluca Lake

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pulp Fiction

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SOMETHING'S FISHY

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So as not to confuse it with the mammal, this fish is commonly referred to as mahi-mahi

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Time's up! The correct answer was a dolphinfish

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4-LETTER WORDS

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A raisin can be called by this other fruit's name when it's added to a pudding or a cake

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INDEPENDENCE DAYS

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It was annexed by Indonesia but became independent on May 20, 2002

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SCIENCE GUYS

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This astronomer was born in Pisa, Italy February 15, 1564

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A MASSIVE "M"ETROPOLIS

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3.6 million: Down Under

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Time's up! The correct answer was Melbourne

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ANATOMY

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The base of the fibula forms the outer projection of this joint

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Time's up! The correct answer was the ankle

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LYRICS FROM MUSICALS

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"Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo. Lucky are we to be having him"

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THEIR COUNTRY'S LAST MONARCH

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1910: King Manuel II

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GOVERNMENT

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Until 1896, majority in this branch of Congress were 1st termers, now less than 10% are

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Time's up! The correct answer was the House of Representatives

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MOVIE MUSICALS

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This actress who played Mary Stone on "The Donna Reed Show" was the only 1 to co-star in 3 Elvis films

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Time's up! The correct answer was Shelly Fabares

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INDONESIA

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In 1985 Sukarno-Hatta Int'l Airport was opened at Cengkareng just west of this city's center

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jakarta

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ART

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Georges Rouault liked to include some tragic ones of these in his works; Red Skelton specialized in them

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Time's up! The correct answer was clowns

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RIVERS

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It was once believed that this river "originated in the Mountains of the Moon"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Nile

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WOLVERINE

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This creature is the main predator of wolverines; what else would be dumb enough to take one on?

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Time's up! The correct answer was man

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ENGLISH LITERATURE

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The title of this E.M. Forster novel refers to the house that belonged to Henry Wilcox' first wife

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Howards End"

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U.N. OBSERVANCES

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September 16 is International Day for the Preservation of this atmospheric layer

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Ozone Layer

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IT'S ONLY ROCK & ROLL

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He perked up his career by letting Starbucks release his album "Memory Almost Full"

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Time's up! The correct answer was McCartney

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MAY DAYS

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On May 10, 1941 this deputy to Hitler parachuted from a plane over Scotland with a "peace plan"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rudolf Hess

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KAN U SPEL BIZNESS?

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Dessert topping (the part after "Reddi")

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Time's up! The correct answer was W-I-P

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AH, SWEET MYTHTERY

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Telemachus was this long lost traveler's faithful son

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Time's up! The correct answer was Odysseus

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U.S. WINTER OLYMPIANS

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Mike Eruzione of Winthrop, Mass. was captain of the miraculous 1980 Olympic team in this sport

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Time's up! The correct answer was hockey

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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY SAYS....

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Edna wrote that this "burns at both ends; it will not last the night"

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Time's up! The correct answer was My candle

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PARTS OF PEACH

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5-letter word for the hard interior of a peach

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Time's up! The correct answer was the stone

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1957

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As the Teamsters' vice president, he was indicted for bribery, conspiracy & obstruction of justice

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jimmy Hoffa

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SWEET!

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Butter is an ingredient of this hard candy that has "butter" in its name; the rest of its name doesn't refer to whisky

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Time's up! The correct answer was butterscotch

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COLORS

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Johnny Cash is known for wearing only this color on stage

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Time's up! The correct answer was black

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MAGIC

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This magician's feats include walking through the Great Wall of China

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Time's up! The correct answer was David Copperfield

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COUNTY SEATS

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Quincy, Illinois is the seat of a county with this presidential name

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Time's up! The correct answer was Adams

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WORLD FACTS

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A humid city, Rio de Janeiro lies just north of this tropic line

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Tropic of Capricorn

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC "B"

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The northern terminus of China's Grand Canal is located in this major city

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Time's up! The correct answer was Beijing

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FURNITURE

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He designed furniture for Federal Hall in New York as well as the basic layout of Washington, D.C.

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pierre L'Enfant

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TITLES FROM SHAKESPEARE

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Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" as well as Steinbeck's "The Moon Is Down" come from this play

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Time's up! The correct answer was Macbeth

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COMPOUND WORDS

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It's often said, "Build a better" this "and the world will beat a path to your door"

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Time's up! The correct answer was a mousetrap

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SENIOR SENATORS

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Politician seen here in 1962, the year he was first elected to the Senate:

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CNN

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In 1997 CNN became the first U.S. news organization since 1969 with a permanent bureau in this country

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cuba

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FOREIGN CURRENCY

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This currency of Costa Rica gets its name from the first European to see the nation

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Colon

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U.S. STATES

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This state got its nickname, "Badger State", from the 1820s miners who dug into its hillsides

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wisconsin

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OFFICIAL STATE THINGS

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Hot-cha-cha! New Mexico's official state question is "red or" this?

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Time's up! The correct answer was green

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GREEK LETTERS

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A homophone of a verb meaning "to paddle"

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Time's up! The correct answer was rho

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AMERICANS IN PARIS

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In March 1971 this rocker closed the door on his band & moved to Paris to focus on his poetry

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jim Morrison

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EMOTICONS

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:-* Gene Simmons might accept one of these from any pretty woman

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Time's up! The correct answer was a kiss

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BICYCLES

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1985 film that was a story of a “rebel & his bike”

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pee Wee’s Big Adventure

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WORLD GEOGRAPHY

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The surface of this lake in Siberia is about 1,490 ft. above sea level, the bottom over 5,300 ft. below

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lake Baikal

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AMERICAN HISTORY

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John O'Sullivan, who later became a diplomat, coined this term for the USA's right to cover the continent

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Time's up! The correct answer was Manifest Destiny

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LITERARY FIRST LINES

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1854: "When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone in the woods..."

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Walden; or, Life in the Woods"

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MUSICAL THEATRE

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Barbra Streisand introduced the song "People" in this musical

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Time's up! The correct answer was Funny Girl

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NOVEL QUOTES

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(1945) "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Animal Farm

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& GO TO "BED"

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Native Americans called this fence material the "Devil's rope"

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Time's up! The correct answer was barbed wire

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ANCIENT TIMES

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Horrified by the carnage of war, Asoka, a 3rd century B.C. ruler in India, embraced this peaceful religion

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Time's up! The correct answer was Buddhism

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LANDINGS

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Runways are numbered by compass degrees without the last digit, so this is the highest number used

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Time's up! The correct answer was 36

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EDGAR AWARD WINNERS

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He won for his novel "The Day of the Jackal" & the short story "There Are No Snakes in Ireland"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Forsyth

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AMERICAN INDIANS

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In 1777 Chief Joseph Brant led his fellow Mohawks in the Battle of Oriskany during this war

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Revolutionary War

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AMERICANS IN PARIS

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Sherwood Anderson & Ernest Hemingway were among the expatriate writers who hung out at her Paris salon

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gertrude Stein

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY

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From its incorporation in 1813 until 1901, this New York village was known as Sing-Sing

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ossining

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ARTISTS' RETREATS

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Proceeds from "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" helped him start a residency program on Long Island

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Time's up! The correct answer was Edward Albee

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20th CENTURY INVENTION

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They were invented in 1947 & by the 1990s millions were being placed on a single chip

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Time's up! The correct answer was Transistors

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DOUBLE A

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This river "trans"its South Africa & flows into the Orange

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Time's up! The correct answer was Vaal River

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LOBBYISTS

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Victor Crawford lobbied for, then against, this industry before his death from cancer

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Time's up! The correct answer was the tobacco industry

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THAT'S SO '90s

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Hello! In May 1999 scientists found this famous sheep might be susceptible to premature aging

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dolly

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QUOTATIONS

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In a 1961 speech he said, "...ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man"

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Time's up! The correct answer was JFK

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THE ENGLISH BEAT

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In 1964 a Shakespeare center was opened on Henley Street in this city

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Time's up! The correct answer was Stratford-upon-Avon

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NORSE MYTHOLOGY

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Norse myth is big on trees; the first man & woman -- Ask & Embla -- were created out of these 2 species

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Time's up! The correct answer was ash & elm

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GOVERNMENT

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Brazil has 2 federal legislative houses, the Chamber of Deputies & this

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Senate

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COLONIAL ARTS

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This South Carolina city that gave us a popular dance in the 1930s was the site of the first opera in America in 1735

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Time's up! The correct answer was Charleston

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SWEET!

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A confection called a kiss is baked this: sugar & stiffly beaten egg whites

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Time's up! The correct answer was meringue

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THE FABULOUS '50s

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A 1954 code trying to stop juvenile delinquency said "horror" or "terror" could not be used in titles of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was comics

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HISTORIC NAMES

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This discoverer of Uranus thought the sun was an inhabited body with a luminous atmosphere

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Time's up! The correct answer was William Herschel

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WE WANT PISA!

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In Italian it's known as "La Torre Pendente"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Leaning Tower

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AMERICAN EXPLORERS

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Stephen Long & Zebulon Pike have peaks named for them in this state, an area they said was uninhabitable

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Time's up! The correct answer was Colorado

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FORE!

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This "Royal & Ancient Golf Club" of Scotland set the standard for a round of golf at 18 holes

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PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS

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Originally bean-containing dried gourds on handles, they were named by the Tupi of South America

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FROM THE GREEK

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This synonym for "drugstore" comes from the Greek for "druggist's work"

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CALENDAR GIRLS

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Patricia Clarkson was nominated for an Oscar for "Pieces of" this title gal played by Katie Holmes

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OSCAR NIGHT 2003

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Chris Cooper won his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his work in this film seen here

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PHYSICAL SCIENCE

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On Earth, it's the major force responsible for the weight of a body

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U.S. STATES

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This state got its nickname, "Badger State", from the 1820s miners who dug into its hillsides

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FASHIONABLE COMMON BONDS

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Hobo, envelope, beaded

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"TU"

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The ruins of Carthage are in this country

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MEN OF THE WORLD

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Armando Munoz Garcia sculpted a 55' statue of a nude woman & lived in it in this Mexican city near San Diego

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MAGICAL MOUSE-TERY TOUR

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The samplefest "The Grey Album" & the band Gnarls Barkley are 2 projects of Brian Burton, aka this

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CRAFT

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Saddler's pliers were created for gripping this material

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STRING THEORY 101

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In the U.S. string cheese is usually a type of this cheese

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THE CRUCIBLE

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Nitrides of boron & silicon are used to make crucibles because they are stable when this is high

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THE MIDDLE AGES

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Imprisoned in Genoa, he dictated an account of his visit to the court of Kublai Khan

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Time's up! The correct answer was Marco Polo

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THAT'S MY LAW

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The Law of Independent Assortment is one of the laws of heredity named for this 19th C. Austrian monk

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gregor Mendel

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SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN

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The daughter of Polonius

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NAME THE PLAY

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Algernon: "You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life"

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Importance of Being Earnest

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TONY-WINNING COMPOSERS

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1980: "Evita"

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IT'S OURS!

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Montserrat

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IT ENDS WITH "US"

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Bridges over this strait connect Asia to Europe

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FLOWER

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A 1971 New Jersey law made the common meadow type of this, not the African type, the state flower

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

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To physicists, SOHO isn't a neighborhood but an observatory orbiting this body

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PHYSICAL SCIENCE

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To scientists, it's force times distance; to Twain, it's "whatever a body is obliged to do"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Work

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SPORTS EQUIPMENT

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Alternate name for the number one wood in golf

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Time's up! The correct answer was Driver

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SPORTS SHORTS

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In 2008 he swam 200 meters freestyle in a record 1 minute, 42.96 seconds

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Time's up! The correct answer was Michael Phelps

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THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS

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The Tebenna, an Etruscan mantle, evolved into this garment perhaps worn most strikingly by John Belushi

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Time's up! The correct answer was a toga

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CABLE CHANNELS

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The Dire Straits song "Money For Nothing" says, "You play the guitar on" this cable channel

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5-LETTER WORDS

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Soup's on! & we need this long-handled spoon or scoop to serve it

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Time's up! The correct answer was ladle

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WHEREFORE "ART" THOU

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Grammatically speaking, the word "the" is definitely one of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was Article

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ACTRESSES' FIRST FILMS

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"Oklahoma!"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Shirley Jones

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DEFENESTRATION IN CINEMA

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In this Coen Brothers movie, Charles Durning jumps out a window during a board meeting

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Hudsucker Proxy

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SIGNS & SYMBOLS

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The 3 Zodiac signs with horns

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Time's up! The correct answer was Aries, Capricorn & Taurus

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MUSICALS OF THE '20s

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The 1924 musical revue "I'll Say She Is" made these goofy brothers legitimate Broadway stars

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Marx Brothers

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CONVENTIONS

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(Hi, I'm Paula Poundstone) I heard stories of Bob Dole in a towel at the 1996 Republican Convention in this California city

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Time's up! The correct answer was San Diego

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ROGUE

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This country's acceptance of responsibility for the Pan Am 103 bombing helped it lose its rogue status

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Time's up! The correct answer was Libya

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FAIRY TALE FEMMES

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One of the few times she laughs in Wonderland is when she has to use a flamingo to play croquet

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alice

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U.S. STATES

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This state got its nickname, "Badger State", from the 1820s miners who dug into its hillsides

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wisconsin

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ALWAYS SAY NEVER

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There's an old expression that says these "never prosper"; remember that

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BIBLICAL FATHERS & SONS

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His son Ham was the father of the Canaanites

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Time's up! The correct answer was Noah

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ANIMALS

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The genus of this Asian animal is Ailuropoda, & its species name, appropriately, is melanoleuca

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Time's up! The correct answer was the giant panda

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1807

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Following his victory in the Battle of Friedland in June, he forced the capitulation of the Russian Empire

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Time's up! The correct answer was Napoleon

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DRAMA

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Her 1946 play "Another Part of the Forest" is sometimes considered a prequel to "The Little Foxes"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lillian Hellman

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THE "I"s HAVE IT

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Arabic for "son of", it comes before names like Saud

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ibn

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"PH"UN WORDS

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The name of this Egyptian island is Greek for "Lighthouse"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pharos

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TRAVEL

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Beautiful Margaret Island in this river has been a Budapest park for more than 100 years

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Danube

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FROM B TO C

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Branch of the Indo-European family of languages

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Time's up! The correct answer was Baltic

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PHILOSOPHY GLOSSARY

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"Every virtue is laudable. Kindness is a virtue. Therefore, kindness is laudable" is a logical this

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Time's up! The correct answer was syllogism

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LANGUAGES

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Athenians speak the Attic dialect of this language

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Time's up! The correct answer was Greek

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ANYTHING BUT CHEESESTEAK

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The "Kid' seen here represents these snacks

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Time's up! The correct answer was Twinkies

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"LAP" DANCE

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Take your gemstones to this specialist to have them cut & polished

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lapidary

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14:59

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This government employee was in the spotlight in the late 1990s for her conduct as a girlfriend of Monica Lewinsky

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Time's up! The correct answer was Linda Tripp

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THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK AFTER...

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Mark

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Time's up! The correct answer was Luke

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UP & ATOM

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To study atoms you might use a scanning tunneling one of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was microscope

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HERE'S LUCY

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In 2000 she became the first Asian-American woman to host "Saturday Night Live"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lucy Liu

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OPERA SINGERS

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This hefty ebullient tenor once taught elementary school in Modena, Italy, his birthplace

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Time's up! The correct answer was Luciano Pavarotti

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ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

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Like peas, whales & seals are in groups called these

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OF A SALESMAN

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This direct-selling co. known for products like Nutrilite claims 3 million independent business owners

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Time's up! The correct answer was Amway

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WHOSE IS IT?

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This "apple" is at the front of men's throats

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Time's up! The correct answer was Adam's apple

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5-LETTER WORDS

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It can be an object from the past, or a personal item associated with a saint

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Time's up! The correct answer was relic

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SORORITY WOMEN

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This Sigma Kappa is remembered as one of the first senators to speak out against Joseph McCarthy

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Time's up! The correct answer was Margaret Chase Smith

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IN THE DICTIONARY

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This word for someone who walks comes from the Latin for "foot"

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Time's up! The correct answer was pedestrian

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THE FALL

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Headed by Chief Justice Charles T. Wells, the Supreme Court of this state was in the news in November 2000

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Time's up! The correct answer was Florida

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LIFE SCIENCE

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In nat. selection, a ref froggus trebekus has .5 relative fitness if it produces 1/2 as many of these as a pink one

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Time's up! The correct answer was offspring

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TO NEIL

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On board Gemini 8, he performed the first successful docking of 2 vehicles in space

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Time's up! The correct answer was Neil Armstrong

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CNN

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Anchored by Lou Dobbs, it was TV's first nightly business newscast

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Moneyline"

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"AD"JECTIVES

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Unfavorable, like some circumstances, or the last name of Anthony in a 1933 novel

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Time's up! The correct answer was Adverse

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SHAKESPEARE

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2 of the 4 Shakespeare plays in which ghosts appear on stage

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Richard III

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EARTH

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Formed at the Earth's surface, basalt is the extrusive type of this "Big 3" type of rock

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Time's up! The correct answer was igneous

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WHEREFORE "ART" THOU

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Grammatically speaking, the word "the" is definitely one of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was Article

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EXPLORERS

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In 1828 Rene Caille reached this remote African city, "an object of curiosity" to Europeans

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Time's up! The correct answer was Timbuktu

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THE YEAR IN SPORTS

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In this, his final year, Ted Williams became one of the few major leaguers to play in 4 decades

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Time's up! The correct answer was 1960

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SEEING "RED"

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In song, just "remember" this place "and the cowboy that loves you so true"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Red River Valley

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"LAP" DANCE

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The type of filmmaking seen here

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Time's up! The correct answer was Time-lapse photography

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BEGINS & ENDS WITH "T"

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One who plays hooky from school might find himself pursued by this type of officer

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Time's up! The correct answer was Truant officer

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AWARDS

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Theodore Hesburgh, once president of this university, has been awarded over 100 honorary degrees

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Time's up! The correct answer was Notre Dame

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OPERA & BALLET

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The ballet "Les Sylphides" is danced to music by this Polish-French composer

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Time's up! The correct answer was Frederic Chopin

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"O"PERA

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Disney World crowds might go nuts for this title knight, aka Roland, made famous by both Hande & Vivaldi

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Time's up! The correct answer was Orlando

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SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS

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She says, "that death's unnatural that kills for loving" before Othello strangles her

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Time's up! The correct answer was Desdemona

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CLASSICAL GASES

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This gas forms tiny bubbles in a diver's bloodstream that can be dangerous if he ascends too quickly

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nitrogen

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U.N. SECRETARIES-GENERAL

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This Oslo-born secretary-general served in the Norwegian government in exile during WWII

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Time's up! The correct answer was Trygve Lie

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WHEN THEY WERE TEENS

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He was known as Chan Kong Sang in his native Hong Kong where he was a teenage stuntman & fight choreographer

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jackie Chan

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SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS

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"Beaucoup de Bruit Pour Rien"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Much Ado About Nothing

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TALK LIKE A BRIT

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Of stay in bed, hit someone on the head or rub till it's red, what you do if you cosh

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Time's up! The correct answer was hit someone on the head

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ALSO A BOOK IN THE BIBLE

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This character first hit the radio in 1928 with his partner Andy

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Time's up! The correct answer was Amos

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BIBLICAL FATHERS & SONS

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This strongman was killed destroying a Philistine temple & was interred in his father's burying place

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Time's up! The correct answer was Samson

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ELEMENT-ARY SCHOOL

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Bananas are an excellent source of this element whose symbol is K

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Time's up! The correct answer was potassium

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"N"ATIONS OF THE WORLD

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On the first Monday in June, this Kiwi country celebrates the Queen's birthday, the queen being Elizabeth

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Time's up! The correct answer was New Zealand

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RIVERS

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It was once believed that this river "originated in the Mountains of the Moon"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Nile

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BREAKING NEWS

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Before this hotel mogul's elbow broke through it, a Picasso he owned was worth $139 million; after, $85 million

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Time's up! The correct answer was Steve Wynn

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CARDS & DICE

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It's the number of dice you toss on your first roll of Yahtzee

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Time's up! The correct answer was 5