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SCIENTISTS
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"American Prometheus" is a biography of this physicist who died in 1967
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Time's up! The correct answer was J. Robert Oppenheimer
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IN THE DICTIONARY
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This cutting implement has the same name as a type of dive & a kind of trailer-truck accident
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Time's up! The correct answer was a jackknife
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NOW YOU'RE TALKING MY LANGUAGE
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The official language of Andorra, it's the second-most spoken language in Spain
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Time's up! The correct answer was Catalan
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WORD ORIGINS
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The name of this bread spread goes all the way back to bous, a Greek word for "cow"
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Time's up! The correct answer was butter
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BEYOND .COM
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It follows dot in a domain for companies & "That's show" in a familiar phrase
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Time's up! The correct answer was .biz
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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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ORGANIZED LABOR
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In 1978 legislation raised the mandatory retirement age to this
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Time's up! The correct answer was seventy
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ORGANIZED LABOR
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The United Steelworkers of America is headquartered in this city
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Time's up! The correct answer was Pittsburgh
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COMMON BONDS
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Some chairs, A toy horse, The cradle when the wind blows
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Time's up! The correct answer was Things that rock
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WORD ORIGINS
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This wooden club is named for the town in county Wicklow where it originated
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Time's up! The correct answer was Shillelagh
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WORLD LEADERS
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Shortly after he received the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize, his country ceased to exist
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Time's up! The correct answer was Mikhail Gorbachev
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DAN-O-MITE
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This 19th c. orator went to Dartmouth & argued Dartmouth College v. Woodward before the Supreme Court
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Time's up! The correct answer was Webster
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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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ANY FIRST WORDS?
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Aussies are familiar with this term for native inhabitants that once referred to pre-Roman Italians
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Time's up! The correct answer was aborigines
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"PUN" JAB
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From the Latin for "mark for deletion", it's to erase something from official records
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Time's up! The correct answer was expunge
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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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HEALTH & MEDICINE
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These blood-sucking worms are used in medicine today to drain hematomas
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Time's up! The correct answer was leeches
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BIOGRAPHIES
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"Shalom, Friend" tells of "The Life and Legacy" of this slain Israeli leader
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Time's up! The correct answer was Yitzhak Rabin
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PLANT PARENTHOOD
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Named for the Virgin Mary, these carnivorous little red beetles can help rid your garden of aphids & other insects
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Time's up! The correct answer was ladybugs
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A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS
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Alliterative two-word term for action by one's own forces causing casualties to one's own troops
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Time's up! The correct answer was friendly fire
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LET'S HAVE ITALIAN TONIGHT!
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About 635 violins still exist among the 1,100 instruments this 17th century man constructed
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Time's up! The correct answer was Stradivarius
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FOOD
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The Bismarck type of this fish is made of fillets cured in vinegar, salt & onions
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Time's up! The correct answer was Herring
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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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RHYME TIME
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A person who teaches you to imitate an owl
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Time's up! The correct answer was Hooter tutor
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WHEAT
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Types of wheat are grouped according to these 2 seasons
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Time's up! The correct answer was Winter & spring
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NUTRITION
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It's good to break a little this between friends--it supplies carbs & fiber
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Time's up! The correct answer was bread
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JONATHAN SWIFTIES
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"Every man desires to live long, but no man would be" this
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Time's up! The correct answer was old
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SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN
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Comedy which features the wedding of Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazons
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Time's up! The correct answer was A Midsummer Night's Dream
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ORGANIZATIONS
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During Egypt's suspension from this group, 1979-1989, its headquarters was located in Tunisia
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Arab League
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CLASSIC ADS & JINGLES
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"Is it live or is it" this?
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Time's up! The correct answer was Memorex
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LOST IN SPACE
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While making repairs on the Intl. Space Station, Scott Parazynski lost a needle-nose pair of these
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Time's up! The correct answer was pliers
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BIG BANDS
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"Royal" bandleader whose first two names were Edward Kennedy
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Time's up! The correct answer was Duke Ellington
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HOW DO YOU...
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Holding the bottom of the ear in the left hand, grasp the husk from the top with the right hand & pull down
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Time's up! The correct answer was shuck corn
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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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YOUR NEW CLASS SCHEDULE
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Spanish: You'll have to use your cabeza, this body part, to pass the class
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Time's up! The correct answer was your head
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GRAINS & STAPLES
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The rolled form of this grain cooks in about 5 minutes; the steel-cut takes much longer
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Time's up! The correct answer was oats
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DANCE
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Some dancers get their kicks doing high kicks in this Radio City Music Hall chorus line
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Rockettes
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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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Time's up! The correct answer was CBS
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SPACE MISSIONS
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The MESSENGER craft is the first mission to explore this planet since mariner 10 in the 1970s
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Time's up! The correct answer was Mercury
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GOULASH
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Beechwood & juniper branches are used to smoke Germany's Westphalian type of this meat
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Time's up! The correct answer was Ham
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GREEK LETTERS
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Precedes "-bits" in the name of a sweet Post cereal
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Time's up! The correct answer was alpha
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ANIMAL TERMS
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This "scaly" alliterative term originally referred to men who flirted in tea rooms
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Time's up! The correct answer was lounge lizards
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AN ABBREVIATED CATEGORY
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On party invitations: BYOB
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Time's up! The correct answer was bring your own booze
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BEGINS & ENDS WITH "O"
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The website for this snack features the Double Stuf Racing League
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Time's up! The correct answer was Oreo
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TAKE A PILL
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Estramustine is a chemotherapy agent for this glandular cancer in men
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Time's up! The correct answer was prostate cancer
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GENERAL SCIENCE
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This branch of medicine is devoted to the care & diseases of the elderly
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Time's up! The correct answer was geriatrics
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TONY-WINNING COMPOSERS
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1980: "Evita"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Andrew Lloyd Webber
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WORLD FACTS
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The lowest river in the world, it's revered by Jews, Christians & Muslims alike
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Time's up! The correct answer was The River Jordan
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THE SOLAR SYSTEM
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This planet has more in common with Triton, Neptune's largest moon, than it does with any of the other planets
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Time's up! The correct answer was Pluto
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PARTS OF THE WHOLE
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Jamb, hinge
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Time's up! The correct answer was a door
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THE 13th CENTURY
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Roger Bacon wrote coded instructions for making the explosive mix of saltpeter, sulfur & charcoal called black this
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Time's up! The correct answer was powder
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NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD
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In Alberta the scenic Icefields Parkway connects Jasper National Park with this other one
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Time's up! The correct answer was Banff
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THE "CO"-CATEGORY
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It's the smallest armed service of the United States
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Coast Guard
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THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS
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"Colorful" verb for what's been done when you've been soundly thrashed
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Time's up! The correct answer was tanned
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STATE OF THE UNION
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The Jack Daniel's distillery is in Lynchburg in this state
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Time's up! The correct answer was Tennessee
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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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"BOO"!
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Soft woolen shoes for a baby
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Time's up! The correct answer was booties
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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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THE 1890s
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Relationship of Lizzie Borden to the woman she was acquitted of killing
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Time's up! The correct answer was stepdaughter
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CARIBBEAN TASTE TREATS
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Don't worry if you see this word on a Barbados menu: it refers to a fish, not the star of "Flipper"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Dolphin
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BUSY AS A BEAVER
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Gee, Wally, this classic TV show premiered on October 4, 1957
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Time's up! The correct answer was Leave It to Beaver
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MIDDLE "C"
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In 1923, John Deere launched it's Model D, the first of these to bear the Deere name
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Time's up! The correct answer was a tractor
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SPORTS EVOLUTION
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By the time the British discovered this sport in India around 1860, it used a ball, no longer a goat's or enemy's head
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Time's up! The correct answer was polo
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THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
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In 1326 the Ottomans moved their capital to Bursa, which is in this Asian part of modern-day Turkey
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Time's up! The correct answer was Anatolia
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U.S. STATES
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Besides X,Y & Z, 2 of the 3 consonants that don't begin a state's name
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Time's up! The correct answer was J & Q
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THE TITANIC
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The U.S. Senate inquiry noted that the 16 compartments in the Titanic's hull that supposedly were this, weren't
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Time's up! The correct answer was watertight
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THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD
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A Dutch TV reality show picked the muscular "swinger" for the European run of this Disney musical
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Time's up! The correct answer was Tarzan
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TRAVEL & TOURISM
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While visiting the city of Agra in this country, don't miss the Agra Fort & the Taj Mahal
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Time's up! The correct answer was India
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HAIRY
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From the Latin for "to clip", it's the shaved patch on the crowns of the heads of some monks
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Time's up! The correct answer was tonsure
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ALSO A VEGAS CASINO
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A 3.5-million-square-mile land area between the Atlantic Ocean & the Red Sea
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Sahara
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PRIMETIME TV REUNIONS
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2004: "Return to Southfork"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Dallas
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BIG "STAR"
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It's a dessert made of eggs, sugar & milk, either baked, boiled or frozen
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Time's up! The correct answer was custard
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PARDON MY "FRENCH"
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In France this musical instrument is called "cor d' harmonie"
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Time's up! The correct answer was French horn
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ABBREVIATED
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On an accountant's calendar: FY
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Time's up! The correct answer was fiscal year
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4-LETTER WORDS
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It's a song of praise, like "Rock Of Ages"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Hymn
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TUBE TEST
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David Janssen had a 4-year "run" in this series; Tim Daly hopes for at least that in the remake
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Time's up! The correct answer was The Fugitive
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HOMETOWNS
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Daphne DuMaurier
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Time's up! The correct answer was London
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DICE ROLL NICKNAMES
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Snake Eyes
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Time's up! The correct answer was 2
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WHAT'S ON TV?
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This Neil Patrick Harris sitcom is narrated through flashbacks from the future
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Time's up! The correct answer was How I Met Your Mother
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DIALING FOR DIALECTS
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Vedic, dating back at least 4,000 years, is the earliest dialect of this classical language of India
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Time's up! The correct answer was Sanskrit
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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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CELEBS
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The TV show "Everybody Hates Chris" is based on the childhood of this comic
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Time's up! The correct answer was Chris Rock
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MESOPOTAMIA
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Transcribed in the 1800s, the Behistun Inscription is the Rosetta Stone for this type of writing developed in Mesopotamia
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Time's up! The correct answer was cuneiform
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SAY "CHI"s
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In the Army today no one outranks General George W. Casey Jr., because he's this
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Time's up! The correct answer was Chief of Staff
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U.S. STATES
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Of Colorado, New Mexico or Arizona, the state where the Rio Grande begins
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Time's up! The correct answer was Colorado
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ALLITERATION STATION
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The almost indestructible flight recording device is known by this "colorful" name
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Time's up! The correct answer was the black box
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PEOPLE WHO BECAME WORDS
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She must have been hairy, as this hairstyle is named for the big-haired mistress of a French emperor
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Time's up! The correct answer was Pompadour
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THE ASPCA
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The ASPCA reminds you that you can lengthen a cat's life by neutering a male or doing this equivalent to a female
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Time's up! The correct answer was Spaying
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This 2-letter abbreviation means "which see" in Latin & directs readers to another part of the book for info
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Time's up! The correct answer was q.v.
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...& THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON!
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This "stately" horse has 3 gaits; the flat-foot walk, the running walk & the canter
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Tennessee walking horse
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TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE WORD THAT RHYMES WITH STAR
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A 1-pound tin of premium sevruga this can go for more than $2,000
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Time's up! The correct answer was caviar
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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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MS.
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Nancy Ross, Angela Davis, & Geraldine Ferraro all sought this office in 1984
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Time's up! The correct answer was vice president
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AWARDS
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In "Good Will Hunting", Stellan Skarsgard had a Fields Medal, called "The Nobel Prize of" this discipline
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Time's up! The correct answer was Mathematics
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"CH"ILL OUT!
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The Chinese call these kuaizi
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Time's up! The correct answer was chopsticks
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BABY NAMES A LA SHAKESPEARE
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Knowing it's from the Greek for "serpent" might turn you off this name of a doomed lass in "Hamlet"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Ophelia
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GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCTS
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Sanma aisu is fish-flavored ice cream & taco aisu is octopus-flavored ice cream made in this country
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Time's up! The correct answer was Japan
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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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SOCIOLOGY
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10,000 years ago all societies were these, named from the way they collected animals, fruit, etc. for food
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Time's up! The correct answer was hunter-gatherers
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IT'S RAINING "MN"
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If you're sleepless in Seattle you're suffering from this malady
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Time's up! The correct answer was insomnia
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THE BIG APPLE
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Artsy types like Maya Lin & Art Spiegelman find inspiration in this area that gets its name from its northern border
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Time's up! The correct answer was SoHo
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GO "SOUTH"
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...to 90 degrees south latitude & you'll find yourself here
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Time's up! The correct answer was the South Pole
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RUSSIAN LITERATURE
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Lev Rubin in this Soviet dissident's "The First Circle" was based on 1960s Russian civil rights figure Lev Kopelev
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Time's up! The correct answer was Solzhenitsyn
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WASHINGTON D.C.
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Former Secretary of State for whom Washington, D.C. International Airport is named
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Time's up! The correct answer was John Foster Dulles
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FAMILIAR PHRASES
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Big throwing don'ts include "the baby out with the bathwater" & "caution to" this
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Time's up! The correct answer was the wind
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TOUGH MOVIE TRIVIA
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In this 1989 film, Eddie Murphy was the adopted son of a 1930s nightclub owner played by Richard Pryor
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Time's up! The correct answer was Harlem Nights
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MORE POWER TO YOU
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2-word term for the job that takes you to homes to figure out how much people owe the power company
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Time's up! The correct answer was a meter reader
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HISTORY
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Under the 1814 Treaty of Kiel, this country gave Norway to Sweden but kept Greenland & other islands
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Time's up! The correct answer was Denmark
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TELEVISION
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This crime drama with Robert Wagner & Stefanie Powers was created by Sidney Sheldon
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Time's up! The correct answer was Hart to Hart
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20th CENTURY INVENTION
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In 1983 the first U.S. commercial call on one of these was from Chicago to a descendant of Bell in Germany
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Time's up! The correct answer was Cellular phone
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SECRET IDENTITIES
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Zorro
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Time's up! The correct answer was Don Diego de la Vega
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A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS
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Alliterative two-word term for action by one's own forces causing casualties to one's own troops
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Time's up! The correct answer was friendly fire
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POLITICS
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During his record 11 years as FDR's Sec'y of State, this Tennessean conceived the idea of the United Nations
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Time's up! The correct answer was Hull
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RHYMES WITH STONEHENGE
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The queen bee is missing from the center of this enclosure; only a ring of males remains
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Time's up! The correct answer was Dronehenge
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GETTING POSSESSIVE
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At 14,140 feet, this Rocky Mountain peak discovered in 1806 is one of Colorado's highest
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Time's up! The correct answer was Pike's Peak
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SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER
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It can be a small facility for outpatient care, or a whole medical establishment run by specialists
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Time's up! The correct answer was a clinic
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"HIGH" SCHOOL
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Coastal waters beyond national jurisdiction, or the tops of some sopranos' ranges
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Time's up! The correct answer was High seas/C's
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VACATION FUN
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Soar above the treetops on the Skyfari aerial tram at this West Coast's city's famous zoo
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Time's up! The correct answer was San Diego
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FICTIONAL BOOKS
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This doctor from the original "Star Trek" series wrote "Comparative Alien Physiology"
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Time's up! The correct answer was McCoy
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SEAQUEST
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Moses "Stretched his hand over" it & it was sundered
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Time's up! The correct answer was Red Sea
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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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AFRICAN ISLANDS
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Malagasy, 1 of its 2 official languages, is of Indonesian origin
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Time's up! The correct answer was Madagascar
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CLIMBING
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In "Vertical Limit" Robin Tunney is menaced by this high-altitude condition of fluid leaking into the lungs
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Time's up! The correct answer was pulmonary edema
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HISTORIC DATES
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The Egyptian government opened his mummy case on March 6, 1924
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Time's up! The correct answer was Tutankhamun
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GENERAL SCIENCE
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Of the noble gases, it's first, alphabetically, was the first discovered & is the most abundant in air
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Time's up! The correct answer was Argon
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ART
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In 1920 this impressionist, known for his water lilies, painted another plant, "Wisteria"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Claude Monet
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VOLCANOES
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In 1908 members of Ernest Shackleton's expedition became the first to climb this continent's Mount Erebus
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Time's up! The correct answer was Antarctica
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PLANT PARENTHOOD
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The 3 elements most commonly found in garden fertilizers are phosphorus, potassium & this element
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Time's up! The correct answer was nitrogen
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CARIBBEAN TASTE TREATS
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Puerto Ricans love to drink the juice of this fruit they call parcha -- maybe it makes them feel "amorous"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Passion fruit
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THE ENVIRONMENT
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This "colorful" & controversial activist environmental group was formed in Canada in 1971
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Time's up! The correct answer was Greenpeace
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THROUGH THE 1800s WITH SARAH POLK
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In the 1840s First Lady Sarah, seeing James enter rooms unnoticed, made this song a regular feature of his entrances
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Time's up! The correct answer was "Hail To The Chief"
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ACTORS' RHYME TIME
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Nolte's films
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Time's up! The correct answer was Nick's flicks
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A REALLY BIG CATEGORY
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Until it met disaster in 1912, it was the largest & most luxurious passenger ship afloat
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Time's up! The correct answer was Titanic
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MASTER OF PUPPETS
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This 2004 Matt Stone & Trey Parker film featured risque marionettes
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Time's up! The correct answer was Team America
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POETS & POETRY
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Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote of this ship, "Oh better that her shattered hulk should sink beneath the wave"
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Time's up! The correct answer was "Old Ironsides"
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10-LETTER WORDS
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From the Latin word for "tear", it describes someone mournful, who cries easily
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Time's up! The correct answer was Lachrymose
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DICTATORS & TYRANTS
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The pro-Soviet dictator Babrak Karmal came to power in this country after a 1979 invasion
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Time's up! The correct answer was Afghanistan
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MR. TEA
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According to one legend, this spiritual leader born in 563 B.C. was the first to discover tea
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Time's up! The correct answer was Buddha
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CROSSWORD CLUES "R"
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Boat race, Italian style (7)
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Time's up! The correct answer was regatta
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4-LETTER WORDS
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It's short for one of the muscles, or a large open space on campus surrounded by buildings
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Time's up! The correct answer was a quad
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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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Time's up! The correct answer was Tijuana
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19th CENTURY LITERATURE
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He wrote "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky", "The Blue Hotel" & "The Red Badge of Courage"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Stephen Crane
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BOOKS & AUTHORS
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This 1939 Steinbeck classic featured a lot of Joads including Ma, Pa & Tom
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Time's up! The correct answer was "The Grapes of Wrath"
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ELIZABETH TAYLOR FILMS
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This 1963 epic included 79 sets & 26,000 costumes
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Time's up! The correct answer was Cleopatra
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BALLPARK FIGURES
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Baseball's "Mr. October", he generated headlines for his cantankerous personality & his athletic prowess
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Time's up! The correct answer was Reggie Jackson
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THE PLANET URANUS
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Observations by astronomer James Elliot in 1977 discovered 5 of these around Uranus
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Time's up! The correct answer was rings
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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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MUSICAL THEATRE
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It's based on the memoir "Anna And The King Of Siam"
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Time's up! The correct answer was "The King And I"
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18th CENTURY AMERICA
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On Dec. 26, 1776 Americans killed Col. Johann Rall & captured about 1,000 Hessian troops in this battle
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Battle of Trenton
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4 N
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Inopportune or untimely, like the title "woman" in a Dominick Dunne novel
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Time's up! The correct answer was inconvenient
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THE ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS
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In 1994 Pearl Jam complained to the Justice Dept. that this company held a monopoly
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Time's up! The correct answer was Ticketmaster
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LITERARY BADDIES
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This Harry Potter bad guy's name is French for "flight from death"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Voldemort
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INITIAL T.V.
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Organization that employed Alexander Waverly, Mark Slate & Illya Kuryakin
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Time's up! The correct answer was U.N.C.L.E.
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STATES THAT END IN HAMPSHIRE
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Chartered in 1769, this Ivy League school is N.H.'s oldest & ranks among the 10 oldest U.S. colleges
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Time's up! The correct answer was Dartmouth
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PROVERBS
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The saying "Strike while the iron is hot" originally alluded to this profession
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@wild granite guessed it! The answer was: blacksmith
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BORN IN THE WINDY CITY
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On the big screen, this Chicagoan has played Rick Deckard, Jack Ryan & Han Solo
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Time's up! The correct answer was Harrison Ford
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STAMPS
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Woo hoo! In 2009 this animated family was chosen to grace stamps, though postage did go up to 44 cents (D'oh!)
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Simpsons
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HORNS
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This "continental" wind instrument is played with one hand inside the bell to control its tone
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Time's up! The correct answer was French horn
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MATH TERMS
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The term surd refers to irrational numbers like this number's square root, 1.7320508...
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Time's up! The correct answer was 3
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GEOGRAPHY
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Lake Avernus in Campania in this country was believed by the ancients to be the entrance to Hades
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Time's up! The correct answer was Italy
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ASIAN NATIONS
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The Druk Gyalpo, or Dragon King, rules this neighbor of India that has a dragon on its flag
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Time's up! The correct answer was Bhutan
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LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS
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"Great Lakes Splendor"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Michigan
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NOTORIOUS
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He wrote the Howard Hughes "autobiography" that sent him to jail
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Time's up! The correct answer was Clifford Irving
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OCCUPATION HAZARDS
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Chafing from chaps, rope burns from lassos & that saddle horn -- watch where you sit if you're one of these
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Time's up! The correct answer was cowboy
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MILITARY MATTERS
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This German "operation" to invade the Soviet Union took its name from a crusading Holy Roman Emperor
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Time's up! The correct answer was Operation Barbarossa
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ART
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A Gerrit Dou work is sometimes known as "The Mother of" this painter with whom Dou studied in 17th century Leiden
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Time's up! The correct answer was Rembrandt
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TAIWAN
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It is prohibited to bring literature promoting this ideology into Taiwan
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Time's up! The correct answer was Communism
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CIVIL WAR LITERATURE
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Henry Fleming shares a tent with a loud soldier & a tall soldier in this Stephen Crane novel
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Time's up! The correct answer was "The Red Badge of Courage"
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COLONIAL ARTS
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James Alexander, whose doggerel contributed to this publisher's arrest, helped defend him as a lawyer
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Time's up! The correct answer was Zenger
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U.S. CITIES
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Of the top 10 cities in population within city limits, this one of 1.4 million is the only state capital
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Time's up! The correct answer was Phoenix, Arizona
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"S"-OTERICA
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Peter Falk narrated this 1978 documentary in which hardened convicts frightened delinquent kids
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Time's up! The correct answer was Scared Straight
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FLOWERS
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The white petals of this flower are usually pulled to see if "she loves me" or "she loves me not"
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Time's up! The correct answer was a daisy
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GROUP COUNTDOWN
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In interrogation, one officer who acts threatening & another who comes on nicer to win the suspect's trust
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Time's up! The correct answer was good cop, bad cop
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AMERICAN PLAYS
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Lee Strasberg played the original peddler in this 1931 play which inspired "Oklahoma!"
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Time's up! The correct answer was "Green Grow The Lilacs"
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CLASSICAL GASES
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Lighter than air, it's also called marsh gas & is found in natural gas
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Time's up! The correct answer was Methane
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TOM JONES
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This "Kubla Khan" poet thought "Tom Jones" had 1 of the 3 best plots in all literature
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Time's up! The correct answer was Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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20th CENTURY NICKNAMES
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"The People's Lawyer" & 2000 Green Party presidential candidate
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Time's up! The correct answer was Ralph Nader
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MEDICAL TALK
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It begins, "I swear by Apollo physician and Asclepius..."
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Time's up! The correct answer was the hippocratic oath
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NOVELS
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This 1939 Steinbeck novel helped publicize the plight of Dust Bowl refugees
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Time's up! The correct answer was The Grapes of Wrath
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INDIA
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Gandhi famously sent a letter stating this many demands to Lord Irwin.
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Time's up! The correct answer was 11
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WHERE'S THE COLLEGE?
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University of South Carolina
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Time's up! The correct answer was Columbia
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THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER
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Ben Brantley says "injustice has been very good" to this musical writing duo; see "Chicago" & their new "The Scottsboro Boys"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Kander & Ebb
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GREECE
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Goddess of wisdom for whom Athens was named
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Time's up! The correct answer was Athena
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BALLET
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In a Tchaikovsky ballet, this title character is awakened with a kiss
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Time's up! The correct answer was Sleeping Beauty
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THE NEW TESTAMENT
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In Luke he is quoted as saying, "I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Pilate
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SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS
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Title character played by former Alvin Ailey dancer Desmond Richardson in a 1997 ballet
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Time's up! The correct answer was Othello
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RUSSELING
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"Stargate" star who's Goldie Hawn's longtime companion
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Time's up! The correct answer was Kurt Russell
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THE SHORT VERSION
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To an infantryman: APC
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Time's up! The correct answer was Armored personnel carrier
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"T" TIME AT THE LIBRARY
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Check out this famous British woman's 2002 book "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Margaret Thatcher
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WARNER BROS.
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In May 1999 her Warners talk show was hit with a $2.5 million judgment after one guest killed another
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Time's up! The correct answer was Jenny Jones
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ON THE COVER OF SGT. PEPPER
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This "Das Kapital" author stands between comedian Oliver Hardy & H.G. Wells
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Time's up! The correct answer was Karl Marx
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"P.B."
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This Latin term used for some legal services means "for the good"
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Time's up! The correct answer was pro bono
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BRAND NAMES
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Mass production of these in the U.S. can be traced back to Donald F. Duncan in the 1920s
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Time's up! The correct answer was Yo-yos
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THEIR ALMA MATERS
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Author Ralph Ellison
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Time's up! The correct answer was Tuskegee
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AND I QUOTE
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Kim Walker's character in "Say Anything" has this annoying habit when quoting
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Time's up! The correct answer was Making quotations with your fingers
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WHAT'CHA GOT COOKIN'?
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I'm sauteeing this organ meat in butter & lemon juice, as you'd know, if you had any
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Time's up! The correct answer was brains
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POP MUSIC
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Alicia Keys received 5 Grammys for 2001, including best new artist & song of the year for this hit
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Time's up! The correct answer was "Fallin'"
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RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN
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Characters in this musical include Mei Li, Linda Low & Sammy Fong
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Time's up! The correct answer was "Flower Drum Song"
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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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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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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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THE 23rd PSALM
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"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside" these
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Time's up! The correct answer was still waters
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ANIMAL TERMS
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If you've been beaten 72-0 in football, you've gotten this, from the name of a smelly critter, Mephitis mephitis
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Time's up! The correct answer was skunked
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QUOTATIONS
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Jean-Luc Godard said, "Photography is truth, and" this "is truth 24 times a second"
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Time's up! The correct answer was film
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PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS
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This Frenchman's "last theorem", stated in 1637, was proved by Andrew Wiles in the 1990s
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Time's up! The correct answer was Fermat
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A "TON" OF PEOPLE
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In 2004 the most valuable guitar, this rocker's Stratocaster "Blackie", sold for $959,500 at auction
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Time's up! The correct answer was Clapton
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CNN
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Named for its Brooklyn-born host, this "live" interview show debuted on CNN in June 1985
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Time's up! The correct answer was "Larry King Live"
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SPELL CHECK HELL
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Tried to put in the first name of Colts quarterback Manning & it turned him into this hallucinogenic cactus
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Time's up! The correct answer was peyote
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DUDE, YOU'RE A SONG!
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"There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood, where lived a country boy named..."
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Time's up! The correct answer was Johnny B. Goode
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NEEDY NO.1 HITMAKERS
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1956: "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Elvis
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LET'S HAVE ITALIAN TONIGHT!
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In 2002 he wrote "Baudolino", a historial novel set in 12th century Europe; what an author ... author ... author
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Time's up! The correct answer was Umberto Ecco
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WRITERS CUBED
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"Before I Say Good-Bye" is her 22nd romantic thriller, so it's no mystery -- she's good
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Time's up! The correct answer was Mary Higgins Clark
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THE 1990s
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The Persian Gulf War of 1991 was fought mainly in Iraq & this oil-rich nation next door
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Time's up! The correct answer was Kuwait
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I LOVE L.A. KERS
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Kobe called it "idiotic criticism" that he hadn't (until 2009) won an NBA title without this teammate
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Time's up! The correct answer was Shaquille O'Neal
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47
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You deserve a medal if you know that this element, symbol Ag, is No. 47 on the periodic table
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Time's up! The correct answer was silver
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THAT'S SOME NERVE
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This nerve involved in carpal tunnel syndrome shares its name with a math term for the middle number in a sequence
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Time's up! The correct answer was the median
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FAMOUS NAMES
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This star of "Kojak" admits he shaves his head every morning
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Time's up! The correct answer was Telly Savalas
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HEY, "BABY"
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Nickname of Haiti's Jean-Claude Duvalier
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Time's up! The correct answer was "Baby Doc"
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STATE BIRDS
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West Virginia: This crested bird
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Time's up! The correct answer was the cardinal
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SCIENCE & NATURE
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The Jacobson's organ at the roof of this legless reptile's mouth is used with its tongue to detect odors
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Time's up! The correct answer was Snake
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WATERFALLS
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This scenic waterfall on the Brazil-Argentina border actually consists of about 275 individual cataracts
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Time's up! The correct answer was Iguazu Falls
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KIDS IN SPORTS
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Park View of Chula Vista, California beat Taipei 6-3 to win this organization's 2009 World Series
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Little League
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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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COMPOSERS
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Of the 3 Bs, the 2 who died in Vienna
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Time's up! The correct answer was Beethoven & Brahms
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JULY
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William Booth founded this charitable "army" on July 5, 1865 in London
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Time's up! The correct answer was The Salvation Army
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FATHER'S IN LAW
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Father was quite the cutup in Prof. Charles Fried's class at this Massachusetts law school founded in 1817
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Time's up! The correct answer was Harvard
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GAMES
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In other words, this summer camp game could be called "Seize Your Enemy's Banner"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Capture the Flag
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CLIMBING
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In "Vertical Limit" Robin Tunney is menaced by this high-altitude condition of fluid leaking into the lungs
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Time's up! The correct answer was pulmonary edema
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CELEBRITY RHYME TIME
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Sajak's Stetsons & sombreros
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Time's up! The correct answer was Pat's hats
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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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THE PARTS OF SPEECH
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Of the traditional 8 parts of speech, it's the only one that doesn't end in the same 4 letters as 1 of the other parts of speech
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Time's up! The correct answer was adjective
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U.S. GEOGRAPHY
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The Houston ship channel flows into this bay that shares its name with a city
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Time's up! The correct answer was Galveston Bay
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APOLLO 11
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The three crew members of Apollo 11
N e i l A r m s t _ _ n _ _ B _ _ z _ _ d _ _ n _ _ n _ _ i _ _ a _ _ C _ _ l _ _ s
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Time's up! The correct answer was Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins
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SKUNKS
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With a favorable wind, skunks can do this for up to about 23 feet
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Time's up! The correct answer was spray
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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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WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS
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2 Greek words for "long life" give us this word which refers to a diet or lifestyle said to prolong life
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Time's up! The correct answer was Macrobiotic
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DANGER IN WONDERLAND
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Distinct alabaster fur; you'll know him by the big pocket watch he refers to; careful--he moves quickly
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Time's up! The correct answer was the White Rabbit
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FRANCE
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In 1992, 200 years after it was written, 40% of the French found it excessively bloody & 25% wanted it changed
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Time's up! The correct answer was the French National Anthem
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RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN
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Their 1955 show, "Pipe Dream", about the people of Cannery Row, was based on this author's "Sweet Thursday"
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Time's up! The correct answer was John Steinbeck
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KIDDIE LIT
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This Anna Sewell book may have inspired "Moorland Mousie", which was also narrated by a horse
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Time's up! The correct answer was Black Beauty
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MILITARY TELEVISION
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On a '50s series, this German Shepherd & his master, Rusty, were adopted by cavalry soldiers at Fort Apache
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Time's up! The correct answer was Rin Tin Tin
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NURSERY RHYMES
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In a counting nursery rhyme, they were "a-courting", "in the kitchen" & "a-waiting"
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Time's up! The correct answer was maids
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IT HAD TO "BU"
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Government ones of these include of Indian Affairs & of the Census
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Time's up! The correct answer was Bureaus
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IT'S GREEK MYTHOLOGY TO ME
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This god zapped Salmoneus into oblivion for trying to imitate his thunder & lightning
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Time's up! The correct answer was Zeus
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U.S.A.
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Even though it's officially "dry", this state's Moore County is the home of Jack Daniel's Whiskey
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Time's up! The correct answer was Tennessee
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NEBRASKA, NEW YORK OR NORTH DAKOTA
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The least populous
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Time's up! The correct answer was North Dakota
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SKIRTING THE ISSUE
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On the original "90210":, Donna wore this type of skirt to the prom; she couldn't sit down all night
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Time's up! The correct answer was a hoop skirt
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BRITISH HISTORY
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They've been guarding British royalty since 1485 & gin bottles since 1820
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Time's up! The correct answer was Beefeaters
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GIRLS IN SONG
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In 1964 The Bachelors told this girl, "I'm in heaven when I see you smile"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Diane
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"CAL" STATE
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Ca is calcium; Cf is this element
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Time's up! The correct answer was Californium
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ALL ABOARD THE SOUL TRAIN
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Oh yessssssss...he created the show & was the original producer & host
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Time's up! The correct answer was Don Cornelius
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WHAT THE KIDS ARE CALLING IT
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"What An Appealing Young Lady" can be translated to this title of a 1999 movie
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Time's up! The correct answer was She's All That
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THE "CO"-CATEGORY
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A Greek word for "poppy" gives us the name of this analgesic, an alkaloid of opium
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Time's up! The correct answer was codeine
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ART & ARTISTS
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He painted "Irises" & "Pink Roses" as well as "Sunflowers"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Vincent Van Gogh
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SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN
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In the 1st act, before he's king, this title character woos the newly-widowed Lady Anne
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Time's up! The correct answer was Richard III
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ARE WE THERE YET?
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Start early; the 4 presidents sculpted on this mountain are best viewed in morning light
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Time's up! The correct answer was Mount Rushmore
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HOMOPHONES
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It's a sausage, or the absolute least best
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Time's up! The correct answer was wurst/worst
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ARCHITECTURE
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The Coonley Estate & the Robie House are examples of this midwestern style created by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Prairie Style
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WORD ORIGINS
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This New York island's name may come from the Algonquian word for "island"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Manhattan
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ITALIAN ART
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For her 1997 calendar, singer Gloria Trevi recreated this artist's "Birth Of Venus" with herself as Venus
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Time's up! The correct answer was Sandro Botticelli
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DOWN AT THE OLFACTORY
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You quickly get used to the eggy smell at the Colorado resort called "Hot" this type of "Springs"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Sulfur
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC "B"
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At the finals in 1999, I asked about a bridge linking the European & Asian parts of Turkey across this strait
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Time's up! The correct answer was Bosporus
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TRUE LIVES
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"In Her Sister's Shadow" is a biography of Lee Radziwill, sister of this woman
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Time's up! The correct answer was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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THE LAW
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Now a body of lawyers, it once referred to a rail separating spectators from courtroom proceedings
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Time's up! The correct answer was Bar
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SPORTS
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Founded in 1897, it's the world's oldest annual marathon
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Boston Marathon
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MONEY SLANG
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The shell of this mollusk is composed chiefly of calcium carbonate
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Time's up! The correct answer was a clam
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ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS
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Any lab
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Time's up! The correct answer was Albany
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FEELING "ANCY"
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Janet Leigh was sorry she found one of these at the Bates Motel
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Time's up! The correct answer was Vacancy
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LET'S BOUNCE
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This verb for bouncing a basketball sounds like you're slobbering
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Time's up! The correct answer was dribbling
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HOMOPHONIC PAIRS
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In a restaurant, it's a quartet's table request
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Time's up! The correct answer was for four
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20th CENTURY NOTABLES
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Einstein said of him, "Generations to come will scarcely believe" one such as he "walked the Earth in flesh & blood"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Mohandas Gandhi
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THE 1990s
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On January 4, 1995 he was sworn in as the first Republican speaker of the house in more than 40 years
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Time's up! The correct answer was Newt Gingrich
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INSTRUMENT ETYMOLOGY
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The first 4 letters of xylophone refer etymologically to this material used to make its sounding bars
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Time's up! The correct answer was wood
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SCIENCE & NATURE
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In 2009 a new hominid skeleton dubbed Ardi was aged at 4.4 million years, predating this other "girly" find by 1 mil. years
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Time's up! The correct answer was Lucy
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JULIA ROBERTS FILM FEST
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It was viva Las Vegas for Julia, who played the Angie Dickinson role in the remake of this film
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Time's up! The correct answer was Ocean's Eleven
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LIVE IN TEXAS
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If you're on the road again in Texas, stop at Luck, this singer's world headquarters
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Time's up! The correct answer was Willie Nelson
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SHAMANISM ON YOU
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Yikes! Among these indigenous Australians, a person is thought to become a shaman after an initiatory death
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Aborigines
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SPOOKS
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Cuban refugee Antonio Prohias drew this MAD Magazine comic strip for 29 years
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Time's up! The correct answer was Spy vs. Spy
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WAR STORIES
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"The Good Soldier Schweik", "Paths of Glory"
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Time's up! The correct answer was World War I
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OCCUPATIONS
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Broadly used, this term can include nurses & therapists, but it often refers just to emergency personnel
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Time's up! The correct answer was paramedics
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IT'S A "SIN"
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Carson Sink & the Great Salt Lake lie in the drainage area known as the Great this
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Time's up! The correct answer was Basin
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CINCO DE MAYO BIRTHDAYS
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This May-5 born Monty Python member & BBC travel filmmaker is a commando of the Order of the British Empire
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Time's up! The correct answer was Palin
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NOTABLE NONHUMANS
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This Nazi dictator sometimes dined alone with Blondi, his Alsatian
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Time's up! The correct answer was Adolf Hitler
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THE KIDS LOVE THAT ROCK & ROLL
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In 1998 Will Smith was "Gettin'" to the No. 1 spot on the charts with this song
" G e t _ i _ _ J _ _ g _ _ i _ _ t _
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Time's up! The correct answer was "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It"
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WHEREFORE "ART" THOU
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They can be a city's highways or a person's blood vessels
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Time's up! The correct answer was Arteries
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"KNIFE", "FORK" OR "SPOON"
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In the 1998 movie "Pleasantville", she played a '90s teen transported into a 1950s sitcom
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Time's up! The correct answer was Reese Witherspoon
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THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE
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In 1932 this auto racer began using the squadron badge of a WWI flying ace: a prancing horse
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Time's up! The correct answer was Ferrari
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FUNDRAISING
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Chilly alliterative term for phoning someone to ask for money without any prior notice
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Time's up! The correct answer was cold call
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WHO'S ON FIRST?
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For the 2000-2001 season, "The Simpsons" led into this show that led into "The X-Files"--you might say it was...
M a l c _ l _ _ n _ _ e _ _ d _ _ e
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Time's up! The correct answer was Malcolm In The Middle
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ESPN's TOP 10 ALL-TIME ATHLETES
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No. 5: Only center to lead the NBA in assists; track scholarship to Kansas U.; marathoner; volleyballer
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Time's up! The correct answer was Chamberlain
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HOMOPHONES
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Rain heavily, or a tiny opening in the skin
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Time's up! The correct answer was a pour/pore
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GREEK LETTERS
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The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter
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Time's up! The correct answer was pi
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AUTHORS
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An eye ailment contracted at Eton School ended his plans to study biology, like his brother Julian
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Time's up! The correct answer was Aldous Huxley
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LET'S HAVE ITALIAN TONIGHT!
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About 635 violins still exist among the 1,100 instruments this 17th century man constructed
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Time's up! The correct answer was Stradivarius
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RADIO
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Instrument struck when a contestant failed on the "Original Amateur Hour"
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Time's up! The correct answer was a gong
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THE FALL
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In October 1983 the U.S. invaded this Caribbean country, officially to protect American medical students there
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Time's up! The correct answer was Grenada
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NO. 1 QUESTIONS
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In a 1995 No. 1, Bryan Adams wanted to know if you'd ever really done this
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Time's up! The correct answer was loved a woman
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CREATION STORIES
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To the ancient Greeks, it was a void from which Nyx & Erebus emerged; in English it's a disordered mess
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Time's up! The correct answer was chaos
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COVER ME!
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"Are We Not Men? We Are" this '80s group who covered the Stones' "Satisfaction"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Devo
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PHILMOGRAPHIES
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As a director: "The Right Stuff", "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Philip Kaufman
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WORD ORIGINS
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From Dutch “kaban huis”, meaning ship’s galley, in U.S. it came to mean last car on a train
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Time's up! The correct answer was the caboose
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OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
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In Sri Lanka: Sinhala & this
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Time's up! The correct answer was Tamil
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BATTLE TO NAME THE WAR
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No one enjoyed the portions at Pork Chop Hill
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Korean War
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SCIENCE
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This resin, a natural polymer used as a varnish, is produced by insects in India and Myanmar
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Time's up! The correct answer was shellac
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IN THE FIRE
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Since 1932 this brand has provided reliable flames for soldiers, campers & others
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Time's up! The correct answer was Zippo
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THE FRENCH CONNECTION
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From the French for "to sort" comes the word for this process of treating patients based on need
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Time's up! The correct answer was triage
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A SHAKESPEARE PLAY, FOR OPENERS
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Completes the opening sentence "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of..."
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Time's up! The correct answer was York
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"J" WHIZ
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It's a trip taken by a public official at public expense, ostensibly for official business
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Time's up! The correct answer was junket
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POETS
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For much of the winter of 1794-95, he served as acting supervisor for Dumfries, Scotland
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Time's up! The correct answer was Robert Burns
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CITY FOLK
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Palermitans
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Time's up! The correct answer was Palermo residents
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WHEAT
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This embryo of the wheat seed is a rich source of vitamin E
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Time's up! The correct answer was Germ
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THE "A" "B" "C"s
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The name of this German publisher has become synonymous with a guidebook
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Time's up! The correct answer was Karl Baedeker
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THEIR 4th TOP 40 HIT OF THE '60s
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1967: "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Neil Diamond
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YOU MUST BE JOKING
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It's the classic response to the request "Call me a cab!"
" O K _ _ o _ _ r _ _ c _ _ ! _
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Time's up! The correct answer was "OK, you're a cab!"
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CARTOONS
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Ms. Frizzle, a science teacher, drives this title vehicle
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Time's up! The correct answer was The Magic School Bus
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THE SHORT VERSION
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To an infantryman: APC
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Time's up! The correct answer was Armored personnel carrier
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THE ASPCA
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An ASPCA program begun in 1992 promotes the adoption of these dogs when they retire from racing
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Time's up! The correct answer was Greyhounds
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POLITICS
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Nickname of late Washington Senator Henry Jackson
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Time's up! The correct answer was Scoop Jackson
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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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GEOGRAPHY
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Lake Avernus in Campania in this country was believed by the ancients to be the entrance to Hades
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Time's up! The correct answer was Italy
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NOTORIOUS
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Using the aliases James Ryan & Harry Place, they boarded a steamer for Argentina in February 1901
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Time's up! The correct answer was Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
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WHAT'S ON TV?
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Simon said "Simply dreadful... appalling" on this show that debuted on Fox in June '02
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Time's up! The correct answer was American Idol
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MOVIE DEBUTS
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The Al Pacino legal drama "...And Justice for All" marked the screen debut of this actor, later TV's "Coach"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Craig T. Nelson
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
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From the Greek "psallein", to pluck, we get this plucked type of zither that's mentioned in the Bible
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Time's up! The correct answer was Psalterion
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KHOMEINI, KHAMENEI OR KHATAMI
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Died in 1989
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Time's up! The correct answer was Khomeini
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SPORTS
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The ball used in this sport is about 11 inches long & about 7 inches wide at the center
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Time's up! The correct answer was Football
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MUD
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In 1943 McKinley Morganfield, under this name, settled in Chicago & continued singing the blues
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Time's up! The correct answer was Muddy Waters
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QUOTATIONS
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This talk show host said, "I admire, respect & adore authors" when she was honored for her book club
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Time's up! The correct answer was Oprah
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NEW WEAPONS
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It's the Indian tribe in the name of the USA's AH-64D Longbow, the most advanced combat helicopter in the world
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Time's up! The correct answer was Apache
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RELIGION
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In this Asian religion, a lohan is not an actress but a holy person, & monasteries have images of lohans
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Time's up! The correct answer was Buddhism
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MUNICH
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The Summer Olympics in Munich in this year were sadly marred by terrorism & tragedy
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Time's up! The correct answer was 1972
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ARCHITECTURE
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This 6-letter part of a house is also called an eaves trough
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Time's up! The correct answer was gutter
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SIGNS & SYMBOLS
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The 2 symbols seen on pirate flags & bottles of poison
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Time's up! The correct answer was skull & crossbones
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MARK TWAIN: BOOK LOVER
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Writing about this author's "The Deerslayer", Twain called its pathos "funny" & "its love-scenes odious"
C _ o _ _ r
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Time's up! The correct answer was Cooper
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GOING TO PIECES
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The U.S. hasn't minted these, between a penny & a nickel, since 1872
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Time's up! The correct answer was a two-cent coin
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FEMALE ATHLETES
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A student at Great Neck North High School, she's the golden girl of the ice seen here
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Time's up! The correct answer was Sarah Hughes
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CHEESE
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"To Kiss in Shadows" & "Stealing Heaven" won 2003 Rita Awards for this type of novel
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Time's up! The correct answer was romance
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RUN, RUN, RUN
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This 2-word hoops term is an offensive rush to beat the defense to the hoop
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Time's up! The correct answer was a fast break
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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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ORGANIZED LABOR
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Under this arrangement, labor and management agree to let a third party settle their dispute
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Time's up! The correct answer was arbitration
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"X"s & "O"s
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Around 100 A.D. Tacitus wrote a book on how this art of persuasive speaking had declined since Cicero
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Time's up! The correct answer was oratory
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HAIRY
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This female ice skater lent her name to a wedge haircut she made popular during the 1976 Winter Olympics
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Time's up! The correct answer was Dorothy Hamill
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IT'S ALL ABOUT ME
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Self-referential prefix before -didact, -suggestion & -biography
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Time's up! The correct answer was auto
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NO. 1 QUESTIONS
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In a 1995 No. 1, Bryan Adams wanted to know if you'd ever really done this
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Time's up! The correct answer was loved a woman
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IN THE TREASURY DEPT.
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When it invites you up to see its etchings, you'll see stamps & dollar bills
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Bureau of Engraving & Printing
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AWARDS
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In "Good Will Hunting", Stellan Skarsgard had a Fields Medal, called "The Nobel Prize of" this discipline
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Time's up! The correct answer was Mathematics
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HOMOPHONES
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A walkway between sections of seats in a theater, or a small piece of land surrounded by water
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Time's up! The correct answer was an aisle/isle
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FOUNTAINS
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There are fountains beyond the outfield at the stadium of this Kansas City baseball team
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Time's up! The correct answer was Kansas City Royals
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BETTER KNOWN AS...
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Raquel Tejada
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Time's up! The correct answer was Raquel Welch
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"DREAM"Y SONGS
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In the 1986 film "Blue Velvet", Dean Stockwell peerforms a lip-synched rendition of this Roy Orbison hit
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Time's up! The correct answer was "In Dreams"
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SKUNKS
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Name of zee skunk in zee popular Warner Brothers cartoons
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Time's up! The correct answer was Pepé Le Pew
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
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He was 24 years older than his friend Mozart, but outlived him by almost 20 years
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Time's up! The correct answer was Franz Joseph Haydn
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COMPOSERS
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Of the 3 Bs, the 2 who died in Vienna
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Time's up! The correct answer was Beethoven & Brahms
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DOWN MEXICO WAY
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This gritty 1961 Tennessee Williams play unfolds in a seedy Mexican hotel
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Time's up! The correct answer was Night of the Iguana
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INVENTIVE MINDS
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This peanut guy devised some 118 byproducts for the sweet potato
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Time's up! The correct answer was George Washington Carver
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TELEVISION & HISTORY
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When "60 Minutes" premiered, this man was U.S. president
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Time's up! The correct answer was Lyndon B. Johnson
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AMERICAN WOMEN
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She gave herself the third-person name "Phantom", the "no-person" she was from 19 months until she was almost 7
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Time's up! The correct answer was Helen Keller
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TECHNOLOGY
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The iPhone was launches on this date.
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Time's up! The correct answer was 29th June 2007
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THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL
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"Law & Order" actor Bratt
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Time's up! The correct answer was Benjamin
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OUT OF THIS WORLD
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It was last seen in the skies in 1986 & won't return until 2061
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Time's up! The correct answer was Halley's Comet
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20th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS
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Wearing the hat of Chancellor for over 15 years, he was Germany's longest-serving leader since Bismarck
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Time's up! The correct answer was Helmut Kohl
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& CROWN THY GOOD
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In 1696 this Russian czar conquered the Ottoman port of Azov on the Black Sea; awesome! Again the wrong word
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Time's up! The correct answer was Peter the Great
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AROUND THE WORLD
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In 1995 the Pacific island of Kiribati shifted this "line", making it the first nation to see the morning sun each day
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Time's up! The correct answer was International Date Line
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SNOWBOARDING
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Snowboarding is often featured in ads for this Pepsico soda with a lofty name
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Time's up! The correct answer was Mountain Dew
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TIME TO GET SIMON-IZED
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He was the head of Vienna's Jewish Documentation Center from 1961 to 2003
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Time's up! The correct answer was Simon Wiesenthal
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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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METALLICA
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Among coinage metals, this one, atomic number 28, is only a fair conductor of electricity
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Time's up! The correct answer was nickel
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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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STORYTELLERS
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He wrote two collections of modern fables, several fairytales, and "My World and Welcome to It"
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Time's up! The correct answer was James Thurber
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AROUND WASHINGTON, D.C.
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It was once known as "Presidents Park" but perhaps this name for it looks better on a "Marquis"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Lafayette Park
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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
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The 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, was ratified in this year
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Time's up! The correct answer was 1865
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HISTORIC PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS
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On May 15, 1768 France bought this island from Genoa for 2 million livres
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Time's up! The correct answer was Corsica
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EARLY AMERICA
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In defending British soldiers on trial for this 1770 event, John Adams said, "Facts are stubborn things"
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Boston Massacre
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ARLINGTON'S TOMB OF UNKNOWNS
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Sentinels at the tomb walk exactly this many steps at a time before they stop & turn
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Time's up! The correct answer was 21
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COMIC STRIPS
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Duke has been Gov. of American Samoa, GM of the Redskins & a lobbyist for the NRA in this comic strip
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Time's up! The correct answer was Doonesbury
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ONE LETTER DIFFERENT
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A speechless minute arachnid
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Time's up! The correct answer was a mute mite
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MY SUITE
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He began composing "The Nutcracker Suite" in 1891
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Time's up! The correct answer was Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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U.S. PRESIDENTS
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For helping to end the Russo-Japanese War, he was awarded the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize
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Time's up! The correct answer was Theodore Roosevelt
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ENGLISH LIT
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Since the beadle named his waifs alphabetically, this character came between Swubble & Unwin
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Time's up! The correct answer was Twist
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WHAT A GEM!
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This December birthstone is the state gem of Arizona & New Mexico
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Time's up! The correct answer was turquoise
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BOTANY
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The jonquil is a short-trumpet narcissus; this yellow flower is a long-trumpet species
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Time's up! The correct answer was Daffodil
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THE 17TH CENTURY
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Nearly 13,000 homes & 100 churches were destroyed in this city's Great Fire of 1666
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Time's up! The correct answer was London
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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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THE ENVIRONMENT
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This "colorful" & controversial activist environmental group was formed in Canada in 1971
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Time's up! The correct answer was Greenpeace
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WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
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Michael Cunningham's "The Hours" was inspired by this novel that Woolf originally called "The Hours"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Mrs. Dalloway
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CROSSWORD CLUES "D"
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Horn of Africa country (8)
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Time's up! The correct answer was Djibouti
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ALSO A BOOK IN THE BIBLE
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In a 1971 song he "was a bullfrog"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Jeremiah
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HISTORIC AMERICA
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Dating from the early 1700s, the Gonzalez-Alvarez House in this city is the oldest house in Florida
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Time's up! The correct answer was St. Augustine
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TELEPHONE HISTORY
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In 1980 Dial-It National Sports became the first service on this new area code
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Time's up! The correct answer was 1-900
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AGRICULTURE
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Spain, Italy & Greece are the leading producers of this liquid from the fruit of Olea europaea
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Time's up! The correct answer was olive oil
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STORYTELLERS
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Some sources say it was Carnegie Hall; others say it was the '67 Newport Festival where he first sang "Alice's Restaurant"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Arlo Guthrie
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HEY, "U"!
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It may be a mischievous scamp, or a "sea" creature
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Time's up! The correct answer was Urchin
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RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS
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Lev Landau won a 1962 Nobel Prize for working in low-temperature physics, also known as this
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Time's up! The correct answer was cryogenics
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U.S. GEOGRAPHY
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Of Hawaii's 8 main islands, this one receives the lion's share of the tourist dollars
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Time's up! The correct answer was Oahu
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A MASSIVE "M"ETROPOLIS
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18 million: on the Arabian Sea
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Time's up! The correct answer was Mumbai
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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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"L.B."s
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Herbie, the endearing Volkswagen in a classic Disney film
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Time's up! The correct answer was The Love Bug
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"V"
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9-letter word meaning to waver between courses of action
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Time's up! The correct answer was vacillate
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THE EYES HAVE IT
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Flower seen here (that fits the category)
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Time's up! The correct answer was Iris
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TRAVEL & TOURISM
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The home of silk merchant Jim Thompson, who disappeared in 1967, is a tourist attraction in this Thai city
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Time's up! The correct answer was Bangkok
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BARD BITS
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In "Henry VIII" this cardinal bids "a long farewell to all my greatness"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Cardinal Wolsey
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NEWS TO ME
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Falcon Heene, who it turned out was safe at home, not flying over Colorado, became known as this "boy"
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Time's up! The correct answer was the balloon boy
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HOLLYWOOD THRILLER PREVIEWS?
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This emotional bond to a captor by a hostage due to stress & need for survival is the psychothriller of the summer!
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Stockholm Syndrome
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I KNOW THAT WORD BACKWARDS & FORWARDS
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Reza Khan, born in Iran in 1878, & his son were these for a combined 54 years
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Time's up! The correct answer was shahs
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THE STARTING INFIELD
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The 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers sent out Hodges, Gilliam, Reese & this groundbreaking infielder
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Time's up! The correct answer was Jackie Robinson
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POLITICIANS
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In November 1996 Rep. Maxine Waters was elected chairwoman of this caucus
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Time's up! The correct answer was Congressional Black Caucus
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ACTORS' RHYME TIME
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Michael J.'s containers
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Time's up! The correct answer was Fox's boxes
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THE MOVIES
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Jane Russell & Marilyn Monroe sang about being "Two Little Girls from Little Rock" in this 1953 movie musical
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Time's up! The correct answer was Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
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PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
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Washers & hoarders are types of people with OCD, which stands for this
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Time's up! The correct answer was Obsessive compulsive disorder
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ALL GOD'S CRITTERS
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Males of this duck-billed mammal have poison spurs on each hind foot that can kill small animals
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Time's up! The correct answer was Platypus
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MOVIE MUSIC
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Caetano Veloso & Mr. Loco are among artists on the soundtrack of this Jack Black wrestling movie
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Time's up! The correct answer was Nacho Libre
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TIME'S TOP 10 EVERYTHING OF 2008
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No. 9 in "Green Stories": "Northeastern utilities bid $38.5 million for the right to emit 12.5 tons of" this
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Time's up! The correct answer was carbon dioxide
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"B" PREPARED
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A non-rigid flexible dirigible
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Time's up! The correct answer was blimp
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WORDS TO THE "Y"s
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A female nickname, or a fall guy
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Time's up! The correct answer was a patsy
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FOR THE BIRDS
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One of the 2 U.S. states with a bird in its official state nickname
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Time's up! The correct answer was Iowa or Louisiana
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THE SECOND...
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...son born to Barbara Bush
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Time's up! The correct answer was Jeb
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THE "B.G."s
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Swingin' virtuoso heard here
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Time's up! The correct answer was Benny Goodman
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A STATE OF COLLEGE-NESS
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DePaul, Wheaton, Northwestern
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Time's up! The correct answer was Illinois
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PAPAL NAMES
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The constellation between Cancer & Virgo
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Time's up! The correct answer was Leo
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FACTS & FIGURES
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There are 88 of these, which run alphabetically from Andromeda to Vulpecula
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Time's up! The correct answer was constellations
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ROSE BOWL HISTORY
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The only time the game wasn't held in Calif. was 1942, when it was in N.C., amidst fears of another event like this one
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Time's up! The correct answer was Pearl Harbor
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SI's SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE
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"A ski jumping competition in" this country, Land of the Midnight Sun, "rewarded competitors for landing in trees"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Norway
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BARD BITS
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Much of the action takes place in the court of the Duke of Milan in this play with another Italian locale in its title
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Time's up! The correct answer was Two Gentlemen of Verona
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PLAY HEROINES
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Barbara Undershaft
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Time's up! The correct answer was Major Barbara
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"A" SCIENCE CATEGORY
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In the 1920s Edwin Hubble determined that this galaxy was in fact a separate galaxy from the Milky Way
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Time's up! The correct answer was Andromeda
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WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Abingdon, Windsor, Gravesend & Southend-On-Sea are on this European river
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Time's up! The correct answer was Thames
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WEBSITES
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At whitehouse.gov you can learn all about Air Force One as well as this Maryland presidential retreat
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Time's up! The correct answer was Camp David
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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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Time's up! The correct answer was mozzarella
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WOMEN ON U.S. STAMPS
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1994: A Shoshone guide for a famous expedition
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Time's up! The correct answer was Sacagawea
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BABY BOOMER MEMORIES
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In 1967 this 21-year-old started Rolling Stone magazine
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Time's up! The correct answer was Jann Wenner
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& NOW THE "END" IS NEAR
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Shakespeare's Puck: If we have" done this, "think but this, and all is mended"
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Time's up! The correct answer was offended
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LEGENDARY LEGENDS
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Marshall Gold Discovery State Hist. Park is in this county that shares its name with a legendary city of gold
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Time's up! The correct answer was El Dorado
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THE 50 STATES
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The name of this state comes from 2 Choctaw words that mean "red" & "people"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Oklahoma
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WHO DO YOU THINK I AM?!
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I may be a trickster god, but I actually helped Thor get his hammer back after Thrym the frost giant stole it
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Time's up! The correct answer was Loki
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PULL
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You "pull a few" of these to get a favor done
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Time's up! The correct answer was Strings
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FOR THE BIRDS
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The canvasback is a wild North American variety of this bird
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Time's up! The correct answer was a duck
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RHYMES WITH SMART
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A graphic representation of information
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Time's up! The correct answer was a chart
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ALASKA
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Tony Knowles is pulling in $81,648 per annum in this job
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Time's up! The correct answer was Governor
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FLAGS OF THE WORLD
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In the 1990s, this nation whose flag is seen here moved its seat of government to a different city
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Time's up! The correct answer was Germany
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ROYALTY
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In 1599, Albert, Archduke of Austria, married the Infanta of this country
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Time's up! The correct answer was Spain
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U.S. GEOGRAPHY
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The Bluegrass region, an area of gently rolling pastures, covers the north central part of this state
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Time's up! The correct answer was Kentucky
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FIRST LADIES
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In January 1991 this first lady broke her left leg while sledding at Camp David
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Time's up! The correct answer was Barbara Bush
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MEDICAL MILESTONES
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In 1867 Thomas Allbutt invented one of these instruments which took 5 minutes to register instead of 20
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Time's up! The correct answer was a thermometer
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PICTURE THIS
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Nose art, referring to pictures on the noses of these, really took off during WWII
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Time's up! The correct answer was airplanes
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THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED
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August 16, 1977 in Memphis, Tennessee
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Time's up! The correct answer was Elvis Presley
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"MUM"s THE WORD
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You'll see this group parading through Philly each New Year's Day
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Time's up! The correct answer was Mummers
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DON'T BE A PAIN
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To control pain, some patients try this technique in which they monitor their body functions & try to alter them
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Time's up! The correct answer was biofeedback
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THE '30s WEREN'T ALL DEPRESSING
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In 1932 this country finished reclaiming thousands of agricultural acres from the Zuiderzee
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Netherlands
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NURSERY RHYMES
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One little pig "went to market"; one little pig "stayed at home"; one little pig ate this meat
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Time's up! The correct answer was Roast beef
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CITY FLAGS
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The 4 stars appearing on this city's flag stand for Fort Dearborn, a fire & 2 World's Fairs
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Time's up! The correct answer was Chicago
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TV STARS
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Coming to TV in 2002, this star of an Oscar-nominated movie was once known as Johnny Quasar
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Time's up! The correct answer was Jimmy Neutron
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ANNIVERSARY GIFTS
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This 10th anniversary present is present in the name of a 20th anniversary gift -- platinum
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Time's up! The correct answer was Tin
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POTPOURRI
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Select Comfort Corporation makes these with adjustable firmness
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Time's up! The correct answer was mattresses
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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There's no truth to the story that she had to pawn her jewels to finance Columbus' first voyage
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Time's up! The correct answer was Queen Isabella
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FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
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In a 2001 tale by Alice Hoffman, Aquamarine is a beautiful & brokenhearted one of these creatures
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Time's up! The correct answer was a mermaid
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DIARIES
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The diary of this woman, wife of a famous aviator, describes the kidnapping of her son
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Time's up! The correct answer was Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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MUSICAL TRAINS
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In 1961 James Brown announced "all aboard" for this train
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Time's up! The correct answer was "Night Train"
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TUBE TEST
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David Janssen had a 4-year "run" in this series; Tim Daly hopes for at least that in the remake
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Time's up! The correct answer was The Fugitive
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TV PRODUCERS
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He probably has another 6 or 7 "Law & Order" offshoots on his desk just waiting for network slots
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Time's up! The correct answer was Dick Wolf
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FORE!
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Except during WWII, this golf tournament has been played at the Augusta National Golf Club every year since 1934
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Time's up! The correct answer was The Masters
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MISC.
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Jules Verne's book "Around the Moon" was the sequel to this 1865 best seller
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Time's up! The correct answer was From the Earth to the Moon
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WRITERS CUBED
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Her 2000 novel "Blonde" is, of course, about Marilyn Monroe
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Time's up! The correct answer was Joyce Carol Oates
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WORLD FACTS
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This isthmus connects North & South America
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Time's up! The correct answer was Isthmus of Panama
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CHOPIN
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After meeting this author, Chopin wondered, "Is she really a woman?"
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Time's up! The correct answer was George Sand
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THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER
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The Times found audience participation having a heyday in shows like "The 25th Annual Putnam County" this
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Time's up! The correct answer was Spelling Bee
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WHAT A CHARACTER!
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During a dream sequence, it was revealed that this Richard Dean Anderson character had the first name Angus
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Time's up! The correct answer was MacGyver
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GROUP COUNTDOWN
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It can mean "one" or a military entity like the army's Third Armored Division
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Time's up! The correct answer was unit
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AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY
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Jebel Musa, a promontory in this mountain range, is one of the Pillars of Hercules
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Time's up! The correct answer was Atlas Mountains
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MILITARY UNITS
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Mod or not, it's usually 10 infantrymen headed by a staff sergeant
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Time's up! The correct answer was a squad
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"DOUBLE" JEOPARDY
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(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE): Action seen here: (Curly Howard) - "Hey you, this is no time to play games - ewww!"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Double take
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QUEEN VICTORIA
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As seen in a 1997 film, he was Victoria's beloved servant, but we're not sure how she felt about his "body"
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Time's up! The correct answer was John Brown
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HORNS
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This "continental" wind instrument is played with one hand inside the bell to control its tone
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Time's up! The correct answer was French horn
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
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This father-in-law of Richard Wagner died July 31, 1886, during the Wagner festival at Bayreuth
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Time's up! The correct answer was Franz Liszt
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NATIONS OF AFRICA
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Add 2 letters to Niger to get the name of this country just south of it
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Time's up! The correct answer was Nigeria
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DOUBLE MEANINGS
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I know Mike _____ his expense account, but I can't believe he'd steal legal _____ from the conference room
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Time's up! The correct answer was pads
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INITIAL T.V.
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This show which had a 9-year-run on ABC was produced with help from J. Edgar Hoover
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Time's up! The correct answer was The F.B.I.
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SAME TITLE, DIFFERENT SONG
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Sammy Davis Jr. in 1972 & Christina Aguilera in 2007 sang about this sweet guy
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Time's up! The correct answer was "Candyman"
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REMEMBER THE TIME
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In 1526 he greeted an Inca nobleman on his ship, but conquest would have to wait a few years until funds were raised
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Time's up! The correct answer was Pizarro
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ASIAN NATIONS
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The Druk Gyalpo, or Dragon King, rules this neighbor of India that has a dragon on its flag
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Time's up! The correct answer was Bhutan
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DOWN AT THE OLD FACTORY
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In 2004 "Mustang Sally" played on the P.A. as an 86-year-old factory of this company ended production
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Time's up! The correct answer was Ford
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OOH... A WISE GUY
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Peachy thoughts from this uber philosopher include "God is Dead" & "Is Man only a blunder of God?"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Nietzsche
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WHERE'S THE COLLEGE?
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University of Miami
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Time's up! The correct answer was Coral Gables
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ARCHITECTURE
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Virginia's Shirley plantation has a "hanging" one of these that climbs 3 stories without any visible means of support
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Time's up! The correct answer was a staircase
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COMMON BONDS
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Hair, Punch, A volleyball
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Time's up! The correct answer was Things that are spiked
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THEN THERE'S MAUVE
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"Madame de Mauves" was an 1874 novel by this expatriate American
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Time's up! The correct answer was Henry James
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GIANTS OF SCIENCE
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You'll find this Frenchman's name on almost all milk cartons
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Time's up! The correct answer was Louis Pasteur
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THE 20th CENTURY
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In 1917 he called for a declaration of war against Germany saying that "The world must be made safe for democracy"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Woodrow Wilson
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AIRLINE TRAVEL
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It can be a place to leave your puppy when you take a trip, or a carrier for him that fits under an airplane seat
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Time's up! The correct answer was a kennel
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ENGLISH ROYAL HENRYS
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These 2 warring royal houses were united in 1486 when Henry VII married Elizabeth, the daughter of Edward IV
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Time's up! The correct answer was Lancaster & York
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NICE TO MEAT YOU
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This meat comes before "fried steak" in a dish popular in the South
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Time's up! The correct answer was chicken
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ATTACK OF THE THESAURUS
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Outsmart or outwit someone & you also out- this "sly" animal them
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Time's up! The correct answer was fox
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THE BUTLER DID IT
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Ted Cassidy played Bigfoot on "The Six Million Dollar Man" & filled this servant's shoes on "The Addams Family"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Lurch
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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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HISTORIC NICKNAMES
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This 19th century American politician & orator was nicknamed "The Little Giant"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Stephen Douglas
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REMEMBER THE TIME
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In 960 Mieczyslaw I became the first ruler of this country
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Time's up! The correct answer was Poland
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BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
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Only Philip Morris & this Cincinnati-based firm have yearly ad expenditures exceeding $2 billion
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Time's up! The correct answer was Procter & Gamble
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THE WOK OF FAME
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To eat Chinese food like a native, use 2 of these 10 1/2-inch wooden implements
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Time's up! The correct answer was Chopsticks
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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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Time's up! The correct answer was a violet
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ACTRESSES
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Tamara Dobson fought drugs as "Cleopatra Jones" in 1973, 10 years after this woman was "Cleopatra"
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