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Time's up! The correct answer was clowns

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PLAYWRIGHTS

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(Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Nederlander Theatre in New York City) This creator of "Rent" died the night of its final dress rehearsal, never knowing he would win the Pulitzer Prize

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jonathan Larson

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THIS CATEGORY STINKS!

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It's the Belgian province bordering the Netherlands that's famous for originating a smelly cheese

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Time's up! The correct answer was Limburgh

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U.S. CITIES

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This Arizona city's name comes from Chuk Son, Papago for "Spring at the foot of a black mountain"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tucson

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BRITISH BANDS & SINGERS

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In 1990 Roger Waters of this group gave a performance of "The Wall" at the former site of the Berlin Wall

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pink Floyd

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FLEETS

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When he left for his second voyage in September of 1493, he had a fleet of seventeen ships, fourteen more than his first trip

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Time's up! The correct answer was Christopher Columbus

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NATURE

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This largest U.S. cactus can weigh as much as 10 tons

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Time's up! The correct answer was saguaro

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REAL TO REEL

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This 1984 movie recounted the friendship of an American journalist & a translator in war-torn Cambodia

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Killing Fields

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THAT OLD TIME NEW WAVE MUSIC

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You might think this Cars leader is married to supermodel Paulina Porizkova (& you'd be right)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ric Ocasek

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THE NEW CAR LOT

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Cadillac doesn't want to rub you the wrong way with its new optional front seats that do this to you

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Time's up! The correct answer was Massage

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I'M GOING "INN"

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It's the third word in the first book of the Bible

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Time's up! The correct answer was beginning

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BIRDS

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Listen, you white-bellied bustard, I know where you live-- this continent's savanna

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Time's up! The correct answer was Africa

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A TRIP TO OUTER SPACE

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Kohoutek, Shoemaker-Levy & Halley's are all names for these astronomic objects

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Time's up! The correct answer was comets

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THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL

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Jeans maker Strauss

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Time's up! The correct answer was Levi

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THE CAT

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Like MGM's Leo the Lion, if you can do this you're considered one of the "big cats"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Roar

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NUTRITION

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People with hypertension should diet & limit their intake of alcohol & this chemical element

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Time's up! The correct answer was sodium

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ALL GOD'S CRITTERS

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The barn species of this bird is sometimes called monkey-faced due to its simian features

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Time's up! The correct answer was Owl

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TRANSLATION EXERCISES

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Turkish to Spanish: Relatively speaking, "anne" & "baba"

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Time's up! The correct answer was madre y padre

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"I" LADS

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His is the first & longest book of the Bible's major prophets

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Time's up! The correct answer was Isaiah

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3-LETTER THE BETTER

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Saturated

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Time's up! The correct answer was wet

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JUST THE FACTS

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This city, the seat of Clark County, Nevada, has been called "the entertainment capital of the world"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Las Vegas

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RUBY

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Harry Ruby & Bert Kalmar wrote this classic song about "eight little letters which simply mean I love you"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Three Little Words"

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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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ANATOMY

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The nephrons function as filtering units in this pair of organs

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Time's up! The correct answer was Kidneys

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IT CAME FROM THE NEW WORLD

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This fruit from the family Bromeliaceae is native to Brazil & Paraguay; it didn't reach Hawaii until the early 1500s

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Time's up! The correct answer was the pineapple

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ABBREVIATED STATES

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When abbreviated before the number 47, this state becomes an assault weapon

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alaska

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SCORING

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In this sport you score a point for each 42-pound stone closer to the tee than the opponent's nearest stone

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Time's up! The correct answer was curling

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SOMETHING'S A "FOOT"

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In tennis, it happens when the server steps over the baseline before hitting the ball

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Time's up! The correct answer was Foot fault

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PRIME NUMBERS

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Fear of this prime number is called triskaidekaphobia

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Time's up! The correct answer was 13

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THE CIA

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He's the only CIA head who went on to become president

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Time's up! The correct answer was George Herbert Walker Bush

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EDUCATION JARGON

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These 2 words, denoting socioeconomically challenged, followed "A Nation" in a 1983 report's title

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Time's up! The correct answer was At Risk

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YOU HAD TO EXPECT OPERA

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King Solomon is a character in "La Reine de Saba", an opera about the queen of this place

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sheba

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MEDICINE

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As Franklin D. Roosevelt's blood pressure was 300/190, he suffered from this 1-word condition

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Time's up! The correct answer was hypertension

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THE TEENS

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In "The Sound of Music", Liesl was "going on" this number

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Time's up! The correct answer was 17

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WHO'S THE MRS.?

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Mrs. Tim McGraw

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Time's up! The correct answer was Faith Hill

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DRIVING

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Experts disagree on whether 10 & 2 o'clock or 9 & 3 is better for this; no one thinks much of the old wrist drape

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Time's up! The correct answer was steering wheel position

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LANGUAGES

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This Scandinavian language changed "aa" to a circle-topped "a", making it closer to Swedish and Norwegian

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Time's up! The correct answer was Danish

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NOVELISTS

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He dictated his last novel, "The Brothers Karamazov", to his wife who took it down in shorthand

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dostoevsky

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4-LETTER WORDS

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An arm or leg

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Time's up! The correct answer was Limb

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WAITER!

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Waiter, we'd like 2 services of this chilled cream-potato-leek soup

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Time's up! The correct answer was vichyssoise

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COUNTRY & WESTERN MUSIC

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In "Red River Valley", cowboys sing, "come and" do this "if you love me"

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Time's up! The correct answer was sit by my side

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A REALLY BIG CATEGORY

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In 1934, a giant clam had yielded one of these gems with a diameter of 5 1/2 inches, weighing over 14 pounds

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Time's up! The correct answer was pearl

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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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"MOON"S

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It brings out the worst in werewolves

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Time's up! The correct answer was a full moon

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THE CAST OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

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This "Mannix" star was known as Touch Connors when he played an Amalekite herder in the film

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mike Connors

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ANGELS

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In Book III of "Paradise Lost", the angels play these, which are "golden" & "ever-tuned"

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Time's up! The correct answer was harps

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ANGELS

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The address of Angel Stadium is on a street named for this singing cowboy

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gene Autry

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ENDLESS SUMER

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The Sumerian name for the Mesopotamian plain may have given us this name of a Biblical garden

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Time's up! The correct answer was Eden

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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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FROM THE WELSH

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From the Welsh for "dwarf dog", it's also a miniature toy car brand

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Time's up! The correct answer was Corgi

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IDEAS FOR TOURISM CAMPAIGNS

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We're mostly 4,000 feet above sea level & Idi Amin doesn't run us anymore. Isn't that enough?

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Time's up! The correct answer was Uganda

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COMPANIES YOUNGER THAN YOU

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Started in 2001, Verasun Energy has now become the second-leading producer of this alternative fuel

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Time's up! The correct answer was ethanol

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SOME MORE SIMIAN CINEMA

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1968 classic with the ad line "Somewhere in the universe, there must be something better than man!"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Planet of the Apes

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STARTS WITH A PRONOUN

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It can mean transparently thin, or perfectly vertical, like a cliff

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Time's up! The correct answer was sheer

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MAD

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The Cold War nuclear balance was known as "MAD", mutually assured this

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Time's up! The correct answer was destruction

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PRIME NUMBERS

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In the rhyme, it's the number of whacks Lizzie Borden gave her father

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Time's up! The correct answer was 41

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SHAKESPEARE

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In Act I, Scene 1 of this play, a ghost appears to Barnardo, Marcellus & Horatio

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hamlet

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ODDS & ENDS

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To make these on your own, cube day-old bread, fry in butter, oil & garlic, then bake

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Time's up! The correct answer was croutons

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THE ENGLISH BEAT

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

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

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WORLD CAPITALS

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"The Rome of the North" is how famed sculptor Rodin described this Czech capital

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Time's up! The correct answer was Prague

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JERSEY GIRLS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dorothy Parker

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WHEN THEY WERE TEENS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jackie Chan

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WITH BROTHERHOOD

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Last name of Kevin, Joe & Nick, whose album "Lines, Vines And Trying Times" debuted at No. 1 in 2009

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jonas

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ORGANIZATIONS

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The Max Planck Society is one of this country's chief organizations for scientific research

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Time's up! The correct answer was Germany

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FROM B TO C

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Branch of the Indo-European family of languages

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Time's up! The correct answer was Baltic

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A FLY CATEGORY

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During World War II, a famous American volunteeer air corps in Asia was nicknamed this

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Flying Tigers

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SEEING "RED"

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Excessive bureaucratic procedure resulting in inaction or delay

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Time's up! The correct answer was Red tape

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SPORTS HOME CITIES

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MLB's Royals

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Time's up! The correct answer was Kansas City

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ALSO A GUN MANUFACTURER

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Fredric March portrayed this poet in "The Barrets of Wimpole Street"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Browning

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BASIC SCIENCE

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8 years before "The Origin of Species" was published, this British naturalist wrote a paper on barnacles

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Time's up! The correct answer was Darwin

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HIP-HOP & RAP

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A TV show on E! chronicles the "Father Hood" of this rap star

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Time's up! The correct answer was Snoop Dogg

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NORM!

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In 1981 this "All in the Family" producer co-founded People for the American Way

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Time's up! The correct answer was Norman Lear

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CORAL REEF LIFE

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John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, the USA's first underwater park, is just off the coast of this Florida key

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Time's up! The correct answer was Key Largo

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FOREWORDS

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Part 2 "is Lilliput in reverse, but...also offers some of" his "fiercest assaults upon the behavior of" his countrymen

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jonathan Swift

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“SAINTS”

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At 5th & 50th, its Lady Chapel is the place to get married, if you're in NYC - & Catholic

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Time's up! The correct answer was St. Patrick's Cathedral

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POETS & POETRY

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This Longfellow poem was suggested by a smithy under a chestnut tree in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Time's up! The correct answer was "The Village Blacksmith"

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CROSSWORD CLUES "D"

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Fate or kismet (7)

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Time's up! The correct answer was destiny

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WORLD GEOGRAPHY

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lake Baikal

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HOW INSPIRATIONAL

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When your prom date leaves the dance without you, recall the proverb, this "heals all wounds"

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Time's up! The correct answer was time

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HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES

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National Freedom Day, February 1, celebrates the 13th Amendment, which abolished this

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Time's up! The correct answer was Slavery

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GEOGRAPHY "E"

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The family history you wrote for school might include entering the U.S. at this island in New York Bay

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ellis Island

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DUDE, YOU'RE A SONG!

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In a Pearl Jam tune this boy "spoke in class today"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jeremy

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LITERATURE

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This Muriel Spark novel is set at the Marcia Blaine School For Girls in Edinburgh

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Time's up! The correct answer was "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"

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"MOON"S

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It brings out the worst in werewolves

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Time's up! The correct answer was a full moon

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IN THE TREASURY DEPT.

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Willie Nelson's album "Who'll Buy My Memories" was subtitled this agency's "Tapes"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the IRS

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MYSPACE.MAN

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He elected to join the Mercury program in 1959; 15 years later, he'd be elected to join the Senate

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Time's up! The correct answer was Glenn

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NYC MUSIC HISTORY

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The Who performed this work at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center in 1970

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tommy

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SWEET TREATS

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This snack cake, which turned 60 in 1990, was originally filled with banana creme, not vanilla

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Time's up! The correct answer was Twinkies

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DOUBLE LETTERS

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This Anglo-Saxon kingdom east of Cornwall was probably founded in the 6th century by Prince Cerdic & his son Cynric

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wessex

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LOBBYISTS

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After his forced resignation from the Senate in 1995, he took an interest in lumber & other natural resources

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bob Packwood

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BALLS

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In racquetball, the ball must strike the front wall before hitting this

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Time's up! The correct answer was the ground

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WORDS OF LOVE

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Virgil's "omnia vincit amor" is translated as this

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Time's up! The correct answer was love conquers all

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ART

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Ceramics is the art of making objects, even dreidels, out of this material

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Time's up! The correct answer was clay

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JULIUS CAESAR

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In 46 B.C. this Egyptian came with Caesar to Rome, where her statue was placed in the temple of Venus Genetrix

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cleopatra

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METALLICA

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A policeman could tell you the U.S. half dollar today is about 92% this metal

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Time's up! The correct answer was copper

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OFFICIAL LANGUAGES

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Egypt

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Time's up! The correct answer was Arabic

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CATALINA

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Catalina had Southern Calif.'s first golf course; from 1931 to 1955 it hosted a tournament named for this Ga. great

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bobby Jones

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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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LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER

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Jules Verne-Wilkie Collins sci-fi/detective novel about Civil War vets who want to shoot a cannon into a gem

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Time's up! The correct answer was From the Earth to the Moonstone

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ALWAYS REMEMBER SEPTEMBER

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On Sept. 13, 1953 Marilyn Monroe made her network TV debut on this stingy comedian's program

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jack Benny

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"H" CITIES

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Crossed by numerous canals, it's said that this German port has more bridges than Amsterdam & Venice combined

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hamburg

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THAT'S NO LADY...

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A legendary lineman for the Giants & the Rams, he also published a "Needlepoint Book for Men"

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Time's up! The correct answer was RosieGrier

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HISTORY

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This Asian political party was founded in 1885 with "Indian National" as part of its name

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Congress Party

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POETS & POETRY

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He was descended from an Abyssinian prince, Peter the Great's godson

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pushkin

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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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EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT IT...

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On June 28, 1994 the nat'l weather service began issuing this index that rates the intensity of the sun's radiation

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Time's up! The correct answer was the UV index

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HEY, "BABY"

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Smallest form of a large piano

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Time's up! The correct answer was a baby grand

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TV PRODUCERS

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The Fairmont in this city's Nob Hill was the exterior used for Aaron Spelling's "Hotel" TV series

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Time's up! The correct answer was San Francisco

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC "B"

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Beijing

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MUSICAL TRAINS

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Steven Tyler of this band lent his steamin' vocals to "Train Kept A-Rollin'", first popularized by the Yardbirds

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Time's up! The correct answer was Aerosmith

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THE 20th CENTURY

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In 1992 this former Panamanian dictator was found guilty of drug trafficking by a Miami jury

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Time's up! The correct answer was Manuel Noriega

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HEISMAN WINNERS

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Sam Bradford, the most recent winner of the Heisman, attended a university in this conference

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Big 12

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FORE!

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This stretch of closely mowed grass from the tee to the green may be straight or at an angle called a dogleg

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Time's up! The correct answer was Fairway

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I'VE TRAVELED EACH & EVERY HIGHWAY

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The 42 bridges of the Overseas Highway link many of this state's islands to the mainland

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Time's up! The correct answer was Florida

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POP MUSIC

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This singer's 1970 hit "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" was from the Broadway musical "Promises, Promises"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dionne Warwick

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BRIGHT IDEAS

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James Fergason invented this type of "display" that found an early use in calculators

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Time's up! The correct answer was LCD

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KIDS IN BOOKS

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"The Sword in the Stone" is a book about a kid who grows up to be this king

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Time's up! The correct answer was King Arthur

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EU, THE EUROPEAN UNION

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As of 2010, Croatia & Macedonia are candidates but this is the only former Yugoslav republic in the EU

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Time's up! The correct answer was Slovenia

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CROSSWORD CLUES "G"

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Disgruntled Disney dwarf (6)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Grumpy

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THE REDCOATS ARE COMING!

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In it, Thomas Paine wrote, "The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Common Sense

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MORTAL MATTERS

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In NYC June 14, 1999 it was "Dead Man Riding", as it took hours to notice a passenger on one of these wasn't just sleeping

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Time's up! The correct answer was Subway

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OSCAR-WINNING ROLES

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1945: Mildred Pierce

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Time's up! The correct answer was Joan Crawford

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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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"GENERAL" JOB INFORMATION

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It's the rank just below (the very model of a modern) major general

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Time's up! The correct answer was brigadier general

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CROSSWORD CLUES "Q"

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A literary bell ringer (9)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Quasimodo

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COLOGNE RANGER

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Born in Cologne in 1876, he was the first chancellor of West Germany following World War II

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Time's up! The correct answer was Konrad Adenauer

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THOSE WACKY GERMANS

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Germans decorate Christmas trees with silvery strings & call it the "hair" of these heavenly beings

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Time's up! The correct answer was Angels

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STATES THAT END IN HAMPSHIRE

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New Hampshire is bounded to the north by this Canadian province, the country's largest in area

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Time's up! The correct answer was Quebec

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HISTORY

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In the midst of the Korean War, this South Korean president was elected to his second of 4 terms

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Time's up! The correct answer was Syngman Rhee

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HISTORIC NAMES

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It's been said that the 1831 Russian capture of Warsaw inspired him to write his C minor etude

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Time's up! The correct answer was Frederic Chopin

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GOING TOO "FUR"

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A smelter, for example

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Time's up! The correct answer was a furnace

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STRING THEORY 201

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String theory attempts to merge quantum mechanics with Einstein's general theory of this

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Time's up! The correct answer was relativity

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THE CRUCIBLE

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This element, Pt, is used in crucibles & tongs because of its inertness & high fusing point

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Time's up! The correct answer was platinum

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FOR WHOM THE "BELL" TOLLS

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Facial nerve paralysis on one side

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bell's palsy

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FUN WITH OPERA

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Lord Lechery, Madam Wanton & Madam Bubble are all characters in the 1951 opera based on this John Bunyan work

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Pilgrim's Progress"

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AMERICAN LITERATURE

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He wrote "Cadillac Jack" & "Lonesome Dove" after "Terms of Endearment"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Larry McMurtry

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THE "BUTLER" DID IT

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This Irish poet who penned "The Winding Stair" shares his middle name with his brother Jack & father John

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Time's up! The correct answer was William Butler Yeats

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THROUGH THE 1800s WITH SARAH POLK

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During the Civil War, Mrs. Polk's Tennessee home had this official status & both union & CSA leaders visited

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Time's up! The correct answer was neutrality

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HOLLYWOOD THRILLER PREVIEWS?

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Last year it was Da Vinci; this fall it's nothing but dots & dashes with the...

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Morse Code

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KHOMEINI, KHAMENEI OR KHATAMI

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Exiled from Iran in 1964

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Time's up! The correct answer was Khomeini

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THE "A" "B" "C"s

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In a 1976 Playboy interview, Jimmy Carter said he'd committed this in his heart many times

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Time's up! The correct answer was Adultery

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AYE! IT'S IRELAND

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Also called Trinity College, the university of this capital was founded in 1592

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dublin

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OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!

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After Charles II was restored to England's throne, he had this lord protector's body dug up & beheaded

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Time's up! The correct answer was Oliver Cromwell

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WORLD AUTHORS

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This literary whiz' name is sometimes transliterated from Bengali as Ravindranatha Thakura

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tagore

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WOMEN: WRITE ON!

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Esther Greenwood is an aspiring poet in this poet's novel "The Bell Jar"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sylvia Plath

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CITY FLAGS

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This Spanish mission & a star are depicted on San Antonio's flag

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Alamo

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TRANSLATION EXERCISES

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Swahili to German: The magic word "tafadhali"

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Time's up! The correct answer was bitte

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WORD ORIGINS

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This adjective meaning deceptive or sneaky is from the Latin de via, meaning "out of the way"

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Time's up! The correct answer was devious

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HELLO, DELI!

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Someone pass me this noodle pudding filled with raisins & nuts

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Time's up! The correct answer was kugel

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TECHNOLOGY

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The Raspberry Pi costs this many dollars.

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Time's up! The correct answer was 35

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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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AIN'T THAT AMERICA

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This town bearing the name of an old TV game show is the seat of Sierra County, New Mexico

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Time's up! The correct answer was Truth or Consequences

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IT'S "BIG"

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A 2000 Martin Lawrence film

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Time's up! The correct answer was Big Momma's House

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THE CIA

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Much of the intelligence evaluation & planning is done at the CIA's HQ in this Virginia locale

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Time's up! The correct answer was Langley

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GETTING POSSESSIVE

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You'll find this triangular island about 4 miles off the southeast coast of Massachusetts

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Time's up! The correct answer was Martha's Vineyard

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CRAFT

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With drying, drilling & maybe decorating, a gourd can be made into one of these, perhaps for a purple martin

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Time's up! The correct answer was a birdhouse

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ITALIAN

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The divine "Don Giovanni" duet "La ci darem la mano" means "There, you'll give me" this

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Time's up! The correct answer was your hand

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TAUNT "O"

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Being around you has completely killed my sense of this, the tendency to expect the best of life

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Time's up! The correct answer was optimism

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EXPIRATION DATES

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October 11, 1963: The end of this chanteuse's "vie en rose"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Édith Piaf

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MOTTOES

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"Honi soit qui mal y pense" (Evil to him who evil thinks) is the motto of this British Chivalric order

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Time's up! The correct answer was Order of the Garter

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THE MOVIES

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Known for comedies like "Mr. Mom", he donned the cape & cowl of Batman in 1989

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Time's up! The correct answer was Michael Keaton

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WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

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Making one of these with a few people; a frame holds it taut; we'll back it with muslin & fill it with batting

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Time's up! The correct answer was making a quilt

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INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE

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Blow in & out: NO CHAIR MA

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Time's up! The correct answer was harmonica

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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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SPORTS TRIVIA

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The Orangemen of Syracuse were NCAA champs in '88 & '89 in this Native American sport

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lacrosse

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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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ALSO A GUN MANUFACTURER

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Famous for its cathedral, this English city was the capital of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex

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Time's up! The correct answer was Winchester

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PETER, PAUL & MARY

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Before penning "Beast" & "The Deep", he was a speechwriter for LBJ

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Time's up! The correct answer was Peter Benchley

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THE REEL STORY

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M. Night Shyamalan wrote & directed this creepy Bruce Willis-Haley Joel Osment film

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Sixth Sense

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ORGANIZATIONS

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The C.A.P., or Common Agricultural Policy, accounts for almost half the budget of this 25-nation organization

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Time's up! The correct answer was the European Union

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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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ONE LETTER DIFFERENT

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Excellent eats

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Time's up! The correct answer was good food

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19th CENTURY NOVELISTS

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William Wilkinson's "An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia" inspired this author's most famous novel

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bram Stoker

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THE MUSICAL DR. IS IN

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He dealt with ophthalmological issues in the 1972 hit "Doctor My Eyes"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jackson Browne

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LITERATURE FOR KIDS

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"We looked! Then we saw him step in on the mat! We looked! And we saw him!" This famous cat

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Cat in the Hat

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PHRASES THAT SELL

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This network says it's "The most trusted name in news"

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Time's up! The correct answer was CNN

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THE FILM THAT ALMOST WAS

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Eddie Murphy got the role in this '84 police comedy after Sylvester Stallone dropped out

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Time's up! The correct answer was Beverly Hills Cop

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PIZZA TOPPINGS

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These on your pizza may be fire-roasted, sun-dried, or just fresh sliced Romas

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Time's up! The correct answer was tomatoes

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TUBE TEST

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He provides the voice for Thurgood Stubbs on "The P.J.s"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Eddie Murphy

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HEADQUARTERS

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Surprisingly, in the 1990s, this retailer moved its HQ from its tall tower in Chicago to a lowrise in the suburbs

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sears Roebuck

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U.N. SECRETARIES-GENERAL

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Trying to resolve problems in the Congo, this Swedish secretary-general died in a plane crash in Africa in 1961

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dag Hammarskjold

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HORNS

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Christian tradition says this archangel will blow his trumpet to announce the Second Coming

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gabriel

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THE MIDDLE AGES

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Eleanor of Aquitaine accompanied her 1st husband, King Louis VII, on the 2nd one of these in 1147

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Time's up! The correct answer was Crusades

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THE GIANTS

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"Giants in the Earth" is Ole Rolvaag's novel about immigrants from this country adjusting to life on the prairie

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Time's up! The correct answer was Norway

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ACTION!

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In a 1965 speech this president put out a call for "affirmative action" in hiring by federal contractors

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Time's up! The correct answer was Johnson

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CONTESTS

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134-pound Hirofumi Nakajima holds the record of eating 24 1/2 of these in 12 minutes at the Nathan's July 4th contest

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hot dogs

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BACKWORDS

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You'd be naive to think you can make bottled water that's more popular than this

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Time's up! The correct answer was Evian

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BERMUDA SHORTS

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The first settlement in 1609 resulted from this event, maybe the one depicted in the first scene of "The Tempest"

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Time's up! The correct answer was a shipwreck

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THE BLUE ANGELS

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(Sarah of the Clue Crew riding in a Blue Angels jet) On takeoff, for a high-performance climb, pilots can experience six times the force of this

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Time's up! The correct answer was gravity

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DAYS

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Leap day date

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Time's up! The correct answer was 29-Feb

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BIBLICAL PAIRS

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"Hairy" couple from Judges 16

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Time's up! The correct answer was Samson & Delilah

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AUTHORS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Edith Wharton

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"LAP" DANCE

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The type of filmmaking seen here

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

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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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BALLET

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Alexandre Dumas fils' tale about "The Lady of" these flowers bloomed as the ballet "Marguerite and Armand"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Camellias

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BERRIES

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This small berry shares its name with a dried fruit once shipped from Corinth

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Time's up! The correct answer was Currant

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LET'S TAKE A PEAK

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Canada's highest peak, Mount Logan, lies in the St. Elias Range in the SW corner of this territory

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Yukon

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FUN WITH OPERA

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Pride! Envy! Gluttony! Lust! All that & more are dramatized in a 1933 opera named for this septet of vices

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Time's up! The correct answer was "The Seven Deadly Sins"

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BREAKING NEWS

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Gambler Charles Wells is believed to have inspired the song "The Man Who" did this "At Monte Carlo"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Broke The Bank"

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EPONYMS

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Although sources disagree over the origin of this "do-over" golf shot, many accept that it was named for a bad golfer

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Time's up! The correct answer was a Mulligan

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ROGER!

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In 1982 he co-anchored "NBC Nightly News" with Tom Brokaw, & you could say his name is...

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Time's up! The correct answer was Roger Mudd

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CANADIAN FOOTBALL

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The Alouettes play their home games at Molson Stadium on the campus of this Montreal university

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Time's up! The correct answer was McGill

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FURNITURE

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Jean-Pierre Rampal can tell you it's the term for the shallow channels cut into a column

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Time's up! The correct answer was Fluting

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INTERNATIONAL SPORTSMEN

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The Times of London estimates this chess player is taking home $20 mil. a year; that's some check, mate!

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Time's up! The correct answer was Garry Kasparov

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THE BODY HUMAN

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The human body contains many of these: some are hinge, some are saddle, some are pivot types

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Time's up! The correct answer was Joints

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DON'T BE A PAIN

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There are several types of these nerve cells: some respond to temperature, some to pressure & some to pain

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Time's up! The correct answer was sensory receptors

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PIZZA TOPPINGS

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On November 12 celebrate National Pizza with the Works Except these fish Day

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Time's up! The correct answer was Anchovies

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SI's SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE

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"Golfer John Daly has... endorsement deals with" Dunkin' Donuts & this Anna Nicole Smith-endorsed diet aid

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ALL IN YOUR MIND

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You can have a deja entendu, meaning "already heard" in addition to this, "already seen"

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THREE

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It beats 2 pair, but not a straight

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Time's up! The correct answer was Three of a kind

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WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS

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The last British athlete to win the Olympic decathlon, he won it back-to-back in 1980 & 1984

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Time's up! The correct answer was Daley Thompson

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SPORTS

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(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE): "(Hi, I'm Mike Piazza) I was the NL's '93 Rookie Of The Year. In '68 this Cincinnati Reds player became the 1st catcher to win the award"

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HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES

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The night before the 3rd Monday in April, lanterns are hung in the steeple of this Boston church

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Old North Church

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COUNTY SEATS

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Hilo, I love you, you're the seat of this county that's also a "Big Island"

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IT'S EXTINCT

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The baluchitherium, an extinct type of this pachyderm, had no horn, unlike modern species

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WHOSE IS IT?

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

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PARTY OF "FIVE"

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Whether it happens in the afternoon or not, it's facial stubble

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SPORTS LEGENDS

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This 7-time Tour de France champ said the 2006 NYC Marathon was the "hardest physical thing" he'd ever done

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BRUCE ALMIGHTY

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His July 20, 1973 death in Hong Kong at age 32 shocked the world

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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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BETTER KNOWN AS...

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Charles Buchinsky

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PICTURE THIS

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In 1964 this first lady made the first call to inaugurate the new commercial picturephone service

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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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WHO'S THE MRS.?

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Mrs. Tim McGraw

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AMERICAN NICKNAMES

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Gloria Vanderbilt or Doris Duke; it's also the translation of the Victoria Ruffo telenovela title "Pobre Nina Rica"

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CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

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Madeline is one of "twelve little girls in two straight lines" who attend a school in this city

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1987

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Pat Cash beat this Czech-born tennis great to win the Wimbledon singles title

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THE EMPEROR NERO

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Contrary to myth, no evidence exists that Nero played a fiddle, or anything else, while this happened

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ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

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Like peas, whales & seals are in groups called these

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LIT MY FIRE

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His 1963 bestseller "The Fire Next Time" took its title from an old spiritual

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PUSH BY SAFIRE

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In 2006 George W. Bush awarded Safire this "presidential" item, the highest honor given to civilians

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SPELL CHECK HELL

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I want to call my girl "dollpuss", not this suggested alternative meaning large portions of sour cream

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LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER

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

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'65

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Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Oct. 25, 1965, maybe it got its prize money in pennies on the 31st

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LITERARY OPENINGS

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"True!-Nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"

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ACTORS WHO DIRECT

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"A Bronx Tale"

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FROM THE FRENCH

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This word for any style of cooking is from the French for "kitchen"

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THE CIRCUS

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It's the familiar term for a circus' largest tent, where the main show appears

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TRIALS OF THE CENTURY

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Evidence of this man's guilt in a famous 1935 kidnapping case included finding ransom money at his house

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bruno Hauptmann

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FAMILIAR SAYINGS

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If you're one of these capable fellows, you're unfortunately "master of none"

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"J" WHIZ

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It's believed that the Virgin Mary died in this Middle Eastern city

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GENERAL SCIENCE

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This 4-letter neutral compound is produced by the reaction of an acid & a base

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MOVIE CITIES

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2010, starring Kristen Bell: "When in ____"

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HORSE & RIDER

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Silver

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Lone Ranger

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AMERICAN LITERATURE

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This captain of the Ghost rescues literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden & poet Maude Brewster from a shipwreck

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EARTH, WIND & FIRE

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Scientists believe the continents were once part of a single land mass called this, from the Greek for "all earth"

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HE WAS IN THAT?

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Mike Farrell of "Providence" can be seen in the hotel in this 1967 Dustin Hoffman classic

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Graduate

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EVERYBODY LOVES RAY

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This "sweet" boxer had fought just once in 5 years when he decisioned Marvin Hagler in 1987

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I'D RATHER BE SKIING

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If you're a beginner, you might hippity-hop over to this smaller, gentler slope

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YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS STUFF

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Non-potent potable for which your first set of teeth is named

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U.S. CABINET DEPARTMENTS IN OTHER WORDS

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A person's condition or disposition

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FROM THE GREEK

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A bowl-shaped depression, as from the impact of a meteorite, it's from the Greek for "mixing bowl"

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BUT IS IT ART?

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The work of "Artists Barely in Control of the Brush" is seen at Boston's MOBA, museum of this art

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ON THE "WAR"PATH

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In Super Bowl XXXIV, this Rams QB passed for a record 414 yards, beating Joe Montana's record by 57 yards

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LESSER-KNOWN MUSICALS

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Shaun Cassidy was 10 years old when these actors, his parents, starred in the 1968 musical "Maggie Flynn"

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BEN

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The Hutchinson Letters scandal got Ben fired as deputy this in 1774

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POTPOURRI

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The website for this Bureau of the Treasury department is www.moneyfactory.com

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Bureau of Printing and Engraving

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CHEKHOV, PLEASE

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Chekhov's grandfather was one of these who had purchased the freedom of his family for 3,500 rubles

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Time's up! The correct answer was a serf

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CHAIRS

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Also called a slat-back chair, this chair is named for an object you might climb

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HISTORIC QUOTES

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In 1973 he warned Nixon, "We have a cancer within, close to the presidency, that is growing"

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Dean

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WORDS

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Chat about this in your chat room: "chat" is merely a shortened form of this 7-letter word

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Time's up! The correct answer was chatter

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ODDS & ENDS

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The USA's highest occupied office space is the 98th floor of this Chicago structure

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

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HOMOPHONES

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Wan, or a bucket

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EARLY AMERICA

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His 1699 proposal for a permanent French trading post on the Detroit River didn't include a car dealership

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cadillac

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POLITICS

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In 1967 Richard Hatcher became the 1st elected black mayor of this steel-producing Indiana city

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I HAVE A PREPOSITION FOR YOU

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Neil Gaiman wrote, "Now slip, now slide, now move unseen, above, beneath, betwixt," this

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Time's up! The correct answer was between

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FLY COUNTRIES

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Aer Lingus

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ireland

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BETTER KNOWN AS...

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Raquel Tejada

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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

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Phil Collins once said, "Whatever else I am, I'm" one of these "first"

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Time's up! The correct answer was A Drummer

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THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

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Between 1656 & 1735 members of the Albanian Koprulu family served the sultan as this "grand" executive officer

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MORE POWER TO YOU

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Founded in 1933, it's America's largest public power company

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Time's up! The correct answer was TVA

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NATIONAL SPELLING BEE

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1970's winning word was this French crescent-shaped roll

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Time's up! The correct answer was C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-T

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"I" LADS

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His is the first & longest book of the Bible's major prophets

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GOVERNMENT

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

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

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THE UNIVERSE

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It's known for its prominences which are clouds, tubes & tongues of gasses

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Sun

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MUD

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The phrase "His name is mud" predates Dr. Mudd's setting this assassin's leg, so it doesn't mean the doctor

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Wilkes Booth

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MOVIE CITIES

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2008's "The Mysteries of ____" was based on a novel

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"MUM"s THE WORD

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Formerly called Bombay, it's in the top 5 cities in the world in population

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WHAT'S THAT SOUND?

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Block Island Sound separates Block Island from this tiny state's mainland

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NATURE

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The oxpecker, which is this type of animal, likes to ride on the backs of giraffes

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A "TON" OF PEOPLE

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In the 1991 remake of "Father of the Bride", she played the mother of the bride

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Time's up! The correct answer was Diane Keaton

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IT'S A DOGGY DOG WORLD

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This dog once prized by the Aztecs is sometimes called perro pelon, "bald dog"

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WAR

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During this 1967 war, Israeli troops under Moshe Dayan came within a stone's throw of Damascus, Syria

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FLY COUNTRIES

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Olympic Airlines

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Time's up! The correct answer was Greece

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WHEN THE SAINTS

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It's the secret identity of the British detective known as "The Saint"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Simon Templar

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STORM

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The probe used to investigate tornados in this film is aptly named Dorothy

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Time's up! The correct answer was Twister

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WORLD WAR I

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In the 1st raid of its kind in history, the British town of Yarmouth was bombed in 1915 by a German one of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was a Zeppelin

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POTPOURRI

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Charles Schulz said Snoopy didn't become a lead character until he began walking this way

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Time's up! The correct answer was on two feet

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IS IT "TEA" TIME YET?

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When Lady Diana had doubts about marrying Prince Charles, she was told: Too late. "Your face is on" these cloth items

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PHYSICAL SCIENCE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Work

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FOOD FACTS

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"Crevette" is the French word for this shellfish

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HISTORIC NICKNAMES

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This animal phrase meaning "courageous" was Richard I of England's nickname

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Lionhearted

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SLOGANEERING

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This large company provides "Solutions For A Small Planet"

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SODA POP QUIZ

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It was originally called bib-label lithiated lemon-lime soda

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COLORS

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Color of a lucky "letter day"

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20th CENTURY AMERICANS

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He was alive for the Wright Brothers' historic flight & was John Glenn's Senate colleague when Glenn returned to space

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ART & ARTISTS

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His sculpture, "The Age of Bronze", exhibited in 1877, was inspired by Michelangelo

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"MOON"S

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Michael Jackson and Neil Armstrong are both experts at this

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Time's up! The correct answer was the moonwalk

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CRAFT

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With drying, drilling & maybe decorating, a gourd can be made into one of these, perhaps for a purple martin

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MR. OR MS. WILLIAMS

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Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1966, his lifetime batting average was .344

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ted Williams

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U.S. PRESIDENTS

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He's the only U.S. president who never lived in the District of Columbia

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JEWELRY

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Tahiti & French Polynesia are famous for pearls of this color

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THE ICU

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A myocardial infarction, better known as this, is a common reason for ICU admission

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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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ANIMALS

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What the Germans call a Bambusbar, we generally call this

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LANGUAGES

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Athenians speak the Attic dialect of this language

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MY SUITE

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He began composing "The Nutcracker Suite" in 1891

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21st CENTURY MUSIC

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"Ordinary People" singer John Stephens took on this last name, the stuff that myths are made of

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OXYMORONS

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The American Academy of Pediatrics called smoking "The leading cause of" this oxymoron in the U.S.

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WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT

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Around 46 B.C, Julius Caesar offended his countrymen by dedicating a statue to her

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SOUND LIKE A LOCAL

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Pedernales is in the Dominican Republic; north of the border, the Pedernales River is in this state

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Time's up! The correct answer was Texas

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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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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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THE ENGLISH TOP 100

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It's No. 1, & no, you don't get a hint

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Time's up! The correct answer was the

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MILITARY POWER

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Whether general or ready, they're the troops held close by

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Time's up! The correct answer was Reserves

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RUSSIA

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In 1996 this Russian newspaper stopped publishing after 84 years

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pravda

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SCRAMBLED EGGS

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Mmm... caviar: SO URGENT

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Time's up! The correct answer was sturgeon

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HISTORIC NAMES

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Margaret Roper, who died in 1544, is said to have been buried with the head of this "Utopia" author, her father

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Time's up! The correct answer was Saint Thomas More

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GEOGRAPHY "E"

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The family history you wrote for school might include entering the U.S. at this island in New York Bay

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ellis Island

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"TRI" HARDER

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A court of justice

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Time's up! The correct answer was Trribunal

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BACH IN THE SADDLE

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A count's insomnia prompted these pieces that were to be played by a 14-year-old harpsichordist

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Goldberg Variations

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AMERICAN INDIANS

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

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

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18th CENTURY AMERICANS

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In the 1770s, this pamphleteer wrote "African Slavery in America", an article condemning slavery

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Time's up! The correct answer was Thomas Paine

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MOVIE SONGS

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1985: "We Don't Need Another Hero"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

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A SHAPELY CATEGORY

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Something that's cordate is shaped like this, my love

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Time's up! The correct answer was a heart

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GAME SHOWS

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You might phone a friend on this game show hosted by Meredith Vieira

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Time's up! The correct answer was Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

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BASIC SCIENCE

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At the Earth's surface, this force produces acceleration of about 32 feet per second per second

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Time's up! The correct answer was gravity

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WE WANT PISA!

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

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

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FROM B TO C

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Pompous; overblown

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Time's up! The correct answer was bombastic

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LESSER-KNOWN ANCIENT ROMANS?

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Embarrassingly but aptly, this baby doctor's name was synonymous with womb

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Time's up! The correct answer was Uterus

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EMBRACEABLE "U"

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It's bordered by Kenya to the east & Sudan to the north

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Time's up! The correct answer was Uganda

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BIBLICAL QUOTES

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This disciple wouldn't believe Jesus' resurrection until he saw "in his hands the print of the nails"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Thomas

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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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"PRO"NOUNS

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The working class

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Time's up! The correct answer was Proletariat

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LANGUAGES

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Most of the classes in Quebec schools are taught in this language

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Time's up! The correct answer was French

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THE WORLD OF ART

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It's the room where you'll find the masterpiece that includes "The Flood" & "The Creation of Eve"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Sistine Chapel

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WORLD CITIES

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This Caribbean island's capital, Fort-de-France, lies about 15 miles southeast of Mt. Pelee volcano

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Time's up! The correct answer was Martinique

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LITERATURE FOR KIDS

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In "Little Women", Margaret March is better known by this nickname

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

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BRUCE ALMIGHTY

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This actor lived up to the title of his TV show in 1987 when he hit the Top 40 chart with "Respect Yourself"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bruce Willis

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PLATE TECTONICS

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In 2006 scientists argued that the westward trend of continents was due partly to these shifts in sea levels caused by the moon

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Time's up! The correct answer was the tides

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THE FUNNIES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bill Mauldin

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L____O

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How low can you go? Perhaps to this place on the border of heaven or hell

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Time's up! The correct answer was limbo

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ACTION!

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The action of a boy can ring a girl's bell, & the action of these can ring a buoy's bell

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Time's up! The correct answer was a wave

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THE 14th CENTURY

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wenceslas

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COMMON ABBREVIATIONS

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Plan for your golden years by putting money in an IRA, one of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was an individual retirement account

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TIMELESS TV

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Originally a half hour, this soap started in 1963 & featured Nurse Jessie Brewer

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Time's up! The correct answer was General Hospital

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SPOILER ALERT!

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1959: Joe E. Brown discovers that "she" is really a guy

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Time's up! The correct answer was Some Like It Hot

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CLASSIC STAR TREK

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Suave Ricardo Montalban played this sultry superhuman on the TV series & on the big screen

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Time's up! The correct answer was Khan

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OLD VIRGINIA

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In 1716 Virginia's governor claimed possession of this scenic valley for England

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Shenandoah Valley

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COUNTRY MUSIC

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[Well hey everybody, I'm Naomi Judd] In mid-1984 Wynonna & I made our first ever concert appearance at Ak-Sar-Ben, a large concert hall in this Nebraska city

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Time's up! The correct answer was Omaha

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OLD FOLKS IN THEIR 30s

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Linus Torvalds is the father of this operating system used on cell phones & supercomputers

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Time's up! The correct answer was Linux

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ALSO A VEGAS CASINO

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Stevenson's rousing tale from 1881

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Time's up! The correct answer was Treasure Island

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SILENCE

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The name of this branch of monks known for keeping silent comes from a 17th century Cistercian Abbey

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Trappists

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LUXEMBOURG

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The Congress of Vienna in 1815 made Luxembourg a state headed by this type of ruler

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Time's up! The correct answer was a grand duke

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LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

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The Tasman Sea separates Australia & this nation

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Time's up! The correct answer was New Zealand

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ROCK MUSIC

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This Seattle grunge band backed Neil Young on his "Mirror Ball" CD

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pearl Jam

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ARTS & CRAFTS

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It's the oven or furnace in which pottery is fired

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Time's up! The correct answer was a kiln

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GIANTS OF SCIENCE

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"Father of the A-Bomb" who recalled the Hindu line "I am become death" after the first atomic explosion

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Time's up! The correct answer was J. Robert Oppenheimer

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THAT'S WHAT THEY SAID

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"When the one great scorer comes to write against your name, he marks -- not that you won or lost -- but" this

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Time's up! The correct answer was How you played the game

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"AD"JECTIVES

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Fatty, like some "tissue"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Adipose

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INTERNATIONAL NAMES

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The U.N. ties of this Secretary-General date back to 1975, when he was a South Korean diplomat

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ban Ki-moon

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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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STRING THEORY 201

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Bosonic string theory has only bosons & none of these particles named for physicist Enrico

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Time's up! The correct answer was fermions

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THOSE WACKY GERMANS

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Germans decorate Christmas trees with silvery strings & call it the "hair" of these heavenly beings

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Time's up! The correct answer was Angels

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____ OF THE ____

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Quoting "Titanic", in 1998 Oscar-winning James Cameron exulted, "I'm" this

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Time's up! The correct answer was king of the world

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YOUTH IN ASIA

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The 100-member Asian Youth Orchestra recently played to rave reviews in this South Korean capital

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Time's up! The correct answer was Seoul

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PEARLS OF WISDOM

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An artist: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Andy Warhol

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RUN, RUN, RUN

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If you want to hit this type of "contained" home run, you probably will need to run really fast

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Time's up! The correct answer was an inside-the-park home run

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HISTORIC BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

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James & Lady Blanche have a "declaration": the July 25, 1848 birth of this future foreign secretary & prime minister

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Time's up! The correct answer was Balfour

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OLYMPIC POTPOURRI

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The name of this equestrian event is French for "training"; it doesn't refer to a garment

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dressage

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SCIENCE & NATURE

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Change 1 letter in "protest" to get this word for a protozoan & others in its kingdom

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Time's up! The correct answer was Protist

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THE ASSASSIN'S VICTIM

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1881: Charles Guiteau

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Time's up! The correct answer was James Garfield

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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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BIBLICAL FATHERS & SONS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Isaac

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ROYALTY

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After this emperor died in 14 A.D., his relatives, the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruled until 68

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Time's up! The correct answer was Augustus

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VERBS

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Appropriate last name of Captain William of 18th century Virginia, who promoted vigilante justice

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lynch

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BEFORE THEY WERE POPES

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Alexander VI was formerly a high-living nobleman of this family & the father of Cesare & Lucrezia

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Time's up! The correct answer was Borgia

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INTERNATIONAL CUISINE

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The seafood in this Mexican dish is "cooked" not by heat, but by the acid in lime juice

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Time's up! The correct answer was ceviche

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THE HOLLYWOOD STOCK EXCHANGE

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One of the hottest stocks of summer 2000 was for this nautical action film starring George Clooney

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Perfect Storm

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HAVE A WHISKEY

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Whiskey is usually about 40% alcohol, which is equal to this number in proof

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Time's up! The correct answer was 80

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A BUNCH OF "GREAT" LEADERS

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This 9th century king of Wessex repeatedly repelled the Danes with great success

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

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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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COMMON ABBREVIATIONS

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Yes, sir! A PFC is one of these in the military

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Time's up! The correct answer was a private first class

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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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FOREIGN CURRENCY

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The name of this currency is from the Sanskrit for "coined silver"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rupee

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THE REPLACEMENTS

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A piece that makes it to your foe's deepest row in checkers can be replaced with one of these "royal" ones

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Time's up! The correct answer was a king

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WYOMING

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Settlement began in earnest when this railroad pushed across the state in the 1860s

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Union Pacific

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U.S. STATES

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Do the wild fais-do-do in this state while motoring on Interstate 10 to Baton Rouge or Ponchatoula

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Time's up! The correct answer was Louisiana

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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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HAIRY

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Dudes, it's the "fishy" hairstyle worn by David Spade in "Joe Dirt"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the mullet

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MY NAME IS EARL WARREN

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I ruled that public school segregation was unconstitutional in this landmark 1954 case

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Time's up! The correct answer was Brown v. Board of Education

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THE SPOOKY & THE MYSTERIOUS

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This "Triangle" near Florida has been the site of numerous maritime disasters

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Bermuda Triangle

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THE HOUND OF MUSIC

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Songwriter Scott English started an urban myth when he jokingly said this 1975 Barry Manilow No. 1 hit was about a dog

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

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BALLS

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To start your golf round, put your ball up on one of these little pegs

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Time's up! The correct answer was a tee

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PROVERBS

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"Manus manum lavat" is the Latin equivalent of this proverb

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Time's up! The correct answer was "One hand washes the other"

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HERBS & SPICES

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This spice that is sold in 2 varieties, Ceylon & Cassia, was once used in love potions

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Time's up! The correct answer was cinnamon

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"MOON"S

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It brings out the worst in werewolves

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Time's up! The correct answer was a full moon

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NICKNAMES

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"The Rocket"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Clemens

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QUOTATIONS

Question

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution begins with these 3 words

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Time's up! The correct answer was "We the People"

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SPORTS

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National Hockey League team whose logo is seen here: (knife through a "B")

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Time's up! The correct answer was Buffalo Sabres

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SISTER CITIES

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San Francisco, California is a sister city to this one in Italy

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Time's up! The correct answer was Assisi

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FATHERS-IN-LAW

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United Farm Workers president Arturo Rodriguez' father-in-law was this man who died in 1993

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Time's up! The correct answer was César Chávez

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ON THE GO

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Lighter than a Conestoga wagon, it was named for its white canvas covering which resembled the sails of ships

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Time's up! The correct answer was prairie schooner

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ANNUAL EVENTS

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This state's Days of '47 Festival honors the day Brigham Young reached the Salt Lake Valley in 1847

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Time's up! The correct answer was Utah

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I'M "L__X"

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It's a shorter way of saying Los Angeles International Airport

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Time's up! The correct answer was LAX

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CODES

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The first 5 digits in these represent the manufacturer; 16000 means General Mills

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Time's up! The correct answer was a bar code

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BICYCLES

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The woman’s bicycle without the bar was created so women could ride while wearing these

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Time's up! The correct answer was a skirt

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OF MILK

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This sugar makes up almost all the carbohydrates in milk

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Time's up! The correct answer was lactose

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BREAKFAST CEREALS

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If you pour it just right, you'll have "26 tasty little letters in every bowl" of this Post cereal

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alpha-bits

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CLASSIC DISNEY FILMS

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This 1961 film was the first to feature a magical substance called Flubber

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Absent-Minded Professor

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AFRICANA

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Meaning "guided one", it was the title of the 1880s Sudanese leader whose forces defeated General Gordon

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Mahdi

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SWEET TREATS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Toll House Cookies

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HIT TUNES

Question

"Iris", "Slide"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Goo Goo Dolls

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THE MIDDLE AGES

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Eleanor of Aquitaine accompanied her 1st husband, King Louis VII, on the 2nd one of these in 1147

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MEATS

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One of the largest edible fish, these huge flatfish can measure over 5 X 10 feet and can exceed 700 pounds

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Time's up! The correct answer was halibut

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"V" IS FOR

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...this everyday form of Latin spoken by the Romans; sounds crude but it wasn't

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Time's up! The correct answer was Vulgar

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TELEVISION

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On this NBC sci-fi drama, genius Jarod was played by Michael T. Weiss as a man & by Ryan Merriman as a boy

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Pretender

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TV CASTS

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This tap dancer has a recurring role on "Will & Grace" as Eric McCormack's boss

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gregory Hines

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HISTORIC NAMES

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A yearly football game is played near the NC/SC border to "settle" the issue of this president's birthplace in 1767

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Time's up! The correct answer was Andrew Jackson

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CROSSWORD CLUES "R"

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Room or building in the round (7)

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Time's up! The correct answer was rotunda

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THE STING

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Singer/actor Sting played Feyd-Rautha in this David Lynch film based on a Frank Herbert novel

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dune

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THE 1930s

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He was appointed conductor of the Boston Pops in 1930

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Time's up! The correct answer was Arthur Fiedler

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MAY DAYS

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Oliver Lewis rode Aristides to victory in the inaugural running of this horse race on May 17, 1875

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Time's up! The correct answer was Kentucky Derby

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THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM

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To oversimplify, it's a really big hole in the ground in Arizona--1 mile deep & 277 river miles long

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Grand Canyon

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ISLANDS

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The Leeward Islands are among the "Lesser" of these islands; Cuba & Jamaica are among the "Greater"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Antilles

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NORSE MYTHOLOGY

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Hymir was really hammered by the hammer of this god

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Time's up! The correct answer was Thor

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"IRA"

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This type of medieval play often shows the Virgin Mary coming to the rescue

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Time's up! The correct answer was a miracle play

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WYOMING

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1 of Wyoming's 2 U.S. senators

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alan Simpson

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THOSE CRAZY GUGGENHEIMS

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For Daniel, it was all mine, mine, mine; tin in Bolivia & this in Alaska

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Time's up! The correct answer was gold

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BUSINESS & INDUSTRY

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BUD is the New York Stock Exchange symbol for this brewing company

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Time's up! The correct answer was Anheuser-Busch

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SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS

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This ape was the white elephant that pet store owner Mr. Peebles couldn't get rid of

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Time's up! The correct answer was Magilla Gorilla

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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

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How peachy: Tbilisi

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Time's up! The correct answer was Georgia

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ALSO A VEGAS CASINO

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A weapon removed from a stone

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Time's up! The correct answer was Excalibur

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GET SMART

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A study of 3,500 Japanese men's brains found those who did this in moderation aged better than those who didn't

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Time's up! The correct answer was drank alcohol

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SWEET TREATS

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This snack cake, which turned 60 in 1990, was originally filled with banana creme, not vanilla

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Time's up! The correct answer was Twinkies

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I WANT TO RIDE THAT!

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The Pitt Fall is a scary free fall ride at Kennywood, near this second-largest Pennsylvania city

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pittsburgh

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JUST THE FACTS

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In 1751 the Penn Provincial Assembly placed the order for this symbol of freedom, now in Philadelphia

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Liberty Bell

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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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THEY'RE ON CABLE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was David Duchovny

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THE 1890s

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Of "Frankenstein", "The Invisible Man" or "Dracula", the one not created in 1897

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

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20th CENTURY NICKNAMES

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Georgia's "Miss Lillian"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lillian Carter

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MEN OF MUSIC

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Richard Strauss used double basses for Jokanaan's beheading in the opera about this princess

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Time's up! The correct answer was Salomé

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PROVERBS

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It "seldom knocks twice", so make the most of it

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Time's up! The correct answer was Opportunity

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WHOSE IS IT?

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

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

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THE HUSBAND MARRIED

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Joan Blondell & June Allyson

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dick Powell

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TBA

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Warnings of these "floods" are announced by the N.W.S. when large amounts of rain fall in a short amount of time

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Time's up! The correct answer was Flash flood

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FILE UNDER "K"

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His "Ode To A Nightingale" says, "With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, and purple-stained mouth"

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Keats

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THE SHORT FORM

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This agreement on world tariffs & trade was signed by 23 countries in Geneva in 1947

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Time's up! The correct answer was GATT

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"TABLE"S

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Moving around a restaurant to hobnob & exchange gossip with friends & acquaintances

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Time's up! The correct answer was Table Hopping

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KFC

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The company would have been called Indiana Fried Chicken if it were named for the birthplace of this founder

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Time's up! The correct answer was Col. Harland Sanders

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CZECH, PLEASE

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Treaty of friendship, cooperations, & mutual assistance that Czechoslovakia signed in 1955

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Warsaw Pact

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NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS

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Garry Wills used a lot more than 272 words writing "Lincoln at" this place, which won him a 1993 Pulitzer

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gettysburg

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ACRONYM EXCITEMENT!

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To Neil Armstrong: NASA

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Time's up! The correct answer was National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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AMERICAN LITERATURE

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An epigraph he used on one story says, "our hearts though stout and brave, still, like muffled drums are beating"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Edgar Allan Poe

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INVENTIVE MINDS

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He's on the 4th floor in the Inventors Hall of Fame for his "improvement in hoisting apparatus"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Otis

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BETTER KNOWN AS...

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The New York Mets' William Hayward Wilson

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mookie Wilson

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FAIRY TALE FEMMES

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He wrote a little about women: "The Little Match Girl", "The Little Mermaid"...

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hans Christian Andersen

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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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WHEN THE SAINTS

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You're a Slav to the study of language if you know that this alphabet bears the name of a 9th c. saint

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cyrillic

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MAIN STREET U.S.A.

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Your feelings may run deep on historic Main Street in this city, home of Oklahoma State University

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Time's up! The correct answer was Stillwater

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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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FINE DINING

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This word for a French stew is pronounced the same as a pasta sauce brand

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Time's up! The correct answer was ragout

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"PH"UN WORDS

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Because the Greek goddess Artemis was associated with the Moon, she was also called this, which means "light one"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Phoebe

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POETS & POETRY

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His "When the Frost is on the Punkin" was written for a series in the Indianapolis Journal

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Time's up! The correct answer was Riley

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IT'S A DATE!

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You'll find this date on a calendar only once every 4 years

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Time's up! The correct answer was February 29

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COMPUTER JARGON

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Common fiery name for a nasty or insulting email or newsgroup message

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Time's up! The correct answer was a flame

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BRITISH INVENTIONS

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For the military, zoologist John Kerr developed the "dazzle paint" type of this, something animals also use

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Time's up! The correct answer was camouflage

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ALSO ON YOUR COMPUTER KEYS

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Proverbially, it's "where the heart is"

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Time's up! The correct answer was home

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14:59

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"The joke's over", said Simon Cowell about this "American Idol" singer with a unique rendition of "She Bangs"

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Time's up! The correct answer was William Hung

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AT THE MALL

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The name of this clothing store for teens is French for "airmail"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Aéropostale

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LOVE POETRY

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Marvell rhymed, "Had we but world enough, and" this, his mistress' coyness "were no crime"

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Time's up! The correct answer was time

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BODIES OF WATER

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

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

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SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER

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The part of an atom's nucleus that fits the category

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Time's up! The correct answer was a neutron

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HISTORIC QUOTES

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In 1973 he warned Nixon, "We have a cancer within, close to the presidency, that is growing"

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Dean

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IN THE DICTIONARY

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was opera

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RELIGIOUS RHYME TIME

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Society of Friends' parcels of land

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Time's up! The correct answer was Quakers' acres

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POP MUSIC

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In the summer of 2002 this country star hit the Hot 100 chart with "Courtesy Of The Red, White and Blue"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Toby Keith

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NBA HALL OF FAMERS

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This Nigeria-born Rockets player holds the NBA record for career blocked shots with 3,830

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hakeem Olajuwon

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20th CENTURY NICKNAMES

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Aviation's "Mysterious Billionaire"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Howard Hughes

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WITH BROTHERHOOD

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Last name of Kevin, Joe & Nick, whose album "Lines, Vines And Trying Times" debuted at No. 1 in 2009

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jonas

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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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WATERFALLS

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This African waterfall is also known as Mosi-Oa-Tunya, or "Smoke That Thunders"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Victoria Falls

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FRENCH ART & ARTISTS

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Talent ran in the family: this first woman to join the Impressionists was a granddaughter of the Rococo painter Fragonard

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Time's up! The correct answer was Berthe Morisot

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HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES

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Medieval Europeans believed that birds begin to mate on this day

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Time's up! The correct answer was St. Valentine's Day

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WORDS OF LOVE

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Virgil's "omnia vincit amor" is translated as this

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Time's up! The correct answer was love conquers all

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NOT A VERB

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Wind, wander, wonderful

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Time's up! The correct answer was wonderful

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

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Pre-"Peanuts", he sold some of his cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post

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Time's up! The correct answer was Charles Schulz

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HERBS & SPICES

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A popular soft drink "ale" is flavored with this spice whose name is from the Sanskrit for "horn root"

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Time's up! The correct answer was ginger

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AskOxford.com

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AskOxford.com says the most commonly cited collective term for these animals is a clowder

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Time's up! The correct answer was cats

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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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REAL TO REEL

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In this movie Meryl Streep as Aussie mom Lindy Chamberlain exclaimed, "The dingo's got my baby!"

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Time's up! The correct answer was A Cry In The Dark

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NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD

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This snowcapped mountain provides the backdrop for Kenya's Amboseli National Park

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mt. Kilimanjaro

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4 CONSONANTS IN A ROW

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This important mechanism is what you're turning when you wind a clock

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Time's up! The correct answer was the mainspring

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VACATION FUN

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For a fabulous view of Barcelona, take the elevator to the top of the Monument a Colom, built to honor him

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Time's up! The correct answer was Christopher Columbus

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AUTHORS

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In 1842 he lived with cannibals in the Taipi Valley in the Marquesas; his novel "Typee" was based on the experience

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Time's up! The correct answer was Herman Melville

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EPONYMS

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Inventor & shirtmaker S.L. Cluett's first name gives us this process for minimizing fabric shrinkage

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sanforizing

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ATTACK OF THE THESAURUS

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I cannot tell a prevarication: it has this 3-letter synonym

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Time's up! The correct answer was lie

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CORPORATE SPORTS VENUES

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3-letter corporate name that's on the Indianapolis venue seen here

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Time's up! The correct answer was RCA Dome

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FLY ME, BUT NOT TO THE MOON

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Logically, this Spanish airline's first flight, in 1927, was between Barcelona & Madrid

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Time's up! The correct answer was Iberia

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WORLD "P"s

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World Heritage sites in this nation include the Nasca Lines

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Time's up! The correct answer was Peru

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5 BANDS

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2 members of this '70s "Ramblin' Man" band died in bike crashes, a year apart & within 3 blocks of each other

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