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BEFORE THEY WERE FIRST LADIES

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Her daughter Julie says this future first lady was offered a movie contract in the 1930s when she was a USC student

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mrs. Nixon

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TV PRODUCERS

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He moved from "Melrose Place" to the east coast for "Central Park West" & "Sex & the City"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Darren Star

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AIN'T THAT "GRAND"

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This name for a railroad terminal at Park & 42nd is a synonym for frenzied activity

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Time's up! The correct answer was Grand Central Station

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TAYLOR, SWIFT

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This season 5 winner of "American Idol" is from Alabama

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Time's up! The correct answer was Taylor Hicks

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MOVIE TRIVIA

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In his best English Bronx accent he cried "Yonder lies the castle of my father"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tony Curtis

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GOOD CAUSES

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The Andre Agassi foundation for education runs Agassi Prep in this city

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Time's up! The correct answer was Las Vegas

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FAMOUS LLOYDS

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In 1980 this "Evita" composer won a Tony for Best Score & a Grammy for Best Cast Show Album

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Time's up! The correct answer was Webber

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THE "I"s HAVE IT

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Style of the 1877 painting seen here

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Time's up! The correct answer was Impressionism

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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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THE 1980s

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On Dec. 13, 1989 Pres. F.W. De Clerk met with this imprisoned African National Congress leader for the first time

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nelson Mandela

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TURN OF THE CENTURY MOVIES

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A research chemist appears on a "60 Minutes" expose of the tobacco industry

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Insider

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ANIMALS

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Scientists divide these toothless whales into 3 groups: right whales, gray whales & rorquals

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Time's up! The correct answer was Baleen whales

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LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS

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A. Philip Randolph, who first proposed a march on this city in 1941, also helped organize the one in 1963

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Time's up! The correct answer was Washington, D.C.

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FRUIT

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A cluster, or hand, of this fruit consists of 10-20 fingers

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bananas

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PICK A PLANET

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Leda is its 13th moon

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jupiter

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NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME

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This French chemist inducted in 1978 "was the founder of microbiological sciences"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pasteur

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MOVIE MUSIC

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5-letter word for a group that sings exalting music, like the Bulgarian women's one heard in "Brother Bear"

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Time's up! The correct answer was choir

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20th CENTURY BALLET

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"Prince Rama & the Demons" was inspired by the "Ramayana", one of the great epic poems of this country

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Time's up! The correct answer was India

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NYC MUSIC HISTORY

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She co-wrote "The Loco-Motion" in the Brill Building on Broadway

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Time's up! The correct answer was Carole King

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INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE

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Reed all about it: ARC INLET

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Time's up! The correct answer was clarinet

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A "TON" OF PEOPLE

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After his death in 1974, his son Mercer took over his band

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Time's up! The correct answer was Duke Ellington

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ENGLISH ROYAL HENRYS

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King Henry III extensively rebuilt this abbey where he had been formally crowned in 1220

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Time's up! The correct answer was Westminster Abbey

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NOVEL QUOTES

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(1719) "I made him know his name should be Friday, which was the day I saved his life"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Robinson Crusoe

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JEWELRY

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Known for its malleability & white brilliance, this rare metal has been used in jewelry since the 19th C.

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Time's up! The correct answer was Platinum

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I LOVE L.A. KERS

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Kobe called it "idiotic criticism" that he hadn't (until 2009) won an NBA title without this teammate

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Time's up! The correct answer was Shaquille O'Neal

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ALL ABOARD THE SOUL TRAIN

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White crossover artists featured on "Soul Train" have included David Bowie & this "Island Girl" singer

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Time's up! The correct answer was Elton John

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SI's SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE

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"A ski jumping competition in" this country, Land of the Midnight Sun, "rewarded competitors for landing in trees"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Norway

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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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ODDS & ENDS

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This city's Hartsfield International overtook O'Hare as the world's busiest airport even before the Summer Olympics

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Time's up! The correct answer was Atlanta

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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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HISTORIC BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

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This king is thrilled by the birth of Mary, Feb. 18, 1516; there's still plenty of time to have a son--right?

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Time's up! The correct answer was Henry VIII

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LOVE POETRY

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It makes sense that Marlowe's "passionate shepherd" promises his love "a gown made of the finest" this

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Time's up! The correct answer was wool

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"ANT" INFESTATION

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Unyielding in your opinion that the singer of "Goody Two Shoes" is the greatest singer ever

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Time's up! The correct answer was adamant

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COMPUTER TERMS

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This unit equals about 1,000 megabytes, or about half a million pages of text

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Time's up! The correct answer was a gigabyte

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BROADWAY TEENS

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The Jets & the Sharks are teenage gangs in this 1957 musical that features the song "Tonight"

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Time's up! The correct answer was West Side Story

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MOVIES BY ROLES

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1982: Mr. Hand, Stacy Hamilton, Jeff Spicoli

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Time's up! The correct answer was Fast Times at Ridgemont High

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GAMES

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In other words, this summer camp game could be called "Seize Your Enemy's Banner"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Capture the Flag

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PHILMOGRAPHIES

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"Jingle All the Way", "So I Married an Axe Murderer" (plus 153 episodes of "SNL")

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Time's up! The correct answer was Phil Hartman

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IT'S OURS!

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Madeira Islands

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Time's up! The correct answer was Portugal

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BETTER KNOWN AS...

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Falsetto ukulele strummer Herbert Khaury

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tiny Tim

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HABEAS CORPSES

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Executed in 1915, this radical labor activist was cremated & his ashes mailed to labor unions all over the world

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Time's up! The correct answer was Joe Hill

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PHILMOGRAPHIES

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"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" (plus his own 1955-59 TV show)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Phil Silvers

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FASHION FROM HEAD TO TOE

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The French name of these casual summer shoes derives from a tough wiry grass that's used to make rope

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Time's up! The correct answer was espadrilles

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YOU SHOULD BE IN A BALLET!

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Your striking resemblance to Kirk Douglas has convinced us to star you in the ballet about this gladiator

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Time's up! The correct answer was Spartacus

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CIVIL WAR LITERATURE

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Jeff Shaara has written a prequel & a sequel to this 1974 novel about Gettysburg by his father Michael

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Time's up! The correct answer was "The Killer Angels"

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CITY FOLK

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Damascenes

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Time's up! The correct answer was Damascus residents

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FAMOUS JACQUES

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Much of France's 16th century Canadian claim was based on his explorations

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cartier

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LITERARY BADDIES

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This Seuss character who lived in a cave "stood there on Christmas Eve, hating the Whos"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Grinch

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TIMELESS TV

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September 2010 brought the 45th edition of this comedian's telethon

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jerry Lewis

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THE STING

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The WNBA team belonging to this southern city is known as The Sting

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Time's up! The correct answer was Charlotte

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ROCK FORMATIONS

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This punk group was the brainchild of entrepreneur Malcolm McLaren, who asked John Lydon to be its lead singer

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Sex Pistols

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SEE THE USA

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It was almost named "Texas Under 6 Flags", but someone said "Texas ain't never been under nothin'!"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Six Flags Over Texas

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LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS

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Doris Eaton Travis, who passed away in 2010 at age 106, was the last surviving showgirl from these follies

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ziegfeld

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FOR THE FASHIONISTA

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Launched by her brother in the '90s, a fragrance called Blonde was inspired by this Italian designer's long blonde hair

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Time's up! The correct answer was Donnatella Versace

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STARTS WITH "W"

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The cicada killer is a large predatory variety of this insect

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Time's up! The correct answer was a wasp

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LOBBYISTS

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

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

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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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QUEEN VICTORIA

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Victoria found this poet laureate's "In Memoriam" a great comfort in her widowhood

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alfred Lord Tennyson

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ANYTHING BUT CHEESESTEAK

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This hot dog condiment is basically chopped sweet pickles

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Time's up! The correct answer was relish

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CROSSWORD CLUES "H"

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Sleep like a bear (9)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hibernate

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TELL ME "Y"

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Aden is the second-largest city in this Middle Eastern hot spot

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Time's up! The correct answer was Yemen

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TRANSPORTATION

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In 1830 England's Manchester & Liverpool Railway became the 1st to have all trains powered by this

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Time's up! The correct answer was Steam

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"V" HAVE MAPS

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The African country of Burkina Faso was once known as "Upper" this

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Time's up! The correct answer was Volta

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"AI"

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This dictionary term meaning "old" is applied to words like "wast"

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Time's up! The correct answer was archaic

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WORLD MUSEUMS

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It's the set of museums that includes the Museo Pio-Clementino, exhibiting sculpture

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Vatican Museums

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AWARDS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Notre Dame

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DOUBLE MEANINGS

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Maybe Don needs to get more exercise; he _____ just from pulling up his _____

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Time's up! The correct answer was pants

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THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS

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A 1927 visit to Etruscan sites inspired this author of "The Plumed Serpent" to write "Etruscan Places"

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Time's up! The correct answer was D.H. Lawrence

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GENERAL SCIENCE

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This method of preserving food by killing bacteria was developed by a French chemist in the 1860s

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pasteurization

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SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT THE MOVIES

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In the same film, Mike Myers played Dr. Evil & this international man of mystery, baby

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Time's up! The correct answer was Austin Powers

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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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EUROPE

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From 1963 to 1978 he was Archbishop of Krakow

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Time's up! The correct answer was Karol Wojtyla

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AUTHORS' RHYME TIME

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Sir Walter's saucepans

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Time's up! The correct answer was Scott's pots

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MUNICH

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In the 16th century, Munich was a center of the German phase of this movement against Protestantism

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Counter-Reformation

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ORGANIZATIONS

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Int'l club that "promotes putting off until later those things that needn't be done today"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Procrastinator's Club

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BEING THOREAU

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This book begins, "When I wrote the following pages...I lived alone in the woods, a mile from any neighbor..."

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Time's up! The correct answer was Walden/ Life In The Woods

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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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Time's up! The correct answer was Cleopatra

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HOW DO YOU...

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Hold the ends of the coiled toy first sold in 1945, then raise & lower each hand in a rhythmic motion

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Time's up! The correct answer was work a Slinky

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ANIMAL TERMS

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If you've been beaten 72-0 in football, you've gotten this, from the name of a smelly critter, Mephitis mephitis

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Time's up! The correct answer was skunked

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PARENT & CHILD NOBEL WINNERS

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Arthur Kornberg won for showing how DNA duplicates in bacteria; son Roger's work was on the conversion of DNA into this

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Time's up! The correct answer was RNA

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COUNTIES BY STATE

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McClain, McCurtain, Muskogee

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Time's up! The correct answer was Oklahoma

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FOOD

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Riz A L'Imperatrice is an elegant version of this homey dessert

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rice Pudding

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PRINCETON

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In 1783 Princeton's Nassau Hall doubled as this for the nation

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Time's up! The correct answer was capital

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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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ACTORS & THEIR ROLES

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Patrick Stewart wrote & starred in a one-man show based on this Dickens Christmas classic

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Time's up! The correct answer was A Christmas Carol

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THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR

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"Woman with a Past", "The Peacemaker", "Deep Impact"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mimi Leder

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IT BORDERS INDIA

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This nation to India's north is also the only other nation with a Hindu population of more than 80%

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nepal

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ELIZABETH TAYLOR FILMS

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This 1963 epic included 79 sets & 26,000 costumes

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cleopatra

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POLITICS

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During his record 11 years as FDR's Sec'y of State, this Tennessean conceived the idea of the United Nations

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hull

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JUAN

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1998's MVP in the American League was outfielder Juan Gonzalez, then with this team

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Time's up! The correct answer was Texas Rangers

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OCCUPATION HAZARDS

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He has to listen to his wheels going round, round, round all day & may get a paper cut from a transfer

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Time's up! The correct answer was bus driver

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HEISMAN WINNERS

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Even though his team won the BCS Championship in 2009, this QB didn't win back-to-back Heismans

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tim Tebow

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GOLD RUSH

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In 1880 Joseph Juneau & Richard T. Harris found gold in the Gastineau Channel of this U.S. territory

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alaska

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FOLKIES

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Born Michelle Johnston, she "stunned" the industry in 1994 by selling her new album only at her shows

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Time's up! The correct answer was Michelle Shocked

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STATE SUPERLATIVES

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It pumps more than one million barrels of oil a day, more than any other state

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Time's up! The correct answer was Texas

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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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THE FALL

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Florida

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FROM THE FRENCH

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A term for a keepsake or memento, it comes from the French for "to remember"

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Time's up! The correct answer was souvenir

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PRIME NUMBERS

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Dial this 3-digit prime number in L.A. only for emergencies

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Time's up! The correct answer was 911

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THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS

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"Rock The Casbah" is the biggest hit by this rock group

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Clash

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GET SMART

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Choline may help adult brains grow; one of these breakfast items has about a third of your RDA--want an omelette?

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Time's up! The correct answer was an egg

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JUST PLANE GEOMETRY

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The word geometry means to "measure" this

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Time's up! The correct answer was the world, the earth

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TRUTH OR DARE

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Truth: This fight promoter said "There was a spontaneous combustion of love" at the Trump wedding

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Time's up! The correct answer was Don King

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AN E FOR AN I

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"Gentle" becomes "to blend"

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Time's up! The correct answer was mild & meld

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DEAR JUNTA

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Shortly after the death of Gen. Omar Torrijos, Manuel Noriega controlled the junta that ruled this country

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Time's up! The correct answer was Panama

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FAMILIAR PHRASES

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If you have other, more important things to do, you "have other' of these "to fry"

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PRINCETON

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In 1783 Princeton's Nassau Hall doubled as this for the nation

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Time's up! The correct answer was capital

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DEMOCRATIC KEYNOTERS

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1984: New York governor

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mario Cuomo

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FLAG 'EM DOWN

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The first 50-star U.S. flag was officially raised on July 4 of this year

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Time's up! The correct answer was 1960

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NATIONAL FOODS

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Thomas' is a brand of these, famed for their nooks & crannies

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Time's up! The correct answer was English muffins

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NO. 1 QUESTIONS

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In a 1971 No. 1 hit the Bee Gees wanted to know "How can you mend" one of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was a broken heart

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"E" CHANNEL

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Before going bankrupt in 1989, this airline tried selling $12 plane tickets between Boston & New York

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Time's up! The correct answer was Eastern

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BOXING MOVIES

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He played Elvis' trainer in "Kid Galahad" a "Dirty Dozen" years before he starred in "Death Wish"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Charles Bronson

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ISRAEL

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This port city on & around Mount Carmel has been compared to San Francisco, its sister city

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Time's up! The correct answer was Haifa

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FOUNTAINS

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Lorado Taft's Fountain of the Great Lakes is now at this city's Art Institute

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Time's up! The correct answer was Chicago

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STAMPS

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The Distinguished Marines series honors the man for whom a North Carolina Marine Corps base was named

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lt. Gen. John Lejeune

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STARTS WITH "B"

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2-word French term for a small bundle of herbs, often tied together & used for flavoring

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bouquet Garni

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FATHER'S IN LAW

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As a non-partner who has a formal relationship with a firm, father is said to be "of" this to Bisbee, Pell & Bisbee

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Time's up! The correct answer was Counsel

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"DIAMOND"s IN THE ROUGH

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Honolulu high spot

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Time's up! The correct answer was Diamond Head

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RELIGIOUS RHYME TIME

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A Latter-Day jury spokesperson

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Time's up! The correct answer was a Mormon foreman

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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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SCIENTISTS

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This botanist was hailed as "The Wizard of Tuskegee"

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Time's up! The correct answer was George Washington Carver

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SCIENTISTS

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This Russian's work on gastrointestinal secretions in animals earned him a Nobel prize

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pavlov

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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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RHYME TIME

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A more obese baseball slugger

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Time's up! The correct answer was a fatter batter

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YOU MUST BE JOKING

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Completes Groucho's "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas..."

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Time's up! The correct answer was "How he got in my pajamas, I'll never know!"

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ALSO SOMETHING YOU WEAR

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A hard blow or punch

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Time's up! The correct answer was a sock

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SCRAMBLED EGGS?

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It sounds like a dance: EMU REIGN

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Time's up! The correct answer was meringue

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FOOD FACTS

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Bread is eaten so widely it's often called the "staff of" this

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Time's up! The correct answer was life

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MUSEUMS

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A Brussels art & history museum has a giant statue from this Chilean island on exhibit

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Time's up! The correct answer was Easter Island

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MOVIE PRODUCERS

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Albert R. Broccoli produced 17 James Bond films & this kids' movie also based on an Ian Fleming book

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Time's up! The correct answer was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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IT'S OURS!

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Cook Islands

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Time's up! The correct answer was New Zealand

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PEOPLE WHO BECAME WORDS

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This term for artillery fragments is named for a British officer who invented a new kind of shell

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Time's up! The correct answer was Shrapnel

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STAMPS

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This astronomer for whom a space telescope is named is honored in the American Scientists series

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hubble

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KNOTS TO YOU

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From the Turkish for "napkin", it's the art which creates decorative items by knotting cord, rope or string

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Time's up! The correct answer was Macrame

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MATH TERMS

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5th, 50th & 500th are this type of number, as opposed to cardinal

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Time's up! The correct answer was ordinal

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HISTORY

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In 1991 B.C. Amenemhet, a former vizier, founded this country's 12th dynasty

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Time's up! The correct answer was Egypt

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ARE WE THERE YET?

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Start early; the 4 presidents sculpted on this mountain are best viewed in morning light

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mount Rushmore

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U.S. PRESIDENTS

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He was the only U.S. president to die in the 18th century

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Time's up! The correct answer was George Washington

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THE PRODUCERS

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It leads the states in apple production

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Time's up! The correct answer was Washington

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BEGINS & ENDS WITH "T"

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The Roman god Jupiter used this weather phenomenon as a weapon, by jove

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Time's up! The correct answer was Thunderbolt

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POEMS ON POETS

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To hear about "My Highland Lassie" / My poor heart, it yearns / For he wrote 'em, I just quote 'em / He is...

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Time's up! The correct answer was Burns

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POLAR EXPLORATION

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Edward Bransfield, a possible discoverer of Antarctica, had to battle these birds to get ashore

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Time's up! The correct answer was Penguins

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VACATION FUN

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Soar above the treetops on the Skyfari aerial tram at this West Coast's city's famous zoo

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Time's up! The correct answer was San Diego

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THE MIDDLE AGES

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2 types of these which were especially popular during the Middle Ages were "Miracle" & "Morality"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Types of plays

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STARTS WITH "B"

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An insect who hangs out in your four-poster, or what a private eye might slip under your mattress

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bedbug

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PAINTERS

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Dr. Tulp was so pleased with this artist's painting of his "Anatomy Lesson" that it hung in his school of surgery

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rembrandt

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NAME THE PLAY

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Orsino: "O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first, methought she purged the air of pestilence"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Twelfth Night

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PHYSICS 101

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In the 19th C. Rudolf Clausius coined this word for measuring increasing disorder in a system

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Time's up! The correct answer was entropy

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MR. TEA

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The last Dutch governor of New Netherland, he introduced tea to America around 1647

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Time's up! The correct answer was Peter Stuyvesant

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LITERARY HOUSES

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In the novel by Isabel Allende, Clara del Valle Trueba shares a house with these title entities

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Spirits

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IN THE DICTIONARY

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Maize is another word for this

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Time's up! The correct answer was corn

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DAN-O-MITE

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American architect Daniel Burnham was the Director of Works at the 1893 World's Fair in this city

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Time's up! The correct answer was Chicago

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HAIR TODAY

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In 2004 this real estate tycoon told People magazine that his signature swept-forward style is his own handiwork

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Time's up! The correct answer was Trump

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ASIAN CAPITALS

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This capital lies on the north coast of West Java at the mouth of the Liwung River

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jakarta

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MOVIE CITIES

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2010, starring Kristen Bell: "When in ____"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rome

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CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

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Dinarzade is the younger sister of this woman known for her nocturnal stories

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Time's up! The correct answer was Shahrazad

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WHEN IN ROME?

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Michaelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel: this century

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Time's up! The correct answer was the 16th

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THE 20th CENTURY

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In 1940, at age 5, Tenzin Gyatso was enthroned as the 14th one of these spiritual leaders

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dalai Lama

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THE NEW TESTAMENT

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In a letter to Corinth, Paul ranked this quality over faith & hope

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Time's up! The correct answer was Charity

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THE SUPREME COURT

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In 1995 two justices rejected The Citadel's appeal of an order to admit her

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Time's up! The correct answer was Shannon Faulkner

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TRAIN STATIONS

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This capital city's main train station is known as Bahnhof Zoo, & not just at rush hour

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Time's up! The correct answer was Berlin

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BEFORE & AFTER

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Fictional girl sleuth who's the granddaughter of "The Great Profile"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nancy Drew Barrymore

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POETS

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She considered publishing "Sonnets from the Portuguese" as "Sonnets Translated from the Bosnian"

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Time's up! The correct answer was ElizabethBrowning

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"TU"

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The University of Phoenix has a branch in this city

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tucson

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LASTS

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In 1966 Congress authorized the Uniform Time Act, creating this from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October

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Time's up! The correct answer was daylight savings time

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ELIZABETH TAYLOR FILMS

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This 1963 epic included 79 sets & 26,000 costumes

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cleopatra

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FROG ANATOMY

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The nictitating membrane is also called the third one of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was the frog's eyelid

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"KNIFE", "FORK" OR "SPOON"

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In the 1998 movie "Pleasantville", she played a '90s teen transported into a 1950s sitcom

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Time's up! The correct answer was Reese Witherspoon

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FROM THE GREEK

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The name of this solid figure used to disperse light into a spectrum is from the Greek for "something sawed"

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Time's up! The correct answer was a prism

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FROM THE JAWS OF VICTORY

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In the Aesop fable, he's so far ahead he takes a nap; what a loser!

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hare

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HISTORIC DATES

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The accident of April 25-26, 1986 at this facility was caused by a poorly designed experiment at its reactor unit 4

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Time's up! The correct answer was Chernobyl

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ALBUMS THAT ROCK

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"In Your Honor", "The Color and the Shape"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Foo Fighters

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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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NICE TO MEAT YOU

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Be vewy quiet; the most common small game animal is this, which is mostly white meat & can be grilled, fried or roasted

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Time's up! The correct answer was rabbit

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SEXPERTISE

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Pat Leahy, Pat Buchanan, Pat Nixon

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pat Nixon

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RICHARD

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Either of the 2 parents of Richard the Lion-Hearted

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

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BRAND NAMES

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In 1930 General Mills introduced this mix to make biscuits quickly

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bisquick

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WORLD HODGEPODGE

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When shopping on Saba, an island in this sea, look for the beautiful, delicate Saba lace

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Time's up! The correct answer was Caribbean Sea

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TELEVISION

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In 1977 her own show aired on CBS just before "Maude"; now she's a "Golden Girl" with Bea Arthur

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Time's up! The correct answer was Betty White

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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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Time's up! The correct answer was Johnny Bench

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BALLET

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I may say "neigh!" if you do a pas de cheval, a ballet step that imitates this animal

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Time's up! The correct answer was a horse

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THE TREES WERE ANGRY THAT DAY, MY FRIENDS

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An apple tree angrily slaps the hand of a Kansas girl trying to pick from it in this film

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

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EMBRACEABLE "U"

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It's the island instrument heard here

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ukulele

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NICKNAMES

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"The Big Hurt"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Frank Thomas

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SOCIOLOGY

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A plant, animal or object that's the symbol of a clan; it's often taboo & was paired with "Taboo" in a Freud title

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Time's up! The correct answer was totem

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CRAFT

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This word for a step in sewing a garment is also found paired with "hawing"

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Time's up! The correct answer was hemming

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NONFICTION PEOPLE

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"The Corsican" is a diary of his life "In His Own Words"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Napoleon

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FRANCE

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Liberation & Le Petit Journal are leading ones of these in France

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Time's up! The correct answer was newspapers

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CITY OF BIRTH

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Sidney Bechet

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Time's up! The correct answer was New Orleans

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LARRY KING'S PUBLIC FIGURES

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I'm all shook up about my next guest & the caller is from his hometown...Tupelo, MS., hello?

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Time's up! The correct answer was Elvis Presley

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I HAVEN'T READ SHAKESPEARE, BUT...

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was King Lear

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PITCHING HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE WOO

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From this author's "The Jungle" I shall read lines like "On the killing beds you were apt to be covered with blood"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Upton Sinclair

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TEENS IN HISTORY

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In the 1850s this future sculptor failed the Ecole des Beaux-Arts entrance exam 3 times (think about it)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rodin

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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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VIETNAM

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Of the 3 countries that border Vietnam, the one whose name does not begin with the same letter as the other 2

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Time's up! The correct answer was Laos

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1994 FILMS

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Jean Vander Pyl, who played Wilma in the original cartoon series, played Mrs. Feldspar in this movie adaptation

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Flintstones

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POLITICAL TALK

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Saddle up & give us this 5-letter term for an added provision that may not be germane to the purpose of a bill

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Time's up! The correct answer was a rider

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THE SPOOKY & THE MYSTERIOUS

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Thousands of years ago this legendary lost continent is believed by some to have vanished beneath the waves

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Time's up! The correct answer was Atlantis

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BABY BOOMER MEMORIES

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In 1960 this Democrat spoke first in the first televised U.S. presidential election debate

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Time's up! The correct answer was John F. Kennedy

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AROUND THE WORLD

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Granite pillars support the roof of this man's burial "hall" near "The Gate of Heavenly Peace"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mao Tse-tung

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WORLD GEOGRAPHY

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The Sea of Galilee is just a broad basin of this river

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Time's up! The correct answer was The River Jordan

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THEATRE HODGEPODGE

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Shakespeare's play about this Tudor king begins, "I come no more to make you laugh..."

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Time's up! The correct answer was Henry VIII

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DOWN MEXICO WAY

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This popular resort island lies north of Cozumel off the coast of the state of Quintana Roo

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cancun

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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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WORLD MUSEUMS

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"ANZACs in France, 1969" was a 2006 exhibit at a war museum in this capital city

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COMPOSERS

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G. Strepponi sang in "Nabucco", the opera that made this composer famous, & later married him

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WAITER!

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For dessert, bring me some of this apple-filled rolled pastry whose name is from the German for "whirlpool"

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PROVERBS

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There's "no time like" this

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Time's up! The correct answer was the present

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STATES THAT END IN HAMPSHIRE

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New Hampshire's Squam Lakes provided the title location for this 1981 Fonda & Hepburn film

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Time's up! The correct answer was On Golden Pond

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WHAT'S ON TV?

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We're still waiting for a "Des Moines" version of this CBS crime show to accompany the Vegas, Miami & N.Y. ones

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ENDS WITH 3 VOWELS

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Emmy-winning actor Bridges

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THE COMMODORES

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"The Commodore" is one of the tales of this C.S. Forester hero

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Time's up! The correct answer was Horatio Hornblower

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ARCHITECTS

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Minoru Yamasaki reached new heights with this New York City complex

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OFFICIAL STATE THINGS

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"Swing your partner" & "do-si-do"; it's the state dance of Oregon & Alabama

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Time's up! The correct answer was square dance

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20th CENTURY ARTISTS

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In 1936 he showed up for a Surrealist exhibition dressed in a diving suit

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SCIENCE & NATURE

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Light energy can be studied as these massless quantum units

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"BOO"!

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Soft woolen shoes for a baby

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YOU'RE AN ANIMAL!

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It's the genus & species of this animal ("caveman")

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Time's up! The correct answer was Homo sapiens

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CELEBS

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Her 18th birthday party was "A Cinderella Story" with 300 guests & red velvet cake

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hilary Duff

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GUYANESE GEOGRAPHY

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Spectacular waterfalls in Guyana include one named for a British king of this name, who ruled 1901-10

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AYE! IT'S IRELAND

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Reflecting its lush, beautiful countryside. it's Ireland's gem of a nickname

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Time's up! The correct answer was "The Emerald Isle"

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LITERATURE

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In the final scene of "Rebecca", this stately mansion of Maxim De Winter burns

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PEOPLE

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Herbert Ross, who directed the film "Steel Magnolias", is married to this sister of Jackie Onassis

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lee Radziwill

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ACTING PRESIDENTS ON TV

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On Fox, Patricia Wettig as Caroline Reynolds

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Time's up! The correct answer was Prison Break

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EDGAR ALLAN POE-POURRI

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This French "Flowers of Evil" author translated Poe's tales into French

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Time's up! The correct answer was Charles Baudelaire

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COMPANIES

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This warehouse club has over 43 million members, some of them Gold Star, lugging home the big jars of mayo

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Time's up! The correct answer was Costco

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BEFORE & AFTER

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Dystopian Anthony Burgess novel that's a New Zealand fish

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Time's up! The correct answer was A Clockwork Orange Roughy

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HOLLYWOOD THRILLER PREVIEWS?

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This emotional bond to a captor by a hostage due to stress & need for survival is the psychothriller of the summer!

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Stockholm Syndrome

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"V" IS FOR

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...this, like Paricutin in Mexico

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LANGUAGES

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This language is known by its speakers as Nederlands

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INNS

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Gray's Inn is one of these associations that control admission to Britain's bar

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Inns of Court

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THE OLD COLLEGE TRY

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New Haven has Albertus Magnus; Grand Rapids, Michigan has a school named for this other 13th c. theologian

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Time's up! The correct answer was St. Thomas Acquinas

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BUSINESS BUDDIES

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S. Duncan Black & this partner filed a patent for a drill in 1914

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Time's up! The correct answer was Decker

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IT'S SANDY!

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In the 1960s he set records of 4 career no-hitters & 382 strikeouts in one year

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sandy Koufax

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WORLD HISTORY

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City that was the seat of government of the viceroyalty of New Spain

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"D" IN HISTORY

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The Vikings founded this city in the mid-800s, probably naming it for a black pool in the river Liffey

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dublin

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AH, SWEET MYTHTERY

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Hard-partyin' half-man, half-goat creatures of Greek mythology

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Time's up! The correct answer was a satyr

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RODENTS

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Contrary to popular belief, mass drownings by the Norway species of this rodent are not suicidal in nature

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I'LL MAKE A NOTE OF IT

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In physics notation the speed of light is symbolized by this letter in lower case

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Time's up! The correct answer was c

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CITY FLAGS

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The Y-shaped design on this city's flag represents the convergence of the Mississippi & Missouri rivers

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

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4 CONSONANTS IN A ROW

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If you're vertical but supported by your palms, you're doing one of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was a handstand

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WESTERNS

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It's the type of transport in the title of John Wayne's 1939 breakout film

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Time's up! The correct answer was a stagecoach

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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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ONE-WORD RHYMES

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I've come to the ashram so this person can show me the unreality of material things -- oops, I scratched his Mercedes

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Time's up! The correct answer was guru

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GRAINS & STAPLES

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The name of this food, not a true grain, comes from the Dutch meaning "beech wheat"

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Time's up! The correct answer was buckwheat

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NO. 1 QUESTIONS

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In this 1960 hit, Elvis wondered if you're "sorry we drifted apart"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"

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ANNUAL EVENTS

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Dancers clomp around in wooden shoes at the Holland, Michigan festival honoring this flower

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Time's up! The correct answer was the tulip

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WHO DO YOU THINK I AM?!

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On Feb. 3, 1930 I presided over the founding of the Vietnamese Communist Party

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ho Chi Minh

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SPORTS FACTS

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In 1962 this country's Dawn Fraser became the first woman swimmer to break one minute in the 100-meter freestyle

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THE LAST POPE OF THIS NAME

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1878 to 1903 was the tenure of the XIII & last pope with this name that's also a sign of the Zodiac

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Time's up! The correct answer was Leo

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REEL MOTHERS

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Title of the 1981 biopic about the woman seen here: "I wouldn't turn against you if it meant my life. You are my life."

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mommie Dearest

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"B" PREPARED

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This U.S. government department is abbreviated B.I.A.

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Bureau of Indian Affairs

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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

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

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THE COMMODORES

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"The Commodore" is one of the tales of this C.S. Forester hero

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Time's up! The correct answer was Horatio Hornblower

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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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"EVER"S

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This 1965 movie begins with the birth of Jesus

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Greatest Story Ever Told

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SAINTS BE PRAISED

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Saint Brigid was buried at Kildare, but was later moved to be buried with this saint

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Time's up! The correct answer was Saint Patrick

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'ALLO, GOVERNOR!

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Henry S. Thibodaux, P.B.S. Pinchback

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Time's up! The correct answer was Louisiana

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19th CENTURY LITERATURE

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Ydgrun is a goddess worshipped by residents of this Samuel Butler country

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Time's up! The correct answer was Erewhon

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FRUIT

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This fruit often originates from peach seeds & peaches sometimes come from its seeds

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nectarines

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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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Time's up! The correct answer was Lance Armstrong

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WHY?

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According to Genesis 3:14, because it tricked Eve

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Time's up! The correct answer was Why does the snake crawl on the ground?

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GREAT DAMES

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

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

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CELEBRITIES' MIDDLE NAMES

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Author Hawthorne would approve of this middle name of Ralph Fiennes

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nathaniel

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WEEDS

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This plant whose alkaloids ended Socrates' life now grows on American roadsides

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hemlock

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"CH"ILL OUT!

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The Chinese call these kuaizi

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Time's up! The correct answer was chopsticks

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MONEY SLANG

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Bank notes that sing before fa-so-la

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Time's up! The correct answer was Do-re-mi

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BOTANY

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The jonquil is a short-trumpet narcissus; this yellow flower is a long-trumpet species

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Time's up! The correct answer was Daffodil

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PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS

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In 1941 her "Watch on the Rhine" was named best American play by the New York Drama Critics' Circle

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lillian Hellman

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INVENTORS & INVENTIONS

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In 1868, 9 years after developing the railway sleeping car, he introduced the first railway car for dining

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pullman

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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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MEDICINE

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Device that's implanted to control irregular heart beats

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Time's up! The correct answer was a pacemaker

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PRE-COLUMBIAN CULTURES

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The Adena-Hopewell culture in the Ohio area was known for building these, both the burial & effigy types

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mounds

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GOING DUTCH

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Ask a Dutchman "Spreekt U Engels?", which means this, & he'll probably say, "Yes"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Do you speak English?

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POETIC TERMS

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16th century poet who perfected in "The Faerie Queene" the stanza named for him

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Time's up! The correct answer was Edmund Spenser

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THE KIDS LOVE THAT ROCK & ROLL

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In 1998 Will Smith was "Gettin'" to the No. 1 spot on the charts with this song

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It"

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U.S. GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES

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"The Coyote State" is an unofficial nickname of this 75,885-square-mile state

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Time's up! The correct answer was South Dakota

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FOREWORDS

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She said that her husband Frank O'Connor was the fuel that kept her spirited while she wrote "The Fountainhead"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ayn Rand

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SALMON

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World Book says this country leads the world in salmon fishing, with more than 450,000 tons caught each year

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

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BOY MEETS WORLD

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The last male in the Tudor line, he became king at age 9 upon the death of Henry VIII

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Time's up! The correct answer was Edward VI

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"FOR" WORDS

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Jewelers as well as surgeons use this tool for grasping & holding

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Time's up! The correct answer was forceps

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19th CENTURY POLITICIANS

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As Territories Committee chair, this Midwest senator helped draw the borders of 7 territories, including Kansas & Nebraska

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Time's up! The correct answer was Stephen Douglas

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A WHITE CATEGORY

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The mass of a typical one of these stars is about 70% that of the sun

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Time's up! The correct answer was white dwarf

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TEENS IN HISTORY

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Betrothed as a teen to her creepy cousin in 1744, she later became a "Great" empress of Russia

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

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IT BORDERS INDIA

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On its extreme east, India borders this nation that changed its name following a coup in 1989

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Time's up! The correct answer was Myanmar

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MIXED DRINKS

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The juice of one of these citrus fruits makes a Whiskey Sour sour

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Time's up! The correct answer was a lemon

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FOOD ETYMOLOGY

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Keith Downey developed rapeseed into this cooking product, now a huge cash crop for farmers in Saskatchewan

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Time's up! The correct answer was canola

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THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

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The church funds worldwide good works by this contribution of 10% of members' incomes

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Time's up! The correct answer was a tithe

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DEFENESTRATION IN CINEMA

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Movie in which Axel Foley asks, "where ...you get off arresting me for being thrown out a window?"

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

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ALBUMS THAT ROCK

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"Beggars Banquet", "Steel Wheels"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Rolling Stones

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HITCHCOCK

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Jessica Tandy finds a farmer dead, his eyes gouged out, in this 1963 thriller

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Birds

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ANY FIRST WORDS?

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An adjective meaning "first", or a letter like "F" in F. Murray Abraham

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Time's up! The correct answer was an initial

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OH, "BOY"

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It was founded by Baden-Powell in 1907

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Boy Scouts

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EPONYMS

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This screw with a cross-slotted head (& the needed screwdriver) was invented by a Portland man in 1936

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Time's up! The correct answer was Phillips

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SNAP

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A snap fastener is simply a ball-and-this, like your hip joint

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Time's up! The correct answer was ball-and-socket

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WORD"Z"

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It's true! This city, the first colonial post in Mexico, was founded by Hernando Cortes in 1519

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Time's up! The correct answer was Veracruz

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FIRST LADIES' RHYME TIME

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Mrs. Bush's luminous radiations

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

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SCULPTURE

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This English sculptor made one of his reclining figures for the 1951 Festival of Britain

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Time's up! The correct answer was Henry Moore

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I WANT TO RIDE THAT!

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Six Flags Great America unleashed a roller coaster named for this bat-tastic 2008 blockbuster

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Dark Knight

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THE "BUTLER" DID IT

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In his 1872 novel "Erewhon", poverty is considered a crime

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Time's up! The correct answer was Samuel Butler

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NOTABLE NAMES

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His last direct descendant was a granddaughter, Elizabeth Hall, born to John & Susanna Hall in 1608

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Time's up! The correct answer was William Shakespeare

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IT BORDERS INDIA

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The disputed ownership of the Kashmir region is a sore spot between India & this smaller neighbor

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pakistan

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ANNUAL EVENTS

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Called the greatest 2 minutes in sports, it takes place on the first Saturday in May

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Kentucky Derby

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FLAGS OF THE WORLD

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It's the kingdom whose flag is seen here (Union Jack)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Great Britain/England

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THE 23rd PSALM

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"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside" these

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Time's up! The correct answer was still waters

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ALL GOD'S CRITTERS

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Males of this duck-billed mammal have poison spurs on each hind foot that can kill small animals

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Time's up! The correct answer was Platypus

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CORAL REEF LIFE

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It's a ring-shaped coral island surrounding a lagoon, like Bikini or Eniwetok

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Time's up! The correct answer was an atoll

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THE "X" FILES

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A shortened form of Christmas is spelled this way

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Time's up! The correct answer was Xmas

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WORLD WAR I

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What the Germans called the Siegfried Line, the Allies called this, after a famous German general of the war

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Hindenburg Line

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ASTROLOGY

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The masculine signs are the air signs, including Gemini, & these signs, which include Leo

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Time's up! The correct answer was fire signs

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CINEMA OF "BLOOD"

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The Coen brothers debuted with this murderous Texas noir tale

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Time's up! The correct answer was Blood Simple

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BEFORE THEY WERE FIRST LADIES

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She was president (Natl. Pres. of the Girl Scouts, that is) in the 1920s while her husband was merely Secy. of Commerce

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hoover

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ROUGH POLITICS

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On Aug. 5, 1994 he was named independent counsel in the Whitewater affair

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Time's up! The correct answer was Kenneth Starr

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WHEN IN ROME?

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Mussolini becomes prime minister: this decade

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Time's up! The correct answer was the 1920s

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GEOLOGY

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The Mercalli scale measures the intensity of these from I to XII

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Time's up! The correct answer was earthquakes

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GENERAL SCIENCE

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This tiny planet's thin atmosphere is mostly composed of helium & sodium thought to come from the solar wind

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mercury

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HEADLINES

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From the July 22, 1925 Knoxville Journal: This man "Declared Guilty"; "Bryan's Testimony Ordered Stricken"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Scopes

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UP IN THE AIR

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Pilots are leery of CAT, or clear-air this, which often occurs over mountains & around thunderstorms

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Time's up! The correct answer was turbulence

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FEELING "ANCY"

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Janet Leigh was sorry she found one of these at the Bates Motel

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Time's up! The correct answer was Vacancy

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ON THE RADIO

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Call letters east of the Mississippi generally start with W; in the west, most start with this

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Time's up! The correct answer was K

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BALLET

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French sculptor whose art inspired "The Eternal Idol" (hmmm...that's a "Thinker")

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Time's up! The correct answer was Auguste Rodin

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MILITARY UNITS

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Oliver Stone won an Oscar for his story about one of these title units in which he served in Vietnam

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Time's up! The correct answer was a platoon

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LIT MY FIRE

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The burning of Moscow after Napoleon's exit is dramatized in this Tolstoy novel

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Time's up! The correct answer was War and Peace

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COMPUTER JARGON

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"Egosurfing" means searching the net for this

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Time's up! The correct answer was your own name

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STATE SUPERLATIVES

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Considered the healthiest state in 2006, it's also home to the Mayo Clinic

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Time's up! The correct answer was Minnesota

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AMERICAN AUTHORS

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He stood 5'3" & was the subject of movies that came out in 2005 & 2006

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Time's up! The correct answer was Capote

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SPACE MISSIONS

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

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

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THE "BUTLER" DID IT

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The mission statement of this school says it's located "In...Indianapolis, one of America's most livable cities"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Butler University

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WORLD GEOGRAPHY

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It's the lowest, flattest & smallest continent

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Time's up! The correct answer was Australia

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GEOGRAPHY "E"

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It's the largest kingdom in the United Kingdom

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Time's up! The correct answer was England

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POLITICAL SLOGANS

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He railed against the “do-nothing 80th congress” during his whistle-stop campaign

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Time's up! The correct answer was Truman

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RUSSELING

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Republican John McCain and this Wisconsin Democrat co-sponsored a campaign finance reform bill

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Time's up! The correct answer was Russ Feingold

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OATS

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In 1877 Henry Seymour read about this religious group in an encyclopedia & named his oat company for them

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Time's up! The correct answer was Quakers

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THE MOVIES

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It was double trouble for this martial arts star playing twins in "Double Impact"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jean-Claude Van Damme

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COUNTIES BY STATE

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McDuffie, Meriwether, Macon

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Time's up! The correct answer was Georgia

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SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS

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The word "fashionable" came into vogue with Ulysses' speech to Achilles in this play

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Time's up! The correct answer was Troilus and Cressida

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EUROPE

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Geographic region within the Arctic Circle named for the people who call themselves the Sami

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lapland

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ANATOMY

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The pons connects the 2 hemispheres of this part of the brain that regulates balance

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Time's up! The correct answer was the cerebellum

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ART & ARTISTS

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He painted "Irises" & "Pink Roses" as well as "Sunflowers"

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

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SPEECH! SPEECH!

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Nicholas Butler told Columbia grads, "An expert is one who knows more and more about" this and this

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Time's up! The correct answer was less and less

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CROSSWORD CLUES "E"

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Count off one-by-one (9)

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Time's up! The correct answer was enumerate

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COMICS STRIP

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This Monty Python stalwart went the full monty in "A Fish Called Wanda"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cleese

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SOUNDS LIKE A RAPPER

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It's wack but ESPN dropped the downhill racing style of this type of bicycle from its X Games in 2004

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Time's up! The correct answer was BMX

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CIVIL WAR LITERATURE

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He drew on his wartime nursing experience for the poem "The Wound-Dresser"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Walt Whitman

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A VIOLENT CATEGORY

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A suit of cards represented by a trefoil

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Time's up! The correct answer was club

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TELEVISION

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This sitcom's last show of the '98-'99 season ended with the cast singing & dancing to "Brotherhood of Man"

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Drew Carey Show

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ABBREVIATED

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Sometimes you get extras with one of these: DVD

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Time's up! The correct answer was digital video disc

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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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OH, BEE GEE

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Barry Gibb was born in 1946; these 2 fraternal twins were born in 1949

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Time's up! The correct answer was Robin & Maurice

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MILITARY SLANG

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This 2-word term, also a movie title, is slang for Navy Fighter Weapons School

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Time's up! The correct answer was Top Gun

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HISTORIC NAMES

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This king died in 1760, leaving it to his grandson & successor to lose the American colonies

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Time's up! The correct answer was George II

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PRIME NUMBERS

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Boeing's answer in the early 1960s to the Douglas DC-9; it's good for medium hauls

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Time's up! The correct answer was 727

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WORLD GEOGRAPHY

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This country is named after the town of Oporto

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Time's up! The correct answer was Portugal

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DICTATORS & TYRANTS

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By murdering all his brothers around 1413, Mehmed I took power as the fifth ruler of this empire

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Ottoman Empire

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HISTORIC AMERICANS

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At the time of her 1937 disappearance she was married to publisher George Palmer Putnam

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Time's up! The correct answer was Amelia Earhart

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CODES

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On Jan. 20, 2009 a military officer carrying these codes came to the inauguration with Bush & left with Obama

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Time's up! The correct answer was the codes to release nuclear warheads

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BEFORE THEY WERE POPES

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Giovanni Ganganelli was educated by this teaching society; as Clement XIV, he suppressed it

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jesuits

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FLY COUNTRIES

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Iberia Airlines

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Time's up! The correct answer was Spain

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OSCARDS WILD

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Disney sued the Academy for "unflattering" use of this character after a 1989 duet with her & Rob Lowe

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Time's up! The correct answer was Snow White

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FATHER'S IN LAW

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As a non-partner who has a formal relationship with a firm, father is said to be "of" this to Bisbee, Pell & Bisbee

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Time's up! The correct answer was Counsel

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COVER ME!

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In 1965 Otis Redding took "Respect" to No. 35; 2 years later, her cover was No. 1

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Time's up! The correct answer was Aretha Franklin

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SPACE MISSIONS

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The MESSENGER craft is the first mission to explore this planet since mariner 10 in the 1970s

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mercury

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REAL ESTATE

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In 1947 the U.S. was given a 99-year one on Philippine military bases -- it was later shortened

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lease

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RADIO DISNEY

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Lead singer Ryan Tedder of this band has "All The Right Moves"

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Time's up! The correct answer was OneRepublic

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"COURT" BRIEFS

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Marsupial term for a self-appointed tribunal that parodies existing principles of law

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Time's up! The correct answer was a kangaroo court

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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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"IBLE"S & BITS

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Miller's witch-hunting play

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Crucible

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DIRECTED BUT DID NOT STAR

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"Ordinary People" (1980)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Robert Redford

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IN THE FIRE

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Since 1932 this brand has provided reliable flames for soldiers, campers & others

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Time's up! The correct answer was Zippo

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"J" WHIZ

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jerusalem

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A LA "CART"

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You can load it in your 8-track

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Time's up! The correct answer was acartridge

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ANCIENT COINS

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A Knossos coin of the 4th century B.C. had this creature on the front & a labyrinth on the reverse

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Time's up! The correct answer was Minotaur

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THE OLD TESTAMENT

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In the Book of Job, this name means "accuser", & that was his role in God's court

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Time's up! The correct answer was Satan

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MUSCAT LOVE

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Qaboos bin Said al Said rules from his palace in Muscat under this title that means "ruler" in Arabic

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Time's up! The correct answer was sultan

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BUSINESS & INDUSTRY

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In 1811 this German family began its steel-making business by constructing a plant in Essen

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Time's up! The correct answer was Krupp

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COMMON BONDS

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Fife, Rubble, Miller

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Time's up! The correct answer was Barney

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH

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Harlem had one of these literary & cultural rebirths in the '20s & '30s

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Time's up! The correct answer was renaissance

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THAT'S SO '90s

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Intel

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GOOD CAUSES

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The Andre Agassi foundation for education runs Agassi Prep in this city

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Time's up! The correct answer was Las Vegas

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BIRDS

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This falcon's name is from the Latin for "foreign" or "a foreigner"

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Time's up! The correct answer was peregrine

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SCIENTISTS

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This botanist was hailed as "The Wizard of Tuskegee"

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Time's up! The correct answer was George Washington Carver

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FAMILIAR SAYINGS

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It's a poor workman who blames these

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Time's up! The correct answer was tools

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NATIONS OF AFRICA

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In a song title, this country whose capital is Nairobi might come before "Feel the Love Tonight"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Kenya

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BABY NAMES A LA SHAKESPEARE

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Name a girl this after the "Merchant of Venice" heroine & she'll probably grow up to like fast sports cars

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Time's up! The correct answer was Portia

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CENTRAL PARK

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Cleopatra's Needle is a short walk from this Egyptian Temple in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Temple of Dendur

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MEDICAL TALK

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This term refers to the painful inflammation of any of the fibrous structures that connect muscles to bones

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Time's up! The correct answer was tendinitis

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TV STARS

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In 2001 this actress, Borg babe Seven of Nine on "Voyager", joined the cast of "Boston Public"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jeri Ryan

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LITERATURE

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He published his third novel, "A Cool Million", in 1934, one year after "Miss Lonelyhearts"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nathanael West

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YOU DO THE MATH

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The number of days in a week times the number of ancient "wonders of the world"

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Time's up! The correct answer was 49

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POETIC TERMS

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The sonnet originated in this country with such poets as Guitoni D'Arretzo

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Time's up! The correct answer was Italy

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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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SPORTS

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Named for a U.S. doubles champ, this cup is presented to the winner of a 16-team men's tennis tourney

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Time's up! The correct answer was Davis Cup

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CZECH, PLEASE

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For poetry that eschews all "dogmas & dictates", Jaroslav Seifert won this in 1984

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Nobel Prize

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BIOLOGY

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Of the 4, blood group of the universal recipient

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Time's up! The correct answer was AB

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STUPID ANSWERS

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Whole number equidistant from 5 & 7

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Time's up! The correct answer was 6

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SOMETHING'S FISHY

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Less than half an inch long, this tiniest fish is found in the Indian Ocean, not in an Asian desert

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Time's up! The correct answer was a goby

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NOW YOU'RE TALKING MY LANGUAGE

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The official language of Niger, it's a remnant of its colonial times

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Time's up! The correct answer was French

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CLOTHING WORDS

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To lose footing on icy ground

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Time's up! The correct answer was slip

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FOOD FACTS

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The "pearl" type of this is served as a vegetable or pickled & used as a condiment

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Time's up! The correct answer was an onion

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EVERYBODY LOVES RAY

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This pulp author was past 50 when he wrote his first novel, "The Big Sleep"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Raymond Chandler

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TELEVISION

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In 1999 an ABC sitcom dropped "a Pizza Place" from its name, which changed to this

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Time's up! The correct answer was Two Guys and a Girl

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IT ENDS WITH "US"

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He killed the minotaur

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Time's up! The correct answer was Theseus

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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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HOLD THE MAYO CLINIC

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The Mayo Clinic was started in Rochester in this state

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Time's up! The correct answer was Minnesota

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MARK TWAIN SEZ

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In an essay, Twain said surely no language is "so slip-shod & systemless" as this one he called "awful"

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Time's up! The correct answer was German

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ART & ARTISTS

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Andre Breton anagrammed this surrealist's name as "Avida Dollars"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Salvador Dali

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"TABLE"S

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To reverse the situation & gain the upper hand

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Time's up! The correct answer was Turn the Tables

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TV STARS

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Putting the Goth in "American Gothic", this rocker & his family starred in a hit MTV reality show in 2002

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ozzy Osbourne

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FAMOUS LLOYDS

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In 1953 he orginated the role of Captain Queeg in "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" on Broadway

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lloyd Nolan

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IT ENDS WITH "US"

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Bridges over this strait connect Asia to Europe

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bosphorus

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MR. TEA

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Jacob

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POETIC TERMS

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16th century poet who perfected in "The Faerie Queene" the stanza named for him

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Time's up! The correct answer was Edmund Spenser

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WOLVERINE

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During the winter, wolverines hunt caribou & this animal of the genus Rangifer; Santa's gonna be mad

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Time's up! The correct answer was reindeer

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THE FORTUNE 500

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At No. 9, this printer-heavy co. from Palo Alto had the biggest payroll bump after acquiring 149,000 EDS workers

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Time's up! The correct answer was HP

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LITERATURE

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Completes the title of Eldridge Cleaver's 1968 memoir "Soul on..."

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ice

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KIDDY LIT

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In this poem, the hero is instructed to shun the frumious Bandersnatch

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jabberwocky

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COUNTRY MUSIC

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Though his last name means "pertaining to a city", this "Defying Gravity" singer is a country superstar

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Time's up! The correct answer was Keith Urban

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SCIENCE CLASS

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(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Colorado) As snowflakes are frozen water vapor, they're made up of these 2 chemical elements

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Time's up! The correct answer was hydrogen & oxygen

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DRAMA

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In Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy", Joe Bonaparte gives up the violin for this sport

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Time's up! The correct answer was Boxing

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BOB DYLAN CHRONICLES

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

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

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BASEBALL

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In 1972 owner Bob Short moved this team to Arlington, TX . where it became the Texas Rangers

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Time's up! The correct answer was Washington Senators

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MOVIE TRIVIA

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In his best English Bronx accent he cried "Yonder lies the castle of my father"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tony Curtis

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IT SOUNDS LIKE

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It sounds like the kind of personality most likely to have a heart attack in the capital of Taiwan

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Time's up! The correct answer was Taipei

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NEWMAN'S OWN

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Newman played Irish mob boss John Rooney in Depression-era Chicago in this 2002 film

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Time's up! The correct answer was Road to Perdition

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GREECE

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The popular dish moussaka is layers of ground meat & this vegetable

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Time's up! The correct answer was eggplant

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FIGURE SKATERS

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In 1986 she became the 1st black woman to win the World Championship of Figure Skating

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Time's up! The correct answer was Debbie Thomas

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47

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These 2 tropic lines, north & south of the equator, are 47 degrees apart

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cancer & Capricorn

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GENERAL INFORMATION

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This general, first in his class at West Point, ran for president in 2004

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wesley Clark

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BROADWAY

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Inspired by classical myths, "Metamorphosis" tells of Orpheus, Alcyone & this king with the "golden touch"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Midas

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TRAVEL & TOURISM

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Jomo Kenyatta International Airport serves this world capital

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nairobi, Kenya

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TURN OF THE CENTURY MOVIES

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Policeman Ichabod Crane is sent to a small town to investigate a series of decapitations

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sleepy Hollow

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SCIENCE

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In metric measurement, 10 millimeters equal 1 of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was a centimeter

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THAT'S SOME NERVE

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The first cranial nerve, it's responsible for the sense of smell

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Time's up! The correct answer was the olfactory nerve

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BROADWAY TEENS

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Brooke Shields & Lucy Lawless played Rizzo in the '90s revival of this rockin' high school musical

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Time's up! The correct answer was Grease

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CELEBRITY RHYME TIME

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Cattrall's rooms for hot, sweaty workouts

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Time's up! The correct answer was Kim's gyms

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THE SILVER SCREEN

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hannibal Lecter

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DOUGH

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Chile uses this basic unit of currency

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Time's up! The correct answer was a peso

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KIDDY LIT

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This title flute player's "queer long coat from heel to head Was half of yellow & half of red"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Pied Piper of Hamelin

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AROUND THE APARTMENT BUILDING

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When painting a room, put this on as the first coat; it's spelled like a book that teaches reading

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Time's up! The correct answer was primer

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"NEVER" AT THE MOVIES

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The 2 James Bond films that have "Never" in the title

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Time's up! The correct answer was Never Say Never Again & Tomorrow Never Dies

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TONY-WINNING COMPOSERS

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1949: "Kiss Me, Kate"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cole Porter

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NEW WEAPONS

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The "Storm Shadow" is a new British version of this type of low-altitude, radar-evading missile

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Time's up! The correct answer was a cruise missile

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CELEBRITY MARRIAGES

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Carrie Leigh hopped out of this man's mansion & married an antique dealer, quick as a bunny

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hugh Hefner

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PROVERBS

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"You can't make a silk purse" out of this

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Time's up! The correct answer was a sow's ear

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BRITISH ROYAL HOUSES

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James I

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Time's up! The correct answer was Stuart

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INLETS

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Faxa Bay in the North Atlantic is between this country's Snaefells & Reykjanes peninsulas

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Time's up! The correct answer was Iceland

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THE NEW CAR LOT

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This company's '99 Quest minivan & Mercury's '99 Villager -- same thing

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nissan

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INDEPENDENCE DAYS

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This North European country marks December 6 for its 1917 independence from Russia

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Time's up! The correct answer was Finland

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AMERICAN HISTORY

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On April 20, 1971 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld this transportation method as a way to achieve school integration

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Time's up! The correct answer was busing

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SO YOU WANT TO BE A 19th CENTURY HEROINE

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If you have this adjective before your name, like Nell or Eva, don't bother planning for your old age

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Time's up! The correct answer was Little

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ROLLING STONE'S 100 GREATEST GUITARISTS

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His "Smooth" guitar strains earned him a place at No. 15

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Time's up! The correct answer was Carlos Santana

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"V" IS FOR

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...this third-largest city of Spain, famous for its oranges

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Time's up! The correct answer was Valencia

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ROCK & ROLL FRONTMEN

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Anthony Kiedis

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

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ANCIENT TIMES

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The ancient Ban Chiang poetry of Thailand resembles that of this country's neolithic Yang-Shao period

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Time's up! The correct answer was China

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ANATOMY

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The only mobile bone of the face

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mandible

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DANCE IN THE DICTIONARY

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Our team won 55-0--you could call it this 19th century African-American dance

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Time's up! The correct answer was a cakewalk

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ROLLING STONE'S 100 GREATEST GUITARISTS

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Who was No. 50? This Who guitarist, that's who

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pete Townshend

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RUSSELING

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"Stargate" star who's Goldie Hawn's longtime companion

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Time's up! The correct answer was Kurt Russell

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"KNIFE", "FORK" OR "SPOON"

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A diver bends in midair to touch the toes before entering the water in this dive

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jackknife

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NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES

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On Sept. 9, 1974 news fit to print included the pardon of this man & "Knievel Safe As Rocket Falls"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Richard Nixon

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MUSCAT LOVE

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Qaboos bin Said al Said rules from his palace in Muscat under this title that means "ruler" in Arabic

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Time's up! The correct answer was sultan

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POLITICAL SLOGANS

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He railed against the “do-nothing 80th congress” during his whistle-stop campaign

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Time's up! The correct answer was Truman

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EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT IT...

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The city of Yuma in this state has a record average of 4,055 hours of sunshine each year

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Time's up! The correct answer was Arizona

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WORLD AUTHORS

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In a 1605 prologue, this Spaniard tells the reader that he has written an "invective against books of chivalry"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cervantes

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SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES

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Near the end of "Henry VIII", this princess is described as "a most unspotted lily", who will die a virgin

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Time's up! The correct answer was Elizabeth I

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THE DE NIRO CODE

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In this 1976 movie: "Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Taxi Driver

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47

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These 2 tropic lines, north & south of the equator, are 47 degrees apart

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cancer & Capricorn

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BASEBALL HISTORY

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In a June 19, 1846 game, J.W. Davis of the N.Y. Nine was fined 6 cents for swearing at this person

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Time's up! The correct answer was the umpire

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TV MINISERIES

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You could call Henry Thomas Ishmael & Patrick Stewart Ahab in this 1998 miniseries

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Time's up! The correct answer was Moby Dick

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OSCAR NIGHT 2003

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For "Talk to Her", he became the first man in over 30 years to win with a screenplay in a foreign language

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pedro Almodovar

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ANNUAL EVENTS

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Secretary of State William H. Seward is honored on the last Monday in March in this state

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alaska

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ACTORS WHO DIRECT

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"Million Dollar Baby" & "Unforgiven"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Clint Eastwood

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MUNICH

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In the 16th century, Munich was a center of the German phase of this movement against Protestantism

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Counter-Reformation

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OLYMPIC POTPOURRI

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En Garde! Women have competed in this Olympic sport since 1924

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Time's up! The correct answer was Fencing

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WORMS

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The name of this red shade is from the Latin for "worm"; the dye was first made from cochineal insects

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Time's up! The correct answer was vermillion

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1933

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The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 established this corporation that guarantees the savings of bank customers

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Time's up! The correct answer was FDIC

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ORGANIZATIONS

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Members of the DAR are descended from men & women who participated in this event

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

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WORD ORIGINS

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Originally a brand applied to slaves & criminals, it has come to mean a mark of disgrace

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Time's up! The correct answer was a stigma

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MISSING LINKS

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Mobile ____ Economics

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Time's up! The correct answer was home

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"TEEN" SCENE

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Golfing "hole" with a bar (where you can't go), or the amendment granting women's suffrage

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Time's up! The correct answer was 19th

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SATURDAY NIGHT ON THE TOWN

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Beer lovers head for the beer halls of this Bavarian city, the birthplace of Oktoberfest

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Time's up! The correct answer was Munich

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MAGNETO

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Logically enough, this planet has the strongest magnetic field of any planet in our solar system

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jupiter

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ROYALTY

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This dreaded czar who died in 1584 was probably the most famous member of the Rurik dynasty

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ivan The Terrible

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WORDS OF LOVE

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He concludes "The Divine Comedy" with "The love that moves the sun and the other stars"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dante

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LITERARY FIRST LINES

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1843: "Marley was dead: to begin with"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "A Christmas Carol"

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ARTISTS' RETREATS

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The colony bearing this single name features a barn poet Edna built from a Sears kit

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Time's up! The correct answer was Millay

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DRIVING

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The following sound indicates a vehicle in this gear

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Time's up! The correct answer was reverse

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BACKWARDS

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In psychology it's the process of reverting to an earlier, childlike form of behavior

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Time's up! The correct answer was regression

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COUNTRY MUSIC

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In 2010 this movie soundtrack featuring Jeff Bridges was a Billboard Top 10 country album

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Time's up! The correct answer was Crazy Heart

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PARENT & CHILD NOBEL WINNERS

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Last name of father & son Niels & Aage, who both won the Nobel Prize in Physics; Aage was born the year his dad won

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bohr

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BOB DYLAN CHRONICLES

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"I got a head full of ideas that are drivin' me insane. It's a shame the way she makes me scrub the floor"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Maggie's Farm"

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ALL ABOARD THE SOUL TRAIN

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To gain better production values, "Soul Train" was moved from this city to Los Angeles

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Time's up! The correct answer was Chicago

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THAT OLD "BLACK" MAGIC

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Yo-ho, yo-ho! His real name was believed to be Edward Teach

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Time's up! The correct answer was Blackbeard

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"ROCK"Y

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Also called halite, this common mineral can be formed by the drying of enclosed bodies of seawater

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Time's up! The correct answer was rock salt

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"PIN" ME

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Someone who steps up to the plate for a teammate

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pinch hitter

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UNFORESEEN FINDS

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In 1879 this was discovered when a scientist's food was found to be sweet from the residue of a coal tar experiment

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Time's up! The correct answer was saccharin

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JERSEY GIRLS

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Doing laundry in the sink, this "Jersey Shore" girl aka Nicole Polizzi said, "I feel like a pilgrim from the friggin' '20s"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Snooki

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"ANT" INFESTATION

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From the Latin for "delight", this is someone who takes delight in dabbling in the arts

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Time's up! The correct answer was dilettante

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CAMERA

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The names of TV cameras & videocassette recorders are combined in this device

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