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Time's up! The correct answer was Cracker Jack

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CHEKHOV, PLEASE

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An 1888 collection of Chekhov's stories won him the prize named for this writer & compatriot

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pushkin

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SELLERS

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[Hi, I'm Jeff Bezos, founder & CEO of Amazon.com] It's estimated that 60% of net shoppers flag an average of 7 sites with one of these, also used in products we sell

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bookmarks

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FLOPS

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Roger Ebert called this 1980 Michael Cimino film "Painful & unpleasant to look at"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Heaven's Gate

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DRAMA

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lillian Hellman

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AUTHORS

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During WWII this "Gone with the Wind" author was an American Red Cross volunteer & sold war bonds

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mitchell

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INTERNATIONAL CUISINE

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To enjoy this national Swiss dish, you'd better like cheese, lots of it, melted in wine

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Time's up! The correct answer was fondue

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RUSSIAN

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A shapka is this: mikhavaya shapka is a fur one, to keep your ears warm

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Time's up! The correct answer was a hat

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SPORTS

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(I'm Hall of Fame running back Tony Dorsett) This man was my coach for my first 11 seasons in the NFL

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tom Landry

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HABEAS CORPSES

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This 19th century philosopher's body has been very utilitarian; it's on display at a university in London

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jeremy Bentham

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KIDS IN SPORTS

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The perfect waves of New Zealand's Piha Beach were the site for the 2010 World Junior Championships of this

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Time's up! The correct answer was surfing

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DEAR JUNTA

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In 1998 Nigerian-led forces captured Freetown, ousting the junta that controlled this African country

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sierra Leone

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YOUNG WOMEN OF TODAY

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Though her name means "wolf", this basketball star was another canine in college -- a U. Conn. Husky

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rebecca Lobo

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MY NAME IS EARL WARREN

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

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

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NURSERY RHYMES

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"I had a little hobby-horse and it was dapple gray; its head was made of pea-straw, its tail was made of" this

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Time's up! The correct answer was hay

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STORYTELLERS

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"Call him" the narrator of "Moby Dick"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ishmael

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KILLER MUSICALS

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Billy Bigelow kills himself after a botched hold-up in this Rodgers & Hammerstein classic

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

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AYE! IT'S IRELAND

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Held each year in County Kildare, the Irish Derby is a famous event in this sport

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Time's up! The correct answer was Horse racing

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SONG LYRICS

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John Denver's 2-word description of West Virginia in the 1st line of "Take Me Home, Country Roads"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Almost Heaven

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WORLD HODGEPODGE

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On Dutch maps, this country is called Oostenrijk

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Time's up! The correct answer was Austria

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THAT'S ITALIAN!

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These thin tubes of pasta, Italian for "bridegrooms", are often baked

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Time's up! The correct answer was ziti

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THE HUMAN BODY

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When this organ churns & makes perisstaltic waves, some people say it's "growling"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Stomach

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20th CENTURY INVENTION

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In 1983 the first U.S. commercial call on one of these was from Chicago to a descendant of Bell in Germany

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cellular phone

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FLEETS

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The Black Sea fleet in dispute between Russia & Ukraine is based at this Crimean port

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sevastopol

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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

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Co-capitals: La Paz & Sucre

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bolivia

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NATIONAL MONUMENTS

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George Custer's men are buried in a cemetery in the national monument named for this river

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Time's up! The correct answer was Little Bighorn

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WAR STORIES

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"A Walk in the Sun", "They Were Expendable"

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Time's up! The correct answer was World War II

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ENGLAND, SCOTLAND OR WALES

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The largest in area of the 3

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Time's up! The correct answer was England

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AIRLINE TRAVEL

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mall

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ESOTERIC KNOWLEDGE

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The Houses of Lancaster & York used different colored types of these flowers as their symbols

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Time's up! The correct answer was Roses

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REEL MOTHERS

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Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch & Harvey Keitel play this title trio in a movie about an ambulance service

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mother, Jugs & Speed

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UNOFFICIAL STATE NICKNAMES

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Because of the way it was formed, Louisiana is sometimes called "The Child of" this river

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mississippi

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LIBRARIES

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Architect Gordon Bunshaft designed this presidential library in Austin, Texas

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Time's up! The correct answer was the LBJ library

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MEDICINE

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The name of this branch of pediatrics that deals with newborn infants literally means "newborn study"

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Time's up! The correct answer was neonatal

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ANIMAL RHYME TIME

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A fake small horse

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Time's up! The correct answer was phony pony

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EUROPEAN HISTORY

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He filed for divorce citing Leviticus 20:21, "If a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Henry VIII

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MY NAME IS EARL WARREN

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On June 23, 1969 I swore in this man as Chief Justice of the U.S.

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Time's up! The correct answer was Warren Burger

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CZECH, PLEASE

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

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

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HOW'S THE WEATHER?

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The forecast is cloudy with a 30% chance of these, characterized by the sudden start & stop of light rainfall

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Time's up! The correct answer was showers

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ISLANDS

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This group of islands off the northern coast of France was the only British soil occupied by the Germans in WWII

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Channel Islands

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MR. MOVIES

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"Mr. Pennypacker", "Mr. Scoutmaster", and "Mr. Belvedere" are some of his title characters

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Time's up! The correct answer was Clifton Webb

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY

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When the Russians owned Alaska, they referred to this tall peak as Bolshaya Gora

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

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FEDERAL AID PROGRAMS

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State with the highest average monthly food stamp benefit per person; at over $100, that's a lot of poi

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hawaii

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SCULPTURE

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In 1953 sculptor William Zorach created the relief "Man and Work" for this Rochester, Minnesota clinic

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Mayo Clinic

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MODERN "TIME"S

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To own a property jointly with others & use it in common but at different times

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Time's up! The correct answer was Time-share

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ROCK WITH YOU

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Quit your yellin' & name this 1995 hit duet for Michael & Janet Jackson, their first together

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

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RULERS IN HISTORY

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Born in 1672 & named for a saint, in 1703 he founded a city whose name represents both of them

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

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SCIENCE GUYS

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In 1855 Napoleon III "swung" a deal arranging for his appointment as physicist at the Paris Observatory

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jean Foucault

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COMMON ABBREVIATIONS

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All things considered, NPR is this popular listening place

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Time's up! The correct answer was National Public Radio

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CONGRESSIONAL MISDEMEANORS

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In 1811 Senator Thomas Pickering was censured for reading aloud from secret documents about this purchase

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Time's up! The correct answer was Louisiana

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THE YEAR IN SPORTS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was 1960

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PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS

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As a youth, this "Iceman Cometh" dramatist prospected for gold in Honduras

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Time's up! The correct answer was Eugene O'Neill

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NATURE

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Often found clinging to rocks, limpids are a type of this mollusk

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Time's up! The correct answer was snails

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NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY

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With a flood control system, the Red River no longer flows into this river, just into the Atchafalaya

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Mississippi

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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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AFRICANA

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In 2000 Durban in this country hosted the 13th International AIDS Conference & the first held on the continent

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Time's up! The correct answer was South Africa

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CENTRAL PARK

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What's now officially called the Central Park Wildlife Center is probably better-known by this name

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Time's up! The correct answer was the zoo

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MICHAEL JACKSON HITS IN OTHER WORDS

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1987: "Naughty"

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

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OH, BEE GEE

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Though never a Bee Gee, this other brother had 3 No. 1 singles & hosted "Solid Gold"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Andy Gibb

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WORLD GEOGRAPHY

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Administrative units in this country include Giza, Aswan & Suez

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Time's up! The correct answer was Egypt

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COUNTRIES THAT END IN "O"

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This nation has been ruled by the Grimaldi royal family since the 14th century

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Time's up! The correct answer was Monaco

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BALLET

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This Spanish seducer is attacked by furies at the end of a 1936 ballet

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Time's up! The correct answer was Don Juan

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MOVIE DEBUTS

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This son of Colleen Dewhurst & George C. Scott debuted in the 1988 film "Five Corners"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Campbell Scott

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THE LIVING PLANET

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Able to lift 850 times its own weight, the strongest animal is the rhinoceros type of this insect

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Time's up! The correct answer was beetle

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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

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From the Greek "psallein", to pluck, we get this plucked type of zither that's mentioned in the Bible

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Time's up! The correct answer was Psalterion

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BIBLE BOOK BINDINGS

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Losing ___ Washington

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Time's up! The correct answer was Isiah

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COMMON BONDS

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Roofs, halos, quantum mechanics

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Time's up! The correct answer was things that are over my head

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PARDON MY "FRENCH"

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In a French restaurant, they're called pommes frites

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Time's up! The correct answer was French fries

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ANIMALS

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The silver dollar fish resembles this feared fish of the Amazon basin but is strictly herbivorous

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Time's up! The correct answer was Piranha

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& NOW THE "END" IS NEAR

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The opposite of diminuendo is this music term, a gradual increase in loudness

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Time's up! The correct answer was crescendo

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WHAT'S YOUR BEEF?

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It's the French name for boeuf braised in red wine, usually garnished with mushrooms & white onions

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Time's up! The correct answer was bœuf bourguignon

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EDIBLES INSTANT REPLAY REVIEW

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This notoriously smelly cheese whose last U.S. maker is in Monroe, Wisconsin was fumbled on aisle 3

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Time's up! The correct answer was Limburger

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FROM T TO SHINING T

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Elephants call each other with this instrument (but not literally, except maybe at Ringling Bros.)

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Time's up! The correct answer was a trumpet

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MUSEUMS

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Barry Goldwater donated his Kachina doll collection to the Heard Museum in this state capital

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Time's up! The correct answer was Phoenix

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"PU"

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The third of these wars wiped Carthage off the map, though it was later rebuilt

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Punic Wars

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JUST PLANE GEOMETRY

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In the 3rd century B.C., this "Father of geometry" taught at the Museum, an institute in Alexandria, Egypt

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Time's up! The correct answer was Euclid

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EUROPEAN HISTORY

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He filed for divorce citing Leviticus 20:21, "If a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Henry VIII

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BUSY AS A BEAVER

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As a boy Joe Namath had a dam good time growing up strong in this Pennsylvania city

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Time's up! The correct answer was Beaver Falls

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CURRENT BLACK PRESIDENTS

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Africa's oldest democracy, this nation headed by Pres. Ian Khama is mainly made up of the Tswana people

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Time's up! The correct answer was Botswana

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MEDIEVAL MUSIC

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In 950 this instrument in Winchester Cathedral needed 70 men to work the bellows

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Time's up! The correct answer was Organ

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SHAKESPEARE

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Macduff tells us, "Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd in evils to top" this man

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Macbeth

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THE JEFFERSON ADMINISTRATION

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In 1805 U.S. Marines stormed the shores of this Barbary state at Derna, helping to end the raids on American ships

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tripoli

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THE CONTINENTS

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In 1957 countries on this continent signed a treaty creating an economic community, or common market

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Time's up! The correct answer was Europe

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TREES & SHRUBS

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This shrub produces clusters appropriately called catkins said to resemble kittens climbing up the twig

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Time's up! The correct answer was a pussy willow

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ONE-WORD RHYMES

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An important person, perhaps with an elaborate toupee

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Time's up! The correct answer was bigwig

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NEWS ON THE MARCH

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Nationalists from this Commonwealth attacked the U.S. Capitol March 1, 1954, injuring 5 representatives

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Time's up! The correct answer was Puerto Rico

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SPOUSE IN COMMON

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Ursula Andress, Linda Evans

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Derek

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BODIES OF WATER

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After a 1,750-mile trip from Germany, this river breaks into 3 branches in Romania before emptying into the Black Sea

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Danube

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THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS

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To prepare for war, "dig up" this ax; when you've made peace, you bury it again

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Time's up! The correct answer was the hatchet

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HARRISON FORD MOVIES

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"I didn't kill my wife!"

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Fugitive

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THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL

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"Law & Order" actor Bratt

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Time's up! The correct answer was Benjamin

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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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TECHNOLOGY

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C. Vanderbilt thought George Westinghouse's idea of stopping a train by this means a fool notion

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Time's up! The correct answer was the air brake

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LET'S GET MAS*Hed

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The colonel & lt. colonel who were the 4077th's commanding officers

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lt. Col. Henry Blake & Col. Sherman Potter

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THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED

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August 16, 1977 in Memphis, Tennessee

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Time's up! The correct answer was Elvis Presley

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MAYORS

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In New Orleans' first post-Katrina mayoral election, this man held on to his job

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nagin

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NATIONAL MONUMENTS

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George Custer's men are buried in a cemetery in the national monument named for this river

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Time's up! The correct answer was Little Bighorn

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PEN NAMES

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Dublin-born playwright John Casey changed his name to this, which sounds more Irish

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sean O' Casey

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THE USA

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At an altitude of about 10,200 feet, this Colorado city is the highest incorporated city in the USA

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Time's up! The correct answer was Leadville

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AYE! IT'S IRELAND

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Held each year in County Kildare, the Irish Derby is a famous event in this sport

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Time's up! The correct answer was Horse racing

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FIRE!

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The Bank of America is around today because A.P. Giannini saved its currency from this city's 1906 fire

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Time's up! The correct answer was San Francisco

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QUOTATIONS

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This talk show host said, "I admire, respect & adore authors" when she was honored for her book club

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Time's up! The correct answer was Oprah

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ANNIVERSARY GIFTS

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It's a nice gift for the 35th, but if you take it out of a U.S. reef you may be arrested

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Time's up! The correct answer was Coral

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U.S. CITIES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Baltimore

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DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME

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You have to have permission to do this in a barrel since someone died doing it in 1951

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Time's up! The correct answer was Going over Niagara Falls

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"CH"ILL OUT!

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Don't squawk if you're accused of having illegible handwriting, aka this

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Time's up! The correct answer was chicken scratches

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MOVIE MUSICALS

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As the master of ceremonies, this actor was the only one to reprise his stage role in 1972's "Cabaret"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Joel Grey

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INTERNATIONAL SPORTSMEN

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Vladimir Samsonov is touted as Europe's only hope against China in this game

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ping-pong

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THE ICU

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A neonatal ICU may contain several isolettes, a type of this chamber

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Time's up! The correct answer was Incubator

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NEWMAN'S OWN

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1969 film in which Paul Newman tells Robert Redford, "Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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ON THE GO

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The Wright Bros.' experiments in this type of chamber in their bicycle shop led to designs of their flyer's wings

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Time's up! The correct answer was wind tunnel

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FRANCIS SCOTT KEY

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Sent to this city in September 1814 to secure a prisoner exchange, Key got stuck near there during an attack

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Time's up! The correct answer was Baltimore

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THE ASSASSIN'S VICTIM

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44 B.C.: Casca & company

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Time's up! The correct answer was Julius Caesar

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STATES OF THE UNION

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Its near islands are farthest from its mainland; Kodiak is closer

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alaska

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THE PLANETS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jupiter

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AFRICANA

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In 2000 Durban in this country hosted the 13th International AIDS Conference & the first held on the continent

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Time's up! The correct answer was South Africa

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& GO TO "BED"

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Kidded & teased (like Adam did to Eve, perhaps?)

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Time's up! The correct answer was ribbed

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DOUBLE MEANINGS

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I know Mike _____ his expense account, but I can't believe he'd steal legal _____ from the conference room

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Time's up! The correct answer was pads

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SIMILES

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Something that turns out well "comes up smelling like" these flowers

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Time's up! The correct answer was roses

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HIT TUNES

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"Angel", "Building A Mystery"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sarah McLachlan

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AUTHORS

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This author's home where he wrote "To Have And Have Not" is now a nat'l landmark in Key West, Fla.

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ernest Hemingway

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CELEBRITY RHYME TIME

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Harrelson's yummies

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Time's up! The correct answer was Woody's goodies

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ORDINAL NUMBER, PLEASE

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It's where Washington was in war, in peace & in the hearts of his countrymen

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Time's up! The correct answer was First

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BARD BITS

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Mark Antony called him "the noblest Roman of them all"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Brutus

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AMERICAN HISTORY

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

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

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SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT THE MOVIES

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He played Cameron Poe, an almost-paroled convict thwarting an escape attempt in "Con Air"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nicolas Cage

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HISTORIC NAMES

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AP's chief Mideast correspondent, he got a firsthand look as a Beirut hostage for nearly 7 years

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Time's up! The correct answer was Terry Anderson

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NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES

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Although its name means "place of sandflies", we associate this Pennsylvania borough with groundhogs

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Time's up! The correct answer was Punxsutawney

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THE 20th CENTURY

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On Feb. 20, 1962 the destroyer USS Noa found him floating in the Atlantic after a journey of 75,679 miles

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Glenn

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THE GIANTS

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1 Samuel 17 informs us that the Philistine city of Gath was the home of this giant

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Time's up! The correct answer was Goliath

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3-LETTER THE BETTER

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Saturated

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Time's up! The correct answer was wet

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MYTHELLANEOUS

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The mythical Sumerian hero Utnapishtim built a big vessel at God's urging & thereby survived this catastrophe

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Time's up! The correct answer was a flood

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LITERATURE

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

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

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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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TELEVISION

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The pilot of this show, set in North Carolina, played as part of "The Danny Thomas Show" in 1960

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Andy Griffith Show

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2-LETTER WORDS

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In British slang this word alone means thank you; 2 together means good-bye

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Time's up! The correct answer was ta

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GEOGRAPHY "E"

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This island in the South Pacific is named for the day of its discovery, a religious holiday

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Time's up! The correct answer was Easter Island

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PARDON MY "FRENCH"

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They're formed by folding back & fastening a wide band at the end of a sleeve

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Time's up! The correct answer was French cuffs

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THE SECOND...

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...Sherlock Holmes novel published

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Sign of Four

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THEIR 4th TOP 40 HIT OF THE '60s

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1967: "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Neil Diamond

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JUAN

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Days out of prison in 1945, he married Maria Eva Duarte; we now know her as Evita

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Time's up! The correct answer was Juan Peron

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SYMPHONIES ON FILM

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The 1934 drama "The Unfinished Symphony" was director Anthony Asquith's tribute to this Austrian composer

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Time's up! The correct answer was Shubert

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ALL "AMERICAN"

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When Iowa farmers & their wives first saw this 1930 painting of a farm couple, many of them were downright angry

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Time's up! The correct answer was American Gothic

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ACTORS WHO DIRECT

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"The Pledge" & "Into the Wild"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sean Penn

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IT HAD TO "BU"

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Any dry red table wine may be called this even if it doesn't come from the French region of the same name

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Time's up! The correct answer was Burgundy

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BIRDS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Africa

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THE MOVIES

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Julia Ormond was the chauffeur's daughter in love with a rich playboy in this 1995 update of a 1954 classic

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sabrina

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LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER

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

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

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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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NUTRITION

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It's good to break a little this between friends--it supplies carbs & fiber

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Time's up! The correct answer was bread

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THE ASSASSIN'S VICTIM

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1881: Charles Guiteau

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Time's up! The correct answer was James Garfield

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MUSEUMS

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The Whizstreet "Up In Smoke" Museum is a web site exhibiting the art of these colorful cigar items

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cigar bands

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THAT'S NO LADY...

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was RosieGrier

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OATS

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While the terms are used interchangeably, groats are usually more coarsely ground than these

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Time's up! The correct answer was Grits

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THE BIBLE

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God instructed Noah to use this kind of wood to build the ark

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Time's up! The correct answer was gopher wood

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"IBLE"S & BITS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was legible

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CARIBBEAN TASTE TREATS

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Adventurous eaters in Grenada may dine on this burrowing mammal (it's best to remove the armor first)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Armadillo

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HOMOPHONES

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Quote an authority, or catch a glimpse of something

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Time's up! The correct answer was cite/sight

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TRAVEL & TOURISM

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The Cinderella Castle Mystery Tour is a highlight of this Asian city's Disneyland

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tokyo

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THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK AFTER...

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Numbers

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Time's up! The correct answer was Deuteronomy

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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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STATE SUPERLATIVES

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This state with the most people is home to the largest living tree

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Time's up! The correct answer was California

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THE "B.G."s

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A naval force made up of an aircraft carrier & support vessels

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Time's up! The correct answer was battle group

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MONEY SLANG

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You don't get 5 guesses at this winglike appendage to the underwater portion of a hull

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Time's up! The correct answer was a fin

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HAIR TODAY

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This 6-letter hairstyle is "business in front, party in the back"

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Time's up! The correct answer was a mullet

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FRANCE

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With its team led by Zinedine Zidane, France won this prestigious contest in July 1998

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Time's up! The correct answer was the World Cup

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5-LETTER WORDS

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It can mean "brief & forceful" or "resembling the inner core of a stem"

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Time's up! The correct answer was pithy

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"FOR" WORDS

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A college team might have to do this for games played with ineligible team members

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Time's up! The correct answer was forfeit

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LITERARY QUOTES

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Robert Louis Stevenson said, "Marriage is ..... a field of battle, and not a bed of" these

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Time's up! The correct answer was Roses

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LITERATURE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pearl Buck

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MESOPOTAMIA

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Mesopotamia stretched from the Taurus Mountains in the north to this gulf in the south

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Persian

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NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD

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Argentina & Brazil have national parks to preserve the wildlife & beauty of these extensive waterfalls

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Time's up! The correct answer was Iguazu Falls

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COMMON ABBREVIATIONS

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

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

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U.S. PRESIDENTS

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In November 1910 he was elected governor of New Jersey

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wilson

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DIALING FOR DIALECTS

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Aeolic, spoken in ancient times, was a dialect of this

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ancient Greek

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IN THE DICTIONARY

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The name of this African equine comes from the Portuguese for "wild ass"

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Time's up! The correct answer was a zebra

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PRESIDENTS IN IOWA

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He dedicated the Rathbun Dam July 31, 1971

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Time's up! The correct answer was Richard Nixon

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THE NEW CAR LOT

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This Chrysler brand has flown the coop with the end of production of its Talon

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Time's up! The correct answer was Eagle

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ISLANDS

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This largest island in the world also contains the northernmost land in the world

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Time's up! The correct answer was Greenland

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BALLETS WE'VE NEVER ASKED ABOUT BEFORE

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In Jerome Robbins' "Celebration", couples representing 5 countries dance this, "step for 2" in French

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Time's up! The correct answer was pas de deux

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PRESIDENTS IN THE CABINET

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While Secretary of State from 1811 to 1817, he might have been asked, "What's up, doctrine?"

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Time's up! The correct answer was James Monroe

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WORLD HODGEPODGE

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Jorge Icaza, who was born in Quito, was one of this country's most famous 20th century authors

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ecuador

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3-LETTER ABBREV.

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Organization founded by Carrie Chapman Catt in 1920: LWV

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

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& NOW THE "END" IS NEAR

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This type of gland secretes substances directly into the bloodstream

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Time's up! The correct answer was endocrine

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NETWORK

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"Real World", "House of Style", "FANatic"

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Time's up! The correct answer was MTV

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ANAGRAMMED BIRDS

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A big African: to Chris

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Time's up! The correct answer was ostrich

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BILLS & WILLS

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This perennial Democratic nominee also served as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State

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Time's up! The correct answer was William Jennings Bryan

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CHEKHOV, PLEASE

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The title characters of this Chekhov play also have a brother named Andrey

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

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SONGS

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It's what "everybody in the whole cell block was dancin' to"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Jailhouse Rock"

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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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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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TRAVEL & TOURISM

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This British wax museum famed for its chamber of horrors now has a time-traveling ride in it, too

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Time's up! The correct answer was Madame Tussauds

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FRENCH ART & ARTISTS

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Jean Duvet created a series of engravings depicting the hunting of this 1-horned mythical beast

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Time's up! The correct answer was unicorn

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THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM

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

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

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THE REDCOATS ARE COMING!

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was France

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EUROPEAN HISTORY

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He filed for divorce citing Leviticus 20:21, "If a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Henry VIII

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LASTS

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The name of the last dynasty to rule Vietnam, it's the family name of about half Vietnam's people

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nguyen

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TRAVEL & TOURISM

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1 of 2 famous Danish breweries you can tour in Copenhagen

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tuborg

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FUN WITH OPERA

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In "Susannah", a Bible-inspired opera, the elders are scandalized when they see the nude Susannah doing this outside

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bathing in a creek

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PLANT PARENTHOOD

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(Sarah of the Clue Crew in the laboratory) A must for any gardener, a soil testing kit is used to take a reading of this level, a measure of acidity

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Time's up! The correct answer was pH level

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REAL TO REEL

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In this 1990 movie Robin Williams played a doctor who roused a group of patients out of their catatonic states

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Time's up! The correct answer was Awakenings

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TURN OF THE CENTURY MOVIES

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A young cop works with rogue detective Denzel Washington on the narcotics beat in Los Angeles

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Time's up! The correct answer was Training Day

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NAME THE DECADE

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Man first reaches the South Pole

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Time's up! The correct answer was the 1910s

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OH, "BOY"

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In this 2002 film, single guy Hugh Grant's life is changed by a 12-year old

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Time's up! The correct answer was About a Boy

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BIOPIC-NIC

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1970 George C. Scott as this general

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Time's up! The correct answer was Patton

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STATES THAT END IN HAMPSHIRE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Quebec

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NOTABLE NONHUMANS

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This Nazi dictator sometimes dined alone with Blondi, his Alsatian

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Time's up! The correct answer was Adolf Hitler

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BALLETS WE'VE NEVER ASKED ABOUT BEFORE

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The 1969 ballet "Trinity" was inspired by the peace movement in this California university city

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THE COLOR PURPLE

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Defensive tackle Alan Page was part of the "purple people eaters" of this NFL team

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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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CROSSWORD CLUES "R"

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Room or building in the round (7)

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Time's up! The correct answer was rotunda

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GOVERNMENT

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This country with "Republic" in its name was less republican after a 2003 coup by General Francois Bozize

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Central African Republic

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THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS

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To fight with the fists, "put up" these noblemen

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Time's up! The correct answer was your dukes

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ROCK OF STAGES

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Gonna be a big man someday & name this hit U.K. musical based on the music of Queen

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Time's up! The correct answer was We Will Rock You

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BIBLE BOOK BINDINGS

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The Heidi ___ of Riddick

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NATURE

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Some of the fanciest of these reptiles are beaded, horned, or frilled

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Time's up! The correct answer was lizards

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VEGAS, BABY

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A legendary weapon that emerged from a lake, or a Las Vegas hotel

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Time's up! The correct answer was Excalibur

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GOING TO PIECES

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5-letter archaeological term for a broken scrap of earthenware

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Time's up! The correct answer was a shard

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MILITARY TELEVISION

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Bad guys should stay out of harm's way (that's Cmdr. Harmon Rabb's way) on this military-legal series

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Time's up! The correct answer was JAG

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A SHAPELY CATEGORY

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Often stuffed & baked, conchiglioni is jumbo pasta shaped like these

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Time's up! The correct answer was shells

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ANIMAL PLANET

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You'll have a leg up if you know this is the correct term for a baby hippo

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AMERICAN HISTORY

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It became a U.S. territory in 1900 & a state 59 years later

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hawaii

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FOREIGN

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Tredici is Italian for this symbol of bad luck

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Time's up! The correct answer was thirteen

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COMPANIES

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In 1959 Richard De Vos & Jay Van Andel founded this company that now has 3 million independent distributors

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Time's up! The correct answer was Amway

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DOUBLE LETTERS

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(Jimmy of the Clue Crew having a pass thrown to him by Charlie Batch of the Pittsburgh Steelers) The name of this pass pattern is also a type of fastener

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Time's up! The correct answer was buttonhook

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CHAD IS RAD

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In the 11th century the kings of Chad converted to this faith

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Time's up! The correct answer was Islam

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WRITERS CUBED

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19th century minister of the Second Church of Boston, known for essays like "Self-Reliance"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ralph Waldo Emerson

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THE SPOOKY & THE MYSTERIOUS

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This large dinosaur-like creature possibly lives in a large Scottish lake near Inverness

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Loch Ness Monster

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GAMBLING

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Next to slots, Nevada casinos make more money from this game than any other, nearly $3/4 billion in 1985

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Time's up! The correct answer was blackjack

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B.C. & AFTER

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Sophoclean tragedy about the killing of a father & his friend, the actor who portrayed Henry Higgins on film

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Time's up! The correct answer was Oedipus Rex Harrison

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WARNER BROS.

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Former mortuary entrepreneur Steve Ross negotiated Warners' 1989 merger with this publisher

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Time's up! The correct answer was Time

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KAN U SPEL BIZNESS?

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"Kid tested, mother approved" cereal

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Time's up! The correct answer was K-I-X

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CINEMATIC DICTIONARY

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Term for the flow of a film, maintained by keeping details consistent throughout a scene

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Time's up! The correct answer was Continuity

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THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL

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Football great Dierdorf

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dan

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DIRECTED BUT DID NOT STAR

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"Apollo 13" (1995)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ron Howard

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WOMEN OF THE WORLD

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This Norwegian beauty is noted for her work with Ingmar Bergman & with UNICEF

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Time's up! The correct answer was Liv Ullmann

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LET'S BOUNCE

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Sound navigation& ranging is the full name for this device that bounces radio waves underwater

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Time's up! The correct answer was sonar

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METALLICA

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To buy this precious metal, visit Taxco, Mexico; it's the city's best-known product

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Time's up! The correct answer was silver

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WHAT THE KIDS ARE CALLING IT

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To Grandpa it meant he'd stirred up & fed a fire; to his grandson it means happy or excited

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Time's up! The correct answer was Stoked

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U.N. SECRETARIES-GENERAL

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This current Secretary-General is the first U.N. career official to hold the post

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Time's up! The correct answer was Kofi Annan

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"T" TIME AT THE LIBRARY

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Watch out for "personal injuries" if you lift all his legal thrillers, including "Personal Injuries", at once

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Time's up! The correct answer was Scott Turow

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COLORS

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Color of a lucky "letter day"

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Time's up! The correct answer was red

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SODA POP QUIZ

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Caleb Bradham named his elixir this because it was supposed to relieve dyspepsia

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pepsi Cola

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THE 1960s

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The last #1 song of the ‘60s, it was Diana Ross’ last song with the Supremes

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Someday We’ll Be Together"

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HOW NOVEL

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He not only appeared on the cover of some 350 romance novels, he's written ones like "Rogue" & "Mysterious"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Fabio

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THE CANARY ISLANDS

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In 1936 the Spanish government demoted this general to Governor of the Canary Islands

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Time's up! The correct answer was Franco

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COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

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In 1865 this school in Poughkeepsie became the first women's college in the U.S. to have facilities equal to the men's schools

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Time's up! The correct answer was Vassar

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EDS

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Shooting down 22 planes in 1918, Eddie Rickenbacker was the USA's No. 1 flying ace in this war

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Time's up! The correct answer was World War I

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1994 FILMS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pulp Fiction

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YOU DO THE MATH

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The number of events in a decathlon divided by the number of years in a decade

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Time's up! The correct answer was 1

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THE TITANIC

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Milvina Dean, who had this distinction among the 2,200 people on board, lived to see the 95th anniv. in 2007

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Time's up! The correct answer was the youngest person

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BEYOND .COM

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was .jobs

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THE RENAISSANCE

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Boccaccio work narrated by 3 men & 7 women fleeing the plague in Florence

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

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LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER

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

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

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MESOPOTAMIA

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Transcribed in the 1800s, the Behistun Inscription is the Rosetta Stone for this type of writing developed in Mesopotamia

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Time's up! The correct answer was cuneiform

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SAY "CHI"s

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Giving up your seat to the lady proves that this medieval system is not dead

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Time's up! The correct answer was chivalry

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CHANTED

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Named for a 6th century pope, these a capella songs might have earned a Papal's Choice Award

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gregorian chants

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LIFE SCIENCE

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In a fish's 2-chambered heart, it's the chamber that receives blood from the veins

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Time's up! The correct answer was atrium

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THOSE CRAZY GUGGENHEIMS

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The Guggenheim Foundation is the assignee of the patents of this rocket pioneer; it had financed him in the 1940s

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Time's up! The correct answer was Robert Goddard

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY

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This state's largest county, San Bernardino, was divided in 1893 to form Riverside county

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Time's up! The correct answer was California

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SCIENCE GUYS

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At the Pantheon in Paris in 1851, he demonstrated the Earth's rotation using his famous pendulum

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Time's up! The correct answer was Michel Foucault

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11-LETTER WORDS

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Term for someone who collects deniers, drachmas & doubloons

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Time's up! The correct answer was Numismatist

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ENGLISH ROYAL HENRYS

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Henry I's famous father was this conqueror who reigned from 1066 to 1087

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Time's up! The correct answer was William the Conqueror

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SCRAMBLED EGGS

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This bird's eggs are so pretty a color is named for them: IN BRO

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Time's up! The correct answer was robin

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THIS CATEGORY STINKS!

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The only film ever released in "Odorama", it shares its name with a synthetic fabric popular in the 1970s

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Time's up! The correct answer was Polyester

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BIBLICAL WORDS & PHRASES

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Unworthy or sinful people are known as a "generation of" these poisonous creatures

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Time's up! The correct answer was Vipers

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NATURE

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The Dorcas type of this graceful antelope is one of the smallest; it's barely 2 feet tall

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Time's up! The correct answer was a gazelle

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POLITICS

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Baby book author who ran for president in '68

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dr. Spock

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AMERICAN FICTION WRITERS

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He was also the U.S.'s best-paid sportswriter, with stories of people like Chicago O'Brien & Jack the Bookie

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Time's up! The correct answer was Damon Runyon

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CURRENT BLACK PRESIDENTS

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Taking over from his assassinated father in 2001, Joseph Kabila is the president of this country abbreviated D.R.C.

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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FROM T TO SHINING T

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Also meaning "touch", it's a keen sense of what to say to avoid giving offense

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Time's up! The correct answer was tact

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ANIMALS

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

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

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STATE SUPERLATIVES

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With 6,640 miles of coast, this state has the longest shoreline

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alaska

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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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NEBRASKA, NEW YORK OR NORTH DAKOTA

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Its name does not have a Native American origin

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Time's up! The correct answer was New York

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PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME

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James' egg parts

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Time's up! The correct answer was Polk's yolks

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TAYLOR, SWIFT

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Taylor Kitsch is Gambit in this 2009 X-Men flick

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wolverine

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COMPOSERS

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In 1810, the same year as Schumann, this Polish pianist & composer was born

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Time's up! The correct answer was Chopin

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PASS THE CHEESE, PLEASE

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The "baby" type of this Dutch cheese, that's similar to Edam, is usually encased in red wax

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gouda

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COMPANIES YOUNGER THAN YOU

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Napster

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DOUBLE A

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Biblical man with a talking ass

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Time's up! The correct answer was Balaam

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X MARKS THE SPOT

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Southwest of Louisville, it's where you'll find much of the U.S. government's gold reserve

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Time's up! The correct answer was Fort Knox

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AMERICAN AUTHORS

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William Rose Benet won a Pulitzer for "The Dust Which Is God", & this brother won for "John Brown's Body"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Stephen Vincent Benet

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POLITICS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gary

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FIRST LADIES

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In January 1991 this first lady broke her left leg while sledding at Camp David

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Time's up! The correct answer was Barbara Bush

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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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THE TEENS

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Sounds unlucky, but there were this many books in Lemony Snicket's "Series of Unfortunate Events"

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Time's up! The correct answer was 13

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"YN"

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A bird of the family Sturnidae, capable of mimicking human speech

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Time's up! The correct answer was a mynah

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NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES

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Like its lengthy river, this state's name is Algonquian for "great water"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mississippi

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ANTIQUES

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French for "Chinese Ornament", it refers to willow pattern china & some Chippendale furniture

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Time's up! The correct answer was Chinoisserie

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THE SUMMER OLYMPICS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was 4

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SLIM VOLUMES

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Recent diet books: "The Paleo Diet" & "Neanderthin: Eat Like" one of these "to achieve a lean, strong, healthy body"

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Time's up! The correct answer was a Caveman

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LET'S GET MAS*Hed

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Company clerk "Radar" O'Reilly was from this state

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Time's up! The correct answer was Iowa

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"GREEN" THINGS

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A precocious redhaired little girl is the heroine of this 1908 children's book by Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Time's up! The correct answer was Anne of Green Gables

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AUTHORS

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This author's home where he wrote "To Have And Have Not" is now a nat'l landmark in Key West, Fla.

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ernest Hemingway

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MAGAZINE FEATURES

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Agenda, Fairground, Fanfair

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Time's up! The correct answer was Vanity Fair

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CAPITOL THINKERS

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This man from Mass. is the ranking Democrat of the Senate's Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee

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Time's up! The correct answer was Edward Kennedy

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IN THE FIRE

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2-word phrase for what sometimes happens to oily rags & often happens to the drummers of Spinal Tap

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Time's up! The correct answer was Spontaneous combustion

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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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PEOPLE IN HISTORY

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In 1801 this onetime VP compiled "A Manual of Parliamentary Practice" still used in the U.S. Senate

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Time's up! The correct answer was Thomas Jefferson

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I JUST LIKE SAYING THESE WORDS

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To lapidate someone is to execute him by this method

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Time's up! The correct answer was stoning

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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS

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In a Wilde tale, an American family in the mansion Canterville Chase encounters this trying to scare them

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Time's up! The correct answer was a ghost

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MARRIED WITH CHILDREN

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Parents of infants must learn to deal with these, from the medieval Greek "diaspros", or "pure white"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Diapers

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COME TO OUR AIDE

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In 1948 White House aide Lauchlin Currie told this committee he wasn't a Soviet spy; today we know he was

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Time's up! The correct answer was the House Un-American Activities Committee

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ARTS & CRAFTS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was a kiln

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ANATOMY

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Familiar to pitchers, the group of muscles called this includes the subscapularis muscle

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Time's up! The correct answer was the rotator cuff

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FIRE!

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After a 1624 fire Christian IV replanned this Northern European city & renamed it Christiania

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Time's up! The correct answer was Oslo

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DECADES OF BESTSELLERS

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"The Godfather" & "Airport"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the '60s

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YOU'RE AN ANIMAL!

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The critter seen here (bulldog) is a symbol of this nation

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Time's up! The correct answer was Great Britain

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11-LETTER WORDS

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Term for someone who collects deniers, drachmas & doubloons

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Time's up! The correct answer was Numismatist

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SWEET!

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was butterscotch

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U.S. CITIES

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Principal routes through this capital include Ala Moana Boulevard & Pali Highway

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Time's up! The correct answer was Honolulu

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FAMILIAR PHRASES

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In "A Psalm of Life, " Longfellow tells of leaving these behind "on the sands of time"

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Time's up! The correct answer was footprints

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TV CASTS

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On "Spin City" Michael J. Fox played Mike; this actor who replaced him plays Charlie

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Time's up! The correct answer was Charlie Sheen

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THAT'S SO '90s

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His 1997 meeting with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was the first for a British P.M. & an IRA leader in 76 years

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tony Blair

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I LOVE L.A. KERS

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This Laker giant was nicknamed "The Big Dipper" for his habit of dipping his head to fit through doorways

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wilt Chamberlain

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FAMOUS AMERICANS

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It was the famous nickname of frontiersman & scout Christopher Carson

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Time's up! The correct answer was Kit

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY

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One of the largest of these shallow channels in the U.S. is the Bartholomew in N. Louisiana

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ART

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In the 1300s Italy gave birth to this art movement that would eventually sweep across Europe

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Renaissance

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CROSSWORD CLUES "M"

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Stubborn slippers (5)

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Time's up! The correct answer was mules

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PIZZA TOPPINGS

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Wild ones of these found on pizza include shiitakes, morels & chanterelles

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Time's up! The correct answer was mushrooms

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BACK IN 1906

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In September the Platt Amendment was invoked, allowing U.S. intervention in this Caribbean country

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HERBS & SPICES

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This pizza herb was virtually unknown to Americans until WWII soldiers came home & raved about it

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Time's up! The correct answer was oregano

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WHAT'CHA GOT COOKIN'?

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I'm sauteeing this organ meat in butter & lemon juice, as you'd know, if you had any

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Time's up! The correct answer was brains

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TONY-WINNING COMPOSERS

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1950: "South Pacific"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Richard Rodgers

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MAY DAYS

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On May 6, 1984 Jose Napoleon Duarte won this country's presidential election with 54% of the vote

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Time's up! The correct answer was El Salvador

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LITERARY ANIMALS

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This old grey donkey was Winnie-the-Pooh's friend who always saw things in a gloomy light

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"A" PLUS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Scott Adams

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THE ASSASSIN'S VICTIM

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44 B.C.: Casca & company

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Time's up! The correct answer was Julius Caesar

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TECHNOLOGY

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The Apple LISA failed because of costing this many dollars at launch.

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Time's up! The correct answer was 10000

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CHANCE

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Theoretically, a U.S. casino's ability to make money on Roulette relies on the presence of these 2 green figures

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Time's up! The correct answer was 0 and 00

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SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES

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In this play, Casca says Cicero's speech "was Greek to me"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Julius Caesar

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BIRDS! BIRDS! BIRDS!

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Seen here, the great horned type of this bird is found from Alaska to South America

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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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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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LANGUAGES

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Gaspar Karolyi's translation of the Bible in 1590 was influential in the development of this as a national language

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hungarian

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FLEETS

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The Black Sea fleet in dispute between Russia & Ukraine is based at this Crimean port

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sevastopol

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I'M GOING "INN"

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2-word term for a tuxedo

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Time's up! The correct answer was dinner jacket

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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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FICTION

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This 1937 mystery was written at the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Death on the Nile"

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DOWN AT THE OLFACTORY

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The perfume Quelques Fleurs, whose name means "some" these, supposedly has the fragrances of 313 of them

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Time's up! The correct answer was flowers

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AMERICAN HISTORY

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Susan B. Anthony was arrested in 1872 for doing this

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CITY OF BIRTH

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Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau was not born in France; his birthplace was this European city

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POTPOURRI

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There are Blue & White branches of this African river

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Nile

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COMMON BONDS

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Hair, Punch, A volleyball

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Time's up! The correct answer was Things that are spiked

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NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES

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Moving right along--this large Alabama city, as well as a river & bay, was named for an Indian tribe in the region

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mobile

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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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BRITISH NOBILITY

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In the 16th C. the Earl of Surrey helped bring this 14-line poetic form to England

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sonnet

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ON BROADWAY: 1970

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Though he never won an Emmy as Barney Miller, he did win a Tony for his role in "The Rothschilds"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hal Linden

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U.S. PRESIDENTS

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President elected to 2nd term with 523 electoral votes, the greatest number in any election

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Time's up! The correct answer was Franklin D. Roosevelt

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CONTESTS

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At the 1999 Westminster Dog Show, CH Loteki Supernatural Being won this award for matching the breed standard

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Time's up! The correct answer was Best in Show

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BUSINESS PARTNERS

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In dessert: Burton Baskin &...

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Time's up! The correct answer was Irv Robbins

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SCRAMBLED EGGS?

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A pancake-like offering in Rome: FAT TRAIT

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Time's up! The correct answer was frittata

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LEGAL "E"s

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This clause in a union contract says that wages will rise or fall depending on a standard such as cost of living

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Time's up! The correct answer was escalator

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NAME THE FILM

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2007: "I... drink... your... milkshake! I drink it up!"

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Time's up! The correct answer was There Will Be Blood

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NATIONS OF AFRICA

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(Hi, I'm NBA All-Star Dikembe Mutombo) One of the many languages I speak is this official one of my birthplace, Congo

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Time's up! The correct answer was French

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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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FILE UNDER "K"

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The Nancy Drew books are written under this pseudonym

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Time's up! The correct answer was Carolyn Keene

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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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POETS' RHYME TIME

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William's anacondas

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Time's up! The correct answer was Blake's snakes

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FORE!

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Except during WWII, this golf tournament has been played at the Augusta National Golf Club every year since 1934

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Masters

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CELEB STUFF

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On March 2, 1977 he made his first "Tonight Show" appearance; on May 25, 1992 he took over as host

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jay Leno

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COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

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The world's most populous democracy

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Time's up! The correct answer was India

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HISTORIC NAMES

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This Apache tried to keep peace with the palefaces, but after his death, his son joined with the militant Geronimo

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cochise

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PLACES

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This term for a house's entrance hall also refers to the space between cars on a train

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Time's up! The correct answer was the vestibule

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EUROPE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Yugoslavia

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IN THE GOOD OLD SUMER TIME

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Mythic Sumerian hero Utnapishtim built a big boat & survived this catastrophe

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Time's up! The correct answer was The flood

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MY PLACE?

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A western camper pitches a tent; a central Asian nomad pitches this

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Time's up! The correct answer was yurt

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1987

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This British prime minister won a rare third term in June

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Time's up! The correct answer was Margaret Thatcher

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"L.B."s

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And now the weather forecast: tonight expect these gentle winds of 4 to 7 miles per hour

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Time's up! The correct answer was light breezes

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THE BLUE ANGELS

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(Sarah of the Clue Crew riding in a Blue Angels jet) With a ceiling of over 50,000 feet, the Blue Angels jets, FA-18s, are known by the name of this insect

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Time's up! The correct answer was hornet

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THE HOLLYWOOD STOCK EXCHANGE

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At $4,147 a share, this star of "Firestarter" is one of the highest-valued actresses listed on HSX

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Time's up! The correct answer was Drew Barrymore

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STOCK SYMBOLS

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We'll never tire of telling you its symbol is GR, not B.F.

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Time's up! The correct answer was Goodrich

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HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Slavery

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HISTORIC DATES

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On May 17, 1954 the Supreme Court ruled on this case, unanimously outlawing public school segregation

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

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"I" LADS

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Czar at 17, he was famous for extraordinary sadism & cruelty, even as a boy

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

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GETTING POSSESSIVE

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

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

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NO. 1 ALBUMS

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"Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Meat Loaf

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THE REEL STORY

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Keanu Reeves is a supernatural detective in this 2005 flick based on the Hellblazer comic book

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Time's up! The correct answer was Constantine

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NAME THE WORK

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Verne: "Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Around the World in Eighty Days

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SCIENCE

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These electromagnetic rays used to take pictures of your insides were originally known as Roentgen rays

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Time's up! The correct answer was X-rays

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SCIENCE & NATURE

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Some members of the genus Aedes of this insect transmit yellow fever

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mosquito

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THE BIG 10-LETTER WORDS

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The report's back from the lab; it's the science dealing with the detection of poisons

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Time's up! The correct answer was toxicology

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TV THEME LYRICS

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"It's like you're always stuck in second gear, well it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Friends

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CIVIL WAR LITERATURE

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Joanna Higgins' 1998 novel "A Soldier's Book" tells the story of Ira Stevens, a Union P.O.W. in this notorious prison

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Time's up! The correct answer was Andersonville

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THE REEL STORY

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He played Mozart in the 1984 film "Amadeus"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tom Hulce

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CLASSICAL GASES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nitrogen

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I JUST LIKE SAYING THESE WORDS

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As I reflect on the word "genuflect", I remember it means to bend this

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Time's up! The correct answer was one's knee

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BERMUDA SHORTS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was a shipwreck

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THE CAT

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It's the tailless cat variety from an island south of Scotland

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Time's up! The correct answer was a manx

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SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS

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"Beaucoup de Bruit Pour Rien"

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

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INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE

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Blow in & out: NO CHAIR MA

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Time's up! The correct answer was harmonica

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BUT IS IT ART?

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bad art

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A LA "CART"

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While 2 of its wheels head toward produce, 1 goes to dairy, the other to checkout

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Time's up! The correct answer was a shopping cart

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4 N

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Number of "beers on the wall" at the beginning of the song

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Time's up! The correct answer was ninety-nine

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CHARLIE CHAPLIN

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Nigel Bruce of Dr. Watson fame played an impresario in this "glowing" 1952 Chaplin film

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Time's up! The correct answer was Limelight

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BRAND NAMES

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Mass production of these in the U.S. can be traced back to Donald F. Duncan in the 1920s

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Time's up! The correct answer was Yo-yos

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THE RENAISSANCE

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The ruthless Cesare Borgia was the model for this book by Machiavelli

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

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ANY FIRST WORDS?

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Jung was fond of this word, an original pattern from which all similar things are based

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Time's up! The correct answer was an archetype

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LOVE POETRY

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A Shakespeare sonnet accuses this purple flower of steaing its smell from the poet's love

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Time's up! The correct answer was the violet

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PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS

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This Frenchman's "last theorem", stated in 1637, was proved by Andrew Wiles in the 1990s

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Time's up! The correct answer was Fermat

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SPORTS HOME CITIES

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MLS' Burn

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dallas

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BEFORE & AFTER

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Van Gogh's 1889 painting of director George Romero's 1968 zombie film classic

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Time's up! The correct answer was Starry Night of the Living Dead

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THE '30s WEREN'T ALL DEPRESSING

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In 1932 this country finished reclaiming thousands of agricultural acres from the Zuiderzee

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Netherlands

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"H" CITIES

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This capital was founded by Sweden's King Gustav I Vasa in 1550

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Time's up! The correct answer was Helsinki, Finland

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TV THEME LYRICS

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"Movin' movin' movi

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rawhide

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WOLVERINE

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Bears have cubs; wolverine newborns are known as these, like foxes & beavers

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Time's up! The correct answer was kits

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"DOUBLE" JEOPARDY

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Line preceding "Fire burn and cauldron bubble"

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Time's up! The correct answer was **"Double double, toil and trouble" **

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PROVERBS

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It "comes not alone" & "makes waste"

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Time's up! The correct answer was haste

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'ALLO, GOVERNOR!

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Al Smith, Mario Cuomo

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Time's up! The correct answer was New York

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SOCIOLOGY

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William H. White put this word before "think" to mean conformity to consensus

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Time's up! The correct answer was group

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"PH"UN WORDS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Phoebe

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NAME THE POET

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ben Jonson

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SCIENCE & NATURE

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His 1947 oceanic expedition began in Callao, Peru & ended 10 days later in Polynesia

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Time's up! The correct answer was Thor Heyerdahl

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1938

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Returning from Ireland to NYC in August, this aviator was given a parade down…er, up Broadway

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Wrong Way" Corrigan

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CAPITOL THINKERS

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This Vermont senator wrote, "You get 15 Democrats together in a room, and you get 20 opinions"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Patrick Leahy

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MIXED DRINKS

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A teaspoon of creme de cassis is added to this to make a Kir

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Time's up! The correct answer was white wine

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"DEM"-ONS

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The young women "d'Avignon" in the title of a painting by Picasso

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Time's up! The correct answer was Demoiselles

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WORLD FACTS

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

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

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SCRAMBLED EGGS

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Its eggs weigh around 3 pounds each: RICH SOT

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Time's up! The correct answer was ostrich

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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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NEEDY NO.1 HITMAKERS

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1984: "I Want To Know What Love Is"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Foreigner

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NATURE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was a bird

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THE EYES HAVE IT

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A hollow area that holds a light bulb

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Time's up! The correct answer was Socket

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11-LETTER WORDS

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Diaphanous or sheer, as in clothing, or flimsy & obvious, as in a lie

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Time's up! The correct answer was Transparent

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RHYMES WITH TEEN

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Nasty or stingy; or the average

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mean

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JURY DUTY

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The general type of this military tribunal must have at least 5 members & the defense attorney may be military or civilian

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Time's up! The correct answer was court martial

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PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES

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His library has a desk that's an exact replica of the one that his son was photographed under in 1963

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

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CINEMA OF "BLOOD"

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Daniel Day-Lewis starred in this 2008 Oscar-winning adaptation of an Upton Sinclair novel

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Time's up! The correct answer was There Will Be Blood

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SNACK ATTACK

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I've got a big appetite, so give me the Big Cup version of this Reese's treat

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Time's up! The correct answer was a peanut butter cup

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WOMEN'S HEALTH

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It's the trimester of pregnancy in which women gain the least weight

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Time's up! The correct answer was first

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1994 FILMS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pulp Fiction

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A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY

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In the 1800s, it was fashionable to wear a cap named for this woman who stabbed Jean-Paul Marat

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Time's up! The correct answer was Charlotte Corday

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BORN IN DUBLIN

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After the Battle of Waterloo, he said, "Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wellington

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HOLD THE MAYO CLINIC

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In 1973 Mayo introduced to North America this scanner that uses a computer & X-rays

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Time's up! The correct answer was CT scanner

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TV STARS

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Taylor Negron plays nanny to these twins on "So Little Time"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Olsen twins

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HEY, "U"!

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Undertaker

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MEN OF MUSIC

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"King of the Waltz" Johann Strauss Jr. wrote in other dance forms too, like the "Tritsch-Tratsch" this

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Time's up! The correct answer was the polka

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AMERICAN HISTORY

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Completed in 1856, California's first railroad ran 22 miles between Sacramento & this prison city

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Time's up! The correct answer was Folsom

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"TOO" MUCH

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It's a string or garland of flowers hung in a curve, or to decorate with them

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Time's up! The correct answer was festoon

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YOUTH IN ASIA

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Young actors like Rani Mukherjee perform in movies in "Bollywood" in this populous Asian country

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Time's up! The correct answer was India

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PSYCHOLOGY

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In the psychology of learning, it’s “the retention of association”; in “Cats”, it’s a showstopping song

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Time's up! The correct answer was memory

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WORLD AUTHORS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tagore

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A "TON" OF PEOPLE

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His "Boyz N the Hood" earned him the first-ever best director Oscar nomination for an African American

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Singleton

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ACTORS & THEIR ROLES

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When this singer starred in a revival of "Funny Girl", one critic said, "Pia doesn't fall on her fanny"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pia Zadora

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I COULD USE SOME SELF-HELP!

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"The Art of Happiness" was written by this Asian man who was picked out for his present job at the age of 2

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Dalai Lama

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY

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

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

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MOTTOES

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

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

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SHIPS

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The Queen Elizabeth was a few feet lnger than this, her sister ship

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Queen Mary

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LIT MY FIRE

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This Irish poet's "Sailing to Byzantium" urges "sages... in God's holy fire" to be "singing masters of my soul"

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

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NOVELISTS

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This novelist's youthful voyages provided the basis for such works as "Lord Jim" & "Typhoon"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Conrad

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1984

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After a lengthy hiatus, Garry Trudeau brought this strip back to 810 daily papers

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

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NO. 1 QUESTIONS

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In a 1995 No. 1, Bryan Adams wanted to know if you'd ever really done this

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Time's up! The correct answer was loved a woman

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THE FORTUNE 500

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Fortune's "Most Likely to Succeed" was this Internet search site at No. 119 with 35 different "buy" ratings

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Time's up! The correct answer was Google

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THE "B.G."s

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A naval force made up of an aircraft carrier & support vessels

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Time's up! The correct answer was battle group

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OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS BY SPORT

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1904: Thomas Kiely, with 6,036 points; 2000: Erki Nool, with 8,641

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Time's up! The correct answer was the decathlon

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WORD ORIGINS

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These sparkly fake gems are partly named for a river that flows through Germany

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Time's up! The correct answer was rhinestones

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CANADIAN CAPITALS

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This British Columbia capital was the capital of the colony of Vancouver Island 1848-1866

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Time's up! The correct answer was Victoria

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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

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Of particular interest to the NRA is the amendment that allows us "to keep & bear" these

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Time's up! The correct answer was arms

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4-LETTER VERBS

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It's said that "Horses sweat, men perspire, women" do this

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Time's up! The correct answer was glow

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VOLCANOES

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About its eruption in 79 A.D., an observer wrote that "broad sheets of fire and leaping flames blazed at several points"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Vesuvius

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ALL GOD'S CREATURES

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Edison proposed a flying machine based on the flight of this creature, also the subject of a musical work

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Time's up! The correct answer was bumblebee

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TRANSLATION EXERCISES

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

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

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CAPITOL THINKERS

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This man from Mass. is the ranking Democrat of the Senate's Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee

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Time's up! The correct answer was Edward Kennedy

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...& THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON!

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In the 17th century this type of wild horse numbered between 2 & 4 mil.; today, only about 20,000 remain, mostly in the West

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Time's up! The correct answer was mustangs

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BERMUDA SHORTS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was a shipwreck

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POTPOURRI

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Select Comfort Corporation makes these with adjustable firmness

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Time's up! The correct answer was mattresses

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WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS

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To "go" this, meaning all the way, comes from an 18th c. poem about inability to decide which part of the pig to eat

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Time's up! The correct answer was whole hog

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THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER

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As a critics' pick in 2008, this Lin-Manuel Miranda musical was called "a salsa-flavored soap opera"

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Time's up! The correct answer was In the Heights

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WHAT'S ON TV?

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This "American Idol" judge told one contestant, "you sounded like Cher after she's been to the dentist"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Simon Cowell

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STATE BIRDS

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Missouri: Not a redbird but this colorful creature

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Time's up! The correct answer was a bluebird

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PHYSICAL SCIENCE

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A rectifier is an electrical device used to convert alternating current to this

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Time's up! The correct answer was direct current

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CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS

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This first sign is a nocturnal animal; those born under it work best in quiet hours; oo, you dirty...

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Time's up! The correct answer was rat

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MED. ABBREV.

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2 of the 3 illnesses for which a DPT vaccination provides immunity

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Time's up! The correct answer was diphtheria and pertussis

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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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HOTELS

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He opened his own hotel in Paris in 1898 & soon started running the Carlton in London

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cesar Ritz

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HISTORY

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In 1000 Rajaraja I of the Cholas battled to take this Indian Ocean island now known for its tea

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ceylon

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TAKE-OFFS

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"The Ninety-Nine Guardsmen", one of Bret Harte's "condensed novels", parodies this French tale

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

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THE HOUND OF MUSIC

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

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

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PEANUTS

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This girl's name was inspired by a type of candy

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Time's up! The correct answer was Peppermint Patty

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POETS & POETRY

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Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote of this ship, "Oh better that her shattered hulk should sink beneath the wave"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Old Ironsides"

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STOCK SYMBOLS

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In the mall you may fall into this store, GPS

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Gap

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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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SECRET MENUS

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Fatburger offers a "Hypocrite Burger" featuring this type of patty with slabs of bacon

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Time's up! The correct answer was veggie patty

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"DREAM"Y SONGS

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1 of 2 "dream"y Top 20 songs recorded by Cass Elliott with The Mamas and The Papas

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Time's up! The correct answer was "California Dreamin'" & "Dream a Little Dream of Me"

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EARLY AMERICA

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cadillac

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PASS THE CHEESE, PLEASE

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The "baby" type of this Dutch cheese, that's similar to Edam, is usually encased in red wax

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gouda

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POTPOURRI

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Any Brit can tell you that a Liverpudlian is one of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was Someone from Liverpool

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FAMOUS NAMES

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"The First Time Ever" she had a No. 1 album was "First Take" in 1972

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Time's up! The correct answer was Roberta Flack

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FRANCE

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In 1992, 200 years after it was written, 40% of the French found it excessively bloody & 25% wanted it changed

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Time's up! The correct answer was the French National Anthem

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THE FUNNIES

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"The Flintsones" have a dinosaur named Dino; this strip has a dinosaur named Dinny

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alley Oop

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WORDS

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The name of these small towers often seen on castles comes from Old French for "small towers"

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Time's up! The correct answer was turrets

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THE NEW TESTAMENT

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This son of a Jewish mother & a Greek father is also called Timotheus

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Time's up! The correct answer was Timothy

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STOCK SYMBOLS

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We'll never tire of telling you its symbol is GR, not B.F.

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Time's up! The correct answer was Goodrich

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THE FILM THAT ALMOST WAS

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

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

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MAIN STREET U.S.A.

Question

Borgen's Cafe, on Main St. in Westby, Wisconsin, feels a bit like Oslo, with menus & banter in this language

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Time's up! The correct answer was Norwegian

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DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME

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You have to have permission to do this in a barrel since someone died doing it in 1951

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Time's up! The correct answer was Going over Niagara Falls

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THAT'S SOME NERVE

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A knock to the ulnar nerve at the bend of the elbow, which we call this, causes that weird tingling sensation

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Time's up! The correct answer was the funny bone

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QUOTATIONS

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John Kenneth Galbraith said these "are indispensable when you don't want to do anything"--there's one in the boardroom at 2:30

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Time's up! The correct answer was meetings

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AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

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"This Side of Paradise"

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Time's up! The correct answer was F. Scott Fitzgerald

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THE SHORT VERSION

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A paranormal "experience": OBE

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