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BRAND-O
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Models of this car brand include the Metro & the Storm
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Time's up! The correct answer was Geo
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FIGURE SKATERS
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In 1986 she became the 1st black woman to win the World Championship of Figure Skating
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Time's up! The correct answer was Debbie Thomas
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SYNONYMS
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Synonyms for "crowd" include throng, flock & this word that can also mean an infatuation
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Time's up! The correct answer was a crush
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AIN'T THAT AMERICA
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Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" while in this state during the War of 1812
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Time's up! The correct answer was Maryland
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BALLET
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This dancer choreographed a new version of "The Nutcracker" in 1976, a "Turning Point" in his career
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Time's up! The correct answer was Baryshnikov
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WORD ORIGINS
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From the Latin for "much writing", it's another name for a lie detector test
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Time's up! The correct answer was a polygraph
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THAT'S WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE SOUTH
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A state capital since 1849, it showed Southern hospitality in 2005 as its population grew by 50% after Katrina
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Time's up! The correct answer was Baton Rouge
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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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MOUNTAINS
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The Waianae Mountains in this U.S. state rise up to 4,025-foot Mt. Kaala
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Time's up! The correct answer was Hawaii
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CELEBS
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The TV show "Everybody Hates Chris" is based on the childhood of this comic
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Time's up! The correct answer was Chris Rock
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PRESIDENTS' MONOGRAMS
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JKP
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Time's up! The correct answer was James Knox Polk
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WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
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In 2001 Brian Cappelletto won this game's World Championship with words like vozhd for 50 points & jerrid for 44
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Time's up! The correct answer was Scrabble
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SHAKESPEARE
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“Sweets to the sweet: Farewell!” were Hamlet's mother's words at this woman's funeral
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Time's up! The correct answer was Ophelia
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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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ORGANIZATIONS
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The Max Planck Society is one of this country's chief organizations for scientific research
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Time's up! The correct answer was Germany
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OLD FOLKS IN THEIR 30s
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In 2008 David Gregory became moderator of this NBC Sunday morning news show
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Time's up! The correct answer was Meet the Press
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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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SCIENCE
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The largest tree, the General Sherman in California, is this type, also called a Sierra Redwood
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Time's up! The correct answer was a sequoia
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19th CENTURY NOVELISTS
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William Wilkinson's "An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia" inspired this author's most famous novel
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Time's up! The correct answer was Bram Stoker
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1994 FILMS
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Jean Vander Pyl, who played Wilma in the original cartoon series, played Mrs. Feldspar in this movie adaptation
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Time's up! The correct answer was The Flintstones
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BICYCLES
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A German circus performer has made the Guinness record book for riding a bicycle with this distinction
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Time's up! The correct answer was the smallest
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IN THE BOOKSTORE
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Bestselling author seen here (she's holding a large "A" & a large "Z")
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Time's up! The correct answer was Sue Grafton
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"MOON"S
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It brings out the worst in werewolves
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Time's up! The correct answer was a full moon
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B.C. & AFTER
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Homo erectus archaeological find on Jakarta's island by an expatriate U.S. photographer
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Time's up! The correct answer was Java Man Ray
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THE UNIVERSE
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William Herschel thought he saw these around Uranus in 1787; in 1977 they were really seen
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Time's up! The correct answer was Rings
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THE LOYOLA OPPOSITION
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In 1521, Ignatius was struck by a cannonball while defending this country against the French
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Time's up! The correct answer was Spain
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FROM THE FRENCH
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A term for a keepsake or memento, it comes from the French for "to remember"
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Time's up! The correct answer was souvenir
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TAKE A PILL
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Antabuse is designed to make you feel really, really bad after ingesting this
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Time's up! The correct answer was alcohol
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EARTH, WIND & FIRE
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Oh, "Boy"! This warming of the Pacific that causes unusual weather patterns occurs about every 2 to 7 years
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Time's up! The correct answer was El Nino
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SNAP
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Common name of the reptile Chelydra serpentina
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Time's up! The correct answer was snapping turtle
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GEOGRAPHY
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A smaller canal connecting to this river brings fresh water to the Suez Canal
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Nile
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FAMILIAR SAYINGS
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It's a poor workman who blames these
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Time's up! The correct answer was tools
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POETIC TITLE VERBS
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"To An Athlete _____ Young"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Dying
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COMPOSERS
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It was rumored that he committed suicide over the failure of his last symphony, the "Pathetique"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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LEGAL "E"s
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One definition of this is entering a private place with the intent of listening secretly to private conversations
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Time's up! The correct answer was eavesdropping
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"FOR" WORDS
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Usually it's the last thing you're served in a Chinese restaurant
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Time's up! The correct answer was a fortune cookie
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PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING DRAMAS
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David Mamet won in 1984 for this salesman drama whose title includes 2 4-letter words
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Time's up! The correct answer was Glengarry Glen Ross
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"DO", "RE", "MI"
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Nancy Davis' married name
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Time's up! The correct answer was Reagan
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SOUNDS LIKE A RAPPER
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It's wack but ESPN dropped the downhill racing style of this type of bicycle from its X Games in 2004
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Time's up! The correct answer was BMX
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ROCK-Y
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The title of Falco's biggest hit mentions this fellow Austrian musician
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Time's up! The correct answer was Mozart
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TV ACTORS & ROLES
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On "Saturday Night Live", he's famous for playing Craig the Cheerleader, Janet Reno & moi
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Time's up! The correct answer was Will Ferrell
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NOVEL QUOTES
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(1719) "I made him know his name should be Friday, which was the day I saved his life"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Robinson Crusoe
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I PITY THE "FOOL"
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2-word term for a pointless task performed for no good reason
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Time's up! The correct answer was a fool's errand
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WHEREFORE "ART" THOU
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Grammatically speaking, the word "the" is definitely one of these
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Time's up! The correct answer was Article
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SURVIVAL AT SEA
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Steven Callahan drifted for 76 days & 1,800 miles on one of these he called Rubber Ducky III
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Time's up! The correct answer was an inflatable raft
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I SERVED IN HIS CABINET
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Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius
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Time's up! The correct answer was Barack Obama
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MYTHOLOGY
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In Australian myth, Ngunung-Ngunnut, one of these flying mammals, created the first woman
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Time's up! The correct answer was Bat
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HERBS & SPICES
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A popular soft drink "ale" is flavored with this spice whose name is from the Sanskrit for "horn root"
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Time's up! The correct answer was ginger
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"LAP" DANCE
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Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction & Porno for Pyros founded this mega-concert event
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Time's up! The correct answer was Lollapalooza
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"CAL" STATE
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Using one of these instruments, a doctor can see just how thick-headed you are:
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Time's up! The correct answer was Calipers
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GOING DUTCH
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The dairy is "de melwinkel" while "de kaaswinkel" specializes in this kind of dairy product
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Time's up! The correct answer was Cheese
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DEPARTMENT "S"
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These elected officials in the U.S. government take their name from the Latin for "old man"
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Time's up! The correct answer was senators
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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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CALL OUT THE VOICE SQUAD
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The voice of Daffy Duck (for the first 50 years)
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Time's up! The correct answer was Mel Blanc
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I'D RATHER BE SKIING
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In this type of race you have to zigzag between flags or other obstacles in proper order
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Time's up! The correct answer was a slalom
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"DEM"-ONS
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Cognitive deterioration, sometimes "senile"
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Time's up! The correct answer was dementia
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FEDERAL AID PROGRAMS
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This cabinet department operates over 160 hospitals & has guaranteed over 16 million loans
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Time's up! The correct answer was Veterans Affairs
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WASHINGTON D.C.
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Former Secretary of State for whom Washington, D.C. International Airport is named
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Time's up! The correct answer was John Foster Dulles
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CONGRESSIONAL MISDEMEANORS
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In 1921 Congress censured Rep. Thomas Blanton for inserting "obscene matter" into this publication
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Congressional Record
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OLD VIRGINIA
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In 1699 the capital of Virginia was moved from Jamestown to this city
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Time's up! The correct answer was Williamsburg
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BEATLES MUSIC
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Chauffeur Alf Bicknell was the inspiration for this 1965 song
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Time's up! The correct answer was "Drive My Car"
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KILLER MUSICALS
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Sting starred as the vile Macheath in a 1989 revival of this Weill musical
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Time's up! The correct answer was "The Threepenny Opera"
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"X"-MEN
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His dad Earl Little was an outspoken Baptist minister & supporter of black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey
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Time's up! The correct answer was Malcolm X
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THE VIRTUES
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This virtue is also a name of a Rhode Island island & of prim, cautious women
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Time's up! The correct answer was Prudence
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AROUND WASHINGTON, D.C.
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You might see Bob Woodward during your walking tour of this publication's building on 15th Street N.W.
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Washington Post
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MASTER OF PUPPETS
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This 2004 Matt Stone & Trey Parker film featured risque marionettes
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Time's up! The correct answer was Team America
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HAIRY
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From the Latin for "to clip", it's the shaved patch on the crowns of the heads of some monks
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Time's up! The correct answer was tonsure
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LITERATURE FOR KIDS
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This loving relative who takes care of Tom Sawyer was inspired by Mark Twain's own mother
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Time's up! The correct answer was Aunt Polly
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THE 19th CENTURY
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One of the 3 large empires of 19th century Eastern Europe was this "Sick Man"
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Ottoman Empire
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NORSE MYTHOLOGY
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The Einheriar were the dead warriors the Valkyries picked up & brought back to this hall where they were revived
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Time's up! The correct answer was Valhalla
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THE BIBLE
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John 1:29 calls Jesus this animal "of God, which taketh away the sin of the world"
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Time's up! The correct answer was a lamb
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THE BODY HUMAN
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The human body contains many of these: some are hinge, some are saddle, some are pivot types
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Time's up! The correct answer was Joints
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BREAKING NEWS
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Nearly 10 million YouTubers saw Dave Carroll's clip called this "friendly skies" airline "Breaks Guitars"
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Time's up! The correct answer was United Airlines
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OPERA SINGERS
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This hefty ebullient tenor once taught elementary school in Modena, Italy, his birthplace
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Time's up! The correct answer was Luciano Pavarotti
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PEOPLE
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Fatally, American groupie Nancy Spungen was this British punk rocker's girlfriend
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Time's up! The correct answer was Sid Vicious
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WORLD HISTORY
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This Navy commander flew from a base at Little America to the South Pole & back Nov. 28-29, 1929
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Time's up! The correct answer was Admiral Richard Byrd
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THE 14th CENTURY
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Name given to the split in the Catholic church when rival popes were elected in 1378
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Time's up! The correct answer was Great Schism
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PHYSICS
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The farad, the unit of capacitance, is named for this scientist
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Time's up! The correct answer was Faraday
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CHARACTERS IN BOOKS
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This character says, "It's Christmas Day! I haven't missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Ebenezer Scrooge
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FROM THE FRENCH
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This light tannish color gets its name from the French for "raw", as in raw vegetables
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Time's up! The correct answer was ecru
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THE FUNNIES
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His Stars and Stripes cartoons featured the battle-weary GIs Willie & Joe
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Time's up! The correct answer was Bill Mauldin
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ROYALTY
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In 1599, Albert, Archduke of Austria, married the Infanta of this country
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Time's up! The correct answer was Spain
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DAYS
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Leap day date
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Time's up! The correct answer was 29-Feb
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INSTRUMENT ETYMOLOGY
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The first 4 letters of xylophone refer etymologically to this material used to make its sounding bars
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Time's up! The correct answer was wood
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MEDICINE
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For an upper GI you drink this; for a lower GI... well, we won't talk about that
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Time's up! The correct answer was barium
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BIRDS! BIRDS! BIRDS!
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It loves to swim, but this bird seen here is one of the few that do not fly
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Time's up! The correct answer was Penguin
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THE "FIRST" STATE
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Ryan Howard's day job with the Phillies
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Time's up! The correct answer was first baseman
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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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"A" PLUS
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In February 1999 several of these killed 38 people in the Austrian towns of Galtur & Valzur
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Time's up! The correct answer was avalanches
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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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FOOD
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The non-chocolate version are called "blondies"
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Time's up! The correct answer was brownies
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GREAT DAMES
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She starred as Cleopatra and Olivier's Juliet, long before booking "A Passage to India"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Dame Peggy Ashcroft
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SHOTS HEARD AROUND THE WORLD
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In 1994 this 45-year-old won the title with a 1-2 punch that sent Michael Moorer to Horizontal Land
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Time's up! The correct answer was George Foreman
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LASTS
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The Battle of Castillon in 1453 was the last battle of this war that began back in 1337
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Hundred Years' War
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THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
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This 1990 winner said it was "a recognition of what we call perestroika and innovative political thinking"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Gorbachev
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HISTORY IN MOVIES
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"The Prince of Egypt" featured Ralph Fiennes as the voice of this stubborn ruler
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Pharaoh
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HOW'S THE WEATHER?
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Sept. 4, 2007 was the first time that 2 of these, Henriette & Felix, made landfall on the same day
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Time's up! The correct answer was hurricanes
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BALLET
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The New York City ballet's first visit to this city's famous festival inspired the ballet "Scotch Symphony"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Edinburgh
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"DO", "RE", "MI"
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Harmful or poisonous fumes caused by decaying organic matter
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Time's up! The correct answer was Miasma
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SPORTS HOME CITIES
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The NHL's Senators
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Time's up! The correct answer was Ottawa
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MISC.
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This waterfall is separated into the American Falls & Horseshoe Falls by Goat Island
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Time's up! The correct answer was Niagara Falls
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THE BLUE ANGELS
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(Sarah of the Clue Crew on the tarmac) Bearing the name of a Greek letter, this classic Blue Angels formation uses all 6 jets
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Time's up! The correct answer was Delta
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ATTACK OF THE THESAURUS
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I cannot tell a prevarication: it has this 3-letter synonym
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Time's up! The correct answer was lie
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THEN THERE'S MAUVE
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First obtained from aniline, the color mauve was the first commercially successful synthetic this
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Time's up! The correct answer was a dye
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IT HAPPENED IN NOVEMBER
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In Nov. 1922, after years of searching, Lord Carnarvon & Howard Carter made this discovery
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Time's up! The correct answer was Tutankhamen's tomb
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BRIDGES
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This Colorado canyon has the world's highest suspension bridge – 1,053' above the Arkansas River
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Time's up! The correct answer was Royal Gorge
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"O"PERA
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Stravinsky enlisted the help of Cocteau for a Libretto based on Sophocles' play about this Theban king
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Time's up! The correct answer was Oedipus
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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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THE MAINE ATTRACTION
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Summer is the time for Whatever Week, a celebration of the Kennebec River in this state capital
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Time's up! The correct answer was Augusta
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THE REDS
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This man's most avid supporters during the Cultural Revolution were students mobilized as "Red Guards"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Mao Tse-tung
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HOP ON POP CULTURE
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Howard Cunningham actually had 3 kids on this show, but Chuck was never seen after Season 2
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Time's up! The correct answer was Happy Days
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47
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The heavenly strains of the concert grand pedal type of this instrument come from its 47 strings
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Time's up! The correct answer was a harp
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MORE POWER TO YOU
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2-word term for the job that takes you to homes to figure out how much people owe the power company
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Time's up! The correct answer was a meter reader
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HISTORIC AMERICANS
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In 1973 he resigned as governor of New York to found the Commission on Critical Choices for Americans
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Time's up! The correct answer was Nelson Rockefeller
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ACTING PRESIDENTS ON TV
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On Fox, Patricia Wettig as Caroline Reynolds
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Time's up! The correct answer was Prison Break
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SPOUSE IN COMMON
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Roger Vadim, Tom Hayden
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TIME TO GET SIMON-IZED
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He was the head of Vienna's Jewish Documentation Center from 1961 to 2003
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ASTRONOMY
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These long distance travelers may be dirty ice balls or icy dirt balls
c _ m _ _ s
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"BOO"!
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A government project of little value funded to gain political favor
b o o _ _ o _ _ l _
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VALUABLE PLACES
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Sir Joseph Paxton's palace, or Dr. Robert Schuller's cathedral
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I HAVE A PREPOSITION FOR YOU
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It's the "A" in the advocacy group known as MADD
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PIZZA TOPPINGS
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How about a nice traditional Hawaiian pizza topped with ham or Canadian bacon & this fruit
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WHO'S ON FIRST?
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In many cities "Jeopardy!" leads into this sister show
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Time's up! The correct answer was Wheel of Fortune
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GETTING TICKED ON
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The chipping type of this common seed-eating little bird is a popular host for ticks
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Time's up! The correct answer was a sparrow
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4-LETTER WORDS
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It's a song of praise, like "Rock Of Ages"
_ _ m _
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SHIPS
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The 1st ship built in the colonies by English settlers was built in 1607 on the Kennebec River in what is now this state
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REALLY BIG
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Longer than 2 football fields, it was launched at Friedrichshafen, Germany in 1936
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ARCHITECTURE
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Virginia's Shirley plantation has a "hanging" one of these that climbs 3 stories without any visible means of support
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THE SUPREME COURT
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Justices Butler, Van DeVanter, Sutherland, and McReynolds opposed this president's "New Deal"
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GOING TOO "FUR"
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These electronic toys were a must-have item during the Christmas season of 1998
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SAINTS BE PRAISED
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The emblem of St. Lawrence, it's also a nickname for a football field
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IT'S GREEK MYTHOLOGY TO ME
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Menelaus not only wanted this wife back, but the treasure Paris stole along with her
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Time's up! The correct answer was Helen
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U.S. GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES
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The "Niagara of the South", this waterfall near Corbin, Kentucky shares its name with a famous "gap"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Cumberland
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NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES
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An exclamation point was warranted for the "End Of" This! in 1918
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I HAVE A PREPOSITION FOR YOU
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Neil Gaiman wrote, "Now slip, now slide, now move unseen, above, beneath, betwixt," this
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Time's up! The correct answer was between
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BRITISH HISTORY
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They've been guarding British royalty since 1485 & gin bottles since 1820
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THE REDCOATS ARE COMING!
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The British ferried 2,200 troops across this river to battle the Americans at Bunker Hill
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HAVE A CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
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G'Day Mate! Room service hopped in with kangaroo-tail soup, your breakfast from this continent
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ALL GOD'S CRITTERS
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Widely hunted for their hides, the American, Cuban & Nile species of this reptile are now in danger
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GREECE
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The popular dish moussaka is layers of ground meat & this vegetable
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NOVELS
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Published in 1949, this futuristic tale is set in Oceania, a few years before you were born
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OLYMPIC POTPOURRI
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The name of this equestrian event is French for "training"; it doesn't refer to a garment
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MUSCAT LOVE
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Qaboos bin Said al Said rules from his palace in Muscat under this title that means "ruler" in Arabic
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Time's up! The correct answer was sultan
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INTERNATIONAL CUISINE
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This Greek dish typically consists of layers of eggplant & ground lamb or beef topped with a white sauce
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A STATE OF COLLEGE-NESS
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DePaul, Wheaton, Northwestern
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FIRST LADIES' RHYME TIME
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Mrs. Reagan's whims
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CROSSWORD CLUES "K"
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A "bear"y nice Alaskan island (6)
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Time's up! The correct answer was Kodiak
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SCIENCE GUYS
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Until his death in 1907, this chemist headed the Weights & Measures Bureau in St. Petersburg, Russia
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HEADQUARTERS
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The Ford Motor Company has long been headquartered in this city that adjoins Detroit
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Time's up! The correct answer was Dearborn
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WON THE BATTLE
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In the Battle of Thermopylae, the Greeks felt the heat of these people under Xerxes I
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Persians
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CROSSWORD CLUES "E"
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Count off one-by-one (9)
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Time's up! The correct answer was enumerate
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FLY ME, BUT NOT TO THE MOON
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On Dec. 19, 2008 this "colorful" airline became the official one for the Red Sox, though its main hub is in (gasp!) N.Y.
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PRESIDENTS IN IOWA
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He was at radio station WHO back in the 1930s & while president, went back to Des Moines
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LETTER MEN
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He's the taller of the two gentlemen in the photo seen here
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6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR
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D'Artagnan
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SCIENCE CLASS
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The forked type of this runs unobstructed between the clouds & the ground
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Time's up! The correct answer was lightning
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DICTATORS & TYRANTS
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The pro-Soviet dictator Babrak Karmal came to power in this country after a 1979 invasion
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TIME'S TOP 10 EVERYTHING OF 2008
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No. 2 in "Jerry Stiller's Top 10 Words": This before "gevalt!" (Bonus--No. 3 was "colonoscopy")
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Time's up! The correct answer was Oy
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CALL OUT THE VOICE SQUAD
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The voice of Daffy Duck (for the first 50 years)
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Time's up! The correct answer was Mel Blanc
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TRANSLATION EXERCISES
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Polish to Latin: "Bog", a divine word
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Time's up! The correct answer was deus
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TELEVISION
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On this NBC sci-fi drama, genius Jarod was played by Michael T. Weiss as a man & by Ryan Merriman as a boy
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Time's up! The correct answer was The Pretender
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BALLET
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The Carolina Ballet debuted a 2006 work based on this stormy Shakespearean shipwreck saga
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Time's up! The correct answer was The Tempest
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HEALTH & MEDICINE
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These blood-sucking worms are used in medicine today to drain hematomas
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Time's up! The correct answer was leeches
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TRAIN STATIONS
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In the movie "The Clock", Judy Garland finds love in this "stately" NYC station
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Time's up! The correct answer was Penn Station
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WHAT'S YOUR BEEF?
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To make this dish, beef is topped with pate de foie gras & a mushroom paste before it's wrapped in pastry & cooked
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Time's up! The correct answer was beef Wellington
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MEDICAL TALK
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Luteinizing hormone is one of the many produced by this cherry-shaped gland
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Time's up! The correct answer was the pituitary
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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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CROSSWORD CLUES "J"
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Riding breeches (8)
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Time's up! The correct answer was jodhpurs
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LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
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The Tasman Sea separates Australia & this nation
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Time's up! The correct answer was New Zealand
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THE ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS
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In 1994 Pearl Jam complained to the Justice Dept. that this company held a monopoly
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Time's up! The correct answer was Ticketmaster
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IT'S OURS!
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Saint-Pierre & Miquelon
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Time's up! The correct answer was France
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WHO'S THE MRS.?
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Mrs. Brad Pitt
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A TOM CRUISE FILM FESTIVAL
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"I lost the Number 1 draft pick the night before the draft!"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Jerry Maguire
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DIED ON THE SAME DAY
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C.S. Lewis & Aldous Huxley's deaths on Nov. 22, 1963 were overshadowed by this man's death in Dallas
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Time's up! The correct answer was John Kennedy
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WYOMING
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A western celebration, Frontier Days, has been held each year since 1897 in this capital
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Time's up! The correct answer was Cheyenne
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AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY
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Jebel Musa, a promontory in this mountain range, is one of the Pillars of Hercules
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Time's up! The correct answer was Atlas Mountains
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RUSSIAN
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"Idyot snyek" means this is happening, a common weather condition in January
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Time's up! The correct answer was snowing
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STATES' FORMER CAPITALS
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Wheeling
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NOTABLE NONHUMANS
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In 1945 this famous scottie was injured in a fight with Blaze, Elliott Roosevelt's mastiff
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Time's up! The correct answer was Fala
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WORLD CAPITALS
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Founded in 1496 by Columbus's brother, this Dominican capitol is the oldest European city in the new world
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Time's up! The correct answer was Santo Domingo
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ISLANDS
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One of France's 26 regions, it doesn't count as an overseas one though it's 100 miles across the Mediterranean
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Time's up! The correct answer was Corsica
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WHAT A GEM!
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Cornflower blue is the most prized color of this gem
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Time's up! The correct answer was a sapphire
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SONG LYRICS
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The woman who "cries the whole night long; he was my man but he done me wrong' "
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3-LETTER ABBREV.
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Organization founded by Carrie Chapman Catt in 1920: LWV
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BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS
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1990-1997
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CROSSWORD CLUES "B"
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A throng, often "of beauties" (4)
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Time's up! The correct answer was bevy
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BICYCLES
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The woman’s bicycle without the bar was created so women could ride while wearing these
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Time's up! The correct answer was a skirt
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WOMEN'S FASHION
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Popular in the 18th century, Watteau gowns were inspired by Jean Antoine Watteau, who was one of these
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Time's up! The correct answer was Painter
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ISRAEL
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This port city on & around Mount Carmel has been compared to San Francisco, its sister city
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Time's up! The correct answer was Haifa
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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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OCCUPATIONS
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Of chairs, chicken or chinos, what you're most likely to haul if you drive a reefer truck
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Time's up! The correct answer was chicken
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NATIONAL SPELLING BEE
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This small racing sled has the distinction of being the National Spelling Bee's shortest winning word
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MOVIE CITIES
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The 1980 Oscar winner for Foreign Language Film was "____ does Not Believe in Tears"
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1807
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In September he was acquitted of treason against the U.S.
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BRAZILIAN WORDS & PHRASES
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Unlike some, I like my women to be "cranio", this quality we also admire on "Jeopardy!"
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THE ICU
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A myocardial infarction, better known as this, is a common reason for ICU admission
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ROUGH POLITICS
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On Aug. 5, 1994 he was named independent counsel in the Whitewater affair
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PHYSICS
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Plano-convex, biconvex & concavo-convex are 3 of the types of this optical component
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THE BIBLE
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Under the command of this Babylonian king, Nebuzaradan burned "All the houses of Jerusalem"
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THE TREES WERE ANGRY THAT DAY, MY FRIENDS
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An apple tree angrily slaps the hand of a Kansas girl trying to pick from it in this film
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THEY ALSO RAN
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At age 31, he was Cleveland's mayor
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Time's up! The correct answer was Dennis Kucinich
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BORN IN THE WINDY CITY
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This Chicago native worked as a DJ in Vietnam & a weatherman in Nashville before hosting "Wheel of Fortune"
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BOGIE MEN
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Fred C. Dobbs
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HIDDEN BOOKS OF THE BIBLE
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Sending money was the best her friends could do for her
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Time's up! The correct answer was Esther
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KING ARTHUR
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The title of this T.H. White book refers to the object that made Arthur king
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Time's up! The correct answer was a sword in the stone
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BABY NAMES A LA SHAKESPEARE
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If you give your son this villainous 4-letter name from "Othello", you're just asking for trouble
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Time's up! The correct answer was Iago
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GREAT DAMES
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This Maori diva from New Zealand sang with Nelson Riddle and at Prince Charles's wedding
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AMERICANA
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Lancaster, which has the largest stockyards east of Chicago, was this state's capital from 1799 to 1812
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COLOSSUS
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This adjective that means "amazingly large" or "causing amazement" is from the Latin for "to be stunned"
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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
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Under the 5th Amendment, 1 of the 3 things that no person shall be deprived of "without due process of law"
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RICHARD
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Either of the 2 parents of Richard the Lion-Hearted
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AMERICANA
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On July 8, 1776 it was rung to proclaim the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Liberty Bell
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KILLER MUSICALS
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This "demon barber" had his victims baked into pies (no one could accuse him of good taste)
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SCIENTISTS
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His 1637 "Discours de la methode" prefaced a series of essays on optics, meteorology, and geometry
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iPOD, YOUTUBE OR WII
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Britain's Prince William got one last Christmas & Queen Elizabeth promptly commandeered it
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Time's up! The correct answer was Wii
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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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MOUNTAINS
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The Caucusus Mountains of Eastern Europe are predominantly found in this large country
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BIBLICAL PAIRS
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God & Jesus are called by these 2 Greek letters in Revelation
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ENDS WITH 3 VOWELS
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Hawaiian feast
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MUSICAL THEATRE
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Barbra Streisand introduced the song "People" in this musical
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Time's up! The correct answer was Funny Girl
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BASEBALL
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In Los Angeles, the Dodgers have had only these 2 managers
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"X", "Y", "Z"
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It's a kind of striped mussel as well as a striped equine
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Time's up! The correct answer was a zebra
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CROSSWORD CLUES "K"
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Jean-Claude of the slopes (5)
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Time's up! The correct answer was Killy
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GREEK LIFE
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Greek cafe music features a lute called a bouzouki & this woodwind, the klarino
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Time's up! The correct answer was Clarinet
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IT ENDS WITH "US"
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He killed the minotaur
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Time's up! The correct answer was Theseus
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CANALS
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With capital of about $40 million set in place, work was begun on this waterway in April 1859
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Suez Canal
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ENDS WITH 3 VOWELS
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Dresser
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Time's up! The correct answer was a bureau
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NOVELS OF THE PAST
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The hero of Neal Stephenson's "Quicksilver" has to settle the calculus dispute between Leibniz & him
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Time's up! The correct answer was Newton
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FUN WITH OPERA
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In Nicolai's opera "The Merry Wives of Windsor", this fat, funny rogue gets dumped into the river in a laundry basket
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Time's up! The correct answer was Falstaff
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HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
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The night before the 3rd Monday in April, lanterns are hung in the steeple of this Boston church
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Old North Church
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WHO IS THEON OF SMYRNA?
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Theon's greatest work, available on Amazon.com, has mathematics useful for understanding this "Republic" author
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Time's up! The correct answer was Plato
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RADIO PERSONALITIES
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She's from Brooklyn, has a Ph.D. in physiology & is Deryk's mom
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Time's up! The correct answer was Dr. Laura
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B.C. & AFTER
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"Wonder"-ful giant statue of Helios that brings financial aid to study at Oxford
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Time's up! The correct answer was The Colossus of Rhodes Scholarship
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U.S. STATES
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The last major land battle of the Revolutionary War took place in this state
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Time's up! The correct answer was Virginia
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LITERARY TITLES
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This 1954 book title refers to an impaled sow's head, an offering to the "beast"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Lord of the Flies
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ENGLISH LIT
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Among his historical novels are "I, Claudius" & "Claudius the God"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Robert Graves
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LITERARY LAST NAME'S THE SAME
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Walter M., Arthur, Henry
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Time's up! The correct answer was Miller
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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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PHILOSOPHY GLOSSARY
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"Every virtue is laudable. Kindness is a virtue. Therefore, kindness is laudable" is a logical this
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Time's up! The correct answer was syllogism
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HEY, "U"!
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In legend, this mythical beast could purify poisoned water with its single horn
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Time's up! The correct answer was Unicorn
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NOT A VERB
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Salt, pepper, sage
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Time's up! The correct answer was sage
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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY SAYS....
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Cynically she wrote that this "Is not all; it is not meat nor drink nor slumber nor a roof against the rain"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Love
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KIDDY LIT
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The wedding meal eaten by this odd Edward Lear pair is "mince and slices of quince"
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Time's up! The correct answer was the owl and the pussycat
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WORLD FACTS
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This isthmus connects North & South America
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Time's up! The correct answer was Isthmus of Panama
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AT THE MALL
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SKX is the stock symbol for this manufacturer of sporty shoes
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Time's up! The correct answer was Skechers
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ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
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A flock of these black birds is called a murder
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Time's up! The correct answer was crows
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THE 19th CENTURY
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One of the 3 large empires of 19th century Eastern Europe was this "Sick Man"
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Ottoman Empire
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WORDS OF LOVE
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"In her first passion woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love", he wrote in "Don Juan"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Byron
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HOLLYWOOD DOGS
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Higgins played the title role of this 1974 film
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Time's up! The correct answer was Benji
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...& THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON!
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Noted for their "feathery" legs, these Scottish draft horses were taken to North America in 1842, Bud
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Time's up! The correct answer was Clydesdales
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HISTORY
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Every president since Taft has been an honorary president of this organization founded in the U.S. in Feb. 1910
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Boy Scouts
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THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
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This group named for a king of Israel split from the church in 1934, a "branch" of it became notorious in 1993
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Davidians
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NOT A VERB
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Capable, succeed, accomplish
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Time's up! The correct answer was capable
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GOAT-POURRI
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The backward-curving horns of the Siberian species of this 4-letter goat may be nearly 5 feet long
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Time's up! The correct answer was ibex
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BROADWAY LYRICS
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"Immigrant goes to America, many hellos in America; nobody knows in America, Puerto Rico's in America!"
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Time's up! The correct answer was West Side Story
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FIRE!
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Though the 1871 Chicago fire began in this family's barn, their house suffered only minor damages
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Time's up! The correct answer was the O'Learys
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STATE FISH
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Maryland's state fish, the rockfish, is also known as the striped species of this
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Time's up! The correct answer was bass
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CHOPIN
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Chopin disliked the insincerity of this Hungarian pianist-composer 1 year his junior
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Time's up! The correct answer was Franz Liszt
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KNOTS TO YOU
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The Honda is a slip knot used by cowboys to make this tool of the trade
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Time's up! The correct answer was Lasso
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"IRA"
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Hey, you saps who think pneumonia killed President Harrison--I've got this kind of theory involving a group plan
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Time's up! The correct answer was a conspiracy theory
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COMPOSERS ON FILM
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James Cagney in "The Seven Little Foys"
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Time's up! The correct answer was George M. Cohan
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HISTORIC DATES
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He was shot on Sept. 6, 1901 while shaking hands with a crowd of well-wishers at the Pan-American Exposition
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Time's up! The correct answer was McKinley
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DANCE
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Late black choreographer whose American Dance Theatre became multiracial in the 1960s
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Time's up! The correct answer was Alvin Ailey
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THE OLD WEST
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In Old West talk, "fit" was the past tense of this
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Time's up! The correct answer was Fight
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WORDS OF THE WRITER
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"For never man had a more faithful, loving, sincere servant, than Friday was to me"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Daniel Defoe
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TIME TO CONVERT
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It's the simplest fractional form of .75
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Time's up! The correct answer was 4-Mar
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FASHION FROM HEAD TO TOE
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The French name of these casual summer shoes derives from a tough wiry grass that's used to make rope
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Time's up! The correct answer was espadrilles
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ANCIENT TIMES
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Horrified by the carnage of war, Asoka, a 3rd century B.C. ruler in India, embraced this peaceful religion
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Time's up! The correct answer was Buddhism
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WORLD HISTORY
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In 1784 she founded the city of Sevastopol in her new domain of the Crimea
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Time's up! The correct answer was Catherine the Great
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"N"ATIONS OF THE WORLD
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There are thousands of temples & shrines in this country's Katmandu Valley
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Time's up! The correct answer was Nepal
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EXPLORERS
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In 1848 Johannes Rebmann became the first European to see & describe "the snows" of this African mountain
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Time's up! The correct answer was Kilimanjaro
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FURNITURE
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He designed furniture for Federal Hall in New York as well as the basic layout of Washington, D.C.
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Time's up! The correct answer was Pierre L'Enfant
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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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"DEM"-ONS
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A formal reduction in rank, status or position
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Time's up! The correct answer was demotion
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AMERICAN AUTHORS
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In 1884 she moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska & later fictionalized it as the town of Hanover in "O Pioneers!"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Willa Cather
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CABLE CHANNELS
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This channel for women produces the original drama "Army Wives"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Lifetime
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TAYLOR, SWIFT
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In a 2008 film he played Drillbit Taylor
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Time's up! The correct answer was Owen Wilson
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APT ANAGRAMS
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It's decorated in December: SEARCH, SET, TRIM
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Time's up! The correct answer was Christmas tree
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"TABLE"S
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To reverse the situation & gain the upper hand
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Time's up! The correct answer was Turn the Tables
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THE 20th CENTURY
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In 1992 this former Panamanian dictator was found guilty of drug trafficking by a Miami jury
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Time's up! The correct answer was Manuel Noriega
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HERBS & SPICES
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During the Middle Ages, merchants who adulterated this expensive yellow spice were burnt at the stake
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Time's up! The correct answer was saffron
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LITERARY SISTERS
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Holden Caulfield tells this little sister that he wants to be a "catcher in the rye" to keep kids from falling
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Time's up! The correct answer was Phoebe
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MAGIC
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This magician's feats include walking through the Great Wall of China
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Time's up! The correct answer was David Copperfield
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THE BRITISH THEATRE
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Richard Attenborough, who was in the original 1952 cast of this play, helped celebrate its performance No. 20,000 in 2000
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Time's up! The correct answer was The Mousetrap
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TIME'S TOP 10 EVERYTHING OF 2008
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No. 2 in "Jerry Stiller's Top 10 Words": This before "gevalt!" (Bonus--No. 3 was "colonoscopy")
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Time's up! The correct answer was Oy
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MASTER OF PUPPETS
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This evil puppet master from "Pinocchio" shared his name with a volcanic island near Sicily
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Time's up! The correct answer was Stromboli
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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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OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS BY SPORT
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1964: Joe Frazier; 1996: Wladimir Klitschko
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Time's up! The correct answer was boxing
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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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TRANSLATION EXERCISES
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Polish to Latin: "Bog", a divine word
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Time's up! The correct answer was deus
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SEAQUEST
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This sea stretches from Beirut to Gibraltar
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Time's up! The correct answer was Mediterranean Sea
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DRESSING
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Traditional Highland dress includes a wide belt, presumably holding up this
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Time's up! The correct answer was a kilt
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"EVE"NING
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Dangerous ones include hemorrhagic & scarlet
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Time's up! The correct answer was fever
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WHAT'CHA GOT COOKIN'?
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This clear meat soup will be finished in a jiffy; actually, "finished" is what its name means
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Time's up! The correct answer was a consommé
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POETIC TERMS
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16th century poet who perfected in "The Faerie Queene" the stanza named for him
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Time's up! The correct answer was Edmund Spenser
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ANYTHING BUT CHEESESTEAK
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The French have Catherine de Medici to thank for introducing this sprouting Italian veggie to them
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Time's up! The correct answer was broccoli
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ALBUMS THAT ROCK
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"Master of Puppets", "Death Magnetic"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Metallica
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GENERAL SCIENCE
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This tiny planet's thin atmosphere is mostly composed of helium & sodium thought to come from the solar wind
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Time's up! The correct answer was Mercury
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POLITICAL SLOGANS
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“Four more years of the full dinner pail” symbolized this president's re-election campaign in 1900
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Time's up! The correct answer was McKinley
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ALSO A BOOK IN THE BIBLE
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This character first hit the radio in 1928 with his partner Andy
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Time's up! The correct answer was Amos
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I WANT TO RIDE THAT!
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No tame little swing ride, the Starflyer in this Austrian city swings you as high as a 23-story building
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Time's up! The correct answer was Vienna
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SCIENCE BRIEFS
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When the stork won't come: IVF
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Time's up! The correct answer was in vitro fertilization
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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 GIANTS
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"Giants in the Earth" is Ole Rolvaag's novel about immigrants from this country adjusting to life on the prairie
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Time's up! The correct answer was Norway
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GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
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From before 3000 B.C., the game Senet of these people used a board & pieces to depict an afterlife journey
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Egyptians
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PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS
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Originally bean-containing dried gourds on handles, they were named by the Tupi of South America
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Time's up! The correct answer was Maracas
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WORLD LEADERS
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Serzh Sargsian is its president, Tigran Sargsian is its prime minister
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Time's up! The correct answer was Armenia
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RUN, RUN, RUN
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In 1925 N.Y. Journal-American writer Bill Corum first called the Kentucky Derby the "run for" these
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Time's up! The correct answer was the roses
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ADJECTIVES
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As a noun, it's pieces for fastening; as an adjective it's large & robust, like some young men
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Time's up! The correct answer was strapping
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SATURDAY NIGHT ON THE TOWN
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Guacara Taina in this capital of the Dominican Republic may be the world's only disco-in-a-cave
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Time's up! The correct answer was Santo Domingo
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HOLIDAYS
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Until 1752, the 13 colonies observed Annunciation Day, the 25th of this month, as new year's
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Time's up! The correct answer was March
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WHAT A WEEK
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Carrie on "Sex and the City" really enjoyed this event that brings ships & thousands of sailors to NYC
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Time's up! The correct answer was Fleet Week
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LEVITICUS
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This tribe that gives the book its English name is only mentioned in one passage
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Time's up! The correct answer was Levites
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THE ONION HEADLINES FROM THE YEAR 2056
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This country "Bombed Back into the Renaissance"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Italy
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OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
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Canada (both, please)
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Time's up! The correct answer was French & English
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SHAMANISM ON YOU
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Yikes! Among these indigenous Australians, a person is thought to become a shaman after an initiatory death
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Aborigines
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PSYCHOLOGY
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Brought to the U.S. in the 1930s, this movement's name is German for "pattern" or "shape"
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Time's up! The correct answer was gestalt
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ODDS & ENDS
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On April 9, 1963 this Brit was made the first honorary U.S. citizen
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Time's up! The correct answer was Winston Churchill
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BOB DYLAN CHRONICLES
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"May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung"
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Time's up! The correct answer was "Forever Young"
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ART
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Roger Fry of the Met coined this term for the works of artists like Cezanne & Gauguin
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Time's up! The correct answer was Postimpressionist
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NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES
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An RV maker based in Iowa shares its name with this large Wisconsin lake
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Time's up! The correct answer was Winnebago
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YOUNG ABE LINCOLN
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Among the books read by Lincoln as a youngster were "Robinson Crusoe", "Aesop's Fables", & Mason Weems' "Life of" this man
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Time's up! The correct answer was Washington
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20th CENTURY AMERICANS
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He was alive for the Wright Brothers' historic flight & was John Glenn's Senate colleague when Glenn returned to space
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Time's up! The correct answer was Strom Thurmond
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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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SSSSSSSSNAKES!!!!!
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This highly venomous snake of the eastern U.S. has red & black bands separated by yellow ones
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Time's up! The correct answer was coral snake
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THE BODY HUMAN
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Abbreviated TB, this disease is characterized by lesions in the lung tissue
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Time's up! The correct answer was Tuberculosis
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THE MOVIES
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Known for comedies like "Mr. Mom", he donned the cape & cowl of Batman in 1989
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Time's up! The correct answer was Michael Keaton
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WORD ORIGINS
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Today meaning a self-employed person, this term derives from medieval knights who sold their skills
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Time's up! The correct answer was Freelancer
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GEOGRAPHY "E"
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It's the largest kingdom in the United Kingdom
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Time's up! The correct answer was England
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GETTING TICKED OFF
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He gave his kids by Cleopatra much of the land once ruled by Alexander the Great; his co-rulers & rivals were not pleased
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Time's up! The correct answer was Mark Antony
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POET'S GLOSSARY
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This basic metrical unit of poetry sounds like a body part
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Time's up! The correct answer was a foot
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BRITISH FASHION
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Designer Vivienne Westwood ran a shop with Malcolm McLaren, who launched this Johnny Rotten band
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Time's up! The correct answer was The Sex Pistols
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WORMS
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In "Henry VI, Part 3", Clifford tells the king that "The smallest worm will" do this "being trodden on"
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Time's up! The correct answer was turn
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HARRY GUYS
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There's no doubt about it, he was born Harry, but we know him as "Bing"
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Time's up! The correct answer was "Bing" Crosby
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BOB DYLAN CHRONICLES
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"In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you"
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Time's up! The correct answer was "Mr. Tambourine Man"
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CANADIAN CAPITALS
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This Manitoba capital annexed the adjacent community of Saint Boniface in 1972
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Time's up! The correct answer was Winnipeg
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YOUNG ABE LINCOLN
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While serving in the Illinois legislature, Abe switched to this party of his political idol Henry Clay
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Whigs
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TBA
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A teary-eyed person, or the announcer of the latest village news
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Time's up! The correct answer was Crier
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BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS
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1976: "A Single Colorado Mountain"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Rocky
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GOING TOO "FUR"
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These electronic toys were a must-have item during the Christmas season of 1998
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Furby
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NORM!
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1968 "The Armies of the Night" won him a Pulitzer & the National Book Award
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Time's up! The correct answer was Norman Mailer
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UP IN THE AIR
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It decreases for the first 6 miles of the atmosphere, then goes way up, way down & finally up again around 55 miles high
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Time's up! The correct answer was the temperature
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ONE LETTER DIFFERENT
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A large sack
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Time's up! The correct answer was a big bag
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CELEBRITY RHYME TIME
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Lauer's chiropterans
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Time's up! The correct answer was Matt's bats
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TOM WOLFE
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It was Wolfe who first predicted that the 1970s "Will come to be known as" this "decade"
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Me Decade
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THE REDCOATS ARE COMING!
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In it, Thomas Paine wrote, "The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Common Sense
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IT'S ONLY ROCK & ROLL
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This band is now part of the "Zeitgeist" after suffering "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Smashing Pumpkins
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THOSE AMAZING ANIMALS
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Newly born calves of this "colorful" mammal can measure 28 feet in length & weigh up to 3 tons
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Time's up! The correct answer was the blue whale
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PHYSICAL SCIENCE
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To scientists, it's force times distance; to Twain, it's "whatever a body is obliged to do"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Work
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STRING THEORY 101
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A 1942 big band hit was entitled "String Of" these
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Time's up! The correct answer was "String Of Pearls"
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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
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In 1999 Ford snatched up the auto unit of this company for 50 billion kronor
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Time's up! The correct answer was Volvo
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PIANO KEYS
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A 6-string guitar has 2 strings tuned to this note, each corresponding to a piano key
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Time's up! The correct answer was E
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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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ASIA
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19th century novelist Jose Rizal was a hero of this country's independence movement
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Philippines
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HAT'S ALL, FOLKS
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The ever-popular Bowler hat is named for William Bowler, the man who created it in 1850 in this country
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Time's up! The correct answer was England
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PHYSICS
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The term horsepower came about when James Watt compared work done by a horse to work done by this
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Time's up! The correct answer was steam engine
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LUXEMBOURG
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Rivaner is a profitable type of this planted in Luxembourg's Moselle Valley
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Time's up! The correct answer was grape
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WE'RE MALAYSIA-BOUND
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Endau-Rompin Park is one of the last homes of the Sumatran species of this horned mammal
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Time's up! The correct answer was Rhinoceros
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SOUNDS LIKE A RAPPER
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Completed in 1955, this bridge crosses the Hudson near Nyack
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Tappan Zee
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SCIENCE GUYS
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In 1610 this Italian made his biggest discovery: the 4 largest moons of Jupiter
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Time's up! The correct answer was Galileo
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PARLEZ VOUS?
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Duck, duck, l'oie; (l'oie of course referring to this other feathered friend)
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Time's up! The correct answer was a goose
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CENTRAL PARK
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Central Park has a statue of King Wladyslaw II Jagiello of this country, who was also Grand Duke of Lithuania
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Time's up! The correct answer was Poland
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INTERIOR DESIGN
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The barrel species of this spiny plant can bring a touch of the desert into your home
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Time's up! The correct answer was Cactus
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EXPLORERS
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His family friend Tyrker found vines & grapes in the new land, so he called the area Vinland
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Time's up! The correct answer was Leif Ericson
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OF "RATH"
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For many, this Johannesburg-born actor will forever be the definitive Sherlock Holmes
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Time's up! The correct answer was Basil Rathbone
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BABY BOOMER MEMORIES
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In a heartbreaking scene, Travis has to kill his beloved dog in this 1957 film based on a Fred Gipson book
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Time's up! The correct answer was Old Yeller
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BON APPE-"T"
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A folded tortilla filled with various ingredients
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Time's up! The correct answer was Taco
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TRANSLATION EXERCISES
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Swahili to German: The magic word "tafadhali"
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Time's up! The correct answer was bitte
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THE CIVIL WAR
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1 of the 3 men whom Lincoln defeated in the 1860 presidential election
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Time's up! The correct answer was Breckenridge
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SKIP TO MY "LOO"
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5-letter word for "remote in manner"
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Time's up! The correct answer was aloof
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BRITISH HISTORY
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Though it sounds like a grim volume, it's just William the Conqueror's survey of the British kingdom
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Time's up! The correct answer was The Domesday Book
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NAME THE AUTOMAKER
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Corniche & Silver Shadow
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Time's up! The correct answer was Rolls-Royce
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"PIN" ME
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A child holds this toy by the stick & lets the wind do the spinning
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Time's up! The correct answer was Pinwheel
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4 CONSONANTS IN A ROW
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This important mechanism is what you're turning when you wind a clock
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Time's up! The correct answer was the mainspring
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INITIAL T.V.
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[Hi, I'm Pat O'Brien] David E. Kelley won 2 Emmys for this show in 1991, one as executive producer, one as writer
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Time's up! The correct answer was L.A. Law
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PRESIDENTS' MONOGRAMS
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DDE
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Time's up! The correct answer was Dwight David Eisenhower
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DOUBLE TALK
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In the familiar jokes, it precedes "Who's there?"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Knock Knock
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PHILOSOPHY GLOSSARY
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The name of this study of moral principles is derived from a Greek word meaning "habit"
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Time's up! The correct answer was ethics
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RELIGION
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In this Asian religion, a lohan is not an actress but a holy person, & monasteries have images of lohans
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Time's up! The correct answer was Buddhism
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FOOD FACTS
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The name of this meat is from the Latin "venatus", hunt
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Time's up! The correct answer was Venison
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BRITISH HISTORY
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The penultimate Anglo-Saxon king, Edward was known by this pious title
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Time's up! The correct answer was Edward the Confessor
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MUNICH
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In the 16th century, Munich was a center of the German phase of this movement against Protestantism
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Counter-Reformation
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PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY
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Appropriately, we've had 2 presidents born under this sign, Bush & Kennedy
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Time's up! The correct answer was Gemini
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MOTHER GOOSE
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This shepherdess found her sheep's tails all hung on a tree to dry, so she tried to "tack to each sheep its tail, oh"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Little Bo Peep
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SECRET IDENTITIES
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Superman
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Time's up! The correct answer was Clark Kent
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MUSICAL TRAINS
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This "Modern Girl" first hit the Billboard Top 10 with "Morning Train (Nine To Five)"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Easton
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LOST IN SPACE
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In 1992 Space Shuttle astronauts delivered ashes of this "Star Trek" creator into the final frontier
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Time's up! The correct answer was Gene Roddenberry
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THE LOYOLA OPPOSITION
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In 1521, Ignatius was struck by a cannonball while defending this country against the French
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Time's up! The correct answer was Spain
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MINORITY REPORT
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Justice Brennan, dissenting in Paris Adult Theater v. Slaton, said this quality is too vaguely defined to regulate
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Time's up! The correct answer was obscenity
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TELL ME "Y"
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It can be a standard for comparison, or a measuring rod 3 feet in length
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Time's up! The correct answer was Yardstick
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CROSSWORD CLUES "M"
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Diamond deposit; it ain't yours! (4)
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Time's up! The correct answer was mine
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LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
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Robin Hood's nemesis was the sheriff of this district
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Time's up! The correct answer was Nottingham
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PIANO KEYS
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It's the only letter in "piano" that corresponds to a piano key
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Time's up! The correct answer was A
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PSYCHOLOGY
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Standard test of responding to a key word with the 1st words which come to your mind
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Time's up! The correct answer was word association
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ETIQUETTE
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After a family meal, you may fold this item & place it back inside its ring
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Time's up! The correct answer was a napkin
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EDUCATION JARGON
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These 2 words, denoting socioeconomically challenged, followed "A Nation" in a 1983 report's title
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Time's up! The correct answer was At Risk
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THE VIRTUES
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You "Gotta Have" this virtue; at least according to George Michael
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Time's up! The correct answer was Faith
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SATURDAY
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In 1916, he sold his first of more than 300 Saturday Evening Post covers
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Time's up! The correct answer was Rockwell
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LOW TECH
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Ticonderoga is no. 1 in making no. 2 these, introduced in 1913
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Time's up! The correct answer was pencils
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FROM THE LATIN
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Fancy Valentines often feature this delicate fabric whose name comes from the Latin for "to trap or snare"
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Time's up! The correct answer was lace
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ALL MY Xs
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Maximum number of Xs that can appear on one bowler's score sheet in one game
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Time's up! The correct answer was 12
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COMIC STRIPS
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This Scott Adams title guy with a gravity-defying tie accidentally invented a death ray that interested North Korea
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Time's up! The correct answer was Dilbert
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DISNEY VILLAINS
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Jafar
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Time's up! The correct answer was Aladdin
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AFRICAN LANGUAGE LAB
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The word "okra" is West African; in the language of Angola, okra was called this, which to us is a soup or stew
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Time's up! The correct answer was gumbo
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PARISIANS
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In the 1880s he introduced his brother & roommate, Vincent, to the Impressionists
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Time's up! The correct answer was Theo Van Gogh
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WORD AND PHRASE ORIGINS
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Meaning "rapidly", this term began in England, referring to the speed with which the mail was delivered
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Time's up! The correct answer was post haste
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THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION
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Philadelphia got its start as a colony for this religious group of which William Penn was a member
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Quakers
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THE 23rd PSALM
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"Surely" these 2 quantities "shall follow me all the days of my life"
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Time's up! The correct answer was goodness & mercy
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PLACES
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A building for religious veneration, or the L.A. auditorium that hosted 1997's Academy Awards
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Time's up! The correct answer was shrine
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POLITICIANS MAKE ME CUSS
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"For the love of" Wyoming senator Enzi!
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Time's up! The correct answer was Mike
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WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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The highest airport in the world is Lhasa Airport in this country
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Time's up! The correct answer was TIbet
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WORDS OF LOVE
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He concludes "The Divine Comedy" with "The love that moves the sun and the other stars"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Dante
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STRINGS
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The hope behind String Theory is that it will result in this, sometimes shortened to "T.O.E."
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Time's up! The correct answer was the theory of everything
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& HONEY
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& Honey, could you pick up some of the Huggies brand of these on the way home?
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Time's up! The correct answer was diapers
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LITERARY CHARACTERS
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He said, "My mother was an ape, and of course she couldn't tell me much about it"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Tarzan
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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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THE ENGLISH TOP 100
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It's No. 1, & no, you don't get a hint
_ _ e
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Time's up! The correct answer was the
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THE 50 STATES
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An 1881 resolution established that this state's name was to be spelled one way but pronounced another
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Time's up! The correct answer was Arkansas
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AUTHORS' RHYME TIME
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Julia Ward's female swine
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Time's up! The correct answer was Howe's sows;23456
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PASS THE CHOCOLATE
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Candymakers know that the fat obtained from cocoa beans isn't called cocoa margarine but this
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Time's up! The correct answer was cocoa butter
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FLOWER
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Bergamot is also called the "balm" of these creatures to which it's highly attractive
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Time's up! The correct answer was bees
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STRING THEORY 101
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String puppets are often called these, affer a certain virgin
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Time's up! The correct answer was marionettes
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FIRST NAME'S THE SAME
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Henson, Morrison, Lehrer
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Time's up! The correct answer was Jim
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SOCIOLOGY
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The sum of the customs & beliefs that distinguish one group from another; the hippies formed a "counter" one
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Time's up! The correct answer was a culture
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THE HAYES YEARS
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On November 23, 1880 this "Sunflower State" became the first to prohibit in its constitution the sale of liquor
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Time's up! The correct answer was Kansas
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BROADWAY LYRICS
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"Immigrant goes to America, many hellos in America; nobody knows in America, Puerto Rico's in America!"
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Time's up! The correct answer was West Side Story
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BRUCE ALMIGHTY
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His July 20, 1973 death in Hong Kong at age 32 shocked the world
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Time's up! The correct answer was Bruce Lee
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BRITISH FASHION
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Star designer John Galliano was born Juan Carlos Galliano in this British possession at the tip of Spain
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Time's up! The correct answer was Gibraltar
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GOING TO PIECES
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Every Christmas, the Indiana post office in the town named for him postmarks a half a million pieces of mail
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Time's up! The correct answer was Santa Claus
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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY SAYS....
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"We were very tired, we were very merry -- we had gone back and forth all night in" this conveyance
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Time's up! The correct answer was Ferry
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PUT ON YOUR JAMIES
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Jamie in this family that includes N.C. & Andrew said, "Everybody in my family paints -- excluding possibly the dogs"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Wyeth
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NONFICTION
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This book by Michael Lewis subtitled "Evolution of a Game" focused on left tackle prodigy Michael Oher
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Time's up! The correct answer was The Blind Side
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HISTORY OLDER THAN YOU
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Julius Caesar became the leader of this empire in 45 B.C. but was killed just one year later
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Time's up! The correct answer was Roman
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BASEBALL HISTORY
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To injure opposing players, Ty Cobb was said to sharpen these
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Time's up! The correct answer was his spikes
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FRUIT
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This fruit often originates from peach seeds & peaches sometimes come from its seeds
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Time's up! The correct answer was Nectarines
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TITLES FROM SHAKESPEARE
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Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" comes from a speech of Miranda's in this play
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Time's up! The correct answer was The Tempest
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YOU HAD TO EXPECT OPERA
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Flosshilde is a Rhinemaiden in this composer's "Das Rheingold"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Richard Wagner
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THE BYRDS & THE BEAS
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He was the Senate's Minority Leader from 1980-87, then moved up to Majority Leader
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Time's up! The correct answer was Robert Byrd
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NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES
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Oct. 2, 1962: "3,000 Troops Put Down....Rioting And Seize 200 As Negro Attends" this school
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Time's up! The correct answer was University of Mississippi
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"F"OOD
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The name of these long, flat egg noodles means "little ribbons"
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Time's up! The correct answer was fettuccine
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HEALTH & MEDICINE
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These blood-sucking worms are used in medicine today to drain hematomas
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Time's up! The correct answer was leeches
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NO. 1 QUESTIONS
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In 1961 the Shirelles noted that "Tonight the light of love is in your eyes" but wanted to know this
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Time's up! The correct answer was Will you still love me tomorrow?
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REALLY BIG
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Growing over 20 feet, it's the largest predatory fish
G r e _ _ W _ _ t _ _ h _ _ k
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Time's up! The correct answer was Great White Shark
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HIDDEN BOOKS OF THE BIBLE
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Fight the evil mojo by using your good voodoo
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Time's up! The correct answer was Job
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FROM THE JAWS OF VICTORY
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By allowing rebel forces to escape after Gettysburg, this Union general may have prolonged the war 2 more years
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Time's up! The correct answer was George Meade
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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY SAYS....
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Edna wrote that this "burns at both ends; it will not last the night"
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Time's up! The correct answer was My candle
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ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
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A flock of these black birds is called a murder
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Time's up! The correct answer was crows
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COOKING EQUIPMENT FOOD
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Orville Redenbacher sells this sweet & salty treat as well as its more famous cousin
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Time's up! The correct answer was kettle corn
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CNN
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Named for its Brooklyn-born host, this "live" interview show debuted on CNN in June 1985
" L a _ _ y _ _ n _ _ i _ _ "
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Time's up! The correct answer was "Larry King Live"
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SCULPTURE
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This English sculptor made one of his reclining figures for the 1951 Festival of Britain
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Time's up! The correct answer was Henry Moore
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SEEING "RED"
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Stephen Crane wrote, "He wished that he, too, had a wound," this
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Time's up! The correct answer was A red badge of courage
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"TOMORROW"
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Space Mountain & Star Tours are among its attractions
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Time's up! The correct answer was Tomorrowland
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4-LETTER VERBS
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It means "to strongly encourage", & all its letters are found in the word encourage
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Time's up! The correct answer was urge
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APOLLO 11
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"Peaceful" site on the moon where the lunar module touched down
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Sea of Tranquility
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AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY
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Most of Africa's major rivers, including the Congo & the Niger, flow into this ocean
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Time's up! The correct answer was Atlantic
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NETWORK
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"7 Days", "WWF Smackdown", "Moesha"
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Time's up! The correct answer was UPN
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"PER"CUSSION
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This daughter of Zeus & Demeter made regular trips to Hades
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Time's up! The correct answer was Persephone
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THE FORTUNE 500
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At No. 9, this printer-heavy co. from Palo Alto had the biggest payroll bump after acquiring 149,000 EDS workers
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Time's up! The correct answer was HP
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PERFUME
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Mimosa, mayflower & musk mingle in this, Yves St. Laurent's "capital" perfume
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Time's up! The correct answer was Paris
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WHAT'S YOUR BEEF?
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A New England boiled dinner is traditionally made with this cured deli meat
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Time's up! The correct answer was corned beef
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CREATION STORIES
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According to the King James Version, God's first words quoted in the book of Genesis
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Time's up! The correct answer was "Let there be light"
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BEGINS & ENDS WITH "O"
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Herr Bismarck knows this given name comes from a Germanic word meaning "rich"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Otto
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BUSY AS A BEAVER
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"The Beaver's Lesson" is the title of part 5 of this author's "The Hunting of the Snark"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Lewis Carroll
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DICE ROLL NICKNAMES
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Acey-Deucy
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Time's up! The correct answer was 1 & 2
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ATTACK OF THE THESAURUS
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I cannot tell a prevarication: it has this 3-letter synonym
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Time's up! The correct answer was lie
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WOOD & WIND
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This author wrote of Fangorn Forest, named for the oldest of the Ents-or was the Ent named for the forest?
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Time's up! The correct answer was Tolkien
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FEMALE ATHLETES
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This tennis player won women's singles titles at Wimbledon in 2000 & 2001, but lost to her little sister in 2002
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Time's up! The correct answer was Venus Williams
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THE NORTHERNMOST CAPITAL CITY
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Rome, Brussels, Lisbon
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Time's up! The correct answer was Brussels
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RHYMES WITH STONEHENGE
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Statues of Ms. Baez, Ms. Collins & Ms. Didion are part of this monument
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Time's up! The correct answer was Joanhenge
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20th CENTURY NOVELS
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Ironically, this 1953 science fiction book began appearing in a censored version in 1967
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Time's up! The correct answer was Fahrenheit 451
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5-LETTER WORDS
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It can be an object from the past, or a personal item associated with a saint
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Time's up! The correct answer was relic
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SODA POP QUIZ
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It's what gives soda pop the bubbles
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Time's up! The correct answer was carbon dioxide
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SPORTS LEGENDS
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This 7-time Tour de France champ said the 2006 NYC Marathon was the "hardest physical thing" he'd ever done
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Time's up! The correct answer was Lance Armstrong
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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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OLYMPIC POTPOURRI
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En Garde! Women have competed in this Olympic sport since 1924
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Time's up! The correct answer was Fencing
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WORLD COINS
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In 2001 Russia issued a coin with his portrait to commemorate the 40th anniversary of manned space flight
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Time's up! The correct answer was Yuri Gagarin
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TOP 40 BONUS
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"Proud Mary"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Creedence Clearwater Revival & Ike & Tina Turner
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AUTHORS
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His "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" spans 100 years from the Civil War to the civil rights movement
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Time's up! The correct answer was Ernest J. Gaines
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POP MUSIC
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In "Take Me Home, Country Roads", John Denver sang, "Almost heaven," this state
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Time's up! The correct answer was West Virginia
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STORYTELLERS
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He wrote two collections of modern fables, several fairytales, and "My World and Welcome to It"
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Time's up! The correct answer was James Thurber
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HIT TUNES
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"Where The Streets Have No Name", "With Or Without You"
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Time's up! The correct answer was U2
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IN THE TREASURY DEPT.
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When it invites you up to see its etchings, you'll see stamps & dollar bills
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Bureau of Engraving & Printing
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EUROPE
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The fertile plain east of the Danube, making up half this country's area, is called the Great Alfold
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Time's up! The correct answer was Hungary
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OCCUPATION HAZARDS
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In this job aiding a medical professional, Angie might get a finger nipped by little Billy while X-raying his molar
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Time's up! The correct answer was dental hygienist
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MOVIES
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Holly Hunter played it: "The _____"
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Time's up! The correct answer was Piano
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THAT'S WHAT THEY SAID
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In 1803 Jacques Delille wrote, "Fate chooses our relatives, we choose" these
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Time's up! The correct answer was Our friends
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AIN'T THAT "GRAND"
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A 1085-mile waterway in China & a 2.5 mile waterway in Venice are both called this
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Time's up! The correct answer was the Grand Canal
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BRITISH FASHION
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Designer Vivienne Westwood ran a shop with Malcolm McLaren, who launched this Johnny Rotten band
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Time's up! The correct answer was The Sex Pistols
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LITERARY COLLABORATORS
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For "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", Malcolm collaborated with this author
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Time's up! The correct answer was Alex Haley
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RUSSIAN LITERATURE
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In this 1866 Dostoevsky novel, a student named Raskolnikov murders an old woman pawnbroker & her sister
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Time's up! The correct answer was Crime and Punishment
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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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ALL MY SONS
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Kidnappers got under this crooner's skin when they kidnapped his son from a Tahoe casino in 1963
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Time's up! The correct answer was Frank Sinatra
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BIG "STAR"
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In WWI Germany introduced this chemical weapon, C<sub>4</sub>H<sub>8</sub>Cl<sub>2</sub>S
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Time's up! The correct answer was mustard gas
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WORLD COINS
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In 1999 it issued its 1-oz. silver kookaburra coin with honor marks reproducing several U.S. state quarters
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Time's up! The correct answer was Australia
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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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ALSO A TOOL
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This drink consists of 2 ounces of vodka & 5 ounces of orange juice
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Time's up! The correct answer was a screwdriver
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HORSE & RIDER
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Trigger's friend Buttermilk
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Time's up! The correct answer was Dale Evans
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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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HERE COMES BAHRAIN AGAIN
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In 1991 Bahrain was one of the good guys in this conflict & the U.S. sold it Apache helicopters
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Time's up! The correct answer was The Gulf War/Operation Desert Storm
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SNOWBOARDING
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Like skateboarders, snowboarders perform in a U-shaped structure called this
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Time's up! The correct answer was a half-pipe