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Time's up! The correct answer was cuisine

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BIRDS

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The racing homer breed of this domestic bird was developed in Belgium, the traditional home of the sport

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pigeon

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MOVIE TRIVIA

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For the first time in '68, the Academy Awards were held in this auditorium, its current home

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

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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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BEN

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was postmaster general

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A MASSIVE "M"ETROPOLIS

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3.2 million: 150 miles from Bogota

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Time's up! The correct answer was Medellin

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TELEVISION

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"Cosmetic" name of the magazine that's the focus of "Just Shoot Me", or what its racier episodes may make you do

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Time's up! The correct answer was Blush

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IT HAPPENED IN NOVEMBER

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He stepped out of Northwest Airlines Flight 305 on November 24, 1971, & hasn't been seen since

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Time's up! The correct answer was D.B. Cooper

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FAMOUS OBJECTS

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Shah Jahan, Ranjit Singh & Queen Victoria all possessed a famous one whose name means "mountain of light"

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Time's up! The correct answer was a diamond

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PRINCETON

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Princeton was given its name in 1896, the year this future Princeton student & Jazz Age author was born

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Time's up! The correct answer was Scott Fitzgerald

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BRANDO

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Johnny, leader of the Black Rebels

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Wild One

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WHAT KIND OF FOWL AM I?

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The blackcock or the ruffed

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Time's up! The correct answer was a grouse

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AN E FOR AN I

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One means "severely tested"; the other, "trapped on a branch"

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Time's up! The correct answer was tried & treed

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BEGINS & ENDS WITH "O"

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The website for this snack features the Double Stuf Racing League

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Time's up! The correct answer was Oreo

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GOAT-POURRI

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In "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", Pierre Gringoire rescues this gypsy girl's goat from a mob

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Time's up! The correct answer was Esmeralda

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THE MISFITS

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When these misfit brothers were "at the circus" in a 1939 film, "Lydia the tattooed lady" was there, too

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Marx Brothers

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FAMOUS AMERICANS

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At the 1855 World's Fair in Paris, one of his sewing machines won first prize

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Time's up! The correct answer was Singer

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NO. 1 ALBUMS

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"Imagine"

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Lennon

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ENGINEERING

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The longest trip by rail you can take underwater is between these 2 countries

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Time's up! The correct answer was England and France

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ARE YOU PERHAPS FRENCH?

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Luc Montagnier identified the AIDS virus while working at the institute named for this 19th c. Frenchman

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pasteur

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ANTIQUES

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(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE): The kind of clock shown here, invented c. 1800 & named for the musical instrument it resembles:

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Time's up! The correct answer was Banjo Clock

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11-LETTER WORDS

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Another name for mercury, it also means mercurial or temperamental

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Time's up! The correct answer was Quicksilver

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CITY FOLK

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Palermitans

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Time's up! The correct answer was Palermo residents

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KNOTS TO YOU

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This South American civilization used Quipu, a system of knots, to record dates & large sums of figures

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Time's up! The correct answer was Incas

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BIRDS

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This bird seen here is the provincial bird of Prince Edward Island

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Time's up! The correct answer was Blue jay

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ART & ARTISTS

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In 1956 Time magazine dubbed this abstract expressionist "Jack the Dripper"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pollock

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A REALLY BIG CATEGORY

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Until it met disaster in 1912, it was the largest & most luxurious passenger ship afloat

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Time's up! The correct answer was Titanic

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POUR ME A STIFF ONE

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Stolichanya, or stoli to its friends, is a brand of this

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Time's up! The correct answer was vodka

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THAT'S WHERE IT'S AT, MAN!

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India to the north, east & west & Burma to the southeast

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bangladesh

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THEY REST IN NEBRASKA

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Though he starred in "Oklahoma!" this husband of Sheila is buried in Nebraska

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gordon MacRae

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"ANT" INFESTATION

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The Huguenots received religious freedom from the 1598 edict of this city

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nantes

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TV DRAMAS BY EPISODE

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"Angels in Chains"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Charlie's Angels

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ALSO A VEGAS CASINO

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Stevenson's rousing tale from 1881

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Time's up! The correct answer was Treasure Island

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AYE! IT'S IRELAND

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Ireland's national coat of arms features this traditional Irish musical instrument

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Time's up! The correct answer was Harp

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NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS

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William Warner's "Beautiful Swimmers" is an exploration of the Atlantic blue crab & this bay

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Chesapeake

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RHYMES WITH TEEN

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"Lois & Clark" actor Cain

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dean

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SOMETHING'S FISHY

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So as not to confuse it with the mammal, this fish is commonly referred to as mahi-mahi

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Time's up! The correct answer was a dolphinfish

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IT'S EXTINCT

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The dodo was found on the Islands of Reunion, Rodrigues & Mauritius in this ocean

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Indian Ocean

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SPORTS LEGENDS

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This Czech-born woman who retired in 2006 won a record 9 Wimbledon Singles Championships

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Time's up! The correct answer was Martina Navratilova

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THE COMMODORES

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Negotiated by Matthew Perry, 1854's Treaty of Kanagawa opened up this country to commercial trade with the U.S.

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Time's up! The correct answer was Japan

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ITALIAN

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Literally "good day", it's the basic Italian hello

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Time's up! The correct answer was buon giorno

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19TH CENTURY FICTION

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The 1853 novel "Clotel, or The President's Daughter" alleges that this man had an affair with a slave

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Time's up! The correct answer was Thomas Jefferson

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CORAL REEF LIFE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was an atoll

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STATE CAPITALS

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A statue of King Kamehameha I stands guard outside the judiciary building in this capital city

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Time's up! The correct answer was Honolulu

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ALWAYS SAY NEVER

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There's an old expression that says these "never prosper"; remember that

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Time's up! The correct answer was cheaters

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18th CENTURY AMERICANS

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In "The Federalist" No. 51, this future president put forth an argument for the separation of powers

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Time's up! The correct answer was James Madison

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ANNIVERSARY GIFTS

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19th century American "King of the South" that's a 2nd anniversary gift

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cotton

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JONATHAN SWIFTIES

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"Every man desires to live long, but no man would be" this

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Time's up! The correct answer was old

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SI's SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE

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This tire co. paid Rip Hamilton "to braid his hair in the tread pattern of one of its tires", not blimps

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Time's up! The correct answer was Goodyear

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TOP OF THE LIST

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In 2011 this Nissan model was Consumer Reports' top pick for family sedan

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Altima

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LET'S PLAY BLACKJACK

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When a player & dealer tie, it's called this & no money is won or lost

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Time's up! The correct answer was a push

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FOOD

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California vegetable with a crown & a heart

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Time's up! The correct answer was an artichoke

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CONDUCTORS

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Unlike most nonmetals, this element with the symbol B is a workable conductor

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Time's up! The correct answer was boron

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CROSSWORD CLUES "Q"

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Feather pen (5)

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Time's up! The correct answer was quill

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MOVIE MUSIC

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Julie Andrews sings "A Spoonful Of Sugar" in this movie

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mary Poppins

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SPOOKS

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Cuban refugee Antonio Prohias drew this MAD Magazine comic strip for 29 years

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Time's up! The correct answer was Spy vs. Spy

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STATE SUPERLATIVES

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With about 1,040 people per square mile of land, life in this most densely populated state is a real garden party

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Time's up! The correct answer was New Jersey

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COUNTY SEATS

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Quincy, Illinois is the seat of a county with this presidential name

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Time's up! The correct answer was Adams

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FOREWORDS

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One edition calls this Darwin opus one of "the most readable and approachable" of revolutionary scientific works

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Origin of Species

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IT'S A COUP D'ETAT

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After his murder, the conspirators did not gain control, as power was passed on to the Second Triumvirate

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Time's up! The correct answer was Julius Caesar

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SILENCE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Trappists

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IT'S GREEK MYTHOLOGY TO ME

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This war god wasn't too successful in battle; he was once captured & stuck in a jar for 13 months

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ares

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TECHNOLOGY

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

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

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COUNTIES BY STATE

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Oswego, Onondaga, Oneida

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Time's up! The correct answer was New York

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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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Time's up! The correct answer was stupendous

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THE 1990s

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The Persian Gulf War of 1991 was fought mainly in Iraq & this oil-rich nation next door

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Time's up! The correct answer was Kuwait

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AIRLINE TRAVEL

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When it began on Pan Am & Qantas in the late '70s, it was basically a roped-off part of the economy cabin with free drinks

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Time's up! The correct answer was business class

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THE EYES HAVE IT

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A hollow area that holds a light bulb

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Time's up! The correct answer was Socket

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TELEVISION

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"Dragnet"'s Jack Webb also developed this police series starring Martin Milner & Kent McCord

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Adam-12"

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FOR WHOM THE "BELL" TOLLS

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Facial nerve paralysis on one side

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

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AROUND THE APARTMENT BUILDING

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Be careful not to drop your key down this vertical passage in which the elevator moves up & down

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Time's up! The correct answer was shaft

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THE WOK OF FAME

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The 4 main Chinese types of these strips of dried dough are soup, sauce, stir-fried & shallow-fried

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Time's up! The correct answer was Noodles

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CHECK OUT MY CRIB

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A Black Molly or 2 would be perfect to keep this calming crib feature in your living room free from algae

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Time's up! The correct answer was an aquarium

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NEBRASKA, NEW YORK OR NORTH DAKOTA

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Its name does not have a Native American origin

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Time's up! The correct answer was New York

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TIMELESS TV

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In 1948 Douglas Edwards became the first anchor of this network's Evening News

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Time's up! The correct answer was CBS

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INTERNATIONAL CUISINE

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On an Italian menu this term describes pasta with a sauce of eggs, cream, parmesan & bacon

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Time's up! The correct answer was carbonara

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THOSE AMAZING ANIMALS

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This clam named for a sharp instrument can burrow almost as fast as you can shovel

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Time's up! The correct answer was a razor clam

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WOMEN'S FIRSTS

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Frances Perkins became the first woman cabinet member when FDR put her to work in this post

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Time's up! The correct answer was Secretary of Labor

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NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mobile

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SPIELBERG MOVIES

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Spielberg wasn't paid for directing this film; he said it would be "blood money"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Schindler's List

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WHAM-O

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This 1962 Wham-O game named for a dance craze came with a moveable cross bar & 2 support stands

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Time's up! The correct answer was limbo

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MEN OF MUSIC

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Salomé

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"IBLE"S & BITS

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Miller's witch-hunting play

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Crucible

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IN THE DICTIONARY

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This word for someone who walks comes from the Latin for "foot"

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Time's up! The correct answer was pedestrian

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PRESIDENTS

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General whose Presidential campaign song was written by Irving Berlin

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dwight Eisenhower

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BARD BITS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Brutus

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"V" IS FOR

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Vulgar

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THE SPOOKY & THE MYSTERIOUS

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Supposedly, President Harrison is heard in the attic & Jackson haunts the Rose Bedroom in this house

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Time's up! The correct answer was the White House

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FOOD

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Juniper is used to smoke Germany's Westphalian form of this meat

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ham

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MUSIC VIDEOS

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This former "Moesha" star rides around on the bus in her "Who Is She 2 U" video

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Time's up! The correct answer was Brandy

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4-LETTER WORDS

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Gloomy & forbidding, like a certain "reaper"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Grim

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ALSO A GUN MANUFACTURER

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He's the guitarist who had a Top 40 hit with "Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rick Derringer

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3-LETTER THE BETTER

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Saturated

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Time's up! The correct answer was wet

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COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

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In 1937 this Malibu, Calif. university was established by & named for the founder of Western Auto Supply Company

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pepperdine

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PLAY REVIVALS

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Ethan Hawke appeared in a 1992 production of this Chekhov play with another bird in its name

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

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THE 20th CENTURY

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On December 1, 1959, 12 nations signed a treaty setting aside this continent as a preserve for scientific research

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Time's up! The correct answer was Antarctica

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ALBUMS

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"All I Have" with LL Cool J was a last-minute addition to this Jennifer Lopez CD

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Time's up! The correct answer was This Is Me... Then

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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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YOUTH IN ASIA

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With songs like "Fly Away", rock star Cui Jian is one of the leading pop musicians from this Asian country

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Time's up! The correct answer was China

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TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE WORD THAT RHYMES WITH STAR

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This animal's scientific name is Panthera onca

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Time's up! The correct answer was jaguar

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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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SPACE MISSIONS

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The Cassini project is exploring Titan & Enceladus, moons of this second-largest planet

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Time's up! The correct answer was Saturn

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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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MUSICAL PRIME NUMBERS

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Prince: "2000 zero zero party over, oops, out of time, so tonight I'm gonna party like it's ____"

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Time's up! The correct answer was 1999

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CITY OF BIRTH

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Mad magazine illustrator James Warhola

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pittsburgh

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FACTS & FIGURES

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Researchers have found more than 40,000 of the dust type of these microscopic bugs in 1 ounce of mattress dust

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Time's up! The correct answer was mites

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STRINGS

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According to Bud Collins' "Encyclopedia of Modern Tennis", the best of this string material comes from cows

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LESSER-KNOWN MUSICALS

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Danny Kaye's career "ark" included this Biblical role in "Two By Two"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Noah

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"CAR" PARK

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In this casino game the winner is the one whose hand totals closest to 9

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Time's up! The correct answer was Baccarat

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WORLD LEADERS

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Elected in 2008, president Dimitris Christofias of this divided island nation is the EU's only communist head of state

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cyprus

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VERBS

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This word for a type of running is from a word meaning "jump", & it's a talent that long jumpers need to get distance

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ROAMIN' THE WORLD

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About two-thirds of this U.K. country's area is in its highlands & islands

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Time's up! The correct answer was Scotland

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TV CASTS

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Aliens abducted Mulder on "The X-Files", so Scully got partnered with this "Terminator 2" actor

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Time's up! The correct answer was Robert Patrick

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INTERNATIONAL NAMES

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As a boy Bolivia's president Evo Morales herded these pack animals

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"EZ" DOES IT

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Port Said is this waterway's northern terminus

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Time's up! The correct answer was Suez Canal

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FAMILIAR PHRASES

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This phrase meaning "to betray someone" came from slaves sent illegally via the Mississippi to New Orleans

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Time's up! The correct answer was to sell them down the river

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TITLE 9

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J.D. Salinger: "Nine ___"

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BASEBALL

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In 1961 owner Calvin Griffith moved this team to Minneapolis where it became the Minnesota Twins

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Time's up! The correct answer was Washington Senators

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BIRDS! BIRDS! BIRDS!

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The colorful macaw variety of this bird is seen here

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Time's up! The correct answer was Parrot

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HISTORIC DATES

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

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

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NEWMAN'S OWN

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

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

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POETIC TERMS

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It's an echoic term for words like hiss that imitate an actual sound

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Time's up! The correct answer was onomatopeia

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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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HOLIDAYS

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October holiday which Mexicans call Dia de la Raza is celebrated in the U.S. as this

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Time's up! The correct answer was Columbus Day

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FLY COUNTRIES

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Aer Lingus

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ireland

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NEEDY NO.1 HITMAKERS

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1987: "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Houston

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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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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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DESCRIBING THE NO. 1 SONG

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1975: John Denver explains why he's grateful for the simple, rural life

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Thank God I'm A Country Boy"

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DOWN MEXICO WAY

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This gritty 1961 Tennessee Williams play unfolds in a seedy Mexican hotel

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Time's up! The correct answer was Night of the Iguana

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THE REDCOATS ARE COMING!

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The Battle of Long Island was fought in what is now this New York City borough

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Time's up! The correct answer was Brooklyn

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WORLD CITIES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Martinique

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"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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DANGER IN WONDERLAND

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These 2 brothers may look like dimwits but they're vicious; beware the sword & umbrella, their weapons of choice

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tweedledum & Tweedledee

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TITLE WAVE

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Kate Jacobs: "The ____ Night Knitting Club"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Friday

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AUTHORS

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While attending Lisbon Falls High School in Maine, this horror author published a newspaper, The Village Vomit

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Time's up! The correct answer was Stephen King

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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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LITERARY ALLUSIONS

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Jonathan Swift created Lilliputians; this author created Munchkins

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Time's up! The correct answer was Baum

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KIDDY LIT

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

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

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MOTORCYCLE MAKERS

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"Let the good times roll" with this company's supersport cycle, the Ninja ZX-14

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Time's up! The correct answer was Kawasaki

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ARCHITECTS

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Cass Gilbert designed this merchant's NYC skyscraper for 270,000,000 nickels or 135,000,000 dimes

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Time's up! The correct answer was F.W. Woolworth

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METALLICA

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This metal was discovered in 1789; it took until 1896 to find out that it was radioactive

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Time's up! The correct answer was uranium

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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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CAPITAL IDEA

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Though Kyoto remained the imperial capital, Tokugawa Ieyasu made this obscure village his capital

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tokyo

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PIRATE MOVIES

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Silent screen swashbuckler; his film "The Black Pirate" has been called "a definitive pirate movie"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.

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EPONYMS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Phillips

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TV STARS

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Coming to TV in 2002, this star of an Oscar-nominated movie was once known as Johnny Quasar

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jimmy Neutron

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FIRST NOVELS

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His first novel, "The Town And The City", might be good to read while you're "On The Road"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jack Kerouac

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STATE SUPERLATIVES

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Its Boeing manufacturing plant in Everett is the world's largest building by volume

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Time's up! The correct answer was Washington

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WHAT TO WEAR

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Christian Lacroix popularized the pouf type of this

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Time's up! The correct answer was dress

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AMERICANA

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Tulsa's newspaper is called The World; Boston's is named for this object that depicts the world

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Time's up! The correct answer was a globe

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SCIENCE

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This resin, a natural polymer used as a varnish, is produced by insects in India and Myanmar

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Time's up! The correct answer was shellac

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WORDS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was chatter

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IN THE FIRE

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Many 17th century New York City households had one of these to form a brigade in case of fire

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bucket

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WE'RE MALAYSIA-BOUND

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This capital whose name means "muddy estuary" was named for the 2 rivers that wind through it

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Time's up! The correct answer was Kuala Lumpur

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NORM!

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The dad of this First Gulf War general was a N.J. State Police bigwig & worked the Lindbergh kidnapping case

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Time's up! The correct answer was Schwarzkopf

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WORLD MUSEUMS

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Hanoi, where this man died in 1969, has a museum devoted to him

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

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PHYSICAL SCIENCE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was direct current

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GOOD CAUSES

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A "Mission" to help the homeless is named for this Lower Manhattan street known as a skid row since the 1800s

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bowery

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC "B"

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Beijing

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VACATION FUN

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was San Diego

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HISTORIC NAMES

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While rounding the tip of South America in 1520, this Portuguese explorer named Cape Virgines & Patagonia

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ferdinand Magellan

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THE CINEMA

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In this animated film, Henry J. Waternoose says, "Kids these days. They just don't get scared like they used to"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Monsters, Inc.

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DEFENESTRATION IN CINEMA

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In this Coen Brothers movie, Charles Durning jumps out a window during a board meeting

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Hudsucker Proxy

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GOOSE...MOTHER GOOSE

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The pig that he stole was actually an animal-shaped, currant-filled pastry

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tom

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COMPOSERS

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Of the 3 Bs, the 2 who died in Vienna

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Time's up! The correct answer was Beethoven & Brahms

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MAY DAYS

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On May 15, 1996 he announced he would soon become "A private citizen, a Kansan, an American, just a man"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Senator Bob Dole

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UNIVERSITY SPORTS TEAMS

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Penn State's teams, they were named partly for a mountain & partly for a creature that could defeat Princeton's Tigers

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Nittany Lions

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FASHIONABLE COMMON BONDS

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Puritan, Peter Pan, choir-boy

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Time's up! The correct answer was collars

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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

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Decade when the 27th & last amendment, having to do with pay raises in Congress, took effect

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Time's up! The correct answer was the 1990s

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RED SOX IT TO ME

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In 2001 this Osaka-born pitcher tossed Boston's first no-hitter since 1965

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nomo

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WORLD CITIES

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About 1 out of every 10 Japanese people lives in this city's metropolitan area

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tokyo

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“SAINTS”

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

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

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MOVIE TITLE TRANSLATIONS

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They were the 2 main stars of the sequel Hong Kong knew as "Special Unit in Black Glasses Part 2"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tommy Lee Jones & Will Smith

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AMERICANS IN PARIS

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While minister to France, 1784-1789, this future president enjoyed Parisian culture, as well as the fine food & wine

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Time's up! The correct answer was Thomas Jefferson

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PARTS OF THE WHOLE

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Cheek strap, snaffle rein

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Time's up! The correct answer was horse tack

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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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WHAT'S IN A NAME?

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This name shared by great & terrible rulers is a Russian variation of John

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ivan

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DOUGH

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Cherry blossoms are featured on the back of the coin worth 100 of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was Yen

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HISTORY

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Built in 312 B.C. to link Rome & the South of Italy, it's still in use today

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Appian Way

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LET'S GET MAS*Hed

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Johnny Mandel wrote this "painless" tune that was the show's theme song

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Suicide is Painless"

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HEY, "U"!

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This citrus fruit from Jamaica is named for its lack of physical beauty

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ugli fruit

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ONE BUCK OR LESS

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The USPS cost for mailing this, a minimum of 3 1/2 x 5 inches, is 28 cents; wish you were here!

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Time's up! The correct answer was a postcard

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2-LETTER WORDS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was ta

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PLATE TECTONICS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was the tides

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A "TON" OF PEOPLE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Diane Keaton

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THE PARTS OF SPEECH

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Of the traditional 8 parts of speech, it's the only one that doesn't end in the same 4 letters as 1 of the other parts of speech

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Time's up! The correct answer was adjective

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DIALING FOR DIALECTS

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Sprechen Sie Plattdeutsch? If you do, you speak the Low variety of this language

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Time's up! The correct answer was German

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PROVERBS

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It's the 4-letter word that "makes the world go round"

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Time's up! The correct answer was love

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NAME THE PLAY

Question

George: "It's very simple, Martha, this young man is working on a system whereby chromosomes can be altered"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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THAT'S MY LAW

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Kepler's first law says that planetary orbits aren't circular but have this shape

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Time's up! The correct answer was Elliptical

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SRO

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This musical opened its run in 1980 at the Winter Garden, 8 blocks from the title thoroughfare

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Time's up! The correct answer was 42nd Street

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FICTIONAL CHARACTERS

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2 names that follow Gerald, who speaks in weird sounds instead of words in a Dr. Seuss story

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Time's up! The correct answer was McBoing-Boing

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SWEET!

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Some pies have a top named for this garden structure

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Time's up! The correct answer was a lattice

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LITERARY EPITAPHS

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"Run", "Redux", "Rich", finally "At Rest"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom

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WE'RE MALAYSIA-BOUND

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This capital whose name means "muddy estuary" was named for the 2 rivers that wind through it

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Time's up! The correct answer was Kuala Lumpur

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"PU"

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It's another name for the cougar or mountain lion

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Time's up! The correct answer was Puma

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OFFICIAL STATE THINGS

Question

Who was that masked animal? Oklahoma's official state furbearer, that's who

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Time's up! The correct answer was a raccoon

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OSCAR NIGHT 2003

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With 6 Academy Awards total, this adapted musical was the big winner on Oscar Night 2003

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Time's up! The correct answer was Chicago

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ISLANDS

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Portuguese sailors originally named this island in the South China Sea Ilha Formosa, "beautiful island"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Taiwan

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FOOD FACTS

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This word was once used for the meat of any hunted animal; now it refers to deer meat

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Time's up! The correct answer was venison

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SCIENCE BRIEFS

Question

For water, it's 0 degrees Celsius: F.P.

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Time's up! The correct answer was freezing point

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WHO DO YOU THINK I AM?!

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Affer Los Alamos, I was the director of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study from 1947 to 1966

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Time's up! The correct answer was Oppenheimer

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FUNNY FOR NOTHIN'

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On his first night taking over "The Daily Show", he informed us, "Craig Kilborn is on assignment in Kuala Lumpur"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jon Stewart

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ANNUAL EVENTS

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Stockton, Calif. doesn't have a festival for Britney Spears, but it does have one for these green spears

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Time's up! The correct answer was asparagus

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INTERIOR DESIGN

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In 1991 Charles Hall sued Aqua Queen & other companies for infringing his patent on this furniture item

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Time's up! The correct answer was the waterbed

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BALLET

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"The Steadfast Tin Soldier" is based on a fairy tale by this famous Dane

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

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AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE

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This manatee relative of the order Sirenia can be found in the coastal waters of North Australia

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BEING THOREAU

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Thoreau praised this man's actions at Harpers Ferry & eulogized him in 3 lectures

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4-LETTER WORDS

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Pronounced one way, it's the top of the head; pronounced another, it's French chopped liver

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LET'S BOUNCE

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This device whose name is from the Italian for "springboard" was perfected in the 1930s

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SECRET IDENTITIES

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The original Robin, the Boy Wonder

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"HIGH" SCHOOL

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Chuck Taylor, from whom Converse named a line of these shoes, was a basketball star of the 1910s

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AFRICANA

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The southern part of Africa is often called "Sub-" this 3 1/2-million-square-mile area

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ENGLISH CLASS

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Capt. Kirk's mission was "to boldly go" where no man had gone before, but he split one of these along the way

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Time's up! The correct answer was an infinitive

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BACK IN 1906

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Burned in 1864, this city was placed under martial law following racial tensions in September 1906

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Time's up! The correct answer was Atlanta

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ALWAYS REMEMBER SEPTEMBER

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French troops under Napoleon entered this capital on September 14, 1812 & found it in flames

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DELAWARE

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Nicknamed "Pete", this former gov. of Delaware once worked in the chemical co. his ancestors founded in 1802

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NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME

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

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THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

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

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FAMILIAR SAYINGS

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Familiarity is said to breed this, from the Latin for "despise"

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DOUBLE LETTERS

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

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THE BYRDS & THE BEAS

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The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has the original illustrations she did for her many kids' books

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PHYSICS

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The farad, the unit of capacitance, is named for this scientist

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FIRST LADIES

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She served as a regent of the University of Texas & as a member of the National Parks Advisory Board

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IT'S GREEK MYTHOLOGY TO ME

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This underworld kingpin had a helmet that made him invisible; after all, his name means "the unseen"

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1950s ACHIEVEMENTS

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On Nov. 20, 1953, in a Douglas D-558-2, Scott Crossfield reached this benchmark

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GEORGIAN ON MY MIND

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Dinah Shore, Sally Field & Loni Anderson were longtime loves of this hunk from Waycross

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Time's up! The correct answer was Burt Reynolds

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TAIWAN

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Mariners from this country named Taiwan Ilha Formosa, but didn't colonize it

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Time's up! The correct answer was Portugal

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ALL IN YOUR MIND

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was deja vu

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HISTORIC BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Henry VIII

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TIME'S TOP 10 EVERYTHING OF 2008

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No. 1 in "Discoveries": "Snow on" this

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mars

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REAL TO REEL

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African captives revolt aboard their slave ship & then have to stand trial in this movie based on an 1839 event

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Time's up! The correct answer was Amistad

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NOTED EUROPEANS

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Giuseppina Strepponi, a prima donna in "Nabucco", married this famous Giuseppe in 1859

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Time's up! The correct answer was Verdi

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CLASSIC NICHOLSON MOVIE LINES

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1980: "He-e-e-e-re's Johnny!"

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Shining

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COVER ME!

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This Van Halen frontman re-did Louis Prima's "Just A Gigolo" in 1985

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Time's up! The correct answer was David Lee Roth

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DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS

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On a sailor's chest it might say “Mother”; on Cher it's a butterfly

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Time's up! The correct answer was tattoo

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LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS

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"Great Lakes Splendor"

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WORLD CITIES

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It served as Australia's capital from 1901 to 1927

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Time's up! The correct answer was Melbourne

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IN THE FIRE

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

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NORSE MYTHOLOGY

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Laerad is the great tree around which this hall of the slain was built

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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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WE'RE MALAYSIA-BOUND

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The states of Sarawak & Sabah on this island make up about 6% of Malaysia's land area

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Time's up! The correct answer was Borneo

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NATIONAL MONUMENTS

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Scotts Bluff National Monument lies in western Nebraska on this pioneer trail

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HORSE & RIDER

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Traveller

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Time's up! The correct answer was Robert E. Lee

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SPOOKS

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Spy Richard Sorge warned this Russian leader of Germany's WWII invasion but was ignored

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Time's up! The correct answer was Josef Stalin

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TRAVEL & TOURISM

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Jomo Kenyatta International Airport serves this world capital

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FLEETS

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This empire's fleet was defeated in the 1571 Battle of Lepanto

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

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GREEK LETTERS

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A homophone of a verb meaning "to paddle"

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Time's up! The correct answer was rho

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GAMES

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

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

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY

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Known as the "Father of Waters", this river drains an area of approx. 1,247,000 square miles

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Mississippi

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NATIONAL MONUMENTS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Little Bighorn

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HOME

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There are 2 types of these safety devices, photoelectric & ionization

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Time's up! The correct answer was Smoke detectors

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WORLD WAR I

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Enver Pasha, this country's minister of war, commanded the troops defending the Dardanelles

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NOVELISTS

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This Scottish novelist is buried at the summit of Mt. Vaea on Upolu, an island of Western Samoa

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Time's up! The correct answer was Robert Louis Stevenson

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ADVERTISING SLOGANS

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"I like" this lemon-lime soda "in you"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sprite

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WORLD FACTS

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The lowest river in the world, it's revered by Jews, Christians & Muslims alike

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

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PLANT LIFE

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The spiny shrub ocotillo takes these as its habitat & is common in the Sonoran & Chihuahuan ones

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Time's up! The correct answer was a desert

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MEDICINE

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Symbolized Ba, this element is put in your body, one way or another, to be seen on X-rays

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Time's up! The correct answer was barium

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VIETNAM

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A fertile marshland, Vietnam's southernmost region is the broad delta of this river

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mekong

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FUN WITH OPERA

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A singing sofa & a chorus of frogs are featured in "L'Enfant et les Sortileges" by this "Bolero" composer

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Time's up! The correct answer was Maurice Ravel

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THE NEW YORK TIMES 2009 FICTION BESTSELLERS

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In "Dead and Gone" by Charlaine Harris, this "True Blood" waitress searches for the killer of a werepanther

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sookie Stackhouse

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LITERATURE

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This James M. Cain novel, which has been filmed "twice", was written under the title "Bar-B-Q"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "The Postman Always Rings Twice"

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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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THE "A" "B" "C"s

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They're the 2 words describing lenses that curve outward or inward

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Time's up! The correct answer was Concave & convex

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PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA

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He was our country's 1st blue-eyed president

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Time's up! The correct answer was George Washington

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UNOFFICIAL STATE NICKNAMES

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It's "The Plantation State" because its full name includes the words "And Providence Plantations"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rhode Island

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THEIR ALMA MATERS

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Radio's Garrison Keillor

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Time's up! The correct answer was The University of Minnesota

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CELEBRITY RHYME TIME

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Aykroyd's blueprints

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dan's plans

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GUYANESE GEOGRAPHY

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One of Guyana's largest cities, it's also an old name for New York City

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Time's up! The correct answer was New Amsterdam

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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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COLORFUL GROUPS

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Leaders of a "Seven Nation Army": The ____ Stripes

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Time's up! The correct answer was White

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ATTACK OF THE THESAURUS

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In kiddy lit Jack didn't kill the titan or the colossus, he killed this

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Time's up! The correct answer was the giant

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GOING TO PIECES

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This type of "piece" sounds like a smoking pipe, but it's an article written to flatter or glorify the subject

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Time's up! The correct answer was a puff piece

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BEING THOREAU

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Work that says, "Under a gov't which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Civil Disobedience

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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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TV DRAMAS BY EPISODE

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"I, Borg"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Star Trek: The Next Generation

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BORN IN THE WINDY CITY

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You're keeping up with the Joneses if you name this producer of "Thriller" who was born in Chicago in 1933

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Time's up! The correct answer was Quincy Jones

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MAGAZINE FEATURES

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Leading Off, Faces in the Crowd, Scorecard

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sports Illustrated

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PLAY ADJECTIVES

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Mark Medoff's "Children of a ____ God"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lesser

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RADIO

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Can't forget the sponsor--Jack Benny's opening line wasn't "Hello again" but this dessert "again"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jell-O

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FIRST NAME'S THE SAME

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Cash, Depp

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Time's up! The correct answer was Johnny

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BALLETS WE'VE NEVER ASKED ABOUT BEFORE

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The ballet "Bhakti" features 3 Hindu gods including this "destroyer", whose wife, Shakti, dances for him

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Time's up! The correct answer was Shiva

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ENDLESS SUMER

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The ancient Sumerian civilization flourished in the "Fertile Crescent" region between these 2 rivers

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tigris & Euphrates

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CZECH, PLEASE

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Maryam d'Abo played a Czech cellist in this 1987 film

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Living Daylights

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SRO

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Tony-winning Tony who drew big crowds with his epic play "Angels In America"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tony Kushner

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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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STARTS WITH A PRONOUN

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It's a printed-out schedule or outline of one's travel plans

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Time's up! The correct answer was an itinerary

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X MARKS THE SPOT

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The only Benelux country that fits the bill

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Time's up! The correct answer was Luxembourg

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QUEEN VICTORIA

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As seen in a 1997 film, he was Victoria's beloved servant, but we're not sure how she felt about his "body"

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Brown

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EXPLORERS

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N.Y. observes a holiday honoring the 1524 discovery of N.Y. Harbor by this Italian navigator

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Time's up! The correct answer was Giovanni Verrazano

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IS IT "TEA" TIME YET?

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A tea room in Cambria, California is named for this kind of teapot cover--& it sells them, too

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Time's up! The correct answer was a cozy

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CANDY & GUM SLOGANS

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"The Great American Chocolate Bar"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hershey's

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FROM B TO C

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A group of nations acting together, like the old Soviet one

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Time's up! The correct answer was bloc

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ALSO SOMETHING YOU WEAR

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A hard blow or punch

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Time's up! The correct answer was a sock

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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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INSECTS

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Its shape allows it to hide among twigs

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Time's up! The correct answer was Walking stick

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IT'S "BIG"

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Sasquatch

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bigfoot

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THE 1990s

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On Nov. 5, 1996, this GOP candidate joked, "Tomorrow will be the first time in my life I don't have anything to do"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bob Dole

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"IRA"

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Australia's Yellow Tail winery sells this on its own as well as in a cabernet blend

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Time's up! The correct answer was shiraz

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TECHNOLOGY

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First built in 1960, it's also been called an optical maser

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Time's up! The correct answer was laser

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IT'S ALL ABOUT ME

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Excessive self-contemplation is called this anatomical gazing

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Time's up! The correct answer was navel

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ON THE MOVE

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In Britain, it's a kitchen on a ship's deck; in the U.S., it's traditionally the last car on a freight train

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Time's up! The correct answer was Caboose

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BRUCE ALMIGHTY

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This Freehold-born rocker has had many "Glory Days"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bruce Springsteen

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BARD BITS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Brutus

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THE CAT

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was a manx

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PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING DRAMAS

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In 1928 this playwright had a "Strange Interlude"

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

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CHAD IS RAD

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Refugees from the neighboring Darfur region of this country have fled into eastern Chad

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Sudan

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THE VIRTUES

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We assume that Bill Clinton was born with it; we know he was born in it

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hope

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FRUIT

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bananas

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CALIFORNIA HERE I COME FILMS

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In this 1981 Burt Reynolds film, the first race car to reach California won

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Cannonball Run

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UNIVERSITY SPORTS TEAMS

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They're the sports teams of Fresno State as well as Georgia

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Bulldogs

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19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS

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James K. Polk is the only president to have previously held this position in the House of Representatives

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Time's up! The correct answer was Speaker

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THE FILM THAT ALMOST WAS

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

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

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TV CASTS

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In 2000 this Oscar nominee joined the cast of "Ally McBeal" as a lawyer

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Time's up! The correct answer was Robert Downey, Jr.

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& NOW THE "END" IS NEAR

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was crescendo

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COUNTRY MUSIC

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This performer became an Opry member in 1991, the same year his "When I Call Your Name" album went platinum

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Time's up! The correct answer was Vince Gill

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NAME THE OPERA

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("Habanera")

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

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BIG BANDS

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A wunnerful, wunnerful bandleader

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lawrence Welk

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TRAIN STATIONS

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Sherlock Holmes often left London from this station that shares its name with a battle

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Time's up! The correct answer was Waterloo Station

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PRE-COLUMBIAN CULTURES

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The Anasazi, a word from this Indian language for "ancient ones", lived in what's now the 4 Corners area

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Time's up! The correct answer was Navajo

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HISTORIC NAMES

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In 1955 Ngo Dinh Diem became the first president of this country that no longer exists

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Time's up! The correct answer was South Vietnam

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IDEAS FOR TOURISM CAMPAIGNS

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Our Andes are dandy! Only Brazil has more people in South America, but they don't have our coffee. Hail...

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Time's up! The correct answer was Colombia

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BRASS

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We shall return to this man who graduated from West Point in 1903 with the highest honors in his class

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Time's up! The correct answer was Doug MacArthur

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TAKE OUT

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It's the common operation to remove 2 small oval masses of tissue at the back of the mouth

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Time's up! The correct answer was a tonsillectomy

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SOME MORE SIMIAN CINEMA

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This Rene Russo film about an eccentric & her pets is based on a true story; it features the following:

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Time's up! The correct answer was Buddy

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...& THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON!

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Ex-welterweight champ Carlos, or a golden-coated, silver-maned horse

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Time's up! The correct answer was a palomino

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FOOD & DRINK

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When used to describe meat, "marbling" means streaks of this

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Time's up! The correct answer was fat

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I'M "L__X"

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From Middle High German, this Yiddish word means "salmon"

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Time's up! The correct answer was lox

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SIMPLE SCIENCE

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French mathematician who devised the plotting system that uses coordinates named for him

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rene Descartes

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STATE OF THE UNION

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The Trinity site in this state was the location of the USA's first atomic explosion

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Time's up! The correct answer was New Mexico

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BROADWAY TEENS

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R&B sensation Stephanie Mills was a teenager when she eased on down the road in this role in "The Wiz"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dorothy

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THE SUMMER OLYMPICS

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At 26.2 miles, it's the longest running event in the Summer Olympics

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Time's up! The correct answer was the marathon

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SCIENCE

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In metric measurement, 10 millimeters equal 1 of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was a centimeter

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WHOSE IS IT?

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This "heel" is named for thr only place a famous Greek warrior could be wounded

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Time's up! The correct answer was Achilles' heel

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WASHINGTON D.C.

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What the "D.C." stands for

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Time's up! The correct answer was the District of Columbia

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DRAMA

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This lengthy work by Eugene O'Neill is based partly on the Oresteia of Aeschylus

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mourning Becomes Electra

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THE LAND

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Victoria Land, one of its regions, lies north of the Ross Ice Shelf

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Time's up! The correct answer was Antarctica

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MAGAZINE FEATURES

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Agenda, Fairground, Fanfair

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Time's up! The correct answer was Vanity Fair

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THE "I"s HAVE IT

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Some scientists believe that the universe is undergoing expansion called this, also an economic term

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Time's up! The correct answer was Inflation

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THE ROLLING STONES

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The Stones played a cleaned-up version of "Let's Spend The Night Together" on this U.S. TV variety show in 1967

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Ed Sullivan Show

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TRAVEL & TOURISM

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If you don't mind the cold, you can pan for this metal at Tankavaara in Finland

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Time's up! The correct answer was gold

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JURY DUTY

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A deadlocked jury is this 4-letter word

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Time's up! The correct answer was hung

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LET'S MESS WITH TEXAS

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Educated at Phillips Academy, Yale & Harvard, this part-time Crawford resident was born in Connecticut in 1946

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Time's up! The correct answer was George W. Bush

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SAY CHEESE

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The 2 cheeses coated with red wax named for towns, one in North Holland province, one in South

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Time's up! The correct answer was Edam & Gouda

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MATH TERMS

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A theorem includes this series of steps, starting with a given & ending with a justified conclusion

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Time's up! The correct answer was proof

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BEGINS & ENDS WITH "O"

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This term for an extended musical composition comes from the Italian for "small chapel"

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Time's up! The correct answer was oratorio

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ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS

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Marcel Duchamp coined this term to describe Alexander Calder's moving sculptures

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mobiles

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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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CONGRESSIONAL MISDEMEANORS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Louisiana

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GOVERNMENT

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This council’s members are the president, vice president, sec’y of state & sec’y of defense

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Time's up! The correct answer was the National Security Council

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FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

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It's a self-satisfied smile or grin that you may be asked to wipe off your face

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Time's up! The correct answer was smirk

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WORLD RELIGION

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Meaning "sign of God", it's the title of a Shi'ite Muslim scholar & leader

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ayatollah

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DOUBLE LETTERS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was buttonhook

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DRIVING

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Do this if you love Jesus but don't do it just as the light turns green

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Time's up! The correct answer was honk

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NAME THE PLAY

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Nathan: "There is the highest player of them all... why do you think they call him Sky? That's how high he bets"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Guys and Dolls

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ENGLISH LITERATURE

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Ian Fleming introduced James Bond in this 1953 novel, which became a 1967 film starring David Niven

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Casino Royale"

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"TEEN" SCENE

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Number of lines in Shakespeare's poem that starts "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

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Time's up! The correct answer was 14

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"DREAM"Y SONGS

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In the 1986 film "Blue Velvet", Dean Stockwell peerforms a lip-synched rendition of this Roy Orbison hit

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Time's up! The correct answer was "In Dreams"

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TOUR OF JUDY

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This CNN news anchor once worked as a correspondent for "The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Judy Woodruff

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THE BUTLER DID IT

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Robert Guillaume cleaned up on "Soap" before moving to the governor's mansion on this series

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Time's up! The correct answer was Benson

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THE BIG 10

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The first 10 of these are known as the Bill of Rights

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Amendments

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TRAVEL & TOURISM

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tokyo

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Charles Schulz

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IDEAS FOR TOURISM CAMPAIGNS

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Keflavik & Grindavik call to you, & we'll throw in a 50/50 shot at seeing Bjork somewhere

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Time's up! The correct answer was Iceland

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GOOSE...MOTHER GOOSE

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The pig that he stole was actually an animal-shaped, currant-filled pastry

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tom

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LET'S HAVE ITALIAN TONIGHT!

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About 635 violins still exist among the 1,100 instruments this 17th century man constructed

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Time's up! The correct answer was Stradivarius

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LITERARY BADDIES

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This Harry Potter bad guy's name is French for "flight from death"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Voldemort

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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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CINEMA OF "BLOOD"

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Leonardo DiCaprio's African jewel smuggler gains a conscience in this film

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Time's up! The correct answer was Blood Diamond

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PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY

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Our last Sagittarian pres.; his last name sounds like something Sagittarius' arrows could do

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pierce

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DEMOCRATIC KEYNOTERS

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1984: New York governor

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mario Cuomo

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14:59

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Before her 15 minutes expired, this gal who got mixed up with televangelist Jim Bakker got onto Playboy's cover

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jessica Hahn

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COMPANIES YOUNGER THAN YOU

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was ethanol

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SCIENTISTS

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"American Prometheus" is a biography of this physicist who died in 1967

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

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COMMON BONDS

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Roofs, halos, quantum mechanics

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

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U.S. CABINET DEPARTMENTS IN OTHER WORDS

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mc<sup>2</sup>

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Time's up! The correct answer was Energy

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TIME'S TOP 10 EVERYTHING OF 2008

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No. 9 in "Green Stories": "Northeastern utilities bid $38.5 million for the right to emit 12.5 tons of" this

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Time's up! The correct answer was carbon dioxide

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FRENCH ART & ARTISTS

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Francois Lemoyne painted the Hercules ceiling at this French palace & voila! became premier peintre du roi

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Time's up! The correct answer was Versailles

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SWEET!

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was butterscotch

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AFRICAN LANGUAGE LAB

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Whether a surfin' one or a Pontiac, this term comes from the Swahili meaning "journey"

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Time's up! The correct answer was safari

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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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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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Time's up! The correct answer was Ronald Reagan

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RHYMES WITH TEEN

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Nasty or stingy; or the average

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mean

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ROLLING STONE'S 100 GREATEST GUITARISTS

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It's said of No. 3, "His string-bending & vibrato made his famous guitar, Lucille, weep like a real-life woman"

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Time's up! The correct answer was B.B. King

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FIRST LADIES

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The only first lady whose married name was the same as her maiden name

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Time's up! The correct answer was Eleanor Roosevelt

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AMERICAN HISTORY

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Folsom

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U.S. PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES

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"The Schoolmaster in Politics"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Woodrow Wilson

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19th CENTURY AMERICA

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The discovery of this in 1896 turned Seward's Folly into Seward's Good Fortune

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Time's up! The correct answer was gold

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ANAGRAMMED CABINET DEPARTMENTS

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To trap on trains

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Time's up! The correct answer was Transportation

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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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WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was whole hog

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20th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS

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In 1958 he launched his Great Leap Forward program; it was a great disaster

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mao

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CELEB STUFF

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Her 1988 major label debut album was "Y Kant Tori Read"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tori Amos

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TELEVISION

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Betty White

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CITY FLAGS

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The 4 stars appearing on this city's flag stand for Fort Dearborn, a fire & 2 World's Fairs

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Time's up! The correct answer was Chicago

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JUST THE FACTS

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This hero of several books is 11 when he discovers he's a wizard

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Time's up! The correct answer was Harry Potter

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MYTHOLOGY

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The sister of Orestes, mourning became her

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Time's up! The correct answer was Electra

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SIMILES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was roses

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CORAL REEF LIFE

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A species of these well-armed creatures known as the crown-of-thorns feasts on coral reefs

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Time's up! The correct answer was starfish

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WORKING ON THE RAILROAD

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The Tokaido Shinkansen, known by this "weapon" name, can hit 185 mph

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Time's up! The correct answer was the bullet train

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MYTHELLANEOUS

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Lotis, later turned into the lotus tree, was one of these female spirits of nature

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Time's up! The correct answer was a nymph

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BIRDS

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All 16 species of the Hawaiian honeycreeper are on this list

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Time's up! The correct answer was the endangered species list

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AN ARTHUR BEE

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Author of "3001: The Final Odyssey"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Arthur C. Clarke

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SECRET MENUS

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Ask this chain that's inspired by a fictional pirate for a "side of crumbs", & you'll get some fried batter bits

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Time's up! The correct answer was Long John Silver's

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AFRICAN ISLANDS

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Wine production is a chief industry of this Portuguese island off Africa's northwest coast

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Time's up! The correct answer was Madeira

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THE KIDS LOVE THAT ROCK & ROLL

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

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

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FOOD & DRINK

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Thailand's best-known dish, it's stir-fried noodles, egg, bean sprouts, peanuts & seasonings

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Time's up! The correct answer was pad thai

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GRAPES

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In an Aesop fable, this animal decides the grapes he can't reach must therefore be sour

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Time's up! The correct answer was a fox

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IT'S ALL ABOUT ME

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Per the "American Psychiatric Glossary", this mania is "pathological preoccupation with self"

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Time's up! The correct answer was egomania

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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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GREECE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was eggplant

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DRIVING

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The following sound indicates a vehicle in this gear

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Time's up! The correct answer was reverse

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THEIR ALMA MATERS

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Radio's Garrison Keillor

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Time's up! The correct answer was The University of Minnesota

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LEVITICUS

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Chapters 4, 6, 8 & 12 begin, "And the Lord spake unto" him

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MEDIEVAL MUSIC

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Guido D'Arezzo established the series of lines now called this as the basis of musical notation

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Time's up! The correct answer was Staff

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ANIMAL TERMS

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To "go whole" this animal means to indulge completely

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Time's up! The correct answer was hog

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INVENTIVE MINDS

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This peanut guy devised some 118 byproducts for the sweet potato

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

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JULY

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In July 1893 this president underwent a secret operation to remove part of his jaw due to cancer

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Time's up! The correct answer was Grover Cleveland

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POLAR EXPLORATION

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Penguins

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INSECTS

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The May beetle is also called this, perhaps when it shows up a few weeks late

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Time's up! The correct answer was Junebug

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ONE LETTER DIFFERENT

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A speechless minute arachnid

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Time's up! The correct answer was a mute mite

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THE MOVIES

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Irene Bedard, the speaking voice of this heroine in an animated Disney film, played her mother in "The New World"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pocahontas

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AMERICAN HISTORY

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Folsom

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ARTS & CRAFTS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was a kiln

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FUN WITH OPERA

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In an 1893 opera, the Sandman puts this young title duo to sleep & the Dew Fairy wakes them up

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hansel & Gretel

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STARTS WITH "W"

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It found no evidence of a conspiracy involving Oswald & Ruby

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Warren Commission

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KIDDIE LIT

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In a Grimm fairy tale one of these animals swallows six little kids, but luckily they escape

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wolf

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ADVERTISING SLOGANS

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"I like" this lemon-lime soda "in you"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sprite

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PRESIDENTS

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All elected Presidents who are members of this party died in office

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Time's up! The correct answer was Whig

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KIDS IN SPORTS

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With a mighty leap of 5'1", David Mosely set the U.S. 10 & under record in this event back in 1977

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Time's up! The correct answer was the high jump

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JUST THE FACTS

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

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

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"IP" SO FACTO

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Landing or Gaza

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Time's up! The correct answer was a strip

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I DID IT NORWAY

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On the scenic Lofoten Islands, you can stay in Rorbuer, cottages traditionally used by those in this profession

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Time's up! The correct answer was fishing

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SHAKESPEARE

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In "The Merchant of Venice" he tells his friend Tubal, "Meet me at our synagogue"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Shylock

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BERRIES

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The berry of this unassuming shrub produces the oil commonly used to flavor gin

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Time's up! The correct answer was Juniper/sloe

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HIP-HOP & RAP

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This huge hit by Jay-Z samples a song from the musical "Annie"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Hard Knock Life"

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& CROWN THY GOOD

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George I, king of this country from 1863 to 1913, supported a movement to revive the Olympics, abolished in 393

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Time's up! The correct answer was Greece

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CHECK OUT MY CRIB

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A Black Molly or 2 would be perfect to keep this calming crib feature in your living room free from algae

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Time's up! The correct answer was an aquarium

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THAT'S BUSINESS

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In 1851 this company started using a logo with a man in the moon & 13 stars; now it uses its initials

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Time's up! The correct answer was Proctor & Gamble

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SI's SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE

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A Little League team in Kentucky is sponsored by this "delightfully tacky yet unrefined" restaurant

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hooters

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"AD"JECTIVES

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It refers to the behavior of teenagers, or of immature adults

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Time's up! The correct answer was Adolescent

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SWEET TREATS

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This almost cube-shaped candy was named for the developer's granddaughter, a "hefty" baby

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Time's up! The correct answer was Chunky

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I JUST LIKE SAYING THESE WORDS

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Enjoy this $2000 quanswer--see, I'm one of these, a creator of new words

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Time's up! The correct answer was neologist

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THE LAST POPE OF THIS NAME

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Leo

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WEBSITES

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"Sari Says" is an advice column in the online version of this teen magazine

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Time's up! The correct answer was Teen People

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NOVELS BY CHAPTER TITLE

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"Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific"

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Time's up! The correct answer was 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

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WEBSITES

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An official website for this state is www.state.nm.us

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Time's up! The correct answer was New Mexico

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TRANSLATION EXERCISES

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Yiddish to French: The polite "a sheynem dank"

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Time's up! The correct answer was merci beaucoup

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STORM

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Hurricane Camille leaves only one operational shrimping boat in Bayou La Batre in this 1994 Oscar winner

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Time's up! The correct answer was Forrest Gump

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POTPOURRI

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Persil is the French word for this ever-popular garnish

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Time's up! The correct answer was Parsley

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TV STARS

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Coming to TV in 2002, this star of an Oscar-nominated movie was once known as Johnny Quasar

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jimmy Neutron

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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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SPEECH! SPEECH!

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On July 19, 1988 he was out proclaiming "Keep hope alive"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jesse Jackson

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COME, HO CHI MINH

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Ho Chi Minh helped start Vietnam's Communist Party & in the 1920s helped start this Eur. country's Communist Party

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Time's up! The correct answer was France

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COMIC & CARTOON CRITTERS

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Babar

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Time's up! The correct answer was elephant

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SCRAMBLED EGGS

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A type of this lays the smallest egg for an avian: BRING HIM MUD

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Time's up! The correct answer was hummingbird

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YES, THAT'S "WHITE"

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Condition of heavy snow or fog during daylight in which visibility is lost

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Time's up! The correct answer was a whiteout

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NBA HALL OF FAMERS

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In 2000 this former Celtics player coached the Indiana Pacers to the NBA finals

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Time's up! The correct answer was Larry Bird

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LITERARY FIRST LINES

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1973: "There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Fear of Flying"

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FUN WITH BALLET

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Dizzy Gillespie's music is also featured in it, but the ballet "For 'Bird' - With Love" is a tribute to him

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Time's up! The correct answer was Charlie Parker

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NEPAL

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It consists of two red triangles outlined in blue with white symbols of the sun and the moon

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Time's up! The correct answer was the flag of Nepal

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WEEDS

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In the names of weeds, this old word for a plant follows soap- & St. John's

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wort

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SOME MORE SIMIAN CINEMA

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It's the island where Fay Wray first encountered King Kong; to think of its name, use your "head"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Skull Island

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FDR

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Referring to the attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR called December 7, 1941 "A date which will" do this

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Live in Infamy"

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POP CULTURE

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This man who died in 1918 was Snoopy's cursed nemesis in "Peanuts"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Red Baron

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OFFICIAL LANGUAGES

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In Kazakhstan: Kazakh & this

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Time's up! The correct answer was Russian

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DOUBLE TALK

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It's a sailor's way of saying to a superior "I understand & will obey"

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

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COVER ME!

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This Van Halen frontman re-did Louis Prima's "Just A Gigolo" in 1985

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Time's up! The correct answer was David Lee Roth

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BALLET

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The School of American Ballet is the official school of this major metropolitan ballet company

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Time's up! The correct answer was New York

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WORD ORIGINS

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Chinese for “work together”, it was motto of U.S. marine raiders in WWII

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Time's up! The correct answer was gung ho

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POETRY

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In stanza three of "The Star Spangled Banner", he mocks "The hireling and slave" who doubt America's victory

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Time's up! The correct answer was Francis Scott Key

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BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS

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1932: "Magnificent Inn"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Grand Hotel

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TURNING 40 IN '98

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A short called "Frankenweenie" helped launch the career of this "Edward Scissorhands" director

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tim Burton

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COMIC STRIPS

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Duke has been Gov. of American Samoa, GM of the Redskins & a lobbyist for the NRA in this comic strip

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Time's up! The correct answer was Doonesbury

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"H" CITIES

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It served as a dynastic capital in the 1800s & continued as the royal capital of Vietnam until 1945

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hue

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HERBS & SPICES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was oregano

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POOR & FAMOUS

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Despite help from Engels in the 1850s, he & his family often subsisted on bread & potatoes

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Time's up! The correct answer was Karl Marx

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THE FALL

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In 1918 this date in autumn brought the signing of the armistice ending World War I

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Time's up! The correct answer was 11-Nov

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SPOOKS

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Teddy Roosevelt's grandson, CIA man Kermit, kept the Shah of this country on his throne in 1953

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Time's up! The correct answer was Iran

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AMERICAN PLAYS

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"I'm Not Rappaport" takes place on a battered bench near the lake in this famous park

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Time's up! The correct answer was Central Park

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THE BIBLE

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God guided the Israelites out of this country with a pillar of cloud by day & of fire by night

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Time's up! The correct answer was Egypt

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VEGAS, BABY

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Excalibur

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FLAGS OF THE WORLD

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In use from 1844 to 1905, a flag representing the union of these 2 countries was nicknamed the "herring salad"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Norway and Sweden

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WORDS OF THE WRITER

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"'Do all lawyers defend n-negroes, Atticus?' 'Of course they do, Scout'"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Harper Lee

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THE TREES WERE ANGRY THAT DAY, MY FRIENDS

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In M. Night Shyamalan's "The Happening", the trees are mad at us, & Elliot Moore, played by him, must deal with it

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wahlberg

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ALSO A BOOK IN THE BIBLE

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Hey, this, don't be "obscure"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jude

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TAUNT "O"

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was optimism

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CINCO DE MAYO BIRTHDAYS

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This May-5 born Monty Python member & BBC travel filmmaker is a commando of the Order of the British Empire

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Time's up! The correct answer was Palin

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GRAPES

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A wine known as Lacrima Christi, or "tears of Christ" is made from grapes grown on the slopes of this Italian volcano

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Time's up! The correct answer was Vesuvius

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ARE WE THERE YET?

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This oldest national park has entrances in Wyoming & Montana

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Time's up! The correct answer was Yellowstone

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FLAGS OF THE WORLD

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This Mediterranean country whose flag is seen here is "The Word"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Greece

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POETS

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He once wrote, "I choose to be a plain New Hampshire farmer"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Robert Frost

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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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TRUTH OR DARE

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Dare: Respond with an imitation of this radio therapist whose "Sexually Speaking" program began in 1980

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ruth Westheimer

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"P.B."

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Anna Pavlova or Dame Margot Fonteyn, for example

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Time's up! The correct answer was prima ballerina

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BALLET

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A new ballet about this puppet who yearns to be a boy had it's U.S. premiere in Atlanta in 2000

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pinocchio

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ODDS & ENDS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was croutons

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HISTORIC AMERICA

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Sunflower Landing near Clarksdale, Miss. is believed to be where he found the Mississippi River in 1541

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hernando De Soto

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EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT IT...

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In the winter of 1971-72, a record 1,122 inches of snow fell at Rainier Paradise Ranger Station in this state

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Time's up! The correct answer was Washington

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OFFICIAL STATE THINGS

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Who was that masked animal? Oklahoma's official state furbearer, that's who

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