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ANAGRAMMED BIRDS

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A head-banger: cowpoke red

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Time's up! The correct answer was woodpecker

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SCIENTISTS

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This botanist was hailed as "The Wizard of Tuskegee"

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

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EARTH

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Heat rising from within the Earth is mostly from this type of decay of elements like uranium & thorium

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Time's up! The correct answer was radioactive decay

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RHYME TIME

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An inexpensive Army vehicle

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Time's up! The correct answer was a cheap jeep

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THE ICU

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Intensive care is also called this "care", like the condition patients may be in

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Time's up! The correct answer was Critical

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THE STAR'S TV SHOW & MOVIE

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"Friends", "Bruce Almighty"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jennifer Aniston

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COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Vassar

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U.S. PRESIDENTS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was George Washington

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PICTURE THIS

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The rights to 5 of Tom Kelley's red velvet photos of this actress taken in 1949 were put on eBay in 2001, but weren't sold

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Time's up! The correct answer was Marilyn Monroe

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"GENERAL" JOB INFORMATION

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The U.N.'s website says this job is "a spokesman for the interests of the world's peoples, in particular the poor"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Secretary-General

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I PITY THE "FOOL"

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Senior citizens might object to this proverb popularized by John Lyly in the play "Mother Bombie"

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Time's up! The correct answer was There's no fool like an old fool

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NAME THE FILM

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1995: "To infinity, and beyond!"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Toy Story

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TURN OF THE CENTURY MOVIES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sleepy Hollow

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MUSIC/TELEVISION

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Going from Salt-N-Pepa to Dr. Pepa, the musician was in the house counseling Janice Dickinson on this VH1 reality show

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Surreal Life

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NAME THE POET

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"Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie, / O, what a panic's in thy breastie!"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rabbie Burns

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DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS

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Quality of ice, eels, & banana peels

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Time's up! The correct answer was slipperiness

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ALL MY SONS

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Nickname of the "son" who terrorized NYC in the summer of '77

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Time's up! The correct answer was Son of Sam

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BALLET

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The longer "romantic" version of this ballet garment was inspired by the one Taglioni wore in the 1830s

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Time's up! The correct answer was tutu

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SCOTLAND

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Ben More, Ben Alder & Ben Macdui are not people but tall ones of these in Scotland

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Time's up! The correct answer was mountains

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1994 FILMS

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As mad bomber Howard Payne in this film, Dennis Hopper planted a bomb on an L.A. area transit bus

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Time's up! The correct answer was Speed

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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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SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN

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In the 1st act, before he's king, this title character woos the newly-widowed Lady Anne

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Time's up! The correct answer was Richard III

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POLITICIANS

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This champion stock-car racer lost the 1996 race for North Carolina's Secretary of State

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Time's up! The correct answer was Richard Petty

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IT'S RAINING "MN"

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6-letter word meaning mirthless, sober, or grave

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Time's up! The correct answer was solemn

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HORS D'OEUVRES

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This chic Middle-Eastern dip is made primarily from chickpeas & served with pita bread

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Time's up! The correct answer was hummus

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WE WANT PISA!

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This island off the Italian coast where Napoleon was first exiled was controlled for many years by Pisa

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Time's up! The correct answer was Elba

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20th CENTURY QUOTES

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A minister, 1968: "I've seen the promised land...and I'm happy tonight...I'm not fearing any man"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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WOMEN'S HEALTH

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Often given with progesterone, it's the main hormone in hormone replacement therapy

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Time's up! The correct answer was estrogen

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LIT MY FIRE

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

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

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SHIRLEY

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Shirley Manson is the lead singer of this "trashy" alternative band

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Time's up! The correct answer was Garbage

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PEOPLE

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This wrestler nicknamed his daughter born in August 2001 Pebbles

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Rock

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COOKING EQUIPMENT FOOD

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Orville Redenbacher sells this sweet & salty treat as well as its more famous cousin

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Time's up! The correct answer was kettle corn

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NURSERY RHYMES

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"Hey Diddle, Diddle!" After the little dog laughed, these 2 things ran off together

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dish & spoon

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SALMON

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"Fish ladders" help salmon travel upstream over these man-made obstructions

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Time's up! The correct answer was dams

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TRADING SPACES

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This Illinois city's Board of Trade deals in futures, so less than 5% of what's traded there gets delivered

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Time's up! The correct answer was Chicago

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TWO

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In engines: Stephen Briggs &...

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Time's up! The correct answer was Harold Stratton

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EPITAPHS & TRIBUTES

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"And away we go"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jackie Gleason

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THE FILM THAT ALMOST WAS

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Committed to TV, Tom Selleck had to turn down this role in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (curse you, Hawaiian shirt!)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Indiana Jones

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TAYLOR, SWIFT

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Taylor Hicks

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SCOTLAND

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Hundreds of years old, the de facto national flag features this saint's cross

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Time's up! The correct answer was Andrew

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COLOGNE RANGER

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In 1932 one of these speed limit-less German expressways opened between Cologne & Bonn

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Time's up! The correct answer was an Autobahn

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BETTER KNOWN AS...

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TV pitchman Jim Varney

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ernest P. Worrell

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HOMOPHONES

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A walkway between sections of seats in a theater, or a small piece of land surrounded by water

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Time's up! The correct answer was an aisle/isle

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"X", "Y", "Z"

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This Saint Francis was the "Apostle of the Indies"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Xavier

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FLY COUNTRIES

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Olympic Airlines

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Time's up! The correct answer was Greece

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STARTS WITH A PRONOUN

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One who interlaces cloth, or an African bird that interlaces grass to make its elaborate nest

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Time's up! The correct answer was a weaver

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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

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On Oct. 12, 1492 Columbus reached the New World & landed at an island he called this, Spanish for "holy savior"

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Time's up! The correct answer was San Salvador

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ANATOMY

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This section of the digestive tract is divided into the duodenum, jejunum & ileum

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Time's up! The correct answer was Small Intestine

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NAME THE WORK

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

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

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THRILLER

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This author made a University of Virginia law professor the protagonist of his 2002 novel "The Summons"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Grisham

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WHEREFORE "ART" THOU

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In a nursery rhyme, a queen makes some of these only to have them stolen by a knave

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tarts

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ON THE MOVE

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When it opened, it cut the distance from London to Bombay by 5,100 miles

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Time's up! The correct answer was Suez Canal

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GENERAL SCIENCE

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Of the 3 main classes of rock, this one is further divided into plutonic & volcanic types

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Time's up! The correct answer was igneous

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AROUND THE POKER TABLE WITH SLIM

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Slim's numerical term for a bluffer who doesn't have the fifth card to fill out a hand of all the same suit

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Time's up! The correct answer was Four-flusher

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CHARLIE CHAPLIN

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Chaplin went on stage at age 5 in this type of "hall", the British equivalent of Vaudeville

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Time's up! The correct answer was Music Hall

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AMERICAN HISTORY

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On April 2, 1917 President Wilson told Congress, "The world must be made safe for" this

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Time's up! The correct answer was democracy

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NOW YOU'RE TALKING MY LANGUAGE

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"Namaste" is a greeting in this official language of India used by over a quarter of a billion speakers

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hindi

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POLITICS & SHOW BIZ

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Film mogul Jack Warner supposedly said, "No. Jimmy Stewart for president." this man "for best friend"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ronald Reagan

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THE 50 STATES

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Since 1776, it has been the only U.S. state to be the most populous state for more than a century

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Time's up! The correct answer was New York

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TELEVISION

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In 1998 Brian Dennehy made his first appearance as Red Finch, David Spade's firefighter father, on this hit series

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Time's up! The correct answer was Just Shoot Me

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WHAT AILS YOU?

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Scientists have reported that this tofu legume may lower cholesterol

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Time's up! The correct answer was Soybean

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COME "IN"

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A military badge of rank or qualification

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Time's up! The correct answer was insignia

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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS

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One of Verdi's first masterpieces was this Shakespearean opera with an intense sleepwalking scene

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Time's up! The correct answer was Macbeth

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WORLD HISTORY

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More than 250,000 died in fighting before France granted this African nation independence July 3, 1962

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Time's up! The correct answer was Algeria

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DIALING FOR DIALECTS

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While Maltese borrows many words from Italian, it developed from a dialect of this Semitic language

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Time's up! The correct answer was Arabic

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SHAKESPEARE

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“Sweets to the sweet: Farewell!” were Hamlet's mother's words at this woman's funeral

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ophelia

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HISTORIC BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Balfour

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SLIM VOLUMES

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You may want to enter this, a diet book & program by Barry Sears, who clarified with "Mastering" it

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Zone

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GIANTS OF SCIENCE

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Good Lord! With absolute zero heirs at his death in 1907, this physicist's peerage became extinct

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lord Kelvin

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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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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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This speech that Lincoln delivered on a battlefield in 1863 lasted only 2 minutes but its impact was huge

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Gettysburg Address

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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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WOMEN ON U.S. STAMPS

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1907: A Powhatan princess

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pocahontas

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3-NAMED AUTHORS

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She wrote "Jo's Boys" in 1886, a second sequel to her 1860s novel

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Time's up! The correct answer was Louisa May Alcott

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THE NEW CAR LOT

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nissan

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VERMONTERS

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This plow inventor was a Vermont blacksmith before moving to Grand Detour, Illinois

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Deere

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FOOD

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The non-chocolate version are called "blondies"

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Time's up! The correct answer was brownies

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BIBLICAL FATHERS & SONS

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Zechariah, father of this forerunner of Christ, lost his voice for doubting God's word

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Time's up! The correct answer was John the Baptist

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GRAINS & STAPLES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was buckwheat

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ACTING PRESIDENTS ON TV

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Dennis Haysbert & D.B. Woodside as David & Wayne Palmer, respectively

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Time's up! The correct answer was 24

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TAKE OUT

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A rhytidectomy removes these surgically; botox takes them out another way

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Time's up! The correct answer was wrinkles

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COMIC STRIPS

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This Scott Adams title guy with a gravity-defying tie accidentally invented a death ray that interested North Korea

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dilbert

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A MASSIVE "M"ETROPOLIS

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1.1 million: in the heart of the Po River Valley

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Time's up! The correct answer was Milan

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CARBON CREDITS

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AKA black lead, this form of carbon has a greasy feel & is used in making lubricants

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Time's up! The correct answer was graphite

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SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS

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"Beaucoup de Bruit Pour Rien"

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

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WORD ORIGINS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was rhinestones

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INITIAL T.V.

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[Hi, I'm Pat O'Brien] David E. Kelley won 2 Emmys for this show in 1991, one as executive producer, one as writer

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Time's up! The correct answer was L.A. Law

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BEFORE & AFTER

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Projection at the southern tip of South America also called a cornucopia

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cape Horn o' Plenty

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MY PLACE?

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was yurt

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FICTIONAL BOOKS

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This doctor from the original "Star Trek" series wrote "Comparative Alien Physiology"

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Time's up! The correct answer was McCoy

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WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR II

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"Hefty" nickname of the second & last atomic bomb used during the war

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Time's up! The correct answer was Fat Man

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BIG, REALLY BIG!

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In 1956 a 12,000-square-mile one of these was seen floating off Antarctica; you might call it titanic

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Time's up! The correct answer was an iceberg

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THE 50 STATES

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The diatonic or "Cajun" accordion is the official musical instrument of this state

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Time's up! The correct answer was Louisiana

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MOTHER GOOSE

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Some speculate that this "merry old soul" of nursery rhyme fame was based on a real king of 3rd century Britain

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Time's up! The correct answer was Old King Cole

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SPIELBERG MOVIES

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This 1968 short film with a "strollin" title lent its name to Spielberg's production company

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Time's up! The correct answer was Amblin

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OF A SALESMAN

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This 1992 presidential candidate sold IBM computers in Texas before starting his own company, EDS

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ross Perot

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DAYS

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Leap day date

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

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HABEAS CORPSES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jeremy Bentham

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47

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The Pythagorean theorem is the 47th proposition in the first book of his "Elements"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Euclid

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AUTHORS

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This Dr. Dolittle creator studied civil engineering at M.I.T.

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hugh Lofting

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BIBLICAL PEOPLE & PLACES

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It was the wealthiest Greek city in Paul's time; he founded a church there & wrote 2 letters to its Christians

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Time's up! The correct answer was Corinth

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TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE WORD THAT RHYMES WITH STAR

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Proverbial food storage container where your "hand is caught" when busted for taking a bribe

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Time's up! The correct answer was the cookie jar

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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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DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME

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Houdini was famous for hanging upside-down wearing one of these restrictive overgarments

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SCRAMBLED EGGS

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Its eggs weigh around 3 pounds each: RICH SOT

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CROSSWORD CLUES "D"

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Conversation for 2 people (8)

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Time's up! The correct answer was a dialogue

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GRAPES

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A popular grape used in making raisins is this variety that shares its name with the capital of Oman

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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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HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES

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

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

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HISTORY IN MOVIES

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"The Quest for Camelot" featured Pierce Brosnan as the voice of this Valiant Ruler

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Time's up! The correct answer was King Arthur

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WORMS

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

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PASS THE CHOCOLATE

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A 2007 study said that eating a little dark chocolate daily may reduce this, both systolic & diastolic

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THE ANIMALS

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Resembling a small lobster, it's Louisiana's state crustacean

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ANATOMY

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A ringlike muscle called the pyloric sphincter lies at the end of this, leading into the duodenum

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PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA

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1 of the 2 presidents who could have used the Pony Express while in office

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MYTHOLOGICAL PAIRS

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Wounded by Cupid's arrow, Venus fell in love with this handsome guy at 1st sight

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WORDS WITHIN WORDS

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Carry something luminescent when you go down into one of these

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AFRICAN LANGUAGE LAB

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Go where some men have gone before with this 4-letter term from the Afrikaans for "migrate"

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THE "X" FILES

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A percussion instrument played with small mallets

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Time's up! The correct answer was Xylophone

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY

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Albuquerque, New Mexico lies on this 1885-mile long river

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BIRDS! BIRDS! BIRDS!

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The largest bird in the world, this one, seen here, is also the fastest on land

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SYMPHONIES ON FILM

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In 1998's "Serengeti Symphony", the title nature reserve in this country is shown with only music & natural sound

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BEFORE THEY WERE POPES

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

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WRITERS CUBED

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In 1977 a reconstruction of her "Little House" was put on the original site 13 miles southwest of Independence

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NAME THE OPERA

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("Habanera")

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MANY IRONS

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This mythical barrier cut off the Soviet Union & its friends after World War II

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4-LETTER WORDS

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This word commonly follows cuff or missing

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CATHOLIC PRIESTS

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Served by priests, it may not exceed 18% alcohol

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AIN'T THAT "GRAND"

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The Republicans had been around less than 30 years when they were dubbed this

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MANIAS

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In a 1987 hit Whitney Houston showed signs of choreomania when she wanted to do this with somebody

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AMERICAN HISTORY

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In 1791 this Treasury Secretary issued his "Report On Manufactures", a critique of American industry

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alexander Hamilton

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FOREIGN

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In German, berg is this topographical feature on a map

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PRESIDENTS' MONOGRAMS

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DDE

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COLORFUL GROUPS

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

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POP CULTURE

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In a 2011 movie comedy, the 3 title "horrible" these were summarized as psycho, maneater & tool

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EAT IT!

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Paper-thin & often served for dessert, it's the French equivalent of a pancake

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Time's up! The correct answer was crêpes

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IDEAS FOR TOURISM CAMPAIGNS

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We're one big island! (& several small ones); Lemur entertain you! (Disclaimer: Lemurs will not, repeat not, speak to you)

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LEGENDARY LEGENDS

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A modern urban legend says the USS Eldridge disappeared in this city's Navy yard in a 1943 "Experiment"

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WHAT AILS YOU?

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The cause of this disorder characterized by sudden sleep attacks is unknown

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ISRAEL

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Sde Boker, one of these cooperative communities, was the retirement home of first prime minister David Ben-Gurion

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MEDICINE

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Yes, she developed a scoring system in 1952 to aid in determining a newborn's health

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Time's up! The correct answer was Virginia Apgar

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BILLS & WILLS

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Before hosting his TV "Journal", he was deputy director of the Peace Corps

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bill Moyers

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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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THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M"

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Patrick Dennis' "Auntie" (4)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mame

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AMERICAN HISTORY

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On May 29, 1765 Patrick Henry's Stamp Act protest was interrupted with this one word

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Time's up! The correct answer was Treason!

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LINGUISTICS

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Sentence diagrams called these may include lines called branches

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Time's up! The correct answer was Trees

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LOVE QUOTES

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Napoleon said, "I have never loved anyone for love's sake, except, perhaps," her -- "a little"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Josephine

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TEENS OF THE PAST

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In the 1870s this teenage outlaw was sometimes referred to as Kid Antrim

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Time's up! The correct answer was Billy the Kid

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THE FILM VAULT

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An action star from the '30s to the '70s, this actor headlined "The Fighting Seabees" & "Flying Tigers"

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Wayne

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SOUNDS LIKE A CAPITAL CITY

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Almost half of north Americans have this kind of blood

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Time's up! The correct answer was Type A

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FILM FACTS

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As a child, this "Doctor Zhivago" co-star had a bit role in her father's film "Limelight"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Geraldine Chaplin

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ODDS & ENDS

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Odds are 1 in 3 that the American spud you're eating was grown in this state

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Time's up! The correct answer was Idaho

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WHAT A CHARACTER!

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On "The Addams Family", he was married to Morticia

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gomez

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ANIMALS

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Large feral populations of the "mute" species of this long-necked bird inhabit the Mid-Atlantic coast

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Time's up! The correct answer was Swans

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MIDDLE INITIAL C.

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Born in South Carolina in 1782, he was known as a "war hawk" because he supported the War of 1812

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Time's up! The correct answer was John C. Calhoun

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SKIP TO MY "LOO"

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An old gold coin equal to 2 pistoles

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Time's up! The correct answer was a doubloon

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BUSY AS A BEAVER

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One of the 2 U.S. states with the beaver as the state animal: one's on the west coast & one's on the east

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Time's up! The correct answer was Oregon

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HISTORIC NAMES

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

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

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MY SUITE

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It's the title of the "chasmic" 1931 suite heard here

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Grand Canyon Suite"

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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

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Despite opposition from the 2 founders' families, this company merged with Compaq in 2002

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hewlett-Packard

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BE FRUITFUL & MULTIPLY

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2 x 1,035

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Time's up! The correct answer was 2,070

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SCIENTISTS

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This botanist was hailed as "The Wizard of Tuskegee"

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

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KIDDIE LIT

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Chapter 4 of this 1908 classic is called "Morning at Green Gables"

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

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EARLY AMERICA

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The Molasses Act of 1733 placed high duties on molasses & this potent potable from non-English possessions

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Time's up! The correct answer was rum

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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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WORDS OF LOVE

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"In her first passion woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love", he wrote in "Don Juan"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Byron

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MAGIC

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In November 2000 this illusionist known for his street magic was encased in a block of ice for 63 hours in Times Square

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Time's up! The correct answer was David Blaine

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4 CONSONANTS IN A ROW

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was the mainspring

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DOUBLE MEANINGS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was pants

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THE "X" FILES

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A trademarked name, it's often used as a synonym for a photocopy

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Time's up! The correct answer was Xerox

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MYTHOLOGY

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In Australian myth, Ngunung-Ngunnut, one of these flying mammals, created the first woman

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bat

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THE "UNDER" WORLD

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Lingerie is a fancy word for it

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Time's up! The correct answer was underwear

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5-LETTER CAPITALS

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In 1809 one of the first revolts for independence in Latin America broke out in this Ecuadoran capital

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Time's up! The correct answer was Quito

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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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DUKE, DUKE

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Jazz at Lincoln Center is putting on over 400 events in 1999 in honor of his 100th birthday

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Time's up! The correct answer was Duke Ellington

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11-LETTER WORDS

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Term for someone who collects deniers, drachmas & doubloons

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Time's up! The correct answer was Numismatist

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WORD ORIGINS

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The name of this type of reference work is from the Greek for "cyclical" (i.e., well-rounded) & "education"

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Time's up! The correct answer was an encyclopedia

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ISLANDS

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Singapore seceded from this country in 1965

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Time's up! The correct answer was Malaysia

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DOUBLE-O WORDS

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Legend says in 1652 Dutch Admiral Tromp placed this at his masthead after sweeping the English from the sea

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Time's up! The correct answer was a broom

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THE DE NIRO CODE

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"Goodfellas": "The two greatest things in life" are "never rat on" these "and always keep your mouth shut"

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Time's up! The correct answer was your friends

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I BIT OFF MORE THAN I COULD CHEW

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Jim Reeves was top-"seeded" after he chomped 13 pounds of this gourd in 15 minutes

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Time's up! The correct answer was watermelon

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WAR MOVIES

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1936: Errol Flynn leads a cavalry unit into cannon, annihilation & everlasting glory

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Time's up! The correct answer was Charge of the Light Brigade

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NOT A POPE

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Stephen IX, John XXIV, Clement VIII

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Time's up! The correct answer was John XXIV

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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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EUROPE

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Some 40% of this country's land has been reclaimed from the sea

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Netherlands

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SOUTH AMERICA

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These are the only 2 independent countries in South America named for a famous person

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Time's up! The correct answer was Colombia & Bolivia

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LITERARY ALLUSIONS

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"The shot heard round the world" was first heard in this man's "Concord Hymn"

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

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iPOD, YOUTUBE OR WII

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There are websites devoted to injuries suffered by its users, such as pulled muscles & bloodied hands

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wii

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ON THE "WAR"PATH

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Homeothermic, like mammals

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Time's up! The correct answer was warm-blooded

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RELIGIOUS RHYME TIME

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A Latter-Day jury spokesperson

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ARCHITECTURE

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A flight is a series of these unbroken by a landing

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Time's up! The correct answer was stairs

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SPORTS SHORTS

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Since 2009 the Mercury, Storm & Lynx have been championship teams in this league

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Time's up! The correct answer was the WNBA

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SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS

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This word in "Henry VI Part 2" meant blase & world-weary, not having to do with nephrite

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Time's up! The correct answer was jaded

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AMERICAN FICTION WRITERS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Damon Runyon

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CONTESTS

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In 1999 'N Sync performed at the 17th annual pageant to crown Miss this

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Time's up! The correct answer was Miss Teen USA

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THE OLD COLLEGE TRY

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College Station is the home of this oldest public university in Texas

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Time's up! The correct answer was Texas A&M

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SAINTS BE PRAISED

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Saint Patrick

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THE EMPEROR NERO

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was while Rome burned

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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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"MOON"S

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It brings out the worst in werewolves

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

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ANIMAL PLANET

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It's the double-talk name for the tropical food fish also known as the dolphinfish

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mahi-mahi

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THE CINEMA

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It was the mythological container sought by Lara Croft in "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pandora's box

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ANNUAL EVENTS

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Dating back at least 100 years, "drowning the shamrock", or going drinking, is a tradition on this holiday

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

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U.S. PRESIDENTS

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It was the last name of the 17th & 36th presidents

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Time's up! The correct answer was Johnson

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TONY-WINNING COMPOSERS

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1950: "South Pacific"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Richard Rodgers

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TV MINISERIES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Moby Dick

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SCIENCE

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Also a term for someone from Warsaw, it's one of the 2 strongest points in a magnetic field

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BEYOND .COM

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If disseminating facts, knowledge, the 411, try this 4-letter domain, used by New York State's MTA

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MIDDLE "C"

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It means of or pertaining to the sense of smell

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SOUNDS LIKE A CAPITAL CITY

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To cause to undergo combustion

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ACTING PRESIDENTS ON TV

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Blair Underwood as President Elias Martinez

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COMPOSERS

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His sister Fanny Mendelssohn wrote some of the songs attributed to him

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WE WANT PISA!

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

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BOOK NAMES

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: "One Day in the Life of ____ ____"

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THE MOVIES

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John Larroquette played Captain Stillman in this wacky 1981 comedy about misfits in the Army

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PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS

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Maybe Alfred Adler didn't think he was good enough when he identified & named this complex

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THE HUMAN BODY

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

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HITCHCOCK

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Cary Grant admires Grace Kelly's big diamonds in this 1955 caper

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY

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Nome, Alaska lies on this peninsula named for a 19th century Secretary of State

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OLYMPIC POTPOURRI

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U.S. soccer star Mia Hamm led her team to Olympic gold despite straining this the same day Kerri Strug did

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NAME THE POET

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

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GOOSE...MOTHER GOOSE

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"A man of words and not of" these "is like a garden full of weeds"

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WHY?

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They're "unlucky" because in the Middle Ages they were thought to be the mascots of witches

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20th CENTURY ARTISTS

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In 2006 "Roots", a 1943 painting by her, sold for $5.6 million, then the record for a Latin American work

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NAME THE DECADE

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Man first reaches the South Pole

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TELEVISION

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Before playing the principal at "The Bronx Zoo", he played the city editor of the L.A. Tribune

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"DIAMOND"s IN THE ROUGH

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Arkansassy state park near Murfreesboro

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PARTS OF PEACH

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These parts of a peach tree are glossy green, pointed & lance shaped

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AGRICULTURE

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The type of irrigation seen here, it was used in Israel to make the desert bloom

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FOR THE BIRDS

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The canvasback is a wild North American variety of this bird

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MAMMALS

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Common in Dixie, a razorback is a wild one of these

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WAR

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"Operation Rolling Thunder" was the 1965 U.S. bombing campaign designed in part to stop men & supplies coming south on this road

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IT'S A "SIN"

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For more than 200 years, the annual Baltic Herring Market & Fair has been a big to-do in this world capital

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COLOGNE RANGER

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The Zoo Bridge spans this river that runs through Cologne

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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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FLOPS

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With teams including the Florida Blazers, this football league lasted for 1 1/2 seasons in '74-'75

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IT'S "BIG"

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It's found in the Parliament Tower of Westminster Palace

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DEAR JUNTA

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

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RHYMES WITH TRACK

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It's a titan in the trucking industry

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WHO'S THE BOSS

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Miss Jane Hathaway reluctantly schemed with this miserly banker

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HISTORY

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In 1962, this country became a constitutional monarchy under King Hassan II

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THE 1980s

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Vaclav Havel went from political prisoner to president of this country in 1989

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MAGIC

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This magician's feats include walking through the Great Wall of China

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THINGS ON NFL HELMETS

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A white arrowhead with a black outline; inside are 2 letters

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ANGELS

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

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CARY GRANT FILMS

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She done Cary right casting him as her co-star in "She Done Him Wrong"

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POLITICIANS

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Indiana's current governor, Frank L. O'Bannon, ran against Stephen Goldsmith, the mayor of this city

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FDR

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FDR gave the first of these talks March 12, 1933 from the White House diplomatic reception room

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ROGER!

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

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ROAMIN' THE WORLD

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Pier 21, considered "Canada's Ellis Island", is in this Nova Scotia city

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THE SHORT VERSION

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A translation of the Bible: KJV

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LITERARY HOUSES

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Harry Angstrom's house burns to the ground in this author's 1971 novel "Rabbit Redux"

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KNOWLEDGE BY THE NUMBERS

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Number of males who served as British PM in the 1990s plus Oscars won by Tom Hanks plus protons in a helium nucleus

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Time's up! The correct answer was 6

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NIGHT WATCH

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July 7, 2009: If you're in Australia, the Americas or sailing the Pacific, look for an eclipse of this

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Moon

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HELLO, DELI!

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It's a good knight for one of these Jewish turnovers with a meat or potato filling

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Time's up! The correct answer was a knish

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POLITICS

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Baby book author who ran for president in '68

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

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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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THE '30s WEREN'T ALL DEPRESSING

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In 1936 Los Angeles started receiving its electricity from generators at this facility

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SODA POP QUIZ

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Fenton & Fowler''s calls this elite Detroit ginger ale the best soft drink in the world

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TITLES FROM SHAKESPEARE

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Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" as well as Steinbeck's "The Moon Is Down" come from this play

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Time's up! The correct answer was Macbeth

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THE ONION

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Sept. 12, 1928: This "It Girl" "to appear sleeveless in Oct. Collier's; 'Besleeve yourself, strumpet!' clergy urge"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bow

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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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PARLEZ VOUS?

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When mom tells you to do something "Maintenant!", she means this

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Time's up! The correct answer was now

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PULL

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You "pull a few" of these to get a favor done

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Time's up! The correct answer was Strings

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THE HUMAN BODY

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They're also known as your zygomatic bones, & high ones are considered especially attractive

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cheekbones

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I KNOW THAT WORD BACKWARDS & FORWARDS

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To make an allusion to something

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THE "UNDER" WORLD

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It means to weaken support for something or to unearth too little ore

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Time's up! The correct answer was undermine

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TV MOVIES

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This series grew out of 1971's "The Homecoming: A Christmas Story"

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THE MIDDLE AGES

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Irene, who reigned from 797-802, declared herselt Emperor, not Empress, of this empire

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WORLD HODGEPODGE

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Pato, a combination of basketball & this game played on horseback, is quite popular in Argentina

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Time's up! The correct answer was Polo

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THE LOYOLA OPPOSITION

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In 1542 missionaries sent by Ignatius to Ireland were hampered by this king

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DISNEY VILLAINS

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Clayton

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL

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In the 1999 Fiesta Bowl, quarterback Tee Martin led this school to the national title by defeating Florida State, 23-16

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tennessee

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THE STARTING INFIELD

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In 1977 Chambliss, Randolph, Dent & Nettles took the field for this team

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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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THE 19th CENTURY

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On sale May 1, 1840, the first postage stamp with adhesive on the back had this person on the front

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Time's up! The correct answer was Queen Victoria

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BEFORE & AFTER

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"Lethal Weapon" director whose group was caught in a Sierra Nevada pass in the winter of 1846-47

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Richard Donner Party

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4-LETTER FRIENDS

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In "Jaws", it's what Roy Scheider threw overboard to lure the shark

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Time's up! The correct answer was chum

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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

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One of the only 2 current U.S. territories visited by Columbus, who reached both in 1493

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SEE THE USA

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

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

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INTERNATIONAL SPORTSMEN

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

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

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WEAPONS

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From the Germanic "hache", it's a small ax

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THE CIVIL WAR

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In June of 1861, Dorothea Dix was appointed to supervise the female ones of these

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WHERE'S THE COLLEGE?

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University of Miami

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HOMOPHONES

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It's a sausage, or the absolute least best

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SPORTS FACTS

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Iowa state's Dan Gable won 2 NCAA titles in this sport & then coached Iowa to 15 team titles from1978 to 1997

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Time's up! The correct answer was wrestling

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HORSE & RIDER

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Bucephalus

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TRAVEL & TOURISM

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Except when it's on tour, the most important King Tut collection is housed in this city

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SCIENCE & NATURE

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In June 1991 weightlessness experiments were conducted on about 2,500 jellyfish aboard this

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CLASSIC STAR TREK

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

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ALBUMS

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In 1997 Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" appeared on her album "Let's Talk About Love" & on this soundtrack

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Time's up! The correct answer was Titanic

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PARLEZ VOUS?

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When mom tells you to do something "Maintenant!", she means this

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PHYSICAL SCIENCE

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On Earth, it's the major force responsible for the weight of a body

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BEGINS & ENDS WITH "T"

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One who plays hooky from school might find himself pursued by this type of officer

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THE FILM THAT ALMOST WAS

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E.T. would have followed a trail of this candy, but the Mars company said no; not even the red ones

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"T" TIME AT THE LIBRARY

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Hawthorne's college classmate Horatio Bridge paid for the publication of this collection of "Tales"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Twice-Told Tales"

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THE BIG 10-LETTER WORDS

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Something that's the first son's due; Esau sold his

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STARTS WITH "B"

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A Russian grandmother, or her kerchief

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THEIR ALMA MATERS

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Author Ralph Ellison

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CITY FLAGS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Alamo

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FEDERAL AID PROGRAMS

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The Black Lung Program benefits those who worked as these, & their widows & their dependents

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THE 1930s

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This longtime anchor of the CBS Evening News became a UPI correspondent in 1939

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

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While studying at Cambridge in the late 1960s, this prince showed a flair for acting in comedy revues

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Time's up! The correct answer was Prince Charles

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JERSEY GIRLS

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Jersey City-born, this "Living Omnimedia" lifestyle maven was raised in Nutley, & that's a good thing

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Time's up! The correct answer was Martha Stewart

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OPERA & BALLET

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Though a tenor now, Placido Domingo began singing in this vocal range below tenor

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I WANT TO RIDE THAT!

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No tame little swing ride, the Starflyer in this Austrian city swings you as high as a 23-story building

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Time's up! The correct answer was Vienna

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CROSSWORD CLUES "G"

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Disgruntled Disney dwarf (6)

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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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Time's up! The correct answer was du Pont

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PIRATE MOVIES

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Robert Newton played this pirate before Peter Ustinov played his ghost in a Disney film

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Time's up! The correct answer was Blackbeard

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LEGAL "E"s

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This 2-word phrase means the power to take private property for public use; it's ok, as long as there is just compensation

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NOW YOU'RE TALKING MY LANGUAGE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was French

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LOBBYISTS

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She gave up Gary Hart & "Monkey Business" & became a spokesperson for "Enough Is Enough"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Donna Rice

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EARTH

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As well as trash & absorbent pet material, it can also mean the organic surface layer of the forest floor

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Time's up! The correct answer was litter

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COMPOSERS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Giuseppe Verdi

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MY PLACE?

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As he often said, Chris Farley's character Matt Foley lived in one of these down by the river

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Time's up! The correct answer was van

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STARTS WITH "B"

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This oily dressing makes your hair glossy, but it sounds like it makes you smart

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Time's up! The correct answer was Brilliantine

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MUSICALS

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Mrs. Ray Bolger co-produced this 1948 Ray Bolger musical based on "Charley's Aunt"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Where's Charley?"

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AT THE KENNEDY CENTER

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A 1994 festival honoring this country featured the Tjapukai Aboriginal Dance Company

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IN THE DICTIONARY

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

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ACTORS' RHYME TIME

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Nolte's films

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HIT TUNES

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"Angel", "Building A Mystery"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sarah McLachlan

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GAMBLING

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was blackjack

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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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THE 50 STATES

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Among its nicknames are "The Prairie State" & "The Land of Lincoln"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Illinois

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BOB DYLAN CHRONICLES

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

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

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"PH"UN WORDS

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Now meaning those who are hostile to the arts, in biblical times it was a people subdued by King David

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Time's up! The correct answer was a Philistine

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FROM THE GREEK

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The name of this color comes from the Greek word porphyra

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Time's up! The correct answer was purple

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WORLD CAPITALS

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This South American capital's original longer name translated to "Saint Mary of the Fair Winds"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Buenos Aires

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NONFICTION PEOPLE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Napoleon

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BOOKS & AUTHORS

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President Reagan called this man's first novel "The Hunt for Red October" the "perfect yarn"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tom Clancy

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PIRATE MOVIES

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In this 1935 film that made him a star, Errol Flynn was Dr. Peter Blood, a physician who turns to piracy

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Captain Blood"

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THE FORTUNE 500

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

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CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

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Anne Shirley leaves the orphanage to live on this "colorful" farm in Avonlea

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Time's up! The correct answer was Green Gables

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FORE!

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Fairway

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WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?

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This 1928 title character begins as a man & ends, almost 400 years later, as a young woman (but not in Florida)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Orlando

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NAME THE AUTOMAKER

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Stratus & Stealth

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dodge

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MEDICINE

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To test for this, the eyeball is anesthetized & a pressure gauge is placed on the front of the eye

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Time's up! The correct answer was glaucoma

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NETWORK

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"Emergency Vets", "Wild Rescues", "Breed All About It"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Animal Planet

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MILLIONS OF REASONS

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Metallic distinction of a CD that's sold 1 million copies

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Time's up! The correct answer was platinum

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TAKE OUT

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The embolus removed from an artery in an embolectomy is usually one of these obstructions

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Time's up! The correct answer was aclot

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COME, HO CHI MINH

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Ho Chi Minh's real family name wasn't Ho, it was this, like many other Vietnamese

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nguyen

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CROSSWORD CLUES "M"

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Eggplant entree, in Greece (6)

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Time's up! The correct answer was musaka

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BALLPARK FIGURES

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Sadly, this lefty pitcher who coined the Mets' battle cry "You gotta believe" died in 2004

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tug McGraw

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LITERATURE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ice

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FUN WITH OPERA

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Of a woman, an evil twin or a circus ape, what Sir Edgar's nephew turns out to be in "Der Junge Lord"

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Time's up! The correct answer was A circus ape

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PLAY ADJECTIVES

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Noel Coward 's "____ Spirit"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Blithe Spirit

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GUINNESS RECORDS

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With 2,685, Bralanda, Sweden was the site of the largest gathering of these holiday personalities

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Time's up! The correct answer was Santa Claus

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SAINTHOOD

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In 2009 this man who died on Molokai in 1889 became Hawaii's first saint

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Time's up! The correct answer was Father Damien

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TELEPHONE HISTORY

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As of July 1, 1968 you could dial this 3-digit number in New York City & get the police

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Time's up! The correct answer was 911

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FAMILIAR SAYINGS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was a jack of all trades

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JERSEY GIRLS

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Governor of New Jersey form 1994 to 2001, she appointed the state's first female Attorney General

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Time's up! The correct answer was Christine Whitman

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SAME TITLE, DIFFERENT SONG

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Sticky-sweet title of no. 1s for Bobby Goldsboro in 1968 & Mariah Carey in 1997

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

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TURN OF THE CENTURY MOVIES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Insider

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AMERICAN NICKNAMES

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Sam Rayburn was "Mr. Sam", not "Mr. Democrat"; this politician was "Mr. Republican", not "Mr. Robert"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Robert Taft

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X MARKS THE SPOT

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The harbor of this Nova Scotia capital is one of the largest in the world

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Time's up! The correct answer was Halifax

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THE HAYES YEARS

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10 members of this secret society of Irish immigrant coal workers were hanged on June 21, 1877

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Molly Maguires

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TAINTED GOV

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In 2010 it was revealed that Robert Rizzo made $800,000 a year as the city this of Bell, Calif., population 37,000

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Time's up! The correct answer was manager

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SOUNDS LIKE A CAPITAL CITY

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You'll find one on any shoe

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Time's up! The correct answer was sole

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WHAT'S YOUR BEEF?

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To make this dish, beef is topped with pate de foie gras & a mushroom paste before it's wrapped in pastry & cooked

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Time's up! The correct answer was beef Wellington

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"T"ELEVISION

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Co-hosted by John Davidson, it was ABC's response to NBC's "Real People"

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Time's up! The correct answer was That's Incredible!

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BEFORE THEY WERE POPES

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This pope who called the Second Vatican Council was a quiet church conformist until his 1958 election

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pope John XXIII

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"HIGH" SCHOOL

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The L.A. Dodgers & the U. of Louisville basketball team pioneered this gesture in the late '70s

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

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A TOM CRUISE FILM FESTIVAL

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"I lost the Number 1 draft pick the night before the draft!"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jerry Maguire

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JUAN

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In 1995 he was named ASCAP's Latin Songwriter of the Year & in 1996, sang a duet with Paul Anka

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Time's up! The correct answer was Juan Gabriel

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CLASSIC MOVIE SPECIAL EFFECTS

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1956: The Red Sea is parted

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Ten Commandments

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FLAG 'EM DOWN

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The Alamo is located in this city & is depicted on its flag

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Time's up! The correct answer was San Antonio

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THAT OLD "BLACK" MAGIC

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Early in his career, Burt Reynolds played Quint Asper, one of these on "Gunsmoke"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Blacksmith

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BIOGRAPHIES

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"The Education of a Woman" by Carolyn G. Heilbrun tells of this feminist and famous Ms

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gloria Steinem

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FIGURE SKATERS

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Dorothy Hamill developed a spin now known as the "Hamill" one of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was camel

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WORDS

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This name for a work of art that you may carve in art class comes from the Latin for "to carve"

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Time's up! The correct answer was sculpture

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AUTHORS

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This author of "The Time Machine" coined the phrase "the war that will end war"

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

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FEMALE ATHLETES

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This soccer player whose real first name is Mariel is one of 4 women to have scored over 100 goals in international play

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mia Hamm

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ALL "AMERICAN"

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In 2009 the U.S. Mint issued a quarter for this territory featuring an ava bowl, a whisk & a coconut tree

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Time's up! The correct answer was American Samoa

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TIME TO CONVERT

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MMIX in Roman numerals gives us this year

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Time's up! The correct answer was 2009

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1987

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lendl

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"G"ARDEN GLOSSARY

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Open an account at one of these banks that exist for the conservation of seeds, tissues or reproductive cells

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Time's up! The correct answer was a gene bank

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VERBS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lynch

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THE REEL STORY

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He played Mozart in the 1984 film "Amadeus"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tom Hulce

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SWEET TREATS

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These cookies were introduced by Nabisco in 1902 in a small box imprinted to look like a circus cage

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Time's up! The correct answer was Animal Crackers

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SPORTS FACTS

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In 1980 this boxer came out of retirement to fight Larry Holmes & then Trevor Berbick; he lost both bouts

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ali

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NICKNAMES

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"The Rocket"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Clemens

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HEISMAN WINNERS

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In 2006 Troy Smith joined Eddie George & back-to-back winner Archie Griffin as winners from this school

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ohio State

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THE STAR'S TV SHOW & MOVIE

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"Bosom Buddies", "The Green Mile"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tom Hanks

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CLASSIC STAR TREK

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From the Old Germanic for "legs", it's Dr. McCoy's nickname

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

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GUINNESS RECORDS

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Working with more than 4.5 million donors, this American org. is the world's largest blood provider

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

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LONG GERMAN WORDS

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Freude is this to which Beethoven composed an ode; Schadenfreude is this at someone else's misfortune

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Time's up! The correct answer was joy

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NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY

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Washington said a great city would stand where the Cuyahoga met Lake Erie; judge for yourself here

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cleveland

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1987

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In October the Senate rejected this former Watergate figure's nomination to the Supreme Court

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Time's up! The correct answer was Robert Bork

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I BIT OFF MORE THAN I COULD CHEW

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In 9 minutes, Sonya Thomas dined on 11 pounds of this cheesy dessert from a Brooklyn restaurant

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Time's up! The correct answer was cheesecake

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THE NEW TESTAMENT

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On Pentecost the Apostles amazed people when they "began to speak with other" these

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Time's up! The correct answer was tongues

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VALUABLE PLACES

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Hickham Field sustained damage during the Japanese attack on this nearby site December 7, 1941

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pearl Harbor

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YOUTH IN ASIA

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With a 6-wicket victory over Nepal, Bangladesh recently retained the Asian youth championship in this sport

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Time's up! The correct answer was cricket

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LET'S BOUNCE

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This verb for bouncing a basketball sounds like you're slobbering

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Time's up! The correct answer was dribbling

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ANY FIRST WORDS?

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was an initial

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MAYORS

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The last 2 Latinos elected mayor of this huge U.S. city are Cristobal Aguilar (1872) & Antonio Villaraigosa (2005)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Los Angeles

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PEANUTS

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When Charlie Brown gave Snoopy one of these, it took Snoopy an hour to put it on the flea

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Time's up! The correct answer was Flea Collar

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ON THE GO

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was prairie schooner

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5-LETTER WORDS

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A big fishing net, maybe in the river of the same name

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Time's up! The correct answer was a seine

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LOST IN SPACE

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Piers Sellers lost a tool in space while spreading putty into this Space Shuttle named for Capt. Cook's ship

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Time's up! The correct answer was Discovery

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SPIELBERG MOVIES

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13-year-old Christian Bale starred in this J.G. Ballard tale about a young prisoner in WWII China

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Time's up! The correct answer was Empire of the Sun

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U.S. PRESIDENTS

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For helping to end the Russo-Japanese War, he was awarded the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize

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Time's up! The correct answer was Theodore Roosevelt

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5-LETTER WORDS

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Greek for "word", it can mean the word of God

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Time's up! The correct answer was logos

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"H" CITIES

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

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

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A TOM CRUISE FILM FESTIVAL

Question

"They're dead...my team is dead...they knew we were coming"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mission: Impossible

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NEBRASKA, NEW YORK OR NORTH DAKOTA

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The least populous

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Time's up! The correct answer was North Dakota

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ART & ARTISTS

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Aquarelle is a transparent, rather than opaque, type of this painting, as seen in Paul Klee's work "Quarry"

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Time's up! The correct answer was watercolor

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NEBRASKA, NEW YORK OR NORTH DAKOTA

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The Oregon Trail crossed it

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nebraska

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"SIDE" EFFECTS

Question

You can get an 18-pound collection of every one of these Gary Larson cartoons

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Time's up! The correct answer was "The Far Side"

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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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Time's up! The correct answer was Moscow

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LITERARY COLLABORATORS

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These brothers first published their "Fairy Tales" in 1812 as "Kinderund Hausmarchen"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Brothers Grimm

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FAMILIAR SAYINGS

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A camel is a horse designed by this

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Time's up! The correct answer was a committee

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BERMUDA SHORTS

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The cahow, or Bermuda petrel, a type of this, breeds only in Bermuda

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Time's up! The correct answer was a bird

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PHYSICS 101

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Term for one end of a bar magnet, or for one of the discoverers of radium

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Time's up! The correct answer was a pole

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3 LITTLE LETTERS

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A TV cable network, or an explosive for bombs

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Time's up! The correct answer was TNT

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ALSO A TOOL

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We recommend giving someone this figuratively if you must fire him; later he might have one to grind

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Time's up! The correct answer was the axe

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AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

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"Northanger Abbey"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jane Austen

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OH MY GOD! YOU'VE GOT 3 "I"s

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Type of doctor who's most likely to give a patient a lollipop

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Time's up! The correct answer was pediatrician

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CLIMBING

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In "Vertical Limit" Robin Tunney is menaced by this high-altitude condition of fluid leaking into the lungs

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Time's up! The correct answer was pulmonary edema

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TAKE A GUESS

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Armenia is bordered by this other "A" country on the East & on the Southwest

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Time's up! The correct answer was Azerbaijan

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ART & ARTISTS

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This American female impressionist modeled for many of Degas' works, including "At the Milliner's"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cassatt

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CITY FLAGS

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

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

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CANALS

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While in Milan in the late 15th century, this artist designed locks to join the city's canals

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Time's up! The correct answer was Leonardo da Vinci

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SPORTS OF THE FEMALE OLYMPIANS

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Sheryl Swoopes, Lisa Leslie & their 3 teammates on the floor

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Time's up! The correct answer was basketball

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ITALIAN

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From an Italian word for "grape stalk", it's brandy distilled from the remains of grapes after pressing

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Time's up! The correct answer was grappa

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SCIENTISTS

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This botanist was hailed as "The Wizard of Tuskegee"

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

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BERRIES

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The tart, red cowberry is also called the "mountain" type of this berry, it is likewise used for sauce

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cranberry

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THE STARTING INFIELD

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The 1975 Reds fielded Rose, Concepcion, Perez & this Hall of Fame second sacker, now a broadcaster

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Time's up! The correct answer was Joe Morgan

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TV THEME LYRICS

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"I don't know who you think you are but before the night is through, I wanna do bad things with you"

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Time's up! The correct answer was True Blood

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TV THEME LYRICS

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"I don't know who you think you are but before the night is through, I wanna do bad things with you"

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Time's up! The correct answer was True Blood

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EMBRACEABLE "U"

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Uganda

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THE HOLLYWOOD STOCK EXCHANGE

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With the release of "Me, Myself, and Irene", this actor's HSX stock shot up $125

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jim Carrey

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THE MOVIES

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

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

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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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A STATE OF COLLEGE-NESS

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Antioch, Bowling Green, Kent State

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ohio

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THE LAW

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Failure to pay a building contractor may result in his leaning on you with this type of lien

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mechanic's lien

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WHAT A WEEK

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In 1958 the theme of the first national week for these places was "Wake up & read!"

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Time's up! The correct answer was libraries

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"LAP" DANCE

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Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction & Porno for Pyros founded this mega-concert event

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lollapalooza

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"O"PERA

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Disney World crowds might go nuts for this title knight, aka Roland, made famous by both Hande & Vivaldi

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Time's up! The correct answer was Orlando

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AROUND THE POKER TABLE WITH SLIM

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Slim's numerical term for a bluffer who doesn't have the fifth card to fill out a hand of all the same suit

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Time's up! The correct answer was Four-flusher

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ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS

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Oh oh! Chauncey B. Ives depicted this mythological woman seen here on the verge of opening a box

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pandora

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FEMALE ATHLETES

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This soccer player whose real first name is Mariel is one of 4 women to have scored over 100 goals in international play

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mia Hamm

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GREAT DAMES

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She played "Hamlet" at the age of 73 and a Vulcan high priestess in "Star Trek III"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dame Judith Anderson

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NOTABLE NONHUMANS

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This favorite horse of Alexander the Great sometimes wore golden horns in battle

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bucephalus

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY

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The Raritan is the longest river wholly within this state

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Time's up! The correct answer was New Jersey

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HEALTH & MEDICINE

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Light flashes in the field of vision may mean this optic tissue has become detatched

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Time's up! The correct answer was the retina

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ROGUE

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The U.S. condemned this country's October 2006 nuclear test as a "provocative act"

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Time's up! The correct answer was North Korea

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NAME THE DECADE

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The World Wide Web gets its first page

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

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ISLANDS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Greenland

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GUINNESS RECORDS

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Siberia in this country has had the greatest range in temperatures -- from 98 degrees F. to -90 degrees F.

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Time's up! The correct answer was Russia

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HORS D'OEUVRES

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Ideally, this type of small appetizer served on toast or crackers should be small enough to eat in 1 bite

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Time's up! The correct answer was canapé

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PHILMOGRAPHIES

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"Doubt", "Capote"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Philip Seymour Hoffman

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THE 50 STATES

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Among its nicknames are "The Prairie State" & "The Land of Lincoln"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Illinois

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IT'S "BIG"

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This cosmology theory's name came from Fred Hoyle's joke about it

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Time's up! The correct answer was Big Bang

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BALLS

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A target ball called a "pallino" is thrown first in this Italian ball game

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Time's up! The correct answer was bocce

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ARCHITECTURE

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From 1617 to 1642 everyone was keeping up with this Jones, surveyor of works to the British Crown

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Time's up! The correct answer was Inigo

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PRESIDENTS IN IOWA

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In 1975 Ford attended this, the subject of a 1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein film musical

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Time's up! The correct answer was Iowa State Fair

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THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM

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Celebrating "a century of sanctuary" in 2009, it's Utah's first national park, though it's last alphabetically

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Time's up! The correct answer was Zion

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ENGLISH ROYAL HENRYS

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Victory at Agincourt in 1415 earned this king a visit from the Holy Roman Emperor

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Time's up! The correct answer was Henry V

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FIRE!

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The first successful print of this future partner of James Ives was of a fire in Manhattan

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Time's up! The correct answer was Currier

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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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AFRICAN LANGUAGE LAB

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The marimba was popularized in Central America, but the word is from this sub-Saharan group of about 500 langs.

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Bantu languages

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5-LETTER CAPITALS

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Haiphong near the Gulf of Tonkin serves as this city's main port

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hanoi

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MUSIC VIDEOS

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At the 2004 MTV VMAs, No Doubt won Best Group Video & Best Pop Video for this song

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Time's up! The correct answer was "It's My Life"

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CHECK OUT MY CRIB

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In the furniture sense, this synonym of "pride" is dressing table

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Time's up! The correct answer was vanity

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COMMON BONDS

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Shirt, kite, donkey

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Time's up! The correct answer was tails

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18th CENTURY AMERICA

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These 85 essays arguing for adoption of the Constitution appeared between October 27, 1787 & May 28, 1788

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Federalist Papers

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CHEESE

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A song from "Dirty Dancing" says, "Now I've had" this; "Yes, I swear it's the truth and I owe it all to you"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "The Time Of My Life"

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THE "UNDER" WORLD

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Abolitionist "railroad"

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Time's up! The correct answer was underground

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GET YOUR MOVIE FACTS STRAIGHT

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Everyone knows the "Chronicles of Narnia"; this 2008 film "Chronicles" the Grace family stumbling onto a world of fairies

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Spiderwick Chronicles

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BEFORE & AFTER

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Carolyn Keene's fictional teenage detective who stars in a sitcom set in Cleveland

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

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LITERATURE

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Even Grendel would love Seamus Heaney's new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic about this title geat

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Time's up! The correct answer was Beowulf

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"PH"UN WORDS

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From the Greek for "shape", it means to transform an image into something else by computer

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Time's up! The correct answer was morph

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THE "CAPTAIN"

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Hooray for this Groucho Marx character from "Animal Crackers"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Captain Spaulding

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AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE

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The shingleback skink, a type of this, has protruding scales that make it look like a pine cone

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Time's up! The correct answer was a lizard

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ABBREVIATED STATES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alaska

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SO YOU WANT TO BE A 19th CENTURY HEROINE

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Your job options include teacher & this related job of the heroines in "Jane Eyre" & "Vanity Fair"

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Time's up! The correct answer was governess

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THE ONION HEADLINES FROM THE YEAR 2056

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This country "Bombed Back into the Renaissance"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Italy

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RODENTS

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Some of the quills of the Eurasian species can be 12 inches, equal to about half of its body length

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Time's up! The correct answer was a porcupine

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IT'S AN L.A. THING

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You can hit the Comedy Store, House of Blues, Whisky A Go Go & the Viper Room on this "strip" of L.A.

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sunset Strip

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I'D RATHER BE SKIING

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Something you'd sprinkle on after a shower, it's also the term for soft, dry, freshly fallen snow

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Time's up! The correct answer was powder

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YOU DO THE MATH

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was 1

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FASHIONABLE COMMON BONDS

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Hobble, wrap, micro mini

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Time's up! The correct answer was skirt

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THRILLER

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"The Numa Files" are paperback spin-offs of this writer's novels featuring Dirk Pitt

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Time's up! The correct answer was Clive Cussler

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ALBUMS THAT ROCK

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"X&Y", "Parachutes"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Coldplay

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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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THE CIVIL WAR

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When this general accepted Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, he was wearing a mud-splattered private's coat

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ulysses S. Grant

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TURNING 40 IN '98

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In 1998 she turned 40 & played a 40-year-old in "How Stella Got Her Groove Back"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Angela Bassett

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I HAVEN'T READ SHAKESPEARE, BUT...

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It's about this guy who hires non-permanent secretarial help for his office

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Tempest

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ABBREV.

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Like NAFTA, but farther south: CAFTA

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Time's up! The correct answer was Central American Free Trade Agreement

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LUXEMBOURG

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Rivaner is a profitable type of this planted in Luxembourg's Moselle Valley

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Time's up! The correct answer was grape

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TRADING SPACES

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Muriel Siebert was the first woman to hold a seat on this Wall Street body founded in 1792

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Time's up! The correct answer was the New York Stock Exchange

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THE "X" FILES

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High-energy radiation used to take a picture of your insides

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

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APT ANAGRAMS

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This Internet service was big in the '90s: I ONCE RAN EMAIL

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Time's up! The correct answer was America Online

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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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CHAIRS

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He not only designed the Gateway Arch, he created furniture such as the sculptured "Womb" chair

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Time's up! The correct answer was Eero Saarinen

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METALLICA

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Among coinage metals, this one, atomic number 28, is only a fair conductor of electricity

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Time's up! The correct answer was nickel

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WORLD HISTORY

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More than 250,000 died in fighting before France granted this African nation independence July 3, 1962

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Time's up! The correct answer was Algeria

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DOWN AT THE OLFACTORY

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Introduced in 1890, this product for little backsides advertises its "clean, classic scent"

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Time's up! The correct answer was baby powder

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WORDS WITHIN WORDS

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Color of your face when you've done something irredeemable

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Time's up! The correct answer was Red

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I KNOW THAT WORD BACKWARDS & FORWARDS

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Reza Khan, born in Iran in 1878, & his son were these for a combined 54 years

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Time's up! The correct answer was shahs