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Time's up! The correct answer was Daffodil

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STATE FISH

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The reef triggerfish, this state's state fish, can be found as far south as Australia

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hawaii

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SO "LONG"

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This arachnid is also called a harvestman

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Time's up! The correct answer was a daddy long-legs

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WHAT'S THAT SOUND?

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This state's outer banks create Pamlico Sound, the largest lagoon on the East Coast of the United States

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Time's up! The correct answer was North Carolina

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MODERN "TIME"S

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It's the parent company of CNN

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Time's up! The correct answer was Time Warner

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ON BROADWAY: 1970

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Anthony Quayle & Keith Baxter starred in this Anthony Shaffer mystery; the rest of the cast is another mystery

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sleuth

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LITERARY SISTERS

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In this Tennessee Williams play, Tom Wingfield brings a gentleman caller home to meet his crippled sister Laura

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Glass Menagerie

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A BUNCH OF "GREAT" LEADERS

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This 9th century king of Wessex repeatedly repelled the Danes with great success

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

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MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MOVIES

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A Capote tale set in the South: "The Grass _____"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Harp

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POETIC TITLE VERBS

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"_____ By Woods On A Snowy Evening"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Stopping

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ALL MY SONS

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Gutzon Borglum died in 1941 so his son, Lincoln, finished sculpting the 4 figures of this memorial

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mount Rushmore

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THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was a tithe

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GEORGE WASHINGTON

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Washington warned against "The insidious wiles of foreign influences" in this published declaration

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Time's up! The correct answer was His Farewell Address

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PLANTS

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Britannica defines it as "any plant growing where it is not wanted"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Weed

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COLORS

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Broadway's nickname

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Great White Way

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HERE'S LUCY

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Lucy Hobbs Taylor must have aced her orals because in 1866 she became the first woman to receive a degree in this

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Time's up! The correct answer was dentistry

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THE YEAR IN SPORTS

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Super Bowl XXXVIII was in 2004; this was the year of Super Bowl I

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Time's up! The correct answer was 1967

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MYSPACE.MAN

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With the return of Apollo 13, this commander had completed over 715 hours of space travel

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lovell

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COUNTY SEATS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Adams

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SYMPHONIES ON FILM

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The Philadelphia Orchestra played Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony" for this 1940 Disney film

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Time's up! The correct answer was Fantasia

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ANAGRAMMED BIRDS

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A front yard favorite: I'm no flag

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Time's up! The correct answer was flamingo

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MY PLACE?

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A book subtitled "Architecture in the Colombian Countryside" showcases the estates called these in Spanish

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Time's up! The correct answer was haciendas

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NURSERY RHYMES

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Simple Simon met him "going to the fair"

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Time's up! The correct answer was A pieman

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SPORTS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Davis Cup

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THE FUNNIES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alley Oop

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REMEMBER THE TIME

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In 1526 he greeted an Inca nobleman on his ship, but conquest would have to wait a few years until funds were raised

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pizarro

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POTPOURRI

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The website for this Bureau of the Treasury department is www.moneyfactory.com

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Bureau of Printing and Engraving

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SIMPLE SCIENCE

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State of matter a substance is in after it's gone through evaporation

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Time's up! The correct answer was gaseous

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THE LAST MAN

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In "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", he's paired with Michael Jackson for writing "We Are The World"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lionel Richie

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CANADIAN FOOTBALL

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This former Boston College & New England Patriots QB was the CFL's most outstanding player 6 times

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Time's up! The correct answer was Doug Flutie

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BATTLE TO NAME THE WAR

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Let me take you down, 'cause we're going to... Bosworth Field

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Time's up! The correct answer was the War of the Roses

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IDEAS FOR TOURISM CAMPAIGNS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Iceland

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MYTHICAL CREATURES

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This bird was said to embalm the ashes of its predecessor & then fly to Heliopolis

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Time's up! The correct answer was the phoenix

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ANCIENT COINS

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The animal featured on the electrum coin of Lydia, it got the world's coinage off to a roaring success

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lion

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FAMILIAR PHRASES

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Big throwing don'ts include "the baby out with the bathwater" & "caution to" this

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Time's up! The correct answer was the wind

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"V"

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9-letter word meaning to waver between courses of action

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Time's up! The correct answer was vacillate

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ON THE COVER OF SGT. PEPPER

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This "Das Kapital" author stands between comedian Oliver Hardy & H.G. Wells

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Time's up! The correct answer was Karl Marx

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FROM THE GREEK

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This synonym for "drugstore" comes from the Greek for "druggist's work"

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Time's up! The correct answer was pharmacy

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BREAKING NEWS

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It was 103 degrees in July 2010 & Con Ed's command center in this N.Y. borough showed 12,963 megawatts consumed at 1 time

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Time's up! The correct answer was Manhattan

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FASHIONABLE COMMON BONDS

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French, Cuban, wedge

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Time's up! The correct answer was heels

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HOME

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In new houses, when all your lights go out, you flip the circuit breaker back; in old houses, you change these

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Time's up! The correct answer was Fuses

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TREES & SHRUBS

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A 1912 gift from Japan, the Yoshino species of this tree is found in great abundance by the Jefferson Memorial

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Time's up! The correct answer was cherry trees

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BRAND-O

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George Blaisdell invented this lighter in 1932

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Zippo

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iPOD, YOUTUBE OR WII

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It was introduced as a way to "put 1,000 songs in your pocket"

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Time's up! The correct answer was iPod

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FEELING "ANCY"

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This for life in the U.S. is currently about 76 years

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Time's up! The correct answer was Life expectancy

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A THOMAS GUIDE

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In 1952 this poet told us to "Rage, rage against the dying of the light"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dylan Thomas

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3-LETTER ABBREV.

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Organization founded by Carrie Chapman Catt in 1920: LWV

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

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WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?

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Virginia's father Sir Leslie Stephen was earlier married to a daughter of this "Vanity Fair" author

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Time's up! The correct answer was Thackeray

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BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS

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1954: "Dockside"

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Time's up! The correct answer was On the Waterfront

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THE ROMANOV DYNASTY

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One bio of this "Great" czar says he carried dental instruments around with him because he loved to pull teeth

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

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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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TWO

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In fashion: Domenico Dolce &...

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Time's up! The correct answer was Stefano Gabbana

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WHAT TO WEAR

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Christian Lacroix popularized the pouf type of this

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Time's up! The correct answer was dress

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CIVIL WAR LITERATURE

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

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

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BRITISH BANDS & SINGERS

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In 1998 this group seen here reunited for a VH1 special & a concert tour ("I'll Tumble 4 Ya")

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Time's up! The correct answer was Culture Club

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AN E FOR AN I

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"Gentle" becomes "to blend"

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

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LITERATURE

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"A Tale of Two Cities" opens as Dr. Alexander Manette is released after 18 years in this prison

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Bastille

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"MUM"s THE WORD

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....I said it's to utter something quietly & unclearly!

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mumble

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"F"OOD

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This, food cooked in a central pot on the table, is from the French for "to melt"

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Time's up! The correct answer was fondue

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BASEBALL HISTORY

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During his 22-year career he walked a then-record 2,056 times

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Time's up! The correct answer was Babe Ruth

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CHARLIE CHAPLIN

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Limelight

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ROYAL BRITANNIA

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He succeeded his mother & was succeeded in 1910 by his son George V

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Time's up! The correct answer was Edward VII

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"A" PLUS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Scott Adams

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THAT'S MY LAW

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Elliptical

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BEN

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This publication that Ben first put out in 1732 often sold 10,000 copies a year

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Time's up! The correct answer was Poor Richard's Almanack

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THE "W.B."

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It's worn by a novice in judo or karate

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Time's up! The correct answer was White belt

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"PH"UN WORDS

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For many years Andre Previn conducted one

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Time's up! The correct answer was Philharmonic

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NURSERY RHYMES

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In a counting nursery rhyme, they were "a-courting", "in the kitchen" & "a-waiting"

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Time's up! The correct answer was maids

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PERFUME

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Though it has the same name, Benetton's perfume wasn't named for this controversial Sean Penn film

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Time's up! The correct answer was Colors

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LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER

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

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

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CATHOLIC PRIESTS

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Title of any priest's immediate boss; the U.S. has 270 of them

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Time's up! The correct answer was bishop

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KFC

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The conglomerate built on this soda decided everybody needs a little KFC & bought it in 1986

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pepsi Cola

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DOWN AT THE OLFACTORY

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You quickly get used to the eggy smell at the Colorado resort called "Hot" this type of "Springs"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sulfur

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CORPORATE SPORTS VENUES

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This team that won a championship in 2001 plays in PSINet Stadiun

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Time's up! The correct answer was Baltimore Ravens

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THAT'S HANDY

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In Christian ritual it involves moving the hand from the forehead, to the chest & then to each shoulder in turn

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Time's up! The correct answer was crossing oneself

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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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BALLS

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In racquetball, the ball must strike the front wall before hitting this

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Time's up! The correct answer was the ground

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HORS D'OEUVRES

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From Latin for "undigested food", crudites refers to these

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Time's up! The correct answer was raw vegetables

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BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY

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Genesis calls it "the salt sea" perhaps because its salinity reaches 4 times that of ocean water

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Dead Sea

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GUYANESE GEOGRAPHY

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Guyana has had a long-standing border dispute with this small country to its southeast

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Time's up! The correct answer was Suriname

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WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR II

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It was the alphanumeric designation of the U.S. Army's Garand rifle

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Time's up! The correct answer was the M1

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AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was a dugong

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BEGINNING & END

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In 2006 it began on July 1 in Strasbourg & ended on July 23 in Paris

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Tour de France

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THE "W.B."

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In a 1969 film this title group included William Holden & Warren Oates

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

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ON THE GO

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(Sofia of the Clue Crew paddling a canoe) Some of the earliest canoes were this type of boat, made from a hollowed-out tree trunk

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Time's up! The correct answer was dugout canoe

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DRESSING

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In 1953 the Witty Brothers promoted the first suit made of this by having a model wear it for 67 straight days

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Time's up! The correct answer was polyester

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INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE

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Oh, it bellows: RANCID COO

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Time's up! The correct answer was accordion

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TECHNOLOGY

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was 10000

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EXPLORERS

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His 1497-98 voyage to India opened the 1st all-water trade route between Europe & Asia

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Time's up! The correct answer was Vasco da Gama

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"EZ" DOES IT

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In the classic sitcom he's the patriarch of "The Addams Family"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gomez

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HAMMERS

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Goods being sold "under the hammer" are found at these events

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Time's up! The correct answer was Auctions

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"ROCK"Y

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Also known as the Mosque of Omar, it was home to the Knights Templar during the Crusades

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Dome of the Rock

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RELIGION BY THE NUMBERS

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This legendary dozen included 2 Jameses, 2 Judases & an eventual replacement named Matthias

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Time's up! The correct answer was Twelve Apostles/disciples

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SIMILES

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Because artists tend to flatter their models, a fine-looking female is said to be "as pretty as" this

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Time's up! The correct answer was a picture

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NOVEL QUOTES

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Its less famous second line is "It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness"

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Time's up! The correct answer was A Tale Of Two Cities

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LESSER-KNOWN MUSICALS

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Bully for Len Cariou, who played this famous man in the musical "Teddy And Alice"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Theodore Roosevelt

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MESOPOTAMIA

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From the Assyrian for "height", this stepped structure was used as a temple by Mesopotamian cultures

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Time's up! The correct answer was ziggurat

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HEALTH & MEDICINE

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In vitiligo, a common disorder, patches of skin lose this

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Time's up! The correct answer was pigment

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THAT'S WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE SOUTH

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The name of a popular Southern liquor brand, it's also the state game bird of Alabama

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wild Turkey

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ALBUMS

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'N Sync's "No Strings Attached" was the No. 1 album of 2000; this Santana album was No. 2

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Time's up! The correct answer was Supernatural

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PARDON MY "FRENCH"

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In a French restaurant, they're called pommes frites

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Time's up! The correct answer was French fries

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BRIGHT IDEAS

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In 1882 Schuyler Wheeler put a propellor on the shaft of an electric motor & created this--how cool!

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Time's up! The correct answer was a fan

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I COULD USE SOME SELF-HELP!

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That hair! Those shorts! Both are still around for this exercise guy known for his "Sweatin' to the Oldies"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Richard Simmons

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NUTRITION

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An ounce of cheddar cheese has 200 milligrams of this, crucial to healthy bones

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Time's up! The correct answer was calcium

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LITERATURE

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Walt Whitman's 52-section "Song Of Myself" is the longest work in this collection first published in 1855

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Leaves of Grass"

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NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES

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"Shot Dead By Federal Men In Front Of Movie Theatre" read his 1934 front-page obituary

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Dillinger

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IT'S SANDY!

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sandy Koufax

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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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THE SILVER SCREEN

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hannibal Lecter

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DANCE IN THE DICTIONARY

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It was established as a cyclic form by Vienna's Josef Lanner; you think you can do this dance in here & order us around?

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Time's up! The correct answer was waltz

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PRINCETON

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was capital

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PARDON MY "FRENCH"

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Settlers began living in this section of New Orleans in the early 18th century

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Time's up! The correct answer was French Quarter

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POTPOURRI

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In 2003 a nationwide Free Slurpee Day was on this date

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

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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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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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COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

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The world's most populous democracy

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Time's up! The correct answer was India

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CLASSICAL GASES

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As a liquid, it's used as a cryogenic refrigerant; as a gas, it makes lights red

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Time's up! The correct answer was Neon

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THE ONION

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Aug. 9, 2000: Popular names for these include Shopwood, Storemont & Indianburialgroundbrook

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Time's up! The correct answer was shopping malls

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JEWELRY

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Tahiti & French Polynesia are famous for pearls of this color

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Time's up! The correct answer was Black

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SHAKESPEARE

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These lovers do "with their death bury their parents' strife"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Romeo and Juliet

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HEADS OF STATE

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On August 29, 1995 Eduard Shevardnadze, president of this country, was wounded by a car bomb

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Time's up! The correct answer was Georgia

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ALASKA

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The mainland peninsula closest to Russia is named for this man

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Time's up! The correct answer was William Seward

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I'LL MAKE A NOTE OF IT

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In the 1800s this Frenchman also developed a musical notation system for blind musicians

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Time's up! The correct answer was Louis Braille

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CLASSIC DISNEY FILMS

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This 1961 film was the first to feature a magical substance called Flubber

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Absent-Minded Professor

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HABEAS CORPSES

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Kept for years in her husband's dining room, her embalmed body was buried in Buenos Aires in '74

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Time's up! The correct answer was Eva Peron

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SRO

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

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

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MORTAL MATTERS

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In NYC June 14, 1999 it was "Dead Man Riding", as it took hours to notice a passenger on one of these wasn't just sleeping

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Time's up! The correct answer was Subway

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A FLY CATEGORY

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This rotating device attached to a shaft keeps an engine's speed steady

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Time's up! The correct answer was a flywheel

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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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CARTOONS

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Ted Cassidy, who played Thing on "The Addams Family", was also the voice of The Thing of this superhero group

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Fantastic 4

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FROM B TO C

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Pertaining to an inflamed swelling of a lymph node, all too common in the 14th century

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Time's up! The correct answer was bubonic

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TIME TO "EAT"

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To practice trickery or fraud in game play

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Time's up! The correct answer was cheat

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SIMPLE SCIENCE

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State of matter a substance is in after it's gone through evaporation

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Time's up! The correct answer was gaseous

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WORD ORIGINS

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This state's name is from the Sioux for "sky-tinted waters"; maybe they meant the 10,000 lakes

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Time's up! The correct answer was Minnesota

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THE 20th CENTURY

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This term, German for "lightning war," was used to describe the rapid capture of Poland by Germany in 1939

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Time's up! The correct answer was blitzkrieg

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TECHNOLOGY

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The "D" in radar stands for this

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Time's up! The correct answer was detection

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AVIARY

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Perhaps "imitating" Florida, in 1929 Arkansas chose this as its state bird

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Time's up! The correct answer was mockingbird

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DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME

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

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

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CARDS & DICE

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The 4 players in bridge are given these directional titles

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Time's up! The correct answer was North, South, East & West

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MAD

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Clicking on the Encarta index entry of Mad Anthony will take you to this man

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Time's up! The correct answer was Anthony Wayne

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FRENCH ART & ARTISTS

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In 1834 Delacroix painted the lush "Women of" this Algerian city "in Their Apartment"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Algiers

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PRESIDENTIAL FINAL MOMENTS

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He shuffled off this mortal coil in Warm Springs, GA from a cerebral hemorrhage

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Time's up! The correct answer was FDR

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SI's SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Goodyear

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PICTURE THIS

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In 1907 the Wall Street Journal declared Percival Lowell's photo of its "canals" proof of intelligent life

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mars

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SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER

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Neckwear for eating lobster

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Time's up! The correct answer was bib

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AMERICAN LITERATURE

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A contemporary review of this 1851 novel said, "Who would have looked for... poetry in blubber?"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Moby-Dick

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CROSSWORD CLUES "G"

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Thank You, in Tampico (7)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gracias

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YOU DO THE MATH

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was 49

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THE NORTHERNMOST CAPITAL CITY

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Khartoum, Cairo, Kinshasa

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cairo

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ANCIENT TIMES

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Horrified by the carnage of war, Asoka, a 3rd century B.C. ruler in India, embraced this peaceful religion

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Time's up! The correct answer was Buddhism

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THEATRE HODGEPODGE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Henry VIII

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WHY?

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To punish Vronsky for turning cold to her, & to escape from everything

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Time's up! The correct answer was Why does Anna Karenina kill herself?

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WHERE'S THE COLLEGE?

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University of Miami

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Time's up! The correct answer was Coral Gables

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COMPUTER JARGON

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"Egosurfing" means searching the net for this

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

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CELEBRITY RHYME TIME

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The vistas seen from Ms. Barrymore's home

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Time's up! The correct answer was Drew's views

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FIRST LADIES' RHYME TIME

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Mrs. Bush's luminous radiations

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

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HITCHCOCK

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Birds

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"BLACK" OR "WHITE"

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People have asked why the whole airplane isn't made out of the same material as this "indestructible" device

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Time's up! The correct answer was the black box

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THE USA

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The discovery of the Comstock Lode in 1859 attracted miners & prospectors to this state

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nevada

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WHEAT

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This embryo of the wheat seed is a rich source of vitamin E

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Time's up! The correct answer was Germ

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ONE LETTER DIFFERENT

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A hole in the ground for your baked pastry

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Time's up! The correct answer was a pie pit

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OFFICIAL STATE THINGS

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Extinct? You bet. But this "3-lobed" arthropod has crawled into history as Wisconsin's state fossil

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Time's up! The correct answer was trilobite

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19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Speaker

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IN THE GOOD OLD SUMER TIME

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These Sumerian pyramids were topped by temples

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ziggurats

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IT'S GREEK MYTHOLOGY TO ME

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Atalanta excelled in this blood sport of which Artemis was goddess

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Time's up! The correct answer was hunting

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POTPOURRI

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It's a synonym for a lie as well as the type of tale told by Aesop

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Time's up! The correct answer was Fable

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SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER

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This item on a bicycle lets drivers see cyclists at night

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Time's up! The correct answer was taillight

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THE 19th CENTURY

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In 1880 this Lincoln county sheriff captured Billy the Kid

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pat Garrett

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CELEBRITY RHYME TIME

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The vistas seen from Ms. Barrymore's home

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Time's up! The correct answer was Drew's views

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"KNIFE", "FORK" OR "SPOON"

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jackknife

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"B" PREPARED

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"I'll Go Home With Bonnie Jean" is one of many lively songs in this Lerner & Loewe musical

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Time's up! The correct answer was Brigadoon

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YES, THAT'S "WHITE"

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A chess piece, or a company involved in a friendly takeover of another

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Time's up! The correct answer was a white knight

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STATE BIRDS

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Missouri: Not a redbird but this colorful creature

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Time's up! The correct answer was a bluebird

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TOUGH STUFF

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Alphabetically, he's Santa's first reindeer

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Time's up! The correct answer was Blitzen

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COUNTRY MUSIC

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Keith Urban

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THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK AFTER...

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Genesis

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Time's up! The correct answer was Exodus

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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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THE GIANTS

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Odysseus incurs the wrath of Poseidon by blinding this giant Cyclops

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Time's up! The correct answer was Polyphemus

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MILLIONS OF REASONS

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It was the "grateful" title of philanthropist Percy Ross' syndicated radio show & newspaper column

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Time's up! The correct answer was Thanks a Million

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CAPITOL THINKERS

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This Tennessee senator is a practicing physician

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bill Frist

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CLASSIC DISNEY FILMS

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This film about a flying elephant inspired a ride at Disneyland

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dumbo

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AYE! IT'S IRELAND

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Harp

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WARNER BROS.

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He outlasted his brothers Sam, Albert & Harry in the company, finally selling out in 1967

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jack Warner

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TAINTED GOV

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In 2010 a House committee charged this veteran Harlem congressman with ethics violations

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rangel

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ASIAN NATIONS

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The Druk Gyalpo, or Dragon King, rules this neighbor of India that has a dragon on its flag

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bhutan

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FOLKIES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Michelle Shocked

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WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS

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From the Italian for "chatter", it's a person who claims knowledge or skill he doesn't have

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Time's up! The correct answer was Charlatan

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SYRIA'S EATING

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Sultan Ibrahim is a Mideastern name for red mullet, a type of this creature

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Time's up! The correct answer was fish

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ON THE MOVE

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Long, flat-bottomed & painted a somber black, they're the traditional taxis of Venice

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gondolas

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FAMOUS JACQUES

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His 1959 film "The Golden Fish" won him an Oscar

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cousteau

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LET'S HAVE ITALIAN TONIGHT!

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In 2002 he wrote "Baudolino", a historial novel set in 12th century Europe; what an author ... author ... author

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Time's up! The correct answer was Umberto Ecco

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CINEMA OF "BLOOD"

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

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

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DESCRIBING THE NO. 1 SONG

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1968: Marvin Gaye gets the news through third parties that his girlfriend will be leaving him

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Heard It Through the Grapevine"

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UP & ATOM

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In 1932 James Chadwick discovered these non-charged particles

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Time's up! The correct answer was neutrons

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NAME THE POET

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"Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote the droghte of March hath perced to the roote"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Geoffrey Chaucer

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AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS

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The only Oscar winner also to win a Nobel Prize, this European won a 1938 Oscar for adapting his own play

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Time's up! The correct answer was George Bernard Shaw

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ANCIENT TIMES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was China

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PIANO KEYS

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It's the key the French call "Le do du milieu du piano"

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Time's up! The correct answer was middle C

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LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "L"

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Delicious "Doone" damsel (5)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lorna

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KIDDY LIT

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These tiny people in a 1952 Mary Norton story live under the floor in a large country house

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Time's up! The correct answer was the borrowers

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SCRAMBLED EGGS?

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South of the border treat: OH NERVOUS SEARCH

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Time's up! The correct answer was huevos rancheros

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A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY

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The length of these ladylike accessories is denoted by buttons; 16-button ones are formal length

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Time's up! The correct answer was gloves

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SPORTS EVOLUTION

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By the time the British discovered this sport in India around 1860, it used a ball, no longer a goat's or enemy's head

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Time's up! The correct answer was polo

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DIALING FOR DIALECTS

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Vedic, dating back at least 4,000 years, is the earliest dialect of this classical language of India

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sanskrit

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SNAP

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Along with Snap, they've been appearing on boxes of Rice Krispies since the 1930s

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Time's up! The correct answer was Crackle & Pop

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BABY BOOMER MEMORIES

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In 1967 this 21-year-old started Rolling Stone magazine

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jann Wenner

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NAME THE FILM

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1939: "I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore"

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

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CliffsNotes

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Livestock successfully stage rebellion, pigs end up blowing it for everyone

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

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SPORTS

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In the 1992-93 season this Pittsburgh Penguin missed 24 games but still won the NHL scoring title

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"DO", "RE", "MI"

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A small filet of prime beef

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BALLPARK FIGURES

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Famous nickname of Leon Goslin, who played in all 19 World Series games with the Washington Senators

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

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NIGHT WATCH

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If you stay up really, really, late (like till 2061), you'll see this, named for the guy who identified it in 1705

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Time's up! The correct answer was Halley's Comet

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IT'S RAINING "MN"

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If you're sleepless in Seattle you're suffering from this malady

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ARCHITECTS

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

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

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PARTS OF THE WHOLE

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Thermostat control, egg tray, crisper

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Time's up! The correct answer was refrigerator

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CAMERA

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In 1986 Kodak left the instant camera business after a judge found it had violated this company's patents

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Time's up! The correct answer was Polaroid

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HORSE SENSE

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The Pie was little Liz Taylor's horse in this classic

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Time's up! The correct answer was National Velvet

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TIME'S TOP 10 EVERYTHING OF 2008

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No. 7 in "Quotes": This politician, when told that 2/3 of Americans did not support the Iraq War--"So?"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dick Cheney

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47

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The heavenly strains of the concert grand pedal type of this instrument come from its 47 strings

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FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

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This word meaning "empty" or "to be filled in" describes a vacant type of stare

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Time's up! The correct answer was blank

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TALK LIKE A BRIT

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If you're right on queue for a movie in Piccadilly, you're in one of these

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CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

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"The Comic Adventures of" this elderly woman "and her Dog" were first published in 1805

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HISTORIC NAMES

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This discoverer of Uranus thought the sun was an inhabited body with a luminous atmosphere

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Time's up! The correct answer was William Herschel

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BEFORE & AFTER

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Leif Ericson's dad who was a huge star with low surface temperature

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Time's up! The correct answer was Erik the Red Giant

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IT'S ALL ABOUT ME

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Albrecht Durer's first known drawing, done at the age of 13, was one of these artistic efforts

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Time's up! The correct answer was a self-portrait

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COVER ME!

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A No. 1 hit for The Eurythmics in 1983, "Sweet Dreams" was covered in '95 by this goth rocker, the former Brian Warner

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Time's up! The correct answer was Marilyn Manson

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"EVER"S

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This 1965 movie begins with the birth of Jesus

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

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WHERE'S MY COFFEE?

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Mexico's best coffee comes from Chiapas, a state that borders this noted coffee-growing nation

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Time's up! The correct answer was Guatemala

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BUSY AS A BEAVER

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Beaver Falls

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GOING TO PIECES

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5-letter archaeological term for a broken scrap of earthenware

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Time's up! The correct answer was a shard

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DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was tattoo

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JULY

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John Adams' dying words on this date in 1826 were that Thomas Jefferson still lived; John Adams was wrong

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SRO

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tony Kushner

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NOTED EUROPEANS

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In 1863, this man from Wuppertal started a dye company that evolved into an aspirin-making giant

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ANY FIRST WORDS?

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Aussies are familiar with this term for native inhabitants that once referred to pre-Roman Italians

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BEFORE & AFTER

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Leif Ericson's dad who was a huge star with low surface temperature

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Time's up! The correct answer was Erik the Red Giant

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SLOGANEERING

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Relax, this brand of medicine is "Recommended by Dr. Mom"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Robitussin

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MUSICAL THEATRE

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"Cabaret" was based partly on this 1951 play by John Van Druten

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Time's up! The correct answer was I Am a Camera

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SYRIA'S EATING

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To make eish al-Saraya or "Syrian dessert" you need this preparation made by steeping petals in liquid

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Time's up! The correct answer was rosewater

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THE 1960s

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

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

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ANIMAL TERMS

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Teens who frequent shopping centers are called these, the title of a Kevin Smith film

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NURSERY RHYMES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was hay

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PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY

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With the exception of R. Reagan, all the presidents born under this sign died in office

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Time's up! The correct answer was Aquarius

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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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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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YOU'RE UNDER A "REST"

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Any mountain's summit

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Time's up! The correct answer was crest

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20th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS

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Like mom like son: sadly, her son Rajiv was also assassinated

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Time's up! The correct answer was Indira Gandhi

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WORLD CITIES

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This Sudanese capital lies on a narrow piece of land bounded by the White & Blue Nile Rivers

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Time's up! The correct answer was Khartoum

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CNN

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He & Robert Novak have worked together since 1963 & now co-anchor a CNN discussion program

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rowland Evans

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POETS' RHYME TIME

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Sir Philip's renal organs

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sidney's kidneys

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THE BIG APPLE

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Sheep Meadow & the Turtle Pond can be found in this 843-acre public playground

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Time's up! The correct answer was Central Park

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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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FETAL ATTRACTION

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Even at birth the skull isn't fully fused, leaving these, also called "soft spots"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Fontenelles

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IT'S A "SIN"

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As well as discovering a famous gap in Saturn's rings, he also discovered 4 of Saturn's moons

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cassini

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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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HOW INSPIRATIONAL

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This "Candide" author helped popularize the saying, "The perfect is the enemy of the good"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Voltaire

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CAESAR

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He was caesar & emperor when Jesus was born

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Time's up! The correct answer was Augustus

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BALLET

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"Scrooge" is a festive holiday ballet inspired by this beloved book

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

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PROVERBS

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It "comes not alone" & "makes waste"

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Time's up! The correct answer was haste

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PRESIDENTIAL FINAL MOMENTS

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He shuffled off this mortal coil in Warm Springs, GA from a cerebral hemorrhage

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Time's up! The correct answer was FDR

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U.S. PORT CITIES

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Among the top 40 busiest ports in the U.S. are these Northeast & Northwest cities with the same name

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Time's up! The correct answer was Portland

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BRASS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Doug MacArthur

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DEMOCRATIC KEYNOTERS

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1976: Ohio senator

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Glenn

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AMERICAN PLAYS

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Lee Strasberg played the original peddler in this 1931 play which inspired "Oklahoma!"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Green Grow The Lilacs"

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VIETNAM

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The large "S" shape that is Vietnam juts out into this sea with a directional name

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Time's up! The correct answer was South China Sea

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FAMOUS PEOPLE

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In 2001, she produced & hosted the Travel Channel's "Secrets of San Simeon"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Patty Hearst

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COVER ME!

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A No. 1 hit for The Eurythmics in 1983, "Sweet Dreams" was covered in '95 by this goth rocker, the former Brian Warner

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Time's up! The correct answer was Marilyn Manson

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NORM!

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Think positively! You'll know this man who wrote the newspaper column "Confident Living"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Peale

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COUNTRY MUSIC

Question

In 1990 Jukebox named this Randy Travis cover of a Brook Benton hit the Country Record of the Year

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Time's up! The correct answer was "It's Just A Matter of Time"

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PRESIDENTS

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The "54º40' or Fight" fever over Oregon helped elect this president, the only one ever to be speaker of the U.S. House

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Time's up! The correct answer was James K. Polk

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PETER, PAUL & MARY

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His world travels helped him write "The Great Railway Bazaar", "The Mosquito Coast" & "Riding the Iron Rooster"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Paul Theroux

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HITCHCOCK

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John Dall & Farley Granger strangle a college friend just for thrills in this, Hitch's first color film

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rope

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GENERAL SCIENCE

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On the pH scale, a pH of 7 indicates this type of solution

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Time's up! The correct answer was Neutral

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DISNEY VILLAINS

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Scar

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Lion King

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ISLANDS

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In the Caribbean this island is partnered with Nevis

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

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SPORTS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Davis Cup

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THEIR ALMA MATERS

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Author Ralph Ellison

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tuskegee

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BESTSELLERS

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Numerical title of Jeffrey Toobin's look "Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court"

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Nine

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POETS' RHYME TIME

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Sylvia's tub times

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Time's up! The correct answer was Plath's baths

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OFFICIAL STATE THINGS

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Its state song is "The Old North State"

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Time's up! The correct answer was North Carolina

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THE ENGLISH TOP 100

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No. 2, this verb form is a homophone of a letter of the alphabet

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Time's up! The correct answer was be

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RICH & FAMOUS

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In 1968 this future presidential candidate's stock in E.D.S. made him a billionaire

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ross Perot

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TV MOVIES

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Arnold Schwarzenegger played Mickey Hargitay in a TV movie about this actress

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jayne Mansfield

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BODIES OF WATER

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At Khartoum, Sudan these colorful branches meet to form the Nile River

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Blue Nile & the White Nile

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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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THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS

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Shopkeepers aren't meeting when "introducing the shoemaker to the tailor" -- you've just done this to someone's rear

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Time's up! The correct answer was kicked it

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NAME THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY

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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hamlet

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AT THE MALL

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The name of this clothing store for teens is French for "airmail"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Aéropostale

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FATHER'S IN LAW

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Father was quite the cutup in Prof. Charles Fried's class at this Massachusetts law school founded in 1817

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Time's up! The correct answer was Harvard

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY

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This large lake on the New York-Vermont border is Vermont's lowest point

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lake Champlain

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EDS

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

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

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U.S. CABINET DEPARTMENTS IN OTHER WORDS

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Giving birth

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Time's up! The correct answer was Labor

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ON THE GO

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Created in 1971 as the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, it's better known by this name

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Time's up! The correct answer was Amtrak

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1800

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This vulcanization inventor was born a bouncing baby boy in 1800

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Time's up! The correct answer was Charles Goodyear

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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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IT'S A "SIN"

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Carson Sink & the Great Salt Lake lie in the drainage area known as the Great this

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Time's up! The correct answer was Basin

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ABBREV.

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Printer particular: DPI

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Time's up! The correct answer was dots per inch

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GUYANESE GEOGRAPHY

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Guyana has had a long-standing border dispute with this small country to its southeast

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Time's up! The correct answer was Suriname

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WHO IS THEON OF SMYRNA?

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Theon seems to have lived at the same time that this Roman emperor was building his famous wall

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hadrian

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GET YOUR MOVIE FACTS STRAIGHT

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"North Country" starred Charlize Theron; "No Country for Old Men" featured this Spaniard as a relentless killer

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Time's up! The correct answer was Javier Bardem

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AUTHORS' RHYME TIME

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Stoker's sheeplings

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bram's lambs

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NICKNAMES

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"Schnozzola"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jimmy Durante

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MISSING LINKS

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Near ____ South Dakota pageant

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Time's up! The correct answer was miss

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VALUABLE PLACES

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The Yellow Brick Road leads to it

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Emerald City

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EAT IT!

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This Hormel product was once simply known as "spiced ham"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Spam

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IT'S ALL ABOUT ME

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Albrecht Durer's first known drawing, done at the age of 13, was one of these artistic efforts

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Time's up! The correct answer was a self-portrait

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LISA

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In 1997 Lisa Pollak won a Pulitzer Prize reporting for this Baltimore newspaper where H.L. Mencken once worked

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Baltimore Sun

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SOMETHING'S A "FOOT"

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In tennis, it happens when the server steps over the baseline before hitting the ball

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Time's up! The correct answer was Foot fault

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THINGS ON NFL HELMETS

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On a tattered red flag, a skull over crossed swords with a football in the middle

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

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MEN OF THE WORLD

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Armando Munoz Garcia sculpted a 55' statue of a nude woman & lived in it in this Mexican city near San Diego

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tijuana

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BRAND NAMES

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This cereal's name used to end in "oats" & its "I" is dotted with a piece of the product

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cheerios

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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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Time's up! The correct answer was Pole

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GUINNESS RECORDS

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He holds the record for all-time career earnings on the U.S. PGA circuit (over $26 million from 1996 to 2001)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tiger Woods

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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

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Site of a 1977 6.5 earthquake: Bucharest

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Time's up! The correct answer was Romania

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SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS

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The Bolshoi presented this ballet at the Met in 1959, with Yuri Zhdanov & Galina Ulanova as the title lovers

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Time's up! The correct answer was Romeo & Juliet

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5-LETTER WORDS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was pithy

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MUSICAL THEATRE

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Scott Bakula played Joe DiMaggio in a 1983 musical about this sex symbol

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Time's up! The correct answer was Marilyn Monroe

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ANNUAL EVENTS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alaska

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FOOD

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ham

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'65

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This company's new Toronado eliminated the hump on the floor with a new drive system

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Time's up! The correct answer was Oldsmobile

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OLD FOLKS IN THEIR 30s

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In 2008 David Gregory became moderator of this NBC Sunday morning news show

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Time's up! The correct answer was Meet the Press

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HOMOPHONIC PAIRS

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Remained sedate

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Time's up! The correct answer was stayed staid

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HE WAS IN THAT?

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Mr. C on "Happy Days", he played the man Natalie Wood's parents want her to marry in "Love with the Proper Stranger"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tom Bosley

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THE LAST BATTLE

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The Battle of New Orleans

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Time's up! The correct answer was the War of 1812

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SPORTS FACTS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Australia

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RINGING THE OPENING BELL AT THE NYSE

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Sept. 24, 2007 found this Bush cabinet member away from her piano & playing the bell

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Time's up! The correct answer was Condi Rice

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WYOMING

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A western celebration, Frontier Days, has been held each year since 1897 in this capital

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cheyenne

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11-LETTER WORDS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Transparent

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CROSSWORD CLUES "D"

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Horn of Africa country (8)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Djibouti

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THEIR COUNTRY'S LAST MONARCH

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1910: King Manuel II

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Time's up! The correct answer was Portugal

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"TU"

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Henry VII was the first ruler from this family on the throne of England

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tudor

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IT CAME FROM THE NEW WORLD

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In 1604 King James I called this plant a "perpetual stinking torment" & "dangerous to the lungs"; he was right

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Time's up! The correct answer was tobacco

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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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Time's up! The correct answer was M&Ms

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ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

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A flock of these black birds is called a murder

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Time's up! The correct answer was crows

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ACTING PRESIDENTS ON TV

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Blair Underwood as President Elias Martinez

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Event

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CZECH, PLEASE

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

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

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ONE BUCK OR LESS

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99 cents got me a 4-pack of Ytterlig coasters from this Swedish chain

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Time's up! The correct answer was IKEA

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CALL ME A"LEX"

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3 housing units all under one roof

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Time's up! The correct answer was a triplex

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PEOPLE IN HISTORY

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First Lady Helen Taft led a fund-raising drive for a memorial to this 1912 marine disaster

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sinking of the Titanic

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UP & ATOM

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In 1932 James Chadwick discovered these non-charged particles

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Time's up! The correct answer was neutrons

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ANTIQUES

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Used as early as the 15th century, apostle spoons usually came in sets of this number

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Time's up! The correct answer was 12 or 13

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HOMETOWNS

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Ingrid Bergman

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Time's up! The correct answer was Stockholm

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MOVIES

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The first rule of Fight Club is_

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Time's up! The correct answer was You do not talk about Fight Club

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ARTHUR MILLER

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Miller's play "Death of a Salesman" was his tragic tale of this title character

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Time's up! The correct answer was Willy Loman

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NOT A CURRENT NATIONAL CAPITAL

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Bucharest, Bonn, Bern

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bonn

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"ANT" INFESTATION

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was adamant

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BOGIE MEN

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Charlie Allnut

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Time's up! The correct answer was The African Queen

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THE BIG APPLE

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In 1865 NYC, already home to 800,000, finally abandoned this type of fire department

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Time's up! The correct answer was volunteer

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A STATE OF COLLEGE-NESS

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Wayne State, Kalamazoo College, Madonna University (it's Franciscan Catholic, not Material Girl)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Michigan

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SCIENCE & NATURE

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Man-made metal 1st positively identified in 1958 & named for a Swedish inventor; it has no known use

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nobelium

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"PUN" JAB

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William Gibson pioneered this sci-fi genre of characters in a dark, futuristic world dominated by computers

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Time's up! The correct answer was cyberpunk

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SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN

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Shakespearean play featuring Falstaff & some "happy homemakers"

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Merry Wives of Windsor

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RUSSIAN LITERATURE

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Lev Rubin in this Soviet dissident's "The First Circle" was based on 1960s Russian civil rights figure Lev Kopelev

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Time's up! The correct answer was Solzhenitsyn

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OPERA

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Stationed in Seville, Don Jose is bewitched by a gypsy girl in this Bizet opera

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Time's up! The correct answer was Carmen

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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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Time's up! The correct answer was The Waltons

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WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS

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An illustrated "girl" & a variation on the martini are named for this U.S. artist

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Time's up! The correct answer was Charles Dana Gibson

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NOTED EUROPEANS

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In 1863, this man from Wuppertal started a dye company that evolved into an aspirin-making giant

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bayer

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HEY, GOOD-LOOKIN'

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Psalm 8 declares, "Out of the mouth of" these "and sucklings hast thou ordained strength"

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Time's up! The correct answer was babes

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TV MINISERIES

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(Hi, I'm Stephen Collins of "7th Heaven") In 1994 I played Ashley Wilkes in this miniseries sequel to "Gone with the Wind"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Scarlett

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FRANCES FARMER

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In "Badlands of Dakota" Frances was this Wild West lady to Richard Dix's Wild Bill

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Time's up! The correct answer was Calamity Jane

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BABY BOOMER MEMORIES

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In 1967 this 21-year-old started Rolling Stone magazine

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jann Wenner

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THE SUPREME COURT

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He served as Chief Justice the longest; 34 years from 1801-1835

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Marshall

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PASS THE CHEESE, PLEASE

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Samsoe is a Swiss-style cow's milk cheese named for an island in this Scandinavian country

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Time's up! The correct answer was Denmark

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APT ANAGRAMS

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A Texan battle cry: A MEMORABLE TERM, EH?

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Time's up! The correct answer was Remember the Alamo

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ALSO A BOOK IN THE BIBLE

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This character first hit the radio in 1928 with his partner Andy

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Time's up! The correct answer was Amos

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"IRA"

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The lady was quite overcome by this moisture exuded by the muscular estate gardener

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Time's up! The correct answer was perspiration

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PETER, PAUL & MARY

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Bestsellers from this master of horror include "Koko" & "Ghost Story"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Peter Straub

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PLANT PARENTHOOD

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Juniper & maple are good trees to use in this cultivating art whose name means "plant in a tray" in Japanese

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Time's up! The correct answer was bonsai

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TRAVEL & TOURISM

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The home of silk merchant Jim Thompson, who disappeared in 1967, is a tourist attraction in this Thai city

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bangkok

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THE EYES HAVE IT

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A hollow area that holds a light bulb

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Time's up! The correct answer was Socket

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ROUGH POLITICS

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"If anyone wants to (follow) me, go ahead. They'd be very bored", this politician said in 1987; they did, & they weren't

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gary Hart

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47

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This unit of measure is equal to .47 liters; drink up!

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Time's up! The correct answer was a pint

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ISRAEL

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Home to spectacular ruins, Caesarea was founded around 20 B.C. & named for this Caesar

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Time's up! The correct answer was Augustus

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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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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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CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

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Madeline is one of "twelve little girls in two straight lines" who attend a school in this city

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Time's up! The correct answer was Paris

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GEOGRAPH"Y"

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The last British ship of convicts pulled into this Australian city's port in 1849

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sydney

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4-LETTER CAPITALS

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This Latvian capital was founded in 1201 by German crusaders

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Time's up! The correct answer was Riga

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GOING TOO "FUR"

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A smelter, for example

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Time's up! The correct answer was a furnace

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WEBSITES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Teen People

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POLITICIANS

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Bill Clinton awarded this political rival the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1997

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bob Dole

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RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN

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Characters in this musical include Mei Li, Linda Low & Sammy Fong

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Flower Drum Song"

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"V"

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2-word legal term for preliminary examination of jurors

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Time's up! The correct answer was voir dire

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THE KOREAN WAR

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The sound of a Commie submachine gun as it "belched" out bullets gave it this nickname

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Burp Gun"

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ASTROLOGY

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Chinese astrology has 5 classical elements, each associated with a planet; knock this when you think Jupiter

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Time's up! The correct answer was wood

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INITIALS M.D.

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He won an Oscar as co-writer of "Good Will Hunting"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Matt Damon

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CANADIAN CAPITALS

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A ferry & 2 suspension bridges connect Dartmouth, Nova Scotia with this capital

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Time's up! The correct answer was Halifax

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FROM THE GREEK

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A bowl-shaped depression, as from the impact of a meteorite, it's from the Greek for "mixing bowl"

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Time's up! The correct answer was crater

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I'M HUNGRY!

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Let's make Craig Claiborne's recipe for an upside-down type of this fruit pie; it's a lot like tarte tatin

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Time's up! The correct answer was apple pie

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A MASSIVE "M"ETROPOLIS

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3.2 million: 150 miles from Bogota

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Time's up! The correct answer was Medellin

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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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MYTHOLOGY

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Zeus' father, Cronus, was one of this group of 12

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Time's up! The correct answer was Titans

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THEIR ALMA MATERS

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Radio's Garrison Keillor

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

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NUMBERS

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In chapter 20, Eleazar succeeds this man, his father, as high priest

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Time's up! The correct answer was Aaron

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BERMUDA SHORTS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was a shipwreck

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TO NEIL

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In 1989, this "bright" Neil Sheehan work about the Vietnam War won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction

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Time's up! The correct answer was A Bright Shining Lie

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TRANSPORTATION

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In 1994 the trip across this body of water was cut from a little more than an hour to about 35 minutes

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

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EXPLORERS

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Tho he didn't find the Northwest Passage, this Frenchman established France's claim to Canada

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jacques Cartier

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FARAWAY PLACES

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The Forbidden City is at the heart of this capital of China, also called Peking

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Time's up! The correct answer was Beijing

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LITERARY ANIMALS

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This brown bear in Kipling's "The Jungle Book" taught the wolf cubs the law of the jungle & was later Mowgli's teacher

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Time's up! The correct answer was Baloo

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SAY CHEESE

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This cheese that has an orange rind originated in Alsace & is named for a city there

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Time's up! The correct answer was Muenster

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MOVIE TAG LINES

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1982 film that showed "A world inside a computer where man has never been. Never before now"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tron

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GOAT-POURRI

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Crippled beggar Sammy Smalls, who traveled in a goat cart, inspired a title character of this opera set on Catfish Row

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Time's up! The correct answer was Porgy and Bess

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HERBS & SPICES

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This aromatic leaf, used to flavor meat, soups & stews, comes from a laurel tree

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Time's up! The correct answer was a bay leaf

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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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THAT OLD "BLACK" MAGIC

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The Green Hornet's car, or Anna Sewell's horse

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Time's up! The correct answer was Black Beauty

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TRANSPORTATION

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The transport for a 19th century double date might have been a barouche, one of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was a carriage

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MEASURING DEVICES

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A spirometer measures the capacity of these organs

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Time's up! The correct answer was the lungs

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POETRY

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Originally, he didn't want his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" published

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gray

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NAME THE OPERA

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(Audio clip in Italian from opera about clowns)

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

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SEXPERTISE

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Kim Campbell, Kim Philby, Kim Jong Il

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Time's up! The correct answer was Kim Campbell

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IN THE FIRE

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Peshtigo, Wisc. was destroyed by a fire that began Oct. 8, 1871, the same day as this city's Great Fire

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Time's up! The correct answer was Chicago

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GENERAL SCIENCE

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The time it takes for 50% of the atoms to decay in a radioactive substance is called this

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Time's up! The correct answer was Half-life

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EUROPE

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This country whose abbreviation is a conjunction joins Spain to France

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Time's up! The correct answer was Andorra

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MYTHOLOGICAL PAIRS

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In all of Babylonia, Pyramus was the handsomest youth & she was the fairest maiden

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Time's up! The correct answer was Thisbe

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ARCHITECTURE

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One of these ancient Roman structures still carries the water supply of Segovia, Spain

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Time's up! The correct answer was Aqueduct

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4-LETTER WORDS

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A raisin can be called by this other fruit's name when it's added to a pudding or a cake

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Time's up! The correct answer was Plum

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THE BIG BANGLADESH

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About two-thirds of all Bangladeshis work in agriculture, mostly farming this product

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Time's up! The correct answer was rice

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KHOMEINI, KHAMENEI OR KHATAMI

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Died in 1989

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THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

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Members observe Saturday Sabbath because of Genesis 2:3, which says God did this on the seventh day

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KANSAS CITIES

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In the 1960s this largest Kansas city became the world's largest producer of general aviation aircraft

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DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE COMPANIES

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It has a Supercenter on South 9th St. in Salina, Kansas

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OATS

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Cereal lovers know it's the high-in-fiber outer casing of the oat

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CROSSWORD CLUES "D"

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France's patron saint (5)

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"H" CITIES

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

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POETIC TITLE VERBS

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"I _____ Lonely As A Cloud"

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TIME TO CONVERT

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You do the math: -40 degrees on the Fahrenheit temperature scale equals this on the Celsius scale

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HOW INSPIRATIONAL

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When your prom date leaves the dance without you, recall the proverb, this "heals all wounds"

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Time's up! The correct answer was time

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WHO DO YOU THINK I AM?!

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I may be a trickster god, but I actually helped Thor get his hammer back after Thrym the frost giant stole it

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"MOON"S

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“Moon shots” referred to home runs hit by this Dodger over short left field screen in L.A. Coliseum

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BALLET

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A ballet blanc, such as "La Sylphide", traditionally features costumes of this color

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MUSICAL BY CHARACTERS

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Rolf Gruber & Mother Abbess of Nonnberg Abbey

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Sound of Music

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THE CAT

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It's the full name for the domesticated kitty called a tortie

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Time's up! The correct answer was a tortoiseshell

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BESTSELLERS

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Numerical title of Jeffrey Toobin's look "Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court"

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CLASSIC NICHOLSON MOVIE LINES

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1994: "Just marking my territory"

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FAMOUS FELINES

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He made his debut in the 1945 short film "Life with Feathers"

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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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WHAT'S YOUR BEEF?

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If you can't stand the heat, there's always this raw dish that includes onions, capers, egg yolks & beef tenderloin

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SPORTS

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He was director of athletics at NYC's Downtown Athletic Club from 1928 to 1936

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IT HAD TO "BU"

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Established in 1881, The Wharton School at the U. of Pennsylvania was the world's first collegiate school of this

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ORDINAL NUMBER, PLEASE

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In "The Music Man", the penultimate trombonist in "The Big Parade"

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Time's up! The correct answer was 75th

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"MUM"s THE WORD

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Formerly called Bombay, it's in the top 5 cities in the world in population

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OPERA

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At 35 he decided for the first time to sit right down & write himself an opera; he produced "Fidelio"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Beethoven

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THE "B.G."s

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

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ODDS & ENDS

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

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FLOPS

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This former NFL linebacker's show "Lawless" was sacked in March 1997 after one airing

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Time's up! The correct answer was Brian Bosworth

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QUOTATIONS

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In a saying attributed to the Duke of Wellington, this battle "was won on the playing fields of Eton"

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY

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This state capital is located on the Merrimack River about 15 miles north of Manchester

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ANATOMY

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

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COUNTRY MUSIC

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"Strawberry Wine" was the first of 3 No. 1 hits from this debut album by Deana Carter

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Did I Shave My Legs for This?"

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SKIP TO MY "LOO"

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5-letter word for "remote in manner"

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FOREIGN CURRENCY

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This currency of Costa Rica gets its name from the first European to see the nation

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TOUGH STUFF

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A patron of wisdom & good fortune, the Hindu god Ganesha bears the head of this animal

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I READ THE NEWS TODAY

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This "Post" is one of Israel's largest English-language daily newspapers

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SCIENCE & NATURE

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Man-made metal 1st positively identified in 1958 & named for a Swedish inventor; it has no known use

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"PH"UN WORDS

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The bar type is one common form of this chart

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SOUND LIKE A LOCAL

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Pedernales is in the Dominican Republic; north of the border, the Pedernales River is in this state

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PHRASES THAT SELL

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"Be all that you can be" in this military branch

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Army

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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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"L.B."s

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Oscar-nominated for her role in "Goodfellas", she went on to play Dr. Jennifer Melfi on "The Sopranos"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lorraine Bracco

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MUSICAL THEATRE

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"Cabaret" was based partly on this 1951 play by John Van Druten

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Time's up! The correct answer was I Am a Camera

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DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE COMPANIES

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Roy E., the son of its co-founder, died in December 2009

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Time's up! The correct answer was Disney

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FORE!

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In 1994 at age 18, he became the youngest golfer to win the U.S. Amateur Golf Tournament

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tiger Woods

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4-LETTER WORDS

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It can be part of your foot, your shoe, your stocking or your loaf of bread

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Time's up! The correct answer was Heel

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ANATOMY

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The only mobile bone of the face

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mandible

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COMPOSERS

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Mendelssohn wrote a series of 49 piano pieces which were appropriately titled “Songs Without” these

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Time's up! The correct answer was words

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IT'S A COUP D'ETAT

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In 1921 Reza Pahlavi helped with a coup that eventually brought his son to power in this country

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"DON'T" YOU KNOW THIS SONG?

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Buenos Aires held back a sniffle when this Madonna hit went to No. 8 in 1997

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Don't Cry For Me Argentina"

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AT THE KENNEDY CENTER

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This president's 1972 visit to China inspired an opera that played at the Kennedy Center in 1988

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Time's up! The correct answer was Richard Nixon

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HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES

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On this date Denmark's Rebild Park holds the largest foreign celebration of American independence

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Time's up! The correct answer was 4-Jul

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AMERICANA

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On July 8, 1776 it was rung to proclaim the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence

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

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ACTION!

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The action of a boy can ring a girl's bell, & the action of these can ring a buoy's bell

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Time's up! The correct answer was a wave

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SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT THE MOVIES

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

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FIRST NAME'S THE SAME

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Lillard, Modine

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Time's up! The correct answer was Matthew

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CANADIAN CAPITALS

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This Alberta capital is called the Gateway to the North

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BIOPIC-NIC

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1983: Meryl Streep as this nuclear power technician

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Time's up! The correct answer was Silkwood

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NAME THE POET

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"His pride had cast him out from heaven, with all his host of rebel angels"

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Milton

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SHAKESPEARE

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Susanna & the twins, Hamnet & Judith

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Time's up! The correct answer was Shakespeare's children

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FOREWORDS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ayn Rand

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MUSICALS

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This show opens with a Ziegfeld star waiting for her husband to be released from prison

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Funny Girl"

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THE COMPANY LINE

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In 1963, live on "The Art Linkletter Show", this company served its billionth burger

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

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I'LL MAKE A NOTE OF IT

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In astrological notation, this sign is represented by 2 fish

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STATE: THE OBVIOUS

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Florida's in the southeast corner of the 48 contiguous states; this state is in the northwest corner

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HISTORY OLDER THAN YOU

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Julius Caesar became the leader of this empire in 45 B.C. but was killed just one year later

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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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FLAGS OF THE WORLD

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

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THE BOOK TRADE

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According to USA Today, they're the 2 nonconsecutive months that see the highest cookbook sales

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Time's up! The correct answer was May & December

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MEN OF MUSIC

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Horn virtuoso Franz Strauss was consulted by Wagner in devising this hero's horn call

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Time's up! The correct answer was Siegfried

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HARRISON FORD MOVIES

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"Replicants are like any other machine -- they're either a benefit or a hazard"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Blade Runner

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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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GEHRY

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The Guggenheim Museum in this city of Spain's Basque region is one of the best-known structures designed by Gehry

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bilbao

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BARD BITS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Brutus

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TRANSPORTATION

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Since 1899 these stalwart animals used in transport have served as the mascots of the Army Corps of Cadets

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Time's up! The correct answer was mules

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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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U.S. GEOGRAPHY

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Of Hawaii's 8 main islands, this one receives the lion's share of the tourist dollars

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Time's up! The correct answer was Oahu

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UNFORESEEN FINDS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was saccharin

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GAMES

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In terms of the use of fingers, it's the game in which 0 beats 2, 2 beats 5 & 5 beats 0

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rock, Paper, Scissors

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TV THEME LYRICS

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"Believe it or not, I'm walking on air, never thought I could feel so free"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Greatest American Hero

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MAYORS

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After this 1906 disaster, Mayor Eugene Schmitz authorized the summary execution of looters

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Time's up! The correct answer was the San Francisco earthquake

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THOSE WACKY GERMANS

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The food many Germans like best is wurst, which are these hot-dog-shaped meat treats

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sausages

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POETS & POETRY

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He was descended from an Abyssinian prince, Peter the Great's godson

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