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Time's up! The correct answer was Vincent Van Gogh

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FAMOUS LLOYDS

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In 1980 this "Evita" composer won a Tony for Best Score & a Grammy for Best Cast Show Album

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Time's up! The correct answer was Webber

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B.C. & AFTER

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Period of time named for an alloy of copper & tin & the new water-bearing Zodiacal era

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Bronze Age of Aquarius

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HISTORY

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Historians refer to the Golden Age as the time during which Pericles ruled this city

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Time's up! The correct answer was Athens

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ARCHITECTURE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Inigo

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INVENTORS & INVENTIONS

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After Carrier came up with this in 1902, my 20 babes waving palm fronds idea went out the window

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Time's up! The correct answer was air conditioning

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THE CONTINENTS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Europe

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HELLO, DELI!

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Something smells fishy--must be this chopped fish patty mixed with crumbs & eggs & served cold in a jellied broth

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Time's up! The correct answer was gefilte fish

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READING

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From the Greek for "bad word", this disorder is marked by difficulty in recognizing written language

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Time's up! The correct answer was dyslexia

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AMERICANA

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was a globe

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NEPAL

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"Wooden temple", the meaning of this city's name, refers to the 400-year old one in its central square

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Time's up! The correct answer was Katmandu

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SPORTS FACTS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ali

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LITERARY FIRST LINES

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1854: "When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone in the woods..."

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Walden; or, Life in the Woods"

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MUSICAL THEATRE

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The rock opera "Rent" is a reworking of this Puccini opera, set in modern times

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Time's up! The correct answer was "La Boheme"

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SHAKESPEARE

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The lines “And thereby hangs a tale” & “All the world's a stage” come from this comedy

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Time's up! The correct answer was As You Like It

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GENERAL SCIENCE

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The IRAS telescope, which revealed 5 new comets, made its observations in this part of the light spectrum

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Time's up! The correct answer was infra-red

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LITERARY LAST NAME'S THE SAME

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Wyndham, C.S., Sinclair

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lewis

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BEFORE & AFTER

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

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

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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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WEDDINGS

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A Navy wedding features an arch of swords; an Army wedding, an arch of these heavy cavalry swords

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Time's up! The correct answer was sabres

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BEGINS & ENDS WITH "O"

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Herr Bismarck knows this given name comes from a Germanic word meaning "rich"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Otto

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LITERARY OPENINGS

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"All happy families are alike but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion."

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Anna Karenina"

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GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT

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Tarantino is a director; this is a rapid, whirling dance named for an Italian city

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Time's up! The correct answer was tarantella

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THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M"

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It "Becomes Electra" (8)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mourning

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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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LANGUAGE QUESTIONS

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"Donde está el baño?" is Spanish for "where is" this, sometimes discreetly called "the facilities"

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Time's up! The correct answer was bathroom

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"V" IS FOR

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...this word on a sign meaning there's still room at the inn

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Time's up! The correct answer was vacancy

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THE DIRECTOR SPEAKS

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"The best director is the one you don't see", observed this director of "Some Like It Hot"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Billy Wilder

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AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE

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This carnivorous marsupial serves as the symbol of the Tasmanian Parks & Wildlife Service

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Tasmanian devil

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MOVIE MUSICALS

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Actor who sang "If I Only Had The Nerve" & "If I Were King Of The Forest" in "The Wizard Of Oz"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bert Lahr

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ODDS & ENDS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Idaho

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WORD ORIGINS

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The name of this bread spread goes all the way back to bous, a Greek word for "cow"

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Time's up! The correct answer was butter

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BRITISH NOVELS

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This 1895 novel is subtitled "An Invention"

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

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ABBREVIATED

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An international alliance: EU

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Time's up! The correct answer was the European Union

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SHIPS

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

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

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THEIR 4th TOP 40 HIT OF THE '60s

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1963: "You've Really Got A Hold On Me"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Smokey Robinson and the Miracles

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RADIO DISNEY

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"Everybody Else" knows these huggable toys precede "On Fire" in the name of a Radio Disney top 30 band; do you?

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Time's up! The correct answer was Care Bears

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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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SPORTS

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In 1967 this New York Jets quarterback became the first pro to pass for more than 4,000 yards in a season

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Time's up! The correct answer was Joe Namath

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SOME MORE SIMIAN CINEMA

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Buddy

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TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE WORD THAT RHYMES WITH STAR

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

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

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CELEBRITY RHYME TIME

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Willis's Snapples and Cran-apples

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bruce's juices

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NUTRITION

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was bread

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WORMS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was vermillion

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CLOTHING

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They can be crew, knee, or bobby

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Time's up! The correct answer was socks

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ALBUMS THAT ROCK

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"Beggars Banquet", "Steel Wheels"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Rolling Stones

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HOLLYWOOD LEFTIES

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Tom Cruise jumped up & down on this left-hander's couch

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Time's up! The correct answer was Oprah Winfrey

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THE SECOND...

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...Sherlock Holmes novel published

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

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THE BIG BANGLADESH

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After India was partitioned in 1947, what would later become Bangladesh was the "East" part of this country

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pakistan

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FDR

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Fireside Chats

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ACTORS & THEIR ROLES

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Playwright who made his film debut in "Renaldo and Clara" in 1978 & won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in '79

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sam Shepard

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PSYCHOLOGY

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In 1935 he founded the Swiss Society for Practical Psychology & became its president

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Time's up! The correct answer was Carl Jung

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SOCIOLOGY

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A joint author on a paper, or someone who assists the power occupying his country

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Time's up! The correct answer was a collaborator

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IT ENDS WITH "US"

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Mildew, mold or a mushroom

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Time's up! The correct answer was fungus

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UNIVERSITY SPORTS TEAMS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Bulldogs

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"CAL" STATE

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For this lotion mentioned in a Coasters song, think pink

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Time's up! The correct answer was Calamine lotion

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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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NO. 32

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Before a crowd of almost 70,000, this team won Super Bowl XXXII January 25, 1998

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Denver Broncos

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ALL MY Xs

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Without getting a tic-tac-toe on "Hollywood Squares" you could still win a game with this many Xs

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Time's up! The correct answer was 5

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STORYTELLERS

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He wrote two collections of modern fables, several fairytales, and "My World and Welcome to It"

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Time's up! The correct answer was James Thurber

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PROVERBS

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It's the type of pot that "never boils"

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Time's up! The correct answer was a watched pot

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HISTORIC NICKNAMES

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Among the more colorful nicknames of this agricultural chemist were "Peanut Man" & "Sweet-Potato Man"

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

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MUSICAL THEATRE

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1992's "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!" was inspired by the comic songs of this man

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Time's up! The correct answer was Allan Sherman

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CARIBBEAN TASTE TREATS

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If you order "mountain chicken" in Dominica, you won't get chicken but one of these amphibians

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Time's up! The correct answer was Frogs

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ROAMIN' THE WORLD

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Scotland

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CROSSWORD CLUES "B"

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Mr. Bumble's occupation in "Oliver Twist" (6)

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Time's up! The correct answer was beadle

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PEOPLE WHO BECAME WORDS

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Up on the highwire you might wear this bodysuit named for a famous 19th century trapeze artist

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Time's up! The correct answer was Leotard

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THE HOLLYWOOD STOCK EXCHANGE

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One of the hottest stocks of summer 2000 was for this nautical action film starring George Clooney

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Perfect Storm

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ORGANIZED LABOR

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Under this arrangement, labor and management agree to let a third party settle their dispute

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Time's up! The correct answer was arbitration

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ACTORS & THEIR ROLES

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Playwright who made his film debut in "Renaldo and Clara" in 1978 & won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in '79

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sam Shepard

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ODDS & ENDS

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It's the smaller of the two bones in the lower leg

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Time's up! The correct answer was the fibula

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THE MIDDLE AGES

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Crackowes were a style of these with toes so long they were sometimes attached to the knees with chains

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Time's up! The correct answer was shoes

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RADIO

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Instrument struck when a contestant failed on the "Original Amateur Hour"

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Time's up! The correct answer was a gong

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PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS

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In 1941 her "Watch on the Rhine" was named best American play by the New York Drama Critics' Circle

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lillian Hellman

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CRAFT

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This word for a step in sewing a garment is also found paired with "hawing"

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Time's up! The correct answer was hemming

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PARTS OF THE WHOLE

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Mercury bulb, scale

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Time's up! The correct answer was a thermometer

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RADIO

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This word ends the title of a 1941 Bill of Rights tribute program heard by 60 million, "We hold these..."

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Time's up! The correct answer was Truths

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U.S. PRESIDENTS

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On June 28, 1919 he married Elizabeth Wallace

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Time's up! The correct answer was Harry Truman

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FATHERS & SONS

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The island where this man's son washed ashore was later named Ikaria

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Time's up! The correct answer was Daedalus

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WHO'S ON FIRST?

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Sundays from 1984 to 1995, "60 Minutes" led into this CBS crime drama--guess Jessica finally got tired of writing

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Time's up! The correct answer was Murder, She Wrote

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THE CIVIL WAR

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was nurses

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MILITARY SLANG

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"Angels" is slang for this measurement of height, in thousands of feet

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Time's up! The correct answer was altitude

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A DICKENSIAN NIGHTMARE

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That wedding gown, that faded gown--I cannot get it, or poor Miss Havisham, out of my head

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Time's up! The correct answer was Great Expectations

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PROPHET SHARING

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The soothsayer Calchas told this king he had to offer up his daughter Iphigenia to Artemis to get winds to rise

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Time's up! The correct answer was Agamemnon

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FRANCE

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

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

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DEAR JUNTA

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The "Juntas Provinciales" organized the Spanish resistance to this man's 1808 invasion

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Time's up! The correct answer was Napoleon

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SCIENTISTS

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This naturalist wrote, "for my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Darwin

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ACTORS WHO DIRECT

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"Rocky II", "III" & "IV"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sylvester Stallone

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& HONEY

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& Honey, could you take the minivan to the mechanic? It's still making noise here, also called the gearbox

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Time's up! The correct answer was the transmission

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DICE ROLL NICKNAMES

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Acey-Deucy

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Time's up! The correct answer was 1 & 2

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THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION

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He's considered the author of the Pentateuch, which is hard to believe, as Deuteronomy continues after his death

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Time's up! The correct answer was Moses

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OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS BY SPORT

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1976: Nadia Comaneci; 2008: Nastia Liukin (champions all-around)

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Time's up! The correct answer was gymnastics

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HISTORY

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In 1919 this national assembly met in this city & formed a new German republic

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Time's up! The correct answer was Weimar

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CLASSIC MOVIE SPECIAL EFFECTS

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1998: Bullet trails in the water showcase the horror of the Normandy invasion

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Time's up! The correct answer was Saving Private Ryan

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HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES

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

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

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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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LONG WORDS

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This adjective from the Latin for "to boil" is used of a bubbly liquid or person

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Time's up! The correct answer was effervescent

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LET'S BOUNCE

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It's a type of bounce house, or a dance made famous by Michael Jackson

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Time's up! The correct answer was the moonwalk

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MEN OF THE WORLD

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This media mogul from Melbourne has been called a real-life Citizen Kane

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rupert Murdoch

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THE LAW

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The first of these "colorful" laws was enacted in 1619 to punish failure to attend church

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Time's up! The correct answer was Blue laws

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THEIR 4th TOP 40 HIT OF THE '60s

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1963: "Walk Like A Man"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

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IT'S AN L.A. THING

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Good times are Bruin in this district, home to UCLA, where John Wooden was a "wizard"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Westwood

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BEFORE & AFTER

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"Thin" piece of disputed Israeli-Palestinian land involved in a clothes-shedding card game

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gaza Strip Poker

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WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS

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At Wimbledon 2000, Venus Williams expressed appreciation for this 1957 & '58 champion

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Time's up! The correct answer was Althea Gibson

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20th CENTURY INVENTION

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In 1939 the Hydra-Matic system made this automatic in the Oldsmobile

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Time's up! The correct answer was Transmission

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PHYSICAL SCIENCE

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Stoichiometry is defined as the study of the quantities involved in these chemical events

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Time's up! The correct answer was Chemical reactions

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ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS

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Leg hair

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Time's up! The correct answer was Raleigh

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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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LITERARY LAST NAME'S THE SAME

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Wyndham, C.S., Sinclair

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lewis

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IT'S OURS!

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Northern Mariana Islands

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Time's up! The correct answer was USA

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ROYAL FEMALE NICKNAMES

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Prime Minister Tony Blair dubbed her "The People's Princess"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Princess Diana

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TELEVISION

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Blush

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SCIENCE BRIEFS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was freezing point

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STATE: THE OBVIOUS

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At last count, this state had about 2 1/2 times as many cars as Texas or New York

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Time's up! The correct answer was California

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LITERARY BADDIES

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Mrs. Augustine St. Clare sold Uncle Tom to this brutal, alcoholic plantation owner who later beat him to death

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Time's up! The correct answer was Simon Legree

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NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME

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Inducted in 1973, he "earned patents for more than a thousand inventions, including... the phonograph"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Edison

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BUSINESS

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This Warner-Lambert product contains retsyn, a finely homogenized vegetable oil

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Time's up! The correct answer was Certs

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SWEET!

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Some pies have a top named for this garden structure

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Time's up! The correct answer was a lattice

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HISTORIC AMERICA

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This city's Independence Nat'l Historical Park has been called "The most historic square mile in America"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Philadelphia

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HOLIDAYS

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Muslims fast during daylight hours for this entire month

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ramadan

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ANATOMY

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The base of the fibula forms the outer projection of this joint

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Time's up! The correct answer was the ankle

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LOST

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Lost in the forest, this pair happens upon a house made of bread, cake & sugar

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

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WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was whole hog

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"PH"UN WORDS

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The bar type is one common form of this chart

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Time's up! The correct answer was graph

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"T" TIME AT THE LIBRARY

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Scott Turow

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THE ELEMENTS

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Once called radium F, this element was named for the homeland of one of its discoverers

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Time's up! The correct answer was polonium

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THE TIGERS

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Founded by Claire Chennault, these aviators shot down hundreds of Japanese planes during World War II

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Flying Tigers

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THOSE AMAZING ANIMALS

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

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

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TIMELESS TV

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2010's "When Love Is Not Enough" was the 240th presentation in this series from a greeting card company

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hallmark Hall of Fame

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"TOMORROW"

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Annie told us you could "bet your bottom dollar that" this would happen

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Time's up! The correct answer was the sun will come out tomorrow

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THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK AFTER...

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Numbers

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Time's up! The correct answer was Deuteronomy

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STATE CAPITALS

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This state capital is in the Green Mountains along the Winooski River

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Time's up! The correct answer was Montpelier

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SHAKESPEAREAN TITLE CHARACTERS

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He is introduced as "The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Marc Antony

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EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT IT...

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The city of Yuma in this state has a record average of 4,055 hours of sunshine each year

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Time's up! The correct answer was Arizona

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PRIME NUMBERS

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Fear of this prime number is called triskaidekaphobia

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Time's up! The correct answer was 13

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A MASSIVE "M"ETROPOLIS

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3.6 million: Down Under

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Time's up! The correct answer was Melbourne

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LIBRARIES

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Raffaele Farina, known as Bibliothecarius XLVI, is its head librarian

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Vatican

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PIANO KEYS

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A 6-string guitar has 2 strings tuned to this note, each corresponding to a piano key

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Time's up! The correct answer was E

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THE BUTLER DID IT

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Daniel Davis played Niles the butler on this "Fine" TV comedy that featured the Sheffield family

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Nanny

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FAMOUS AMERICANS

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In 1844 he succeeded Joseph Smith as leader of the Mormon Church

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Time's up! The correct answer was Brigham Young

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PAPAL NAMES

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Not guilty

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Time's up! The correct answer was Innocent

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MR. TEA

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According to one legend, this spiritual leader born in 563 B.C. was the first to discover tea

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Time's up! The correct answer was Buddha

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"H" CITIES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hue

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TRAVEL & TOURISM

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We're not stringing you along: this capital of the Czech Republic is famous for its puppet theatres

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Time's up! The correct answer was Prague

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HOW TO BE A BAD SPORT

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If you're cornered in Kamchatka, end this board game by bumping your opponent's armies off the board

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Time's up! The correct answer was Risk

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THE ENGLISH TOP 100

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This No. 30 must be obeyed

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Time's up! The correct answer was she

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APOLLO 11

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While the lunar lander was code-named "Eagle", the command module was code-named this

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Time's up! The correct answer was Columbia

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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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Time's up! The correct answer was Wally Moon

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GRAINS & STAPLES

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The rolled form of this grain cooks in about 5 minutes; the steel-cut takes much longer

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Time's up! The correct answer was oats

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HOUSES OF WORSHIP

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The world's largest mosque is Shah Faisal Mosque near this Pakistani capital; it can hold 100,000 worshippers

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Time's up! The correct answer was Islamabad

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CHEESE

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Christopher Lee, later of "Lord of the Rings", sucked blood in 1968's he "Has Risen from the Grave"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dracula

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LITERARY FIRST LINES

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

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

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MODERN "TIME"S

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

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

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"YN"

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A skeptic, or one of a Greek sect who espoused that virtue is the only good

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Time's up! The correct answer was a cynic

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MAGAZINES

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This founder of Weight Watchers is a cosulting editor of Weight Watchers magazine

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jean Nidetch

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U.S. PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES

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"The Schoolmaster in Politics"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Woodrow Wilson

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2011 MOVIES

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Known for his work as a Shakespearean actor, he directed "Thor"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Branagh

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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

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Phil Collins once said, "Whatever else I am, I'm" one of these "first"

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Time's up! The correct answer was A Drummer

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YOUNG ABE LINCOLN

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Among the books read by Lincoln as a youngster were "Robinson Crusoe", "Aesop's Fables", & Mason Weems' "Life of" this man

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Time's up! The correct answer was Washington

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COVER ME!

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In 1965 Otis Redding took "Respect" to No. 35; 2 years later, her cover was No. 1

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Time's up! The correct answer was Aretha Franklin

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MACBETH

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Macbeth says to this character, "Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Banquo's ghost

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MIDDLE INITIAL C.

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When the parents of this "pathfinder" ran off together, his mother was still legally married to another man

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

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"B" PREPARED

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This U.S. government department is abbreviated B.I.A.

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Bureau of Indian Affairs

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PRESIDENTS' MONOGRAMS

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JKP

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Time's up! The correct answer was James Knox Polk

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FAIRY TALE FEMMES

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She ate the window pane of the witch's cottage

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gretel

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TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE WORD THAT RHYMES WITH STAR

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

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

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THEN THERE'S MAUVE

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First obtained from aniline, the color mauve was the first commercially successful synthetic this

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Time's up! The correct answer was a dye

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3-LETTER ABBREV.

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On some forms & applications: DOB

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Time's up! The correct answer was date of birth

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PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME

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Ulysses' trousers

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Time's up! The correct answer was Grant's pants

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FASHION FROM HEAD TO TOE

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The French name of these casual summer shoes derives from a tough wiry grass that's used to make rope

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Time's up! The correct answer was espadrilles

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TO NEIL

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From 1979 to 1981, Neil Goldschmidt was Secretary of this department abbreviated D.O.T.

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Department of Transportation

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THE LAST MAN

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In "The Almanac of Famous People" is this "Father of Television"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Vladimir Zworykin

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ASSASSINS

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Ramon Mercader, who killed this man in 1940, was later awarded the Order of Lenin

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Time's up! The correct answer was Trotsky

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BERRIES

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

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

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WHAT'S IN A NAME?

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This Welsh form of Margaret was among the USA's top 10 girls' names of the 1990s

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Time's up! The correct answer was Megan

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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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AROUND THE POKER TABLE WITH SLIM

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To do this in stud poker, Slim turns all his cards face down

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Time's up! The correct answer was Fold

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MR. OR MS. WILLIAMS

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This devoted mom has been called the most famous Miss America of all time

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Time's up! The correct answer was Vanessa Williams

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FRANCIS SCOTT KEY

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Washingtonians refer to the Francis Scott Key Bridge over this river as "The Car-Strangled Spanner"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Potomac

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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

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For his set of pipes, the god Pan cut this into different lengths & strapped them in a row

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Time's up! The correct answer was Reeds

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GENERAL SCIENCE

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This method of preserving food by killing bacteria was developed by a French chemist in the 1860s

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pasteurization

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MUSIC/TELEVISION

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Phil Collins, Ted Nugent & The Fat Boys hit the Sunshine State on this '80s cop show

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Time's up! The correct answer was Miami Vice

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THAT'S WHERE IT'S AT, MAN!

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Colombia to the north, Peru to the west, Paraguay to the south & the Atlantic Ocean to the east

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Time's up! The correct answer was Brazil

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BIRDS

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The akepa & akiapola'au are found in forest areas, only in this state

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hawaii

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THE NBA

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(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE): "(Hi, I'm Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) The first and last of my 1,815 NBA games were both against this team known as the "Bad Boys" of the league"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Detroit Pistons

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CARTOONS

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On Saturday morning, this Disney hero attends Prometheus Academy

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hercules

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BRAND NAMES

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Its "Extra Dry" was the first aerosol antiperspirant in the U.S.

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Time's up! The correct answer was Arrid

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AFRICAN LANGUAGE LAB

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was trek

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ENGLAND, SCOTLAND OR WALES

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The Cambrian Mountains cover most of it

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wales

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PHYSICS

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Plano-convex, biconvex & concavo-convex are 3 of the types of this optical component

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Time's up! The correct answer was lens

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YOUNG ABE LINCOLN

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Among the books read by Lincoln as a youngster were "Robinson Crusoe", "Aesop's Fables", & Mason Weems' "Life of" this man

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Time's up! The correct answer was Washington

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WORD ORIGINS

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Derived from the Latin for "salted vegetables", this cold dish might be enhanced with a little oil & vinegar

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Time's up! The correct answer was salad

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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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ALL GOD'S CRITTERS

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Males of this duck-billed mammal have poison spurs on each hind foot that can kill small animals

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Time's up! The correct answer was Platypus

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COMPOUND WORDS

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It's the 9-letter name for a type of restaurant that specializes in steak & other meat on the bone

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Time's up! The correct answer was chophouse

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SPORTS

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The ball used in this sport is about 11 inches long & about 7 inches wide at the center

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Time's up! The correct answer was Football

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BIG "STAR"

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This hotel & casino at 3000 Las Vegas Blvd. South cashed out in 2006

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Stardust

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TRADING SPACES

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Dealers seal transactions with a handshake in the 47th Street "district" for these gems

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Time's up! The correct answer was diamonds

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PHOTOGRAPHERS

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Her 1981 Rolling Stone cover shot of a nude John Lennon was taken hours before his murder

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Time's up! The correct answer was Annie Leibovitz

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REMEMBER THE TIME

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In 1998 U.S. cruise missiles hit this African country in response to bombings of U.S. embassies

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sudan

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THE "CO"-CATEGORY

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In 2009 Paul McCartney headlined this music fest near Palm Springs, California

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Time's up! The correct answer was Coachella

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"LAP" DANCE

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It's the continuation of the suit coat's collar

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lapel

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CITY FOLK

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Hamburgers

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Time's up! The correct answer was residents of Hamburg

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THE BODY WOMAN

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When a woman's "water breaks" in labor, the "water" is this fluid

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Time's up! The correct answer was amniotic fluid

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OH, "BOY"

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This law states that at a constant temp., the volume of a gas in inversely proportional to the pressure

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

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"V" HAVE MAPS

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Prussian Baron Friedrich von Steuben arrived at this location in the winter of 1778 to train American troops

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Time's up! The correct answer was Valley Forge

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THAT'S MY BUSINESS

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Henry's great-grandson William runs this car company which was started in 1903

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Ford Motor Company

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COMPANIES YOUNGER THAN YOU

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The first name of this company's search engine was Backrub, as it analyzed the back links pointing to websites

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Time's up! The correct answer was Google

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WITH BROTHERHOOD

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Originally formed as a trio in Gary, Indiana in 1963, these singing siblings gained fame as a quintet

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Jacksons

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10-LETTER WORDS

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It means to set free, as from slavery

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Time's up! The correct answer was Emancipate

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TOM JONES

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This author of the novel based the heroine, Sophia, on his beloved late wife

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Time's up! The correct answer was Henry Fielding

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PUT ON YOUR JAMIES

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This comic was Bundini Brown in "Ali" & Steamin' Beamen in "Any Given Sunday"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jamie Foxx

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LITERARY ALLUSIONS

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Jonathan Swift created Lilliputians; this author created Munchkins

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Time's up! The correct answer was Baum

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RUN, RUN, RUN

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This 2-word hoops term is an offensive rush to beat the defense to the hoop

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Time's up! The correct answer was a fast break

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4 N

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Adjective preceding the railroad completed in 1869

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Time's up! The correct answer was transcontinental

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WHO PLAYED 'EM

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2003 & 2004: The bride who's trying to kill Bill

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Time's up! The correct answer was Uma Thurman

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WORLD GEOGRAPHY

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City that stands on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec people

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mexico City

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SPORTS HOME CITIES

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The NHL's Senators

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ottawa

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"MOON"S

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Every week Cybill Shepherd & Bruce Willis have been doing this on ABC

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Time's up! The correct answer was Moonlighting

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SPOUSE IN COMMON

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Elliott Gould, James Brolin

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Time's up! The correct answer was Barbra Streisand

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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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STATE: THE OBVIOUS

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This state's name includes the name of the country that was the top destination for U.S. tourists in 2001

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Time's up! The correct answer was New Mexico

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WHAT'S THAT SOUND?

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Antarctica's McMurdo Sound was discovered in 1841 by this Brit who has a nearby sea & ice shelf named for him

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ross

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"J" WHIZ

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It's believed that the Virgin Mary died in this Middle Eastern city

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jerusalem

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PASS THE CHOCOLATE

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The leaf design on Godiva's Autant chocolates is a stylized version of a feather on this "Gone With the Wind" heroine's hat

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Time's up! The correct answer was Scarlett O'Hara

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THE BIBLE

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Among these tales told by Jesus were those "of the net", "of the mustard seed" & "of the hidden treasures"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Parables

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JUST THE FACTS

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This city, the seat of Clark County, Nevada, has been called "the entertainment capital of the world"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Las Vegas

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1800

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His First Symphony debuted April 2 in Vienna; 8 to go...

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ludwig von Beethoven

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FIRST NOVELS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jack Kerouac

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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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STORM

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Forrest Gump

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3-NAMED AUTHORS

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

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

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& GO TO "BED"

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was ribbed

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"IP" SO FACTO

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Idle talk about the private affairs of others

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Time's up! The correct answer was gossip

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"V" IS FOR

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...this word on a sign meaning there's still room at the inn

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Time's up! The correct answer was vacancy

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1800

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William Herschel discovered these "rays" beyond the red end of the visible spectrum

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Time's up! The correct answer was Infrared rays

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SCRAMBLED EGGS

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Its eggs weigh around 3 pounds each: RICH SOT

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Time's up! The correct answer was ostrich

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WOMEN: WRITE ON!

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"Seducing the Demon: Writing for my Life" is a 2006 memoir by this "Fear of Flying" author

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Time's up! The correct answer was Erica Jong

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THE ICU

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3-letter abbreviation for the ICU machine seen here

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Time's up! The correct answer was EKG

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BICYCLES

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1985 film that was a story of a “rebel & his bike”

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pee Wee’s Big Adventure

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WHO IS THEON OF SMYRNA?

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Writing on these, Theon covers, among others, the circular, oblong, prime & even ones

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Time's up! The correct answer was numbers

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ARCHITECTURE

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The caldarium, the tepidarium & the frigidarium were chambers in these, where olden Romans refreshed themselves

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Time's up! The correct answer was the baths

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BEGINS & ENDS WITH "O"

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Herr Bismarck knows this given name comes from a Germanic word meaning "rich"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Otto

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ALSO A VEGAS CASINO

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A weapon removed from a stone

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Time's up! The correct answer was Excalibur

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FUNNY FOR NOTHIN'

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jon Stewart

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INTO THE "WOOD"s

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Knothead & Splinter are the nephew & niece of this cartoon bird produced by Walter Lantz

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Time's up! The correct answer was Woody Woodpecker

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AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

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"Northanger Abbey"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jane Austen

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OFFICIAL LANGUAGES

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Austria

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Time's up! The correct answer was German

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COLOGNE RANGER

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was an Autobahn

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LOST

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It's said that this gem was cut from a stone called the French Blue, which was lost after a crown jewel heist in 1792

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hope Diamond

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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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CHICKENS FOR FREE

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Chicken this "royal" way is served in a rich cream sauce with mushrooms, pimentos, green peppers & sherry

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Time's up! The correct answer was a la king

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SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS

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"Der Sturm"

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Tempest

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"BOO"!

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Soft woolen shoes for a baby

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Time's up! The correct answer was booties

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THE 50 STATES

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An 1881 resolution established that this state's name was to be spelled one way but pronounced another

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Time's up! The correct answer was Arkansas

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Y1K

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Finished around 1000 A.D., "The Pillow Book" of Sei Shonagon is one of this country's literary masterpieces

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Time's up! The correct answer was Japan

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THE 1990s

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bob Dole

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DON'T MESS WITH SICILY

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Sicily was ceded to the Romans in 241 B.C. after they won the first of these wars

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Time's up! The correct answer was Punic

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THE USA

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The name of this New Mexico city where the first atomic bomb was exploded is Spanish for "big cottonwood"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alamogordo

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THE EVOLUTIONARY WAR

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A 1981 Arkansas law called for balanced teaching of evolution & this opposite type of "science"

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Time's up! The correct answer was creationism

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EPONYMS

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This big hair style is derived from the title of a mistress of Louis XV

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Time's up! The correct answer was a madame pompadour

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NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES

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"Berlin Reported Him Missing And Insane" when he "Flies To Scotland" in May 1941

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rudolf Hess

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COME "IN"

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A military badge of rank or qualification

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Time's up! The correct answer was insignia

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MUSICALS OF THE '20s

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The 1924 musical revue "I'll Say She Is" made these goofy brothers legitimate Broadway stars

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

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ENDS WITH 3 VOWELS

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Hawaiian feast

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Time's up! The correct answer was a luau

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HOME, SWEET HOME

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Doris Duke never had to rough it at Rough Point, her 105-room estate in this ritzy Rhode Island town

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Time's up! The correct answer was Newport

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PLANT LIFE

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Club, reindeer & Spanish are called this but botanically are not true this

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Time's up! The correct answer was moss

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NBA HALL OF FAMERS

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As a rookie in the 1980 NBA finals, this Michigan State alum played all 5 positions & scored 42 points in the final game

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Time's up! The correct answer was Magic Johnson

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METALLICA

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was silver

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SI's SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE

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"A ski jumping competition in" this country, Land of the Midnight Sun, "rewarded competitors for landing in trees"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Norway

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YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS STUFF

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If a Maori showed you a tiki, you'd be looking at one of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was statue

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ALL "AMERICAN"

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A gorilla named Koko learned to communicate using gestures from this

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Time's up! The correct answer was American Sign Language

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MS.

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Kristine Holderied was 1st to graduate top in her class from 1 of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was service academy

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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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NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME

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A 1975 inductee, he gave us "an electronic alphabet that could carry messages"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Morse

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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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MUSICAL PRIME NUMBERS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was 1999

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"EZ" DOES IT

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Port Said is this waterway's northern terminus

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Time's up! The correct answer was Suez Canal

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WOMEN'S FASHION

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This turn-of-the-century "girl" wore a shortwaist dress with puffed sleeves & a Pompadour hairdo

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gibson Girl

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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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TUBE TEST

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He provides the voice for Thurgood Stubbs on "The P.J.s"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Eddie Murphy

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IRAQNOPHOBIA

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The name of this Iraqi currency is derived from a Latin word for "ten"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dinar

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NATIONAL ANTHEMS

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"Land Of Two Rivers" is the anthem of this country whose history goes back thousands of years

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Time's up! The correct answer was Iraq

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INNS

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The Chaucer Inn is located near the cathedral in this English city

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Time's up! The correct answer was Canterbury

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CLASSIC AD LINES

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"We Bring Good Things To Life"

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Time's up! The correct answer was General Electric

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RADIO DISNEY

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"I Never Told You" this alliteratively named singer hit Disney's Top 30 with "Fallin' For You"; wait, I just did

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Time's up! The correct answer was Colbie Caillat

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EDUCATION JARGON

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From the Latin for "to heal", it's the type of education that brings deficient students up to standard levels

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Time's up! The correct answer was remedial

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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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STOCK SYMBOLS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Goodrich

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INITIALS M.D.

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Like Neve & Denise, he was one of the "Wild Things"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Matt Dillon

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THE 17TH CENTURY

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Cheers to this Benedictine monk who pioneered the making of champagne in 1698

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dom Perignon

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COLORS

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The 3 colors that make up the dots on a color TV screen

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Time's up! The correct answer was blue, green, and red

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SRO

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The stage show seen here has brought this dance to cheering audiences

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tango

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"COURT" BRIEFS

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Law students try mock hypothetical legal cases in this kind of court

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Time's up! The correct answer was moot court

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BEING THOREAU

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While in New York in the 1840s, Thoreau met this newspaper editor, who then acted as his literary agent

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Time's up! The correct answer was Horace Greeley

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EXPLORERS

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Louis Antoine de Bougainville arrived at this island in 1768 & natives gave him fowls, fruit & naked women

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tahiti

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THE NEW YORK TIMES 2009 FICTION BESTSELLERS

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Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling an autopsy in Kathy Reichs' "206" these body parts

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bones

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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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STATE OF THE UNION

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A senator from this state said, "having been the first...to enter the union", it would be "the last to abandon it"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Delaware

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DRAMA

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lillian Hellman

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CINCO DE MAYO BIRTHDAYS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Palin

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THE ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS

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Stanley Durwood of AMC pioneered these cinemas, putting his first in a shopping mall in 1963

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Time's up! The correct answer was Multiplexes

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AMERICAN HISTORY

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was democracy

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LITERATURE

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People from the past appear to a brother & sister in "Rewards and Fairies" by this author of "The Jungle Book"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Kipling

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1987

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Robert Bork

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LET'S VISIT AUSTRIA

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Preferring to go where the rain turns to snow, he wintered in Schruns while writing "The Sun Also Rises"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ernest Hemingway

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ORDINAL NUMBER, PLEASE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was First

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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was San Salvador

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STARTS WITH "B"

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A little mistake, or Yogi Bear's little buddy

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Time's up! The correct answer was Boo Boo

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VERMONTERS

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George Franklin Edmunds wrote most of this antitrust act of 1890

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Sherman

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THE STING

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Singer/actor Sting played Feyd-Rautha in this David Lynch film based on a Frank Herbert novel

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dune

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LITERATURE FOR KIDS

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In "Little Women", Margaret March is better known by this nickname

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

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WORLD GEOGRAPHY

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Administrative units in this country include Giza, Aswan & Suez

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Time's up! The correct answer was Egypt

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NAME THE POET

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"Tho' I've belted you an' flayed you, by the livin' gawd that made you, you're a better man than I am, Gunga Din"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rudyard Kipling

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...& THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON!

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1 tale says this breed descends from Muhammad's horses that refused water to answer a battle call

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Time's up! The correct answer was Arabians

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REAL TO REEL

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This 1984 movie recounted the friendship of an American journalist & a translator in war-torn Cambodia

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Killing Fields

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TELEVISION & HISTORY

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When "60 Minutes" premiered, this man was U.S. president

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WORLD CAPITALS

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Until 1918 & the collapse of the dynasty, it was home base for the Hapsburgs

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CROSSWORD CLUES "Q"

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To drink heartily (5)

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THREE CHEERS!

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The 4-legged Omaha made the record books in 1935 with this 3-feat

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Time's up! The correct answer was racing's Triple Crown

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ORGANIZATIONS

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The Max Planck Society is one of this country's chief organizations for scientific research

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LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

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Washington Irving gave New York City this nickname in 1807

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FOR WHOM THE "BELL" TOLLS

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Your occupation if you're a carillonneur

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Time's up! The correct answer was a bell ringer

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MY NAME IS EARL WARREN

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In Reynolds v. Sims I said that representation in legislatures must be based mostly on population: one man, one this

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ANCIENT HISTORY

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Tikal became an important ceremonial center of this civilization, prior to 300 A.D.

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THE ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS

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Stanley Durwood of AMC pioneered these cinemas, putting his first in a shopping mall in 1963

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TECHNOLOGY

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

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

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& GO TO "BED"

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Native Americans called this fence material the "Devil's rope"

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Time's up! The correct answer was barbed wire

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NOT A CURRENT NATIONAL CAPITAL

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Belize City, Guatemala City, Panama City

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WHAM-O

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In 1997 Wham-O introduced a Max Flight version of this 1950s sensation that flew farther & was easy to catch

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GRAINS & STAPLES

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The rolled form of this grain cooks in about 5 minutes; the steel-cut takes much longer

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CARTOONS

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On screen, he's a "tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Winnie the Pooh

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THE REEL STORY

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This singer starred in "Waiting to Exhale" & "The Bodyguard"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Whitney Houston

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NO. 1 QUESTIONS

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In this 1960 hit, Elvis wondered if you're "sorry we drifted apart"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"

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MINORITY REPORT

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In his first major case as Chief Justice, he found himself in the minority in 2006 as Oregon assisted suicide was okayed

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Roberts

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THE KIDS LOVE THAT ROCK & ROLL

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A1, Take That & the Spice Girls are all musical acts from this country

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Time's up! The correct answer was Great Britain

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"R"OCK MUSIC

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4 of this Swedish pop duo's first Top 40 hits reached No. 1, including "It Must Have Been Love"

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THE 1980s

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On Dec. 13, 1989 Pres. F.W. De Clerk met with this imprisoned African National Congress leader for the first time

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nelson Mandela

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TRADING SPACES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Chicago

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REQUIRED READING

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In 2 classic survival stories, it's the last name of a Swiss family & the first name of Mr. Crusoe

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Time's up! The correct answer was Robinson

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BOB DYLAN CHRONICLES

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"God say, 'You can do what you want Abe, but the next time you see me comin' you better run'"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Highway 61 Revisited"

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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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SPORTS HOME CITIES

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MLB's Royals

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WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT

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In 1616 she & her husband John Rolfe traveled to England to help raise funds for the Virginia colonists

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pocahontas

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BASIC SCIENCE

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At the Earth's surface, this force produces acceleration of about 32 feet per second per second

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Time's up! The correct answer was gravity

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PLANT LIFE

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If someone insists your spruce is really a fir, show him that these pointy items are square, not flat

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Time's up! The correct answer was needles

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BEN

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Ben Franklin went to London in 1757 to represent this colony's assembly

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pennsylvania

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U.S. PRESIDENTS

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A Civil War general, he was the last man to go directly from the House of Representatives to the presidency

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Time's up! The correct answer was James A. Garfield

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HEISMAN WINNERS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ohio State

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DIALING FOR DIALECTS

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Dialects of this language include Wu, Yue & Hakka

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Time's up! The correct answer was Chinese

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I WANT TO RIDE THAT!

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Vienna

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AMERICAN HISTORY

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In 1787 Arthur St. Clair became the first governor of this vast territory north of the Ohio River

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Time's up! The correct answer was Northwest Territory

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TELL 'EM WHAT THEY'VE WON, JOHNNY

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In 1990 Paul McCartney received a Lifetime Achievement Award at these awards

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MIDDLE INITIAL C.

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

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

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HOMOPHONIC PAIRS

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A squash that's been pierced by a bull's horn

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Time's up! The correct answer was gored gourd

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"PRO"NOUNS

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An introductory part in a novel

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Time's up! The correct answer was Prologue

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THE NEW TESTAMENT

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In Revelation, it was the name of he who sat on a pale horse

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Time's up! The correct answer was Death

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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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& GO TO "BED"

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Native Americans called this fence material the "Devil's rope"

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Time's up! The correct answer was barbed wire

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BUSINESS & INDUSTRY

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In 1961 this firm introduced its Selectric typewriter, which used a spherical typing element

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Time's up! The correct answer was IBM

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MOTTOES

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"All power to the people" was the motto of this African-American political organization of the 1960s

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Black Panthers

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THE BIBLE

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This wise successor of David is also called Jedidiah, meaning "Yahweh's beloved"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Solomon

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FOR WHOM THE "BELL" TOLLS

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Doing this, you'll hold pairs of small cymbals called zills

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Time's up! The correct answer was belly dancing

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CORPORATE SPORTS VENUES

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Now that this city's Civic Arena is the Mellon Arena, its citizens can be full of Mellon pride

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pittsburgh

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NURSERY RHYMES

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While "January brings the snow", "may brings flocks of pretty" these, "skipping by their fleecy dams"

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Time's up! The correct answer was lambs

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FRENCH ART & ARTISTS

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Andre Derain was a prominent painter in this style whose name is from the French for "wild beasts"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Fauvism

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TV PRODUCERS

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In 2003 this "Survivor" head honcho began conducting a search to give Donald Trump an apprentice

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mark Burnett

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GENERAL INFORMATION

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This Army general headed American-led forces during the initial combat phase of the Iraq War as it began in 2003

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tommy Franks

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SI's SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE

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"A ski jumping competition in" this country, Land of the Midnight Sun, "rewarded competitors for landing in trees"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Norway

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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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DIED ON THE SAME DAY

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On April 25,1995 first "Jeopardy!" host Art Fleming passed away & the dance was over for this partner of Fred

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ginger Rogers

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"NEVER" AT THE MOVIES

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Advice that's the title of a 1941 W.C. Fields film

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Time's up! The correct answer was Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

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THE "L" WORLD

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Fodor's Travel Guide to France calls this town "the porcelain collector's mecca"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Limoges

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PICTURE THIS

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One of the first printed books with illustrations was a collection of this ancient man's fables in 1476

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Time's up! The correct answer was Aesop

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HOW'S THE WEATHER?

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was showers

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FUN WITH OPERA

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

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

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THE SHORT FORM

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This British organization hands out its equivalent to the Oscars

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Time's up! The correct answer was BAFTA

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HISTORY

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In 1991 B.C. Amenemhet, a former vizier, founded this country's 12th dynasty

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Time's up! The correct answer was Egypt

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NO. 32

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On May 11, 1858 this "North Star" state became U.S. state No. 32

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Time's up! The correct answer was Minnesota

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KNOTS TO YOU

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It is second only to "Gunsmoke" as TV's longest-running primetime drama series

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Time's up! The correct answer was Knots Landing

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WORLD COINS

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In 1999 the Cook Islands issued a half dollar coin featuring this Jim Davis comic strip title character

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Time's up! The correct answer was Garfield

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LSU

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In terms of enrollment LSU's largest campus is in this capital city

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Time's up! The correct answer was Baton Rouge

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ROCK & ROLL FRONTMEN

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Anthony Kiedis

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Time's up! The correct answer was Red Hot Chili Peppers

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WORLD CAPITALS

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It's the largest English-speaking city in the Caribbean, mon

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Time's up! The correct answer was Kingston

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BASEBALL

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Washington Senators

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CITY FLAGS

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

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

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BEFORE & AFTER

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Fictional girl sleuth who's the granddaughter of "The Great Profile"

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

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TELEVISION

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On a 1995 episode of this sitcom, JFK Jr. dropped by the offices of "FYI"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Murphy Brown"

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PLANT LIFE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was a desert

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MILITARY MATTERS

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This German "operation" to invade the Soviet Union took its name from a crusading Holy Roman Emperor

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Time's up! The correct answer was Operation Barbarossa

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OFFICIAL LANGUAGES

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Argentina

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Time's up! The correct answer was Spanish

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"B" PREPARED

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Meaning a noisy commotion, it may derive from "baruch habba", a loud traditional greeting at a synagogue

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Time's up! The correct answer was brouhaha

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1987

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2 Russians made an impromptu spacewalk outside this space station & found a bag of trash that hindered docking

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mir

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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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NAME THE WORK

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

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

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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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AMERICAN HISTORY

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was democracy

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NBA HALL OF FAMERS

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This Nigeria-born Rockets player holds the NBA record for career blocked shots with 3,830

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hakeem Olajuwon

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MAYORS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Los Angeles

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2-LETTER WORDS

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"Ut" used to be used for the first or key note of the musical scale; this has replaced it

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Time's up! The correct answer was do

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"MOON"S

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Every week Cybill Shepherd & Bruce Willis have been doing this on ABC

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Time's up! The correct answer was Moonlighting

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WHAT KIND OF FOWL AM I?

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Rock Cornish game hen or Rhode Island Red

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Time's up! The correct answer was a chicken

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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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U.S.A.

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Even though it's officially "dry", this state's Moore County is the home of Jack Daniel's Whiskey

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tennessee

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WORKING ON THE RAILROAD

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13-letter word for the operations manager of a depot or terminal

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Time's up! The correct answer was stationmaster

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FINANCE HISTORY

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In the 19th c., selling stock you didn't yet own, hoping it would fall, was called selling this animal's skin

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Time's up! The correct answer was a bear

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STARTS WITH "P"

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Movie that featured the following music

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Time's up! The correct answer was Picnic

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IT COMES WITH THE TERRITORY

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In 1858 the British established this type of colony on India's Andaman Islands

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Time's up! The correct answer was Penal colony

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NOVELS OF THE PAST

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It's the second name of Taras, a 16th century Cossack in a 19th century Gogol novel

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bulba

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BEING THOREAU

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Brown

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THE OLD WEST

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This lieutenant colonel recruited some of his Rough Riders at William Menger's hotel in San Antonio

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Time's up! The correct answer was Theodore Roosevelt

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COMMON BONDS

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Shirt, kite, donkey

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Time's up! The correct answer was tails

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THE ENGLISH TOP 100

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Title of the Beatles song that tells us "life is very short"--5 words: Nos. 27, 53, 87, 11, 43

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Time's up! The correct answer was "We Can Work It Out"

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

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After the taping, what say we cool off with a frozen banana one of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was daiquiri

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CARIBBEAN TASTE TREATS

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If you order "mountain chicken" in Dominica, you won't get chicken but one of these amphibians

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Time's up! The correct answer was Frogs

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WE'RE MALAYSIA-BOUND

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Go "strait" to this port & visit St. Paul's Church where St. Francis Xavier's body was held until moved to India

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Time's up! The correct answer was Malacca

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THE ASPCA

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An ASPCA program begun in 1992 promotes the adoption of these dogs when they retire from racing

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Time's up! The correct answer was Greyhounds

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LITERARY FIRST LINES

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

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

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HIT TUNES

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"Doo Wop (That Thing)"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lauryn Hill

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BALLS

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Kermit the Frog's eyeballs were originally made of these light sports balls

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Time's up! The correct answer was ping pong balls

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BREAKING NEWS

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Gambler Charles Wells is believed to have inspired the song "The Man Who" did this "At Monte Carlo"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Broke The Bank"

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Y1K

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By a vote of its parliament, the Althing, this island country adopts Christianity

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Time's up! The correct answer was Iceland

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FOUND

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Agnes Baden-Powell helped found the Girl Guides soon after her brother Robert founded this movement

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Time's up! The correct answer was Boy Scouts

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"TEEN" SCENE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was 14

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MED. ABBREV.

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A CAT scan is computerized axial this kind of imaging

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Time's up! The correct answer was tomography

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TEENS OF THE PAST

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In his teens in the 1860s this "bright light" of inventors worked as a roving telegraph operator

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Time's up! The correct answer was Thomas Edison

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CROSSWORD CLUES "D"

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Scotch, & make it this (6)

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Time's up! The correct answer was double

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ROLLING STONE'S 100 GREATEST GUITARISTS

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

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

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ENGLISH CLASS

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It's the third person plural objective case pronoun

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Time's up! The correct answer was them

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BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS

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1932: "Magnificent Inn"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Grand Hotel

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STATE FISH

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Florida's state saltwater fish is this game fish known for its raised dorsal fin & spear-like nose

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Time's up! The correct answer was a sailfish

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EMOTICONS

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:-$ It's where this emoticon tells you to "put your money"

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Time's up! The correct answer was where your mouth is

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WOMEN'S HEALTH

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Set down that plastic bottle -- CNN reports that you don't really need this mythical number of glasses of water a day

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Time's up! The correct answer was 8

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FUN WITH OPERA

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"The Jesters' Supper" was first performed in this city where you'll find Da Vinci's "Last Supper"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Milan

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RUSSIA

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They're the colors of the three stripes on the Russian flag

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Time's up! The correct answer was red, white, and blue

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RELIGIOUS RHYME TIME

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Around the time of a veiled Muslim garment for women

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Time's up! The correct answer was circa burka

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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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NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME

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"'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' was the first full length animated film to use" this inductee's multiplane camera

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Time's up! The correct answer was Walt Disney

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ENGINEERING

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

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

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4 CONSONANTS IN A ROW

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If you're vertical but supported by your palms, you're doing one of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was a handstand

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MAYORS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Los Angeles

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LIT MY FIRE

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The burning of Moscow after Napoleon's exit is dramatized in this Tolstoy novel

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Time's up! The correct answer was War and Peace

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TRAVEL & TOURISM

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Andrea Palladio's 1554 book on "The Antiquities of" this city was the standard guidebook for some 200 years

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rome

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THE NEW TESTAMENT

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In Gethsemane, this apostle drew a sword & cut off Malchus' ear

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Time's up! The correct answer was Peter

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A TRIP TO OUTER SPACE

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Many beautiful images like the one seen here have been given to us by this famous space telescope

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hubble Space Telescope

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CROSSWORD CLUES "M"

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Stubborn slippers (5)

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Time's up! The correct answer was mules

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MANIAS

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A lycomaniac has a howling time believing he is one of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wolf

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NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Chesapeake

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2011 MOVIES

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Emma Stone starred as aspiring writer Skeeter Phelan in this '60s-set drama based on a novel

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Help

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CABLE CHANNELS

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This channel shows films like "The Magnificent Seven" & original series like "Mad Men" & "Breaking Bad"

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Time's up! The correct answer was AMC

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I DID IT NORWAY

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A summer festival at Vinstra honors this Ibsen & Grieg character based on folklore

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Time's up! The correct answer was Peer Gynt

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LANGUAGES

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Athenians speak the Attic dialect of this language

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Time's up! The correct answer was Greek

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ANIMALS

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

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

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MAGIC

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This 16-letter synonym for sleight of hand comes from the Latin for "nimble finger"

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Time's up! The correct answer was prestidigitation

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FAMOUS LLOYDS

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In 1832 this editor founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society

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Time's up! The correct answer was William Lloyd Garrison

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THE HOLLYWOOD STOCK EXCHANGE

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Millions of HSX shares of this scary movie "project" were traded a full year before it was released

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Blair Witch Project

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AUTHORS

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She first wrote "Ethan Frome" in French, then later translated it into English

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Time's up! The correct answer was Edith Wharton

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BRITISH ROYAL HOUSES

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George VI

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Time's up! The correct answer was Windsor

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WOMEN'S FASHION

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This turn-of-the-century "girl" wore a shortwaist dress with puffed sleeves & a Pompadour hairdo

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gibson Girl

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THE 1930s

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He was appointed conductor of the Boston Pops in 1930

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Time's up! The correct answer was Arthur Fiedler

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SECRET MENUS

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A move to healthy eating got the Pizza Sub nixed from this chain, but we hear if you ask nicely some stores will make it

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Time's up! The correct answer was Subway

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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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SLOGANEERING

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"The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection" is the goal of this automaker

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lexus

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TEENS OF THE PAST

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"At 15 I set my heart on learning", wrote this great Asian sage in his "Analects"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Confucius

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SWEET TREATS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Chunky

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THE JEFFERSON ADMINISTRATION

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On July 12, 1808 this large city's Missouri Gazette became the first newspaper published west of the Mississippi

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

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THE ROYALS

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This first king of Poland was alliteratively nicknamed "the Brave"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Boleslaw

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EVERYTHING'S "GOLDEN", BABY

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This Mongol army overran Eastern Europe in the 13th century

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Golden Horde

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DOWN MEXICO WAY

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This resort city about 200 miles southwest of Mexico City is famous for its cliff divers

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Time's up! The correct answer was Acapulco

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HOUSES OF WORSHIP

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The Episcopal Church at 193 Salem Street in Boston has been holding services continually since December 29, 1723

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

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AMERICANA

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This Connecticut city famous for its university is nicknamed "Elm City" because it once had many elm-lined streets

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Time's up! The correct answer was New Haven

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THE 1990s

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Queen Elizabeth II & Francois Mitterrand appeared together at the opening of this on May 6, 1994

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Time's up! The correct answer was the opening of the "Chunnel"

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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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HEY, "BABY"

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Nickname of Haiti's Jean-Claude Duvalier

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Baby Doc"

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PLAY HEROINES

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Blanche DuBois

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Time's up! The correct answer was A Streetcar Named Desire

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GENERAL INFORMATION

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This Army general headed American-led forces during the initial combat phase of the Iraq War as it began in 2003

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tommy Franks

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FOOD FACTS

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The Atlantic variety of this popular fish is the largest of all flatfish

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Time's up! The correct answer was Halibut

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OCCUPATION HAZARDS

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Chafing from chaps, rope burns from lassos & that saddle horn -- watch where you sit if you're one of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was cowboy

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NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES

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The November 25, 1963 front page read, this man "Shot To Death In Jail Corridor By A Dallas Citizen"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lee Harvey Oswald

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FIGURE SKATERS

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In 1986 she became the 1st black woman to win the World Championship of Figure Skating

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Time's up! The correct answer was Debbie Thomas

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L____O

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It's a long rope with a loop on one end, used to rope cattle

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Time's up! The correct answer was a lasso

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FOUND

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In the early 1900s William Durant put together Buick, Oldsmobile & other companies to found this corporation

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Time's up! The correct answer was General Motors

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ANAGRAMMED BIRDS

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A holiday standard: key rut

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Time's up! The correct answer was turkey

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HOME FURNISHINGS

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A jardiniere is a decorative stand for holding these

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Time's up! The correct answer was plants

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ORGANIZATIONS

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It's what the R stands for in AARP

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Time's up! The correct answer was retired

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VALUABLE PLACES

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You can keep the valuable rocks you find in the state park near Murfreesboro, Arkansas: Crater of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was Diamonds

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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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FROM THE JAWS OF VICTORY

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In the Aesop fable, he's so far ahead he takes a nap; what a loser!

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hare

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HOW NOVEL

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This Ayn Rand novel tells the story of architect Howard Roark & Dominique Francon, the woman he loves

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

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BEGINS & ENDS WITH "T"

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The name of this device used to stop bleeding may come from a French word for "turn"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tourniquet

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SAY CHEESE

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According to legend, it was created when a shepherd left a piece of cheese in a cave for several weeks

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Time's up! The correct answer was Roquefort

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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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FLAG 'EM DOWN

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This descriptive nickname of the U.S. flag was coined by Francis Scott Key

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Star-Spangled Banner

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FOREWORDS

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Part 2 "is Lilliput in reverse, but...also offers some of" his "fiercest assaults upon the behavior of" his countrymen

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jonathan Swift

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WORD ORIGINS

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From Dutch “kaban huis”, meaning ship’s galley, in U.S. it came to mean last car on a train

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Time's up! The correct answer was the caboose

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INTERNATIONAL SPORTSMEN

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Nike's stock fell when this basketball player announced his retirement in January 1999

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Time's up! The correct answer was Michael Jordan

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STRINGS

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In the 1630s it was a backup bow & arrow part; today it means backup on a sports team

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Time's up! The correct answer was second string

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GETTING TICKED OFF

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In 2005 this ex-diplomat wasn't so diplomatic, saying, "I believe Karl Rove should be fired" for outing his CIA wife, Valerie Plame

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wilson

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SORTA SOUNDS LIKE OPRAH?

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Bizet's "Carmen", for example

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Time's up! The correct answer was an opera

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GRAVE MATTERS

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In 1995 these married physicists were laid to rest (again), this time at the Pantheon in Paris

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pierre & Marie Curie

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ORGANIZATIONS

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Members of this volunteer crime-fighting organization are famous for wearing red berets

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