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Time's up! The correct answer was The Six Million Dollar Man; The "Bionic Man"

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& HONEY

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& Honey, while you're up, can you grab my copy of "Caligula" by this French-Algerian author? He's so existential

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Time's up! The correct answer was Camus

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THE NEW CAR LOT

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Your pocketbook may not "Bond" with the $130,000 base price of its DB7 Coupe

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Time's up! The correct answer was Aston Martin

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BESTSELLERS

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This author's Dr. Kay Scarpetta returned to the scene of the crime with "Trace"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Patricia Cornwell

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A SHAPELY CATEGORY

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Dendroid means shaped like a tree; dentiform means shaped like this

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Time's up! The correct answer was a tooth

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SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE

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In Yavapai County, 55 miles east-southeast of Prescott

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Time's up! The correct answer was Arizona

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OH, BEE GEE

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Barry Gibb was born in 1946; these 2 fraternal twins were born in 1949

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Time's up! The correct answer was Robin & Maurice

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MAGIC

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This duo first teamed up in 1975; one was a clown college graduate & juggler, the other, a silent magician

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Time's up! The correct answer was Penn & Teller

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WHO'S YOUR MOMMY?

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Melanie Griffith

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tippi Hedren

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MYTHOLOGICAL PAIRS

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Until the night he drowned, Leander swam across the Hellespont every night to meet her

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hero

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"X"-MEN

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His dad Earl Little was an outspoken Baptist minister & supporter of black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey

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Time's up! The correct answer was Malcolm X

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COLOSSUS

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Immeasurably great, like the "Jest" in a David Foster Wallace title

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Time's up! The correct answer was infinite

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& GO TO "BED"

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If you've been clubbed, you've been made unconscious; if you've been this, you've been made a knight

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Time's up! The correct answer was dubbed

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MIXED DRINKS

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A basic Gin Rickey is gin, lime & this non-potent potable

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Time's up! The correct answer was soda water

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"TABLE"S

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Ping-Pong

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Time's up! The correct answer was Table Tennis

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SAY "CHI"s

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Giving up your seat to the lady proves that this medieval system is not dead

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Time's up! The correct answer was chivalry

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POUR ME A STIFF ONE

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Invented in Cuba, a mojito is made with lime juice, club soda, sugar, ice, mint leaves & this kind of alcohol

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Time's up! The correct answer was rum

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"V" IS FOR

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Vulgar

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SORORITY WOMEN

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When she began her financial column, this Phi Sigma Sigma used her initials to disguise her sex

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sylvia Porter

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BOY MEETS WORLD

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Of 6, 10 or 14, the age of Michael Kearney in 1994 when he became the USA's youngest college graduate

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Time's up! The correct answer was 10

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MAIN STREET U.S.A.

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Your feelings may run deep on historic Main Street in this city, home of Oklahoma State University

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Time's up! The correct answer was Stillwater

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THE REDCOATS ARE COMING!

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On Sept. 5, 1781, 24 of this country's ships engaged British ships in Cheaspeake Bay & turned them back

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Time's up! The correct answer was France

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"PH"UN WORDS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was a Philistine

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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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BIOLOGY

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Of the 4, blood group of the universal recipient

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Time's up! The correct answer was AB

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BUGS

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Also known as a devil's darning needle, it may have as many as 28,000 lenses in its compound eyes

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dragonfly

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THOSE AMAZING ANIMALS

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Because hippo teeth are made of this, they won't yellow & were once a popular source for false teeth

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Time's up! The correct answer was ivory

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CARIBBEAN TASTE TREATS

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Puerto Ricans love to drink the juice of this fruit they call parcha -- maybe it makes them feel "amorous"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Passion fruit

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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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PARTS OF PEACH

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5-letter word for the hard interior of a peach

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Time's up! The correct answer was the stone

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TIME TO "EAT"

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Moss type used as fuel

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Time's up! The correct answer was peat

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WHO PLAYED 'EM

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2004: Monster hunter Dr. Gabriel Van Helsing

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jackman

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RODENTS

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Spaniards named these furry rodents for the Chincha Indians

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Time's up! The correct answer was chinchilla

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WORLD COINS

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Its 1-shekel coin features a flower taken from a Judean coin during the Persian period

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Time's up! The correct answer was Israel

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ROLLING STONE'S 100 GREATEST GUITARISTS

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His "Smooth" guitar strains earned him a place at No. 15

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Time's up! The correct answer was Carlos Santana

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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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HEIR

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Charlene, sole heir of the late Alfred of this Dutch brewing giant, is worth $4.9 billion

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Time's up! The correct answer was Heineken

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"V" HAVE MAPS

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As a 19th century emperor of this country, Minh Mang executed several French Catholic missionaries

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Time's up! The correct answer was Vietnam

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CONGRESSIONAL MISDEMEANORS

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This former house speaker was reprimanded in 1997 for misuse of tax-exempt funds & submitting false informaiton

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Time's up! The correct answer was Newt Gingrich

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PHYSICAL SCIENCE

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Max Planck gave this name to the smallest amount of energy that can be emitted as electromagnetic radiation

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Time's up! The correct answer was Quantum

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TELEPHONE HISTORY

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On Oct. 30, 1938 phone traffic peaked in cities all over America as people discussed this broadcast

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

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SHOTS HEARD AROUND THE WORLD

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His prestidigitation (or in this case a "Jr. Skyhook") won Game 4 of the 1987 NBA Finals for the Lakers

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Time's up! The correct answer was Magic Johnson

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THE 1990s

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In 1997 the Marlins won the Major League, Mexico the Little League & LSU the college version of this event

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Time's up! The correct answer was the World Series

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"GENERAL" JOB INFORMATION

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Alberto Gonzales & Robert F. Kennedy both held this cabinet position

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Time's up! The correct answer was Attorney General

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ACTORS & THEIR ROLES

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Aaron Spelling's daughter Tori plays Donna Martin on this popular TV series

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Time's up! The correct answer was Beverly Hills, 90210

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1957

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When Wham-O introduced this toy in 1957, it was called the Pluto Platter

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Time's up! The correct answer was Frisbee

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WEBSITES

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Instead of .com, Amnesty International's website is www.amnesty. this

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Time's up! The correct answer was .org

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BERRIES

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A judge crossed California & Texas blackberries & created these which bear his name

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Time's up! The correct answer was Loganberries

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U.S. GEOGRAPHY

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The Bluegrass region, an area of gently rolling pastures, covers the north central part of this state

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Time's up! The correct answer was Kentucky

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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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IT COMES WITH THE TERRITORY

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Tokelau, a territory of this country, is over 1,000 miles north of its Noeth Island

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Time's up! The correct answer was New Zealand

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SHAKESPEARE

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In different plays, it's the name shared by men linked with Helen of Troy & with Juliet

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Time's up! The correct answer was Paris

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COUNTRIES THAT END IN "O"

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Open an atlas & discover that the Atlas Mountains traverse the length of this country

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Time's up! The correct answer was Morocco

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LITERARY LAST NAME'S THE SAME

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Frank, Hart, Stephen

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Time's up! The correct answer was Crane

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HISTORIC BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Balfour

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MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MOVIES

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A baseball drama: "Bang the _____ Slowly"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Drum

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BOTANY

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The finest dried form of this root spice used in pumpkin pie is produced in Jamaica

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ginger

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CINCO DE MAYO BIRTHDAYS

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A culinary foundation is named for this dean of American cookery who was born in Portland May 5, 1903

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Time's up! The correct answer was James Beard

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TELEPHONE HISTORY

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On Oct. 30, 1938 phone traffic peaked in cities all over America as people discussed this broadcast

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

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MEDIEVAL MUSIC

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A 13th century hit tells us this "is icumen in"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Summer

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COMPUTER JARGON

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"Treeware" is this; it comes with software programs

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Time's up! The correct answer was an instruction manual

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'ALLO, GOVERNOR!

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Beauford Jester, John B. Connally, Jr.

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Time's up! The correct answer was Texas

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PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING DRAMAS

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David Mamet won in 1984 for this salesman drama whose title includes 2 4-letter words

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Time's up! The correct answer was Glengarry Glen Ross

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LITERATURE

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Title character who says, "Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day — mock me horribly!"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Doran Gray

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ANIMAL RHYME TIME

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A fake small horse

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Time's up! The correct answer was phony pony

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PHILMOGRAPHIES

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"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" (plus his own 1955-59 TV show)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Phil Silvers

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COMPOSERS

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Vivaldi was known as “the red priest” due to his clerical rank & this

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Time's up! The correct answer was the color of his hair

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ROCK & ROLL FRONTMEN

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Trent Reznor

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nine Inch Nails

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ELEMENT-ARY SCHOOL

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One of the noble gases, it's the lightest of all gases after hydrogen

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Time's up! The correct answer was helium

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THE '30s WEREN'T ALL DEPRESSING

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In 1932 this country finished reclaiming thousands of agricultural acres from the Zuiderzee

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Netherlands

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TV PRODUCERS

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The Fairmont in this city's Nob Hill was the exterior used for Aaron Spelling's "Hotel" TV series

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Time's up! The correct answer was San Francisco

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OFFICIAL LANGUAGES

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Egypt

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Time's up! The correct answer was Arabic

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NOT A VERB

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Wind, wander, wonderful

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Time's up! The correct answer was wonderful

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FRUIT

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The Bartlett type of this fruit begins to ripen in summer; other varieties ripen later in the year

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pears

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TV MOVIES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Waltons

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SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER

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Neckwear for eating lobster

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Time's up! The correct answer was bib

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ISLANDS

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This "colossal" island is the largest in Greece's Dodecanese archipelago

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rhodes

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OPERA

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Beethoven

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QUEEN VICTORIA

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Victoria found this poet laureate's "In Memoriam" a great comfort in her widowhood

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alfred Lord Tennyson

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ENGLISH LITERATURE

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A third, more sexually explicit version of this 1928 D.H. Lawrence novel was finally published in the U.S. in 1959

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Lady Chatterley's Lover"

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FOOD & DRINK

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They're the 2 things Little Miss Muffet was consuming while sitting on her tuffet

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Time's up! The correct answer was curds & whey

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IN THE DICTIONARY

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was a zebra

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THE NBA

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Located in the "Rose City", this team's home court is appropriately called the Rose Garden

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Time's up! The correct answer was Portland Trail Blazers

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LAW & GOVERNMENT

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Though given 10 years for ratification, this amendment failed by 3 states in 1982

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Equal Rights Amendment

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LEGAL "E"s

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This clause in a union contract says that wages will rise or fall depending on a standard such as cost of living

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Time's up! The correct answer was escalator

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SAINTS

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On the second Sunday in May, the French honor her with a holiday

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Time's up! The correct answer was Joan of Arc

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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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COMPUTER TERMS

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It can mean any computer used by an individual, or an IBM-type machine as opposed to a Mac

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Time's up! The correct answer was a P.C.

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ACTORS' RHYME TIME

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Calista's collection of photos of actress June

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Time's up! The correct answer was Flockhart's Lockharts

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IT SOUNDS LIKE

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A cylindrical storage container for grain, it sounds like an order to exhale quietly

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Time's up! The correct answer was Silo

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ANIMAL GROUPS

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Wisconsin folks know a cete is a group of these carnivores

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Time's up! The correct answer was Badgers

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AMERICAN HISTORY

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In April 1984 this U.S. government agency admitted its role in the mining of Nicaraguan harbors

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Time's up! The correct answer was CIA

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BETTER KNOWN AS...

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Archibald Leach

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cary Grant

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ODDS & ENDS

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Muhammad received the first of the Koran's revelations during this holy month

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ramadan

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RUN, RUN, RUN

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Due to an increase of endorphins in the brain, it's a state of euphoria experienced by exercisers

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Time's up! The correct answer was runner's high

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DRESSING

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The hour for mixed drinks, or the type of short evening dress appropriate then

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Time's up! The correct answer was cocktail

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WOMEN: WRITE ON!

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In 2009 she published her 76th bestseller, "Matters of the Heart", & was inducted into the Calif. Hall of Fame

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Time's up! The correct answer was Danielle Steel

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CARIBBEAN TASTE TREATS

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Adventurous eaters in Grenada may dine on this burrowing mammal (it's best to remove the armor first)

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Time's up! The correct answer was Armadillo

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SHOES

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Miranda, Spectator & D'Orsay are types of this slip-on women's shoe

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pump

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BIRDS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pigeon

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MAMMALS

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The giant species of this "armor-plated" animal has more teeth than any other land mammal

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Time's up! The correct answer was armadillo

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SO "LONG"

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12-letter term for one employed on the wharves of a port

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Time's up! The correct answer was a longshoreman

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NAMES IN THE NEWS

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This former U.N. ambassador is a co-chairman of the host city's committee for the 1996 Olympic Games

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Time's up! The correct answer was Andrew Young

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DRESSING

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Scarlett O'Hara is introduced wearing a "tightly fitting basque", this upper part of a dress

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Time's up! The correct answer was the bodice

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WATERFALLS

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The height of Shoshone Falls on this river in Idaho exceeds that of Niagara Falls

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MISC.

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This waterfall is separated into the American Falls & Horseshoe Falls by Goat Island

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Time's up! The correct answer was Niagara Falls

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THE FILM VAULT

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Sidney Poitier starred in the 1961 film version of this Lorraine Hansberry drama about a black Chicago family

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Time's up! The correct answer was A Raisin in the Sun

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TELL 'EM WHAT THEY'VE WON, JOHNNY

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In 1921 Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Fiction prize named for this news publisher

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pulitzer

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ANGELS

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With an appropriate-sounding name, John Dye plays the angel of this on "Touched By An Angel"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Angel of Death

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RINGING THE OPENING BELL AT THE NYSE

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& then I saw him / Right there & like that / On Leap Day 2000 / 'Twas...

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Cat in the Hat

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MATH TERMS

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The term surd refers to irrational numbers like this number's square root, 1.7320508...

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Time's up! The correct answer was 3

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PASS THE CHOCOLATE

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Good news: Dark chocolate is rich in these antioxidant compounds whose very name sounds "flavorful"

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POET'S GLOSSARY

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The "heroic" variety of this pair of rhyming lines is written in iambic pentameter

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THE BYRDS & THE BEAS

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He was the Senate's Minority Leader from 1980-87, then moved up to Majority Leader

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CANADIAN CAPITALS

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

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THE 14th CENTURY

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Chaucer wrote a treatise on how to build one of these & use it to compute the position of a star

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Time's up! The correct answer was astrolabe

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IN EXILE

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Exiled for manslaughter, Eric the Red was forced to leave this country around 981

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Time's up! The correct answer was Iceland

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ALL "AMERICAN"

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Their publications include "First Aid Fast" & a "Babysitter's Handbook"

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

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HEADLINES

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On May 24, 1927 the Las Vegas Review headlined that this man "Spurns Offers. Back to Air Mail, Says"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lindbergh

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THE BIG 10-LETTER WORDS

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Relatively speaking, it's your mom's husband by a later marriage

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THE TITANIC

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The ship was so big, communication was by telegraph from this navigating area to the engine room

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Time's up! The correct answer was the bridge

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MISC.

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This noble gas glows orange-red when an electric current is passed through it

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DANCE IN THE DICTIONARY

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This centuries-old English dance "was up" for the bank robber when the cops arrived

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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS

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He was 24 years older than his friend Mozart, but outlived him by almost 20 years

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Time's up! The correct answer was Franz Joseph Haydn

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AUSTRALIA

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After America won its independence, the British decided to ship these people to Australia

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Time's up! The correct answer was Convicts/Prisoners

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FOOD

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Butternut refers to both an actual nut & this type of gourd

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BERMUDA SHORTS

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Bermuda uses this basic unit of currency

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Time's up! The correct answer was the dollar

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BRITISH BANDS & SINGERS

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(Hi, I'm Graham Nash) As a member of this group in the 1960s, I co-wrote their hits "Carrie-Anne" & "Stop, Stop, Stop"

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Hollies

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HISTORIC DATES

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He dissolved England's Rump Parliament on April 20, 1653

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BUSINESS & INDUSTRY

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For over 75 years, Wrigley made only these 3 gums

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Time's up! The correct answer was Spearmint, Doublemint & Juicy Fruit

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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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RELIGION

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In this Asian religion, a lohan is not an actress but a holy person, & monasteries have images of lohans

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Time's up! The correct answer was Buddhism

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"LAP" DANCE

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A region of northern Scandinavia or Russia

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THE BIG APPLE

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Artsy types like Maya Lin & Art Spiegelman find inspiration in this area that gets its name from its northern border

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SCIENTISTS

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He discovered that the observed frequency of light waves is affected by the relative motion of the source & detector

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Time's up! The correct answer was Doppler

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ATTACK OF THE THESAURUS

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I cannot tell a prevarication: it has this 3-letter synonym

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Time's up! The correct answer was lie

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I HAVE A PREPOSITION FOR YOU

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Neil Gaiman wrote, "Now slip, now slide, now move unseen, above, beneath, betwixt," this

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THE GRIDIRON

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[Hi, I'm Champ Bailey, college football's top defensive player of 1998] The award for top defensive player in college football is named for Bronislaw Nagurski, whose nickname was this

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bronco

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RINGING THE OPENING BELL AT THE NYSE

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Oct. 4, 2006 STOP This company's president & CEO Christina Gold rings opening bell STOP

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Time's up! The correct answer was Western Union

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MEET THE PARENTS

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Aiwa, Epic Records, Columbia Tristar

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sony

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NORM!

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1968 "The Armies of the Night" won him a Pulitzer & the National Book Award

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Time's up! The correct answer was Norman Mailer

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SKUNKS

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Name of zee skunk in zee popular Warner Brothers cartoons

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pepé Le Pew

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HISTORIC AMERICA

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Pompey's Pillar, a rock formation in Montana, was named by Capt. William Clark for the son of this Indian guide

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sacajawea

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HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES

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

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

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WITH BROTHERHOOD

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Twin brothers Matthew & Gunnar, Ozzie & Harriet's grandsons, had hits in the '90s under this name

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nelson

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THE DE NIRO CODE

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As Al Capone in this 1987 film: "You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word"

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Untouchables

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STRING THEORY 201

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String theory is part of this "P" branch of physics that studies eensy little items

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Time's up! The correct answer was particle

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ROLL OVER, BEETHOVEN

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"Betrayed in the hope of getting better", Beethoven was "forced to face the prospect of a permanent malady"--this

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Time's up! The correct answer was deafness

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& GO TO "BED"

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In the Bible she was mom to Moses & Aaron

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jochebed

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& GO TO "BED"

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In math, it means raised to the third power

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Time's up! The correct answer was cubed

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DRAMA QUEENS

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The queen in Marlowe's "Edward II" is named this, like a famous queen of Spain

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Time's up! The correct answer was Isabella

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NICKNAMES

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"The Handcuff King"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Harry Houdini

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THE TEENS

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Sonnets are rhymed poems with this many lines

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Time's up! The correct answer was 14

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THE TEENS

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Sounds unlucky, but there were this many books in Lemony Snicket's "Series of Unfortunate Events"

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Time's up! The correct answer was 13

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ENGINEERING

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Tajikistan has the highest one of these in the world; the U.S. doesn't even make the Top 10 with Hoover

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dam

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WEATHER

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Air is described as supersaturated when the relative humidity is higher than this percent

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Time's up! The correct answer was 100%

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1957

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He ended his brief retirement to become chairman & president of Occidental Petroleum

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Time's up! The correct answer was Armand Hammer

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MUSICAL TRAINS

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In 1961 James Brown announced "all aboard" for this train

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Night Train"

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THE CIRCUS

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Trainers shout, "Tail Up!" when they want these performers to follow each other trunk to tail

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Time's up! The correct answer was Elephants

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MIXED DRINKS

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This pomegranate syrup turns a Pink Lady pink

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Time's up! The correct answer was grenadine

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WHAT A WEEK

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Each year, World Space Week is at the start of October, commemorating this 1957 event

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Sputnik launch

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THE "A"s

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Some scientists believe the dinosaurs died out when one of these interstellar objects struck the Earth

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Time's up! The correct answer was an asteroid

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SCIENTISTS

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In 1633 this astronomer was found guilty of "vehement suspicion of heresy"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Galileo

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WHO DO YOU THINK I AM?!

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I died around 965 B.C. & my son Solomon succeeded me as King of Israel

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Time's up! The correct answer was David

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THROUGH THE 1800s WITH SARAH POLK

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In 1877 Sarah got the first one of these ever hooked up in Nashville

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Time's up! The correct answer was a telephone

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LITERATURE

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He published his third novel, "A Cool Million", in 1934, one year after "Miss Lonelyhearts"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nathanael West

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LIBRARIES

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In 1602 this university's library reopened after restoration work by Sir Thomas Bodley

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Time's up! The correct answer was Oxford University

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IT BORDERS JUST ONE OTHER COUNTRY

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San Marino

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Time's up! The correct answer was Italy

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BILL GATES' 50 BILLION

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If his employee's price is $50.00, Bill could buy a billion of the "98" version of this operating system

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Time's up! The correct answer was Windows

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SNACK ATTACK

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Wow! The Chocolate Delight snack bar named for this "Miami" diet has just 100 calories! I'll have 6 of them

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Time's up! The correct answer was the South Beach diet

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ENGLISH ROYAL HENRYS

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These 2 warring royal houses were united in 1486 when Henry VII married Elizabeth, the daughter of Edward IV

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lancaster & York

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INDONESIA

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Indonesia's Molucca Islands were once called this because they were famous for growing cloves, nutmeg & mace

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Time's up! The correct answer was Spice Islands

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MISCELLAN"IUM"

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Once the open main court of a Roman house, it's now a skylit central court in an office building or hotel

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Time's up! The correct answer was atrium

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BIOPIC-NIC

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2001: Will Smith as this poet/pugilist

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Time's up! The correct answer was Muhammad Ali

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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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OF A SALESMAN

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This direct-selling co. known for products like Nutrilite claims 3 million independent business owners

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Time's up! The correct answer was Amway

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SPORTS

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In 1984 this quarterback became the first Boston College player to win the Heisman Trophy

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Time's up! The correct answer was Doug Flutie

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AFRICAN AMERICANS

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In 1978 she became the first black woman honored on a U.S. postage stamp

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Time's up! The correct answer was Harriet Tubman

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EPITAPHS & TRIBUTES

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Revolutionary War hero: "His spirit is in Vermont now"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ethan Allen

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BACK IN 1906

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In 1906 there were 90 of these; nearly two-thirds of them were Republican

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Time's up! The correct answer was senators

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NUMBERS

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Numbers appears at this number position in the order of the books of the Bible

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Time's up! The correct answer was Fourth

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UNFORESEEN FINDS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was saccharin

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PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS

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The search for the philosopher's stone is the subject of Ben Jonson's play about this title profession

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

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TREES

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The cry “sap's a runnin’” refers to this tree

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Time's up! The correct answer was maple tree

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ROLLING STONE'S 100 GREATEST GUITARISTS

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Who was No. 50? This Who guitarist, that's who

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pete Townshend

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TURKISH LITERATURE

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Sultan Abdulhamid II's censorship hindered Ottoman writers until this "youthful" group's 1908 revolution

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Young Turks

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POLITICIANS MAKE ME CUSS

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"For" Michigan Republican congressman Hoekstra's "sake!"

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

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LET'S HIT IT

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Aaron Fechter invented this carnival game where you hit a mammal with a mallet

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Time's up! The correct answer was Whack-A-Mole

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"A" PLUS

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From Greek words meaning "to watch from both sides", it's a large open arena for public entertainments

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Time's up! The correct answer was amphitheatre

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THE CONTINENTS

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This continent has the longest mountain chain

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Time's up! The correct answer was South America

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3 LITTLE LETTERS

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Like banks, many grocery stores now have these for dispensing cash & taking deposits

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Time's up! The correct answer was ATMs

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SODA POP QUIZ

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Caleb Bradham named his elixir this because it was supposed to relieve dyspepsia

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pepsi Cola

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SCIENCE GUYS

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At the Pantheon in Paris in 1851, he demonstrated the Earth's rotation using his famous pendulum

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Time's up! The correct answer was Michel Foucault

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POUR ME A STIFF ONE

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Invented in Cuba, a mojito is made with lime juice, club soda, sugar, ice, mint leaves & this kind of alcohol

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Time's up! The correct answer was rum

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EXPLORERS

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In 1848 Johannes Rebmann became the first European to see & describe "the snows" of this African mountain

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Time's up! The correct answer was Kilimanjaro

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POETIC TERMS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was onomatopeia

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SYNONYMS

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As a noun, it's a synonym for "flower", as a verb, it's to blossom or come into one's own

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Time's up! The correct answer was bloom

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OFF TO A GOOD START

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In a business project, it's the level investors try to "get in on"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the ground floor

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FUNDRAISING

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In fundraising DM stands for this mail, which aims to scare up new donors

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Time's up! The correct answer was direct mail

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NATIONAL MONUMENTS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Little Bighorn

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METALLICA

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In 1984 the album "Ride the Lightning" by Metallica achieved this status of 500,000 copies sold

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Time's up! The correct answer was gold

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"DREAM"Y SONGS

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In 1959 Bobby Darin wailed, "Every night I hope and pray", she "will come my way"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "Dream Lover"

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FEELING "ANCY"

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Janet Leigh was sorry she found one of these at the Bates Motel

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Time's up! The correct answer was Vacancy

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ON THE MOVE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Caboose

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LANGUAGE QUESTIONS

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If you see a cool t-shirt in a store in Poland, "Kosztuje?" is how you ask this

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Time's up! The correct answer was "How much does this cost?"

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MYTHOLOGICAL PAIRS

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He travels to Ireland to ask the hand of the princess Isolde for his uncle, King Mark of Cornwall

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tristan

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TV CASTS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Robert Patrick

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PHILOSOPHY GLOSSARY

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"Every virtue is laudable. Kindness is a virtue. Therefore, kindness is laudable" is a logical this

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Time's up! The correct answer was syllogism

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POLITICS

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At over 30 years, this West Virginian is currently the longest-serving Democrat in the U.S. Senate

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Time's up! The correct answer was Byrd

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THE BIG 10-LETTER WORDS

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From the late Latin for "word", this book is the last word on words

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Time's up! The correct answer was dictionary

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LANGUAGE QUESTIONS

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In Latin, the "5 W's" are mostly Q's; quid means what, quare means why and quando means this

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Time's up! The correct answer was when

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SISTER CITIES

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San Francisco, California is a sister city to this one in Italy

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Time's up! The correct answer was Assisi

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AT THE KENNEDY CENTER

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In 1995 Luigi Bonino starred in a ballet about this "Little Tramp" of silent films

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Time's up! The correct answer was Charlie Chaplin

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THE 20th CENTURY

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On Feb. 20, 1962 the destroyer USS Noa found him floating in the Atlantic after a journey of 75,679 miles

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Glenn

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CROSSWORD CLUES "D"

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Fate or kismet (7)

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Time's up! The correct answer was destiny

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FARAWAY PLACES

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In 1999 all of Nunavut became a territory in this country, the second largest in area in the world

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Time's up! The correct answer was Canada

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MUSICALS

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This title character's last name is McLonergan, not Rainbow

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Time's up! The correct answer was Finian

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ANAGRAMMED BIRDS

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A big African: to Chris

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Time's up! The correct answer was ostrich

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SPORTS EVOLUTION

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was polo

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NOVEL QUOTES

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"Never laugh at live dragons", warned this author in "The Hobbit" -- good advice

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Time's up! The correct answer was J.R.R. Tolkien

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TECHNOLOGY

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After hearing this invention of his work, Edison said, "I was never so taken aback in my life"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the phonograph

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FIRST LADIES' RHYME TIME

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Mrs. Truman's frocks

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bess's dresses

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JUST PLANE GEOMETRY

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A straight angle has this many degrees

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Time's up! The correct answer was 180

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ANIMATED FILMS

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Pretty Belle falls for a prince who's been transformed into a monster in this 1991 film

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Time's up! The correct answer was Beauty and the Beast

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"DO", "RE", "MI"

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This kind of "name" is also known as an Internet address

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Time's up! The correct answer was domain

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THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

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Made up of 1 large & many smaller islands, it's the most populous of Britain's remaining overseas territories

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bermuda

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LESSER-KNOWN MUSICALS

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"Comin' Uptown" moved this classic tale to Harlem; it starred Gregory Hines as a slumlord named Scrooge

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

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ON THE MOVE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Caboose

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NORM!

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Peale

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CLASSIC MOVIE SPECIAL EFFECTS

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1968: Dave enters the airlock without a space helmet

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Time's up! The correct answer was 2001: A Space Odyssey

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MEN OF MUSIC

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"King of the Waltz" Johann Strauss Jr. wrote in other dance forms too, like the "Tritsch-Tratsch" this

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Time's up! The correct answer was the polka

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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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SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES

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You could say this comedy "ends well" -- Helena finally wins the love of her husband Bertram

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Time's up! The correct answer was All's Well That Ends Well

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BUSINESS

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The tires on Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis" were made by this former competitor of Goodyear

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Time's up! The correct answer was B.F. Goodrich

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SCIENCE

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This German-born American physicist won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics

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Time's up! The correct answer was Albert Einstein

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U.S. COLLEGES

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Swarthmore College of Pennsylvania has a historical library devoted to this religious group that founded it

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Time's up! The correct answer was Quakers

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SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE

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In Story County, 5 miles northeast of Ames

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Time's up! The correct answer was Iowa

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IT'S OURS!

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Montserrat

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Time's up! The correct answer was Great Britain

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& SO I FACE THE FINAL CURTAIN

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This Lerner & Loewe musical had its "loverly" farewell in 1962, after 2,717 shows

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Time's up! The correct answer was My Fair Lady

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HISTORY OLDER THAN YOU

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In 1347, this "bubonic" disease began in Europe; as many as one-third of the population would perish

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Time's up! The correct answer was plague

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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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NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES

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The revelation of "Undreamed Of Splendors" was reported with the 1923 opening of his inner tomb

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Time's up! The correct answer was King Tut

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BASEBALL

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The "Black Sox" team that threw the 1919 World Series lost to this Ohio team

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cincinnati Reds

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TAKE-OFFS

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This late author's representatives sued over "The Cat Not in the Hat", a rhyming account of the O.J. Simpson trial

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

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BIBLICAL CRIME BLOTTER

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Wife of Ahab, this Baal worshiper & harlot was last seen in Jezreel

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jezebel

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HISTORIC NICKNAMES

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He was the "Father of Texas", but the Indians called him "Big Drunk"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sam Houston

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HOW NOVEL

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Gregory Maguire's novel "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" is a revision of this fairy tale

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

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ON THE COVER OF SGT. PEPPER

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He's an African explorer, "I presume"

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

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OSCARS OF THE '70s

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This son of a famous French impressionist painter received an honorary Oscar in 1975

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jean Renoir

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"IND" THE KNOW

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This adjective refers to the original natives of any region

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Time's up! The correct answer was indigenous

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GEHRY

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In 1989 Gehry was awarded this prize commonly referred to as "The Nobel of Architecture"

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Pritzker Prize

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ART & ARTISTS

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This drip artist was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jackson Pollock

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FANTASTIC FILMS

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Futuristic S. Kubrick film starring M. McDowell as Alex, a psychopathic gang leader

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Time's up! The correct answer was "A Clockwork Orange"

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THE KIDS LOVE THAT ROCK & ROLL

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Of King Ad Rock, Thugmuffin C, MCA or Mike D, the one who's not a member of the Beastie Boys

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Time's up! The correct answer was Thugmuffin C

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Y1K

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With the crowning of King Boleslaw, this central European nation is recognized as an independent state

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Time's up! The correct answer was Poland

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I LOVE L.A. KERS

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This Hall-of-Fame guard & former Lakers GM is said to be the model for the player depicted in the NBA's logo

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jerry West

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ANATOMY

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This cord that connects a fetus to the placenta contains 2 arteries & 1 vein

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Time's up! The correct answer was the umbillical cord

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ROYAL FEMALE NICKNAMES

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Mark Antony called her "The Queen of Queens"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cleopatra

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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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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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THE OLD WEST

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He tried to help the town of Dolores, N.M. in 1900 by using static electricity to extract gold out of gravel

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Time's up! The correct answer was Thomas Edison

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SYRIA'S EATING

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Syria had to wait until 2006 for an American fast food franchise, this fowl-selling one

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Time's up! The correct answer was KFC

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READING

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President Carter has been among the many users of this woman's "Reading Dynamics" system

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Time's up! The correct answer was Evelyn Wood

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SATURDAY

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At age 3, as Bubbles Silverman, this opera star sang on a Sat. morning radio show, "Uncle Bob's Rainbow House"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Beverly Sills

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STATE SUPERLATIVES

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This "Beef State" is No. 1 in commercial red meat & great northern beans

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nebraska

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ROCK-Y

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The title of Falco's biggest hit mentions this fellow Austrian musician

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mozart

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RUSSIAN

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Blinaya means this, the "hop" in IHOP

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Time's up! The correct answer was house of pancakes

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TOP O' THE CHARTS

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In 1978 their duet "You're The One That I Want" replaced another duet by Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams at No. 1

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Time's up! The correct answer was Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta

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ODDS & ENDS

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Muhammad received the first of the Koran's revelations during this holy month

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ramadan

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11-LETTER WORDS

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British weight system based on a pound equal to 453.59 grams or 16 ounces

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Time's up! The correct answer was Avoirdupois

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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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VERBS

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4-syllable synonym for "to count", from Latin for "to count"

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Time's up! The correct answer was enumerate

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THE 50 STATES

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Illinois

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WORLD CAPITALS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Vienna

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BIBLICAL PAIRS

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"Hairy" couple from Judges 16

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Time's up! The correct answer was Samson & Delilah

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THE "BUTLER" DID IT

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In his 1872 novel "Erewhon", poverty is considered a crime

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Time's up! The correct answer was Samuel Butler

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THE STAR'S TV SHOW & MOVIE

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"The Office", "Bruce Almighty"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Steve Carell

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SPOOKS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Iran

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COMIC STRIPS

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Ack! In 2010 Ms. Guisewite said her "creative biological clock" was ticking & ended this strip after 34 years

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cathy

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KIDDY LIT

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The wedding meal eaten by this odd Edward Lear pair is "mince and slices of quince"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the owl and the pussycat

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DELAWARE

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Sailing under a Dutch flag, this English navigator & explorer discovered Delaware in 1609

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Time's up! The correct answer was Henry Hudson

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THE USA

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nevada

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NATIONAL SPELLING BEE

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1970's winning word was this French crescent-shaped roll

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Time's up! The correct answer was C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-T

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ADVERTISING SLOGANS

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This maker of pre-school toys says, "Our work is child's play"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Fisher-Price

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THE SHORT FORM

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A common adverb, it's also the acronym of a 500,000-member feminist group

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Time's up! The correct answer was NOW

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PARTS OF THE WHOLE

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1 coiled shell, 1 foot

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Time's up! The correct answer was a snail

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BRAND NAMES

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It's "The Quicker Picker Upper"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bounty

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CARTOONS

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The monster seen here (Godzilla) originally appeared in movies from this country

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Time's up! The correct answer was Japan

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LET'S TAKE A PEAK

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The name of this volcano in Martinique is from the French for "bald mountain"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mount Pelee

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TRAVEL & TOURISM

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tokyo

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SILENCE

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No cell phone use is permitted on "quiet cars", begun in 2000 on this service's Philly-Washington run

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Time's up! The correct answer was Amtrak

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OFFICIAL STATE THINGS

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Its state song is "The Old North State"

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Time's up! The correct answer was North Carolina

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COMPANIES

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Orange & Rockland Utilities is a subsidiary of this company named for an inventor

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Time's up! The correct answer was Consolidated Edison

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ON HIS BASEBALL HALL OF FAME PLAQUE

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"Boston Red Sox A.L. 1939-1960... batted .406 in 1941"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ted Williams

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SRO

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

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

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ESPN's TOP 10 ALL-TIME ATHLETES

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No. 1: Lettered in hoops, football & lacrosse at Syracuse & if you think he couldn't act, ask his 11 "unclean" buddies

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jim Brown

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IN THE DICTIONARY

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The name of this social insect comes from the Latin word vespa

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Time's up! The correct answer was wasp

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GUYANESE GEOGRAPHY

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was New Amsterdam

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FLEMISH & DUTCH MASTERS

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Because of his style of painting females, this master's name gave us an adjective for plump women

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Time's up! The correct answer was Peter Paul Rubens

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SCIENCE

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At sea level at 70 degrees this travels 1,129 feet per second; it speeds up over 1 foot per sec. for each rising degree

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Time's up! The correct answer was sound

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FAMILIAR PHRASES

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

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

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CANADIAN FOOTBALL

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Doug Flutie

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RUBY

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She was married to Al Jolson when she starred in those classic 1930s Busby Berkeley musicals

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ruby Keeler

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HOLLYWOOD THRILLER PREVIEWS?

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Finally, this 1963 Betty Friedan book hits the theaters--and wait 'til you see the car chases

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Feminine Mystique

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THEY'RE ON CABLE

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The title pair of this TNT show is Boston detective Angie Harmon & medical examiner Sasha Alexander

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rizzoli & Isles

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ORGANIZATIONS

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Arm of Al-Anon that's specifically for young people between the ages of 12 & 20

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Time's up! The correct answer was Al-Ateen

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NATURE

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Often found clinging to rocks, limpids are a type of this mollusk

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Time's up! The correct answer was snails

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THE BIG APPLE

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There's an annual footrace up its 86 flights of stairs

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Empire State Building

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ANIMAL GROUPS

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A group of vipers, even if the snakes don't live in a bird's dwelling

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Time's up! The correct answer was a nest

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THE KILLERS

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Bodyguards Satwant & Beant Singh killed this female leader of India in 1984

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Time's up! The correct answer was Indira Gandhi

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NOVELS

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This 1939 Steinbeck novel helped publicize the plight of Dust Bowl refugees

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Grapes of Wrath

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PRESIDENTS IN THE CABINET

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Through skillful negotiation, Secretary of State Martin Van Buren got the U.S. this trade status with Turkey

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Time's up! The correct answer was Most favored nation

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ODDS & ENDS

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Using beeswax, olive oil, rose petals & water, Galen invented this skin cleanser with a "frigid" name c. 200 A.D.

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Time's up! The correct answer was cold cream

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NATIONAL SPELLING BEE

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This small racing sled has the distinction of being the National Spelling Bee's shortest winning word

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Time's up! The correct answer was L-U-G-E

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THE 1990s

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On January 4, 1995 he was sworn in as the first Republican speaker of the house in more than 40 years

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Time's up! The correct answer was Newt Gingrich

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MAGAZINES

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For its Dec. 2003 issue, the U.S. Marie Claire put its first man on its cover, this star of "The Last Samurai"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tom Cruise

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SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS

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"Amleto"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hamlet

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THE MISFITS

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Born Joseph Levitch, he's been a nutty professor & an errand boy

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jerry Lewis

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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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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

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The 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, was ratified in this year

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Time's up! The correct answer was 1865

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NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD

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One of this country's major recreational areas is Vitosha National Park near Sofia

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bulgaria

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CARIBBEAN TASTE TREATS

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Puerto Ricans love to drink the juice of this fruit they call parcha -- maybe it makes them feel "amorous"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Passion fruit

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POLITICAL MOVIES

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Frank Langella is the power hungry chief of staff in this film in which Kevin Kline plays a presidential impersonator

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dave

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HIDDEN BOOKS OF THE BIBLE

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Top chefs know that Pez rarely makes it onto the menu

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ezra

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iPOD, YOUTUBE OR WII

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This has been banned in Thailand, Turkey, Pakistan & Iran

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Time's up! The correct answer was YouTube

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THE FRENCH CONNECTION

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From the French for "to sort" comes the word for this process of treating patients based on need

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Time's up! The correct answer was triage

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AMERICAN AUTHORS

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He reviewed films & TV for the New Republic before his first book, "Goodbye, Columbus", was published in 1959

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Time's up! The correct answer was Philip Roth

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BIG MERGERS

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In 1998 Norwest Corporation acquired this bank all in one stage without coaching

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wells Fargo

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WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS

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This phrase for taking a break from a long period of sitting goes back to 19th century baseball

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Time's up! The correct answer was Seventh-inning stretch

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WORLD UP!

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This island that gained independence from Denmark in 1944 is below the Arctic Circle

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Time's up! The correct answer was Iceland

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LONG GERMAN WORDS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was joy

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NAME THE POET

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"There was an old man with a beard, / Who said, 'It is just as I feared!'"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Edward Lear

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PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME

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Arthur's school terms

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Time's up! The correct answer was Chester's semesters

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BEES

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Common name of an apiculturist

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Time's up! The correct answer was a beekeeper

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SUPERHEROES

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In a 1940 comic book Batman & this sidekick take an undying oath to fight crime & corruption

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Time's up! The correct answer was Robin

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BRITISH FASHION

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Star designer John Galliano was born Juan Carlos Galliano in this British possession at the tip of Spain

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gibraltar

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SPORTS

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During his 1955-1966 career, this Dodger pitcher averaged 9.28 strikeouts per 9 innings

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Time's up! The correct answer was Koufax

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ISRAEL

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This port city on & around Mount Carmel has been compared to San Francisco, its sister city

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Time's up! The correct answer was Haifa

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THE USA

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The Green Mountains of Vermont & the White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of this mountain system

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Time's up! The correct answer was Appalachians

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THE UPPER CRUST

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Athina Roussel, granddaughter of this Greek tycoon, inherited billions when she turned 18 in 2003

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Time's up! The correct answer was Onassis

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A WHITE CATEGORY

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The London district of Whitechapel is associated with this infamous killer

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jack the Ripper

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ART

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A Gerrit Dou work is sometimes known as "The Mother of" this painter with whom Dou studied in 17th century Leiden

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rembrandt

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"O"PERA

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Orlando

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GENERAL SCIENCE

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The "master plan of all life", it consists of thymine, adenine, guanine, cytosine, phosphate & deoxyribose

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Time's up! The correct answer was **DNA **

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FRUIT

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The Bartlett type of this fruit begins to ripen in summer; other varieties ripen later in the year

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pears

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MEDICINE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Virginia Apgar

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TAYLOR, SWIFT

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Taylor Lautner played Jacob Black in this 2008 vampire flick

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Time's up! The correct answer was Twilight

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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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ANY FIRST WORDS?

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was aborigines

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MAYORS

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Actress Melina Mercouri ran unsuccessfully for mayor of this foreign city, a post her Grandpa held for 30 years

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Time's up! The correct answer was Athens

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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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ROYAL FEMALE NICKNAMES

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Mark Antony called her "The Queen of Queens"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cleopatra

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THE MOVIES

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Jane Russell & Marilyn Monroe sang about being "Two Little Girls from Little Rock" in this 1953 movie musical

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

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SCIENCE GUYS

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In 1855 Napoleon III "swung" a deal arranging for his appointment as physicist at the Paris Observatory

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jean Foucault

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BRANDO

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Col. Kurtz, who lives in the heart of darkness

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Time's up! The correct answer was Apocalypse Now

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"MUM"s THE WORD

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mumble

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PEARLS OF WISDOM

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An artist: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Andy Warhol

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COMPOSERS

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It was rumored that he committed suicide over the failure of his last symphony, the "Pathetique"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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POUR ME A STIFF ONE

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This brand of liqueur made its debut in Dublin on November 26, 1974

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

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WHO DO YOU THINK I AM?!

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Loki

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HEY, "BABY"

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This sticky figure of folklore gave its name to a Toni Morrison novel

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Time's up! The correct answer was the tar baby

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JAY

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It's the magical group heard here ["This Magic Moment"]

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Time's up! The correct answer was Jay and the Americans

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IT'S OURS!

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Saint-Pierre & Miquelon

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Time's up! The correct answer was France

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I PITY THE "FOOL"

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9-letter word for something designed to be impervious to human incompetence

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Time's up! The correct answer was foolproof

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THE ASSASSIN'S VICTIM

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1170: Reginald Fitzurse & 3 other knights

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Time's up! The correct answer was Thomas Becket

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WEATHER WORLD

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The Australian mountains that include the Charlotte's Pass ski area, or the weather there in July

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Time's up! The correct answer was Snowy

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THE MUSICAL DR. IS IN

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The "Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits" describes this "Right Place Wrong Time" man as a "swamp-rock singer/pianist"

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

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THE COMMODORES

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"The Commodore" is one of the tales of this C.S. Forester hero

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Time's up! The correct answer was Horatio Hornblower

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MYTHICAL CREATURES

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This winged creature sprang from the blood of Medusa after Perseus beheaded her

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pegasus

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4-LETTER WORDS

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Used in linoleum & paints, linseed oil is made from the seeds of this plant

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Time's up! The correct answer was flax

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1988

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After 32 years in power, Janos Kadar was ousted as first secretary of this country's Communist Party

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hungary

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PHRASES THAT SELL

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This network says it's "The most trusted name in news"

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Time's up! The correct answer was CNN

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AT THE KENNEDY CENTER

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Can you hear me? This rock opera by The Who was a big hit at the Kennedy Center in 1994

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Time's up! The correct answer was Tommy

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TOUGH STUFF

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Over 14 times the mass of the Earth, this planet is seventh from the sun

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Time's up! The correct answer was Uranus

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INITIAL T.V.

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This show which had a 9-year-run on ABC was produced with help from J. Edgar Hoover

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Time's up! The correct answer was The F.B.I.

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4-LETTER WORDS

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Take off the top, or milk from which the cream has been removed

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Time's up! The correct answer was Skim

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STATE CAPITALS

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The French called a land formation La Petite Roche, thus giving this capital its name

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Time's up! The correct answer was Little Rock

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LARCENY DELL'ARTE

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This Spaniard's portrait of the Duke of Wellington was stolen from the U.K. in 1961

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Time's up! The correct answer was Goya

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DEMOCRATIC KEYNOTERS

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1968: Hawaiian senator

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Time's up! The correct answer was Daniel Inouye

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AMERICAN EXPLORERS

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Senator Thomas Hart Benton's son-in-law was this "Pathfinder"

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

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iPOD, YOUTUBE OR WII

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Its name was reportedly inspired by a line from "2001: A Space Odyssey"

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Time's up! The correct answer was iPod

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FAMOUS WEDDINGS

Question

In 1998 a 61-year-old piece of this couple's wedding cake sold for $26,000 at Sotheby's

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Time's up! The correct answer was The Duke of Windsor& Wallis Simpson

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HISTORIC AMERICANS

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This attorney was the only representative of New York to sign the U.S. Constitution

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alexander Hamilton

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ACTING PRESIDENTS ON TV

Question

Fred Armisen as Barack Obama

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Time's up! The correct answer was Saturday Night Live

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CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS

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The only 2-letter sign, it represents solid dependability, method & routine

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Time's up! The correct answer was the ox

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INVENTIVE MINDS

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He's on the 4th floor in the Inventors Hall of Fame for his "improvement in hoisting apparatus"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Otis

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"IRA"

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was perspiration

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FILE UNDER "K"

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Its state flower is the goldenrod

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Time's up! The correct answer was Kentucky

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"IBLE"S & BITS

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Adjective for handwriting that can actually be read, unlike my doctor's

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Time's up! The correct answer was legible

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WORLD CAPITALS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Buenos Aires

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GAMBLING

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was blackjack

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BRITISH POETS & POETRY

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He called "Prometheus Unbound" "The best thing I ever wrote"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Percy B. Shelley

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WHAT'S ON TV?

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Simon said "Simply dreadful... appalling" on this show that debuted on Fox in June '02

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Time's up! The correct answer was American Idol

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YOU'RE AN ANIMAL!

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It's the genus & species of this animal ("caveman")

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Time's up! The correct answer was Homo sapiens

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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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ALBUMS

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"The Diary of" this songstress included "Diary", a haunting duet with Tony! Toni! Tone!

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alicia Keys

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I'M HUNGRY!

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Let's go Penn. Dutch & have this dish, bits of pork mixed with cornmeal mush, then shaped into loaves & fried

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Time's up! The correct answer was scrapple

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LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER

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

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

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THE PRODUCERS

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This West Coast state procuces the most wind-generated energy

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Time's up! The correct answer was California

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THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL

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Jeans maker Strauss

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Time's up! The correct answer was Levi

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POP MUSIC

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In the summer of 2002 this country star hit the Hot 100 chart with "Courtesy Of The Red, White and Blue"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Toby Keith

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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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FRANCIS SCOTT KEY

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Part of Key's solution to this problem was helping found the American Colonization Society

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Time's up! The correct answer was slavery

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THE HUSBAND MARRIED

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Mary Todhunter Clark & Margaretta "Happy" Murphy

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Time's up! The correct answer was Nelson Rockefeller

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HEADLINES

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On May 3, 1973 the Chicago Tribune said this local landmark "Becomes the Tallest of the Tall"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Sears Tower

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HORSE SENSE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was National Velvet

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WHO'S ON FIRST?

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In many cities "Jeopardy!" leads into this sister show

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Time's up! The correct answer was Wheel of Fortune

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CHANTED

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Their chant in "Macbeth" begins, "Double, double, toil and trouble"

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Time's up! The correct answer was the witches

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EU, THE EUROPEAN UNION

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As of 2010, Croatia & Macedonia are candidates but this is the only former Yugoslav republic in the EU

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Time's up! The correct answer was Slovenia

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BEFORE & AFTER

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

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

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HISTORIC WOMEN

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On April 5, 1614, in Jamestown, she married John Rolfe

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pocahontas

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SPACE MISSIONS

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In 2008 the Phoenix Mars lander found ice on this region of the planet

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Time's up! The correct answer was the poles

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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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HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES

Question

September 10 is St. George's Cay Day in this Central American country

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Time's up! The correct answer was Belize

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AUTHORS

Question

Already a successful poet, in 1814 he started his career as a novelist with a tale of the Highlands

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Time's up! The correct answer was Sir Walter Scott

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WASHINGTON D.C.

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Though this mound rises only 8

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NAME THE POET

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Milton

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ALBUMS THAT ROCK

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"X&Y", "Parachutes"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Coldplay

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SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS

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"Cordelia"

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SCIENCE & NATURE

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The flexible neck of this bird of prey allows it to rotate its head an amazing 270 degrees

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THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS

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Oscar Mayer could tell you that this is the city the Etruscans called Felsina

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bologna

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THE NBA

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For 9 straight seasons, ending in '96, this Utah Jazz player led the NBA in average assists per game

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Time's up! The correct answer was John Stockton

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BRAND-O

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George Blaisdell invented this lighter in 1932

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Zippo

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THE DIRECTOR SPEAKS

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"Everybody denies I am a genius--but nobody ever called me one!" noted this man who raised "Kane"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Orson Welles

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GETTING POSSESSIVE

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While one creation slept, God took this to make Eve

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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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BROADWAY TEENS

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Brooke Shields & Lucy Lawless played Rizzo in the '90s revival of this rockin' high school musical

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Time's up! The correct answer was Grease

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THE SHORT VERSION

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To a dog lover: ASPCA

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Time's up! The correct answer was American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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OPERA & BALLET

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Choreographer Frederick Ashton played one of the ugly stepsisters when this ballet debuted in 1948

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cinderella

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DOUBLE TALK

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He's Barney & Betty Rubble's noisy son

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

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BIBLICAL PAIRS

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God & Jesus are called by these 2 Greek letters in Revelation

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alpha & Omega

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PHOTOGRAPHERS

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Black photographer James Van Der Zee chronicled life in this NYC section for more than a half century

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Time's up! The correct answer was Harlem

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WORLD CAPITALS

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"From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli" refers to the capitals of these two countries

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EXPLORERS

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A book by Thomas James, who searched for the Northwest Passage, inspired this Coleridge poem

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Time's up! The correct answer was "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

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TOUGH STUFF

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Alphabetically, he's Santa's first reindeer

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Time's up! The correct answer was Blitzen

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RUSSIA

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Abbreviated CIS, it replaced the USSR

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Time's up! The correct answer was Commonwealth of Independent States

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THREE

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Stalin, FDR & Churchill were known by this collective nickname when they met in Teheran in 1943

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Time's up! The correct answer was "The Big Three"

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HOME FURNISHINGS

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Four-poster is a type of this, sometimes with a canopy

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Time's up! The correct answer was a bed

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OSCAR WINNERS & NOMINEES ON TV

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Executive producer of "Ugly Betty", she has also guest starred as Sofia Reyes

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Time's up! The correct answer was Salma Hayek

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STATE FISH

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hawaii

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I'M "L__X"

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This city of east central Egypt is the southern half of the site of ancient Thebes

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Time's up! The correct answer was Luxor

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APT ANAGRAMS

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A Texan battle cry: A MEMORABLE TERM, EH?

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

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BIRDS! BIRDS! BIRDS!

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The colorful macaw variety of this bird is seen here

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Time's up! The correct answer was Parrot

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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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"O"PERA

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Verdi's work on this General's life opens in Cyprus; Shakespeare's tale begins in Venice

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Time's up! The correct answer was Otello

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RICH & FAMOUS

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Ross Perot

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COLOGNE RANGER

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Taking nearly 600 years to complete, Cologne Cathedral is the largest in this style in Northern Europe

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Time's up! The correct answer was Gothic

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BACKWARDS

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Called "Bojangles", he was renowned for tap dancing on stairs & running backwards at high speed

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Time's up! The correct answer was Robinson

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MINORITY REPORT

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Justice Harlan was an honorable one-man minority in this 1896 decision that enshrined the "separate but equal" doctrine

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Time's up! The correct answer was Plessy v. Ferguson

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AND I QUOTE

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Type of quotations in the title of "Bartlett's"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Familiar

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WORDS WITHIN WORDS

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Carry something luminescent when you go down into one of these

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mine

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SCULPTURE

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In 1953 sculptor William Zorach created the relief "Man and Work" for this Rochester, Minnesota clinic

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Time's up! The correct answer was the Mayo Clinic

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"N"ATIONS OF THE WORLD

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On the first Monday in June, this Kiwi country celebrates the Queen's birthday, the queen being Elizabeth

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Time's up! The correct answer was New Zealand

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RELIGION

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Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon from gold plates revealed to him by an angel named this

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Time's up! The correct answer was Moroni

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THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD

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There's a "method" behind his founding of the Moscow Art Theatre with Nemirovich-Danchenko

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Time's up! The correct answer was Stanislavski

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FICTIONAL CHARACTERS

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In a story by Rudyard Kipling, this mongoose protects an English family from snakes

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Time's up! The correct answer was Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

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SCIENCE & NATURE

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In the East Indies certain species of this reptile are called flying dragons because they can glide from tree to tree

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Time's up! The correct answer was Lizards

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KIDDY LIT

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This dark horse shares stables with Merrylegs & Ginger

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Time's up! The correct answer was Black Beauty

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TRAIN STATIONS

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This capital city's main train station is known as Bahnhof Zoo, & not just at rush hour

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Time's up! The correct answer was Berlin

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CROSSWORD CLUES "Q"

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Petty critique (7)

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Time's up! The correct answer was quibble

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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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FETAL ATTRACTION

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For the first 8 weeks after fertilization, an unborn child is called this, from the Greek for "full"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Embryo

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CIVIL WAR LITERATURE

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Henry Fleming shares a tent with a loud soldier & a tall soldier in this Stephen Crane novel

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Time's up! The correct answer was "The Red Badge of Courage"

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HISTORIC WOMEN

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She was born in Virginia around 1596 & died in Kent, England in 1617

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pocahontas

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THE MIDDLE AGES

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It's estimated this dread 14th century epidemic killed 1/3 of the population of Europe

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Time's up! The correct answer was Black Death

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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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Time's up! The correct answer was Gotham

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JULIUS CAESAR

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After defeating Pharnaces II at Zela, Caesar dispatched this 3-part message to the Roman Senate

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Time's up! The correct answer was Veni, vidi, vici

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BRAND NAMES

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It's "The Quicker Picker Upper"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bounty

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NOVELISTS

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This novelist's nonfiction book "Miami and the Siege of Chicago" was about the 1968 political conventions

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Time's up! The correct answer was Norman Mailer

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HORNS

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South America's southernmost point, its rocky terrain rises to a height of 1,391 feet

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Time's up! The correct answer was Cape Horn

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ROCK & ROLL FRONTMEN

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Adam Levine

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Time's up! The correct answer was Maroon 5

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AUTHORS' RHYME TIME

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Sir Walter's saucepans

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Time's up! The correct answer was Scott's pots

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STATES' FORMER CAPITALS

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Huntsville

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Time's up! The correct answer was Alabama

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KIDS IN BOOKS

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Mowgli is the human kid hanging out in the woods with wolves & tigers in this Rudyard Kipling "Book"

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Time's up! The correct answer was "The Jungle Book"

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ITALIAN

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"Parla come mangi", literally "speak the way you" do this, means to speak simply & clearly

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Time's up! The correct answer was eat

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THE SHORT VERSION

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A translation of the Bible: KJV

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Time's up! The correct answer was King James Version

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THAT'S HANDY

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The hand gesture with 2 pairs of fingers bunched together was made by this Vulcan on the original "Star Trek"

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

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CLASSIC DISNEY FILMS

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This film about a flying elephant inspired a ride at Disneyland

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Time's up! The correct answer was Dumbo

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& 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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THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM

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Check out the glistening dunes at White Sands National Monument in this state

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Time's up! The correct answer was New Mexico

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GETTING TICKED OFF

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Jealous of this Prussian chancellor's fame, Wilhelm II sank him by forcing his resignation in 1890

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bismarck

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SI's SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE

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

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Time's up! The correct answer was Hooters

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TRANSPORTATION

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The 1st of these high-speed German highways was opened between Cologne & Bonn in 1932

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Time's up! The correct answer was Autobahn

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WHAT A WEEK

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Carrie on "Sex and the City" really enjoyed this event that brings ships & thousands of sailors to NYC

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Time's up! The correct answer was Fleet Week

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QUOTATIONS

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This "Huck Finn" author wrote "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Mark Twain

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6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR

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Catherine Earnshaw

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Time's up! The correct answer was Emily Brontë

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ANIMATED FILMS

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Cruella de Vil was the villainess who kidnapped this title brood

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Time's up! The correct answer was 101 Dalmatians

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STATES THAT END IN HAMPSHIRE

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Also the name of a "United" city in England, this city lies along the banks of the Merrimack River

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Time's up! The correct answer was Manchester

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THE PRODUCERS

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This West Coast state procuces the most wind-generated energy

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Time's up! The correct answer was California

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THE LAST MAN

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In the 1996 book "The Presidents: A Reference History"

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Time's up! The correct answer was Bill Clinton

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"TEEN" SCENE

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If you're triskaidekaphobic, you're afraid of this number, & not just on a Friday

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Time's up! The correct answer was thirteen

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HOW INSPIRATIONAL

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In 1903 Pope Pius X wrote, "Where justice is lacking there can be no hope of" this, pax in Latin

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Time's up! The correct answer was peace

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"EVE"NING

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Dangerous ones include hemorrhagic & scarlet

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Time's up! The correct answer was fever

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STATES OF THE UNION

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Cimarron & Beaver are counties in its Panhandle

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Time's up! The correct answer was Oklahoma

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THE OLD COLLEGE TRY

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Basketball superstar Magic Johnson played his college ball at this university in East Lansing

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Time's up! The correct answer was Michigan State

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DEATH BY...

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An overdose of barbiturates, August 5, 1962, at her L.A. home

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Time's up! The correct answer was Marilyn Monroe

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FOOD FACTS

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The name of this meat is from the Latin "venatus", hunt

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Time's up! The correct answer was Venison

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"PU"

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Oscar De La Hoya or Evander Holyfield

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Time's up! The correct answer was Pugilist

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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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4 CONSONANTS IN A ROW

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A caterpillar that moves by contraction & expansion

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Time's up! The correct answer was an inchworm

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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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