JACKAL
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$200
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The jackal was called this big cat's "provider": it was thought to assist on hunts
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the lion
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$400
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Some jackals use mounds abandoned by these ant-like insects as dens to birth their pups
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termites
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$600
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This African country gave its name to a canine that is also known as the Abyssinian wolf & the Simien jackal
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Ethiopia
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$800
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This Russian airline has bred dog-jackal hybrids to sniff out explosives
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Aeroflot
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$1000
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Jackals in Africa can transmit this disease AKA lyssa to dogs & other animals
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rabies
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HYDE
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$200
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The murderous Mr. Edward Hyde was created by this author
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(Robert Louis) Stevenson
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$400
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Enacted by Congress in response to this 1973 Supreme Court case, the Hyde Amendment limits public funding for abortions
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Roe v. Wade
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$600
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Founder of the Gaelic League, Douglas Hyde was also the first president of this republic
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Ireland
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$800
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Anne Hyde was the mother of 2 British queens, Anne & this woman who married William III
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Mary
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$1000
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An 1872 act of Parliament allowed anyone to talk in this "Corner" of London's Hyde Park
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Speakers\' Corner
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3-WORD BOOK TITLES BY MIDDLE WORD
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$200
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Elizabeth Gilbert: "Pray"
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Eat Pray Love
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$400
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Truman Capote: "Cold"
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In Cold Blood
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$600
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Jojo Moyes: "Before"
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Me Before You
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$800
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Dr.Seuss: "in"
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Fox in Socks
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$1000
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W. Somerset Maugham: "Human"
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Of Human Bondage
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SURVIVOR
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$200
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(Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) The weather upped the stakes for "Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X". The castaways had to be temporarily evacuated from their camps due to Zena, this tropical storm that can also be called a hurricane or a typhoon
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cyclone
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$400
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(Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) In 1882 Germany, Austria-Hungary & Italy formed a secret pact called the Triple this. On the first season of "Survivor", Richard formed a quadruple one with Sue, Rudy & Kelly in which the four voted as a bloc, a wildly successful strategy that set a precedent for the series
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alliance
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$600
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(Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) I knew that "Survivor" needed a catchphrase for when I snuffed out a torch at tribal council. It was actually executive producer Mark Burnett who inadvertently came up with this iconic 4-word phrase & the rest is TV history
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"The tribe has spoken""
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$800
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(Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) A fan favorite from "Survivor: The Australian Outback", she went on to co-host "The View" & "Fox & Friends"
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(Elisabeth) Hasselback
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$1000
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(Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) The castaways on "Survivor: China" visited the Great Wall & the Shaolin Temple, home of kung fu; for help with strategy the tribes were given this book that Sun Tzu wrote more than 2,500 years ago, though its tactics apply to "Survivor" as if it had been written today
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The Art of War
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BEARD MAN
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$200
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A Guinness World Record, Hans Langseth's over 17-foot-long beard was eventually cut and donated to this D.C. institution
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the Smithsonian
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$400
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In 1860 11-year-old Grace Bedell of New York sent a letter urging him to "let your whiskers grow", & he did!
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Lincoln
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$600
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By the time he died, still unshaven in 1923, his discovery, the X-ray, was an essential tool of medicine
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Roentgen
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$800
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This bearded French physician published the first edition of "Centuries", containing his prophecies, in 1555
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Nostradamus
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$1000
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Stop the presses. Here's an image of this bearded 15th century German inventor
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Gutenberg
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RHYME FIGHTER
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$200
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You "pull" one of these by staying up very late until that term paper is finally finished
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an all-nighter
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$400
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Synonym for a rabble-rouser who fires up a mob
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an inciter
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$600
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This item near a car's radio evolved into a 12-volt accessory charger
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a cigarette lighter
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$800
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After 8 years in the job in Dallas, Mike Rawlings said, "A mayor needs to" be this, bringing folks together
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a uniter
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$1000
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Anatomical term for someone who talks spitefully about an absent person
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a backbiter
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WORLD RIVERS
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$400
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In the 1540s Francisco de Orellana made the first known trip down its entire length
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the Amazon
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$800
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Dusseldorf & Mainz are important cities on this river
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the Rhine
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$1200
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The Thar Desert of Northwestern India stretches into Pakistan & this river's valley
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the Indus
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$1600
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It's name means swiftly flowing river and it crosses the province of the same name, the northern and southern branches meeting near Prince Albert
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Saskatchewan
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$2000
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Not the Seine but this river that enters the Atlantic south of Brittany is the longest in France
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the Loire
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ACT OF CONGRESS AKAs
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$400
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1790: "an act providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States"
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the Census
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$800
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1790: "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors"
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Copyright
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$1200
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2001: "an act to deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world"
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the Patriot Act
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$1600
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1965: "an act to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes"
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the Voting Rights Act
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ENTERTAINMENT
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$400
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This song was written in 1908 & over 100 years later it's still sung during the seventh-inning stretch
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"Take Me Out To The Ball Game""
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$800
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In the 1980s Cyndi Lauper & Wham! were among the artists who made their early U.S. TV appearances on this Dick Clark series
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American Bandstand
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$1200
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In 2019 Aaron Paul reprised his role as Jesse Pinkman for this "Breaking Bad" movie
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El Camino
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$1600
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A resort area in the Catskills where many Jewish entertainers got their start had this alliterative nickname
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the Borscht Belt
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$2000
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AFI's first "100 Greatest American Movies" list included this D.W. Griffith silent epic; on an updated list, it was gone
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Birth of a Nation
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THE NOT-SO-VICIOUS CIRCLE
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$400
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Adair, Iowa & Makanda, Illinois have put this cheerful symbol, big in the '70s, on their water towers
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a smiley face
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$800
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For at least one day in December, the sun does not set south of this circle
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the Antarctic
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$1600
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1989 film in which Keanu Reeves tells Alex Winter, "Strange things are afoot at the Circle K"
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Bill & Ted\'s Excellent Adventure
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$2000
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(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The path of any point on the smaller circle will trace the diameter of the larger circle as the smaller circle rolls inside, according to the theorem of this Polish astronomer and mathematician
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Copernicus
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ART SUBJECTS
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$400
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This Dutch artist often painted his beloved wife Saskia, who died in 1642 at age 29
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Rembrandt
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$800
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Anna McNeill was arranged in grey & black for a work by this artist, her son
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Whistler
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$1200
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Teenaged ballerina Marie van Goethem was the model for his sculpture of the "Little Dancer"
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Degas
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$1600
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Between 1971 & 1985 this artist painted Helga Testorf, his neighbor in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
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Andrew Wyeth
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$2000
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Jeanne Hébuterne had a slightly shorter neck than depicted in the works of her beau, this Italian painter
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Modigliani
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HAWAIIAN CROSSWORD CLUES
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$400
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The "Valley Isle" (4)
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Maui
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FROM SCREEN TO STAGE
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N/A
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This 2007 movie came to Broadway with an all-female creative team including book & direction and with songs by pop star Sara Bareilles
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Waitress
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